After Schaivo - The Pope!

lookout123 · 03-30-2005, 10:47 AM

The Pope is on a feeding tube. Just wait for the Cardinals start to argue over the removal of the feeding tube. This could be more fun that The Surreal Life.

Cardinal 1: The pontiff told me in private he doesn't want a feeding tube to stay alive.
Cardinal 2 (with Bill O'Reilly in tow): Everyone would obviously want to live, and I heard him say "I vant"... clearly that was the beginning of a statement meaning that he wants to live.
Cardinal 1: The Pope wants to die in a dignified manner.
Pope: Hey, I'm still alive here
Cardinals1and2 and O'Reilly: Shut Up, You! we're holding a very serious debate over your wishes...
Pope: oh fuck it, get me a gun.

mrnoodle · 03-30-2005, 10:50 AM

but who's he going to use it on? he'll need plenty of ammo to stifle the talking heads.

Beestie · 03-30-2005, 11:13 AM

I hope we aren't confusing intraveneous tubes with feeding tubes.

lookout123 · 03-30-2005, 11:17 AM

oh fine beestie, go and get all technical on me. the pope has a nasal tube to supplement his caloric intake. the schaivo chick is 100% dependent on afeeding tube inserted in the abdomen.

wolf · 03-30-2005, 12:28 PM

Usually PEG tubes are considered "ordinary care" and not "life support".

Naso-gastric feedings are a step below the PEG on the care scale, I believe. (We avoid patients with need for either, so I'm not entirely sure about this. As I like to point out to ER physicians I'm about to rip a new one for trying to medically clear a medically-unstable patient, "well, you're the doctor ... I learned all my medicine from watching ER. But before I get our doctor ... his crit's 13. What's he bleeding into? If you can't answer that question, you're not medically clearing this patient."

vsp · 03-30-2005, 01:39 PM

Clearly, we need to feed Terri Schiavo to the Pope, or vice versa.

lookout123 · 03-30-2005, 02:20 PM

cut of one of their heads, feed the energy to the other... there can be only one...

03-30-2005, 10:47 AM	#1
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03-30-2005, 10:50 AM	#2
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	but who's he going to use it on? he'll need plenty of ammo to stifle the talking heads. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-30-2005, 11:13 AM	#3
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I hope we aren't confusing intraveneous tubes with feeding tubes. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

03-30-2005, 11:17 AM	#4
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	oh fine beestie, go and get all technical on me. the pope has a nasal tube to supplement his caloric intake. the schaivo chick is 100% dependent on afeeding tube inserted in the abdomen. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

03-30-2005, 12:28 PM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Usually PEG tubes are considered "ordinary care" and not "life support". Naso-gastric feedings are a step below the PEG on the care scale, I believe. (We avoid patients with need for either, so I'm not entirely sure about this. As I like to point out to ER physicians I'm about to rip a new one for trying to medically clear a medically-unstable patient, "well, you're the doctor ... I learned all my medicine from watching ER. But before I get our doctor ... his crit's 13. What's he bleeding into? If you can't answer that question, you're not medically clearing this patient." __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-30-2005, 01:39 PM	#6
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Clearly, we need to feed Terri Schiavo to the Pope, or vice versa.

03-30-2005, 02:20 PM	#7
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	cut of one of their heads, feed the energy to the other... there can be only one... __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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