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[–] 108 points 11 months ago (4 children)

“It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”

Holy fucking shit

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  • [–] 80 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    When you go in for an MRI, they not only tell you what they're doing, they ask you to repeat it back so that they know you know what's going on.

    +1 One of my favorite medical tests, feels like something out of Star Trek.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    My favourite part about getting an MRI was actually not getting one.

    Explanation: had a pretty rough cycling accident in uni, busted my kneecap. Which didn't start hurting until two days later, but then it was absolutely mind numbing pain. So bad that my flatmate had to call an ambulance.

    Ambulance takes me in, with a watermelon sized knee, and they immediately want to take me for an MRI to assess the damage. At this point I've got a biiiiig dose of some kind of pain management medication that made me super hazy.

    Just barely in time I managed to tell the doctor that they can't do MRI because I have a magnet implant in my finger. Disaster barely, but averted.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I gotta imagine they can scan for stuff like that now fairly quickly. Is that not common practice when you haven't provided a definite answer to that question? Pretty sure they pregnancy test any child bearing age person regardless of how emphatically they say they aren't.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Pregnancy test for MRI? I had one early this year (I hated it) and I certainly did not have to take a pregnancy test. Or do you mean pregnancy test in general? Because that one pisses the fuck out of women who absolutely 100% know they aren't pregnant (haven't had sex, don't have their reproductive organs anymore, other possible reasons).

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I have a friend who was “incapable of being pregnant” and discovered she was pregnant because the doctor insisted she take a test before a procedure.

    She got 2 procedures instead of 1!

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There's a difference between "I thought I was infertile" and "I literally don't have my uterus and ovaries". In these situations it comes off as patronizing because there's "no way" a woman who doesn't have her reproductive organs knows what she's talking about. It's one of those things that adds to the massive pile of medical mistreatment of women, and that's why it's a touchy topic for many.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    She’d had a tubal ligation, so while not fully incapable she was medically convinced.

    The thing is touchy, but patients lie. Until there is definitive proof it could be a lie. People lie for all kinds of reasons.

    I agree, but also it’s not always so cut and dry.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I have some missing organs. The lack of which shows up on Xray and MRI. It's somewhat worrying the amount of times I've had to explain to the techs that yes I do know where my organs went and no it is not news so you want to see the scars. The first time was funny. The tenth had me questioning competence.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    The latter. And the other response to you is part of why I'm sure they still get done. But someone that had a hysterectomy for example should be fine and you'd hope there'd be ample documentation to prove that.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Mind you this was ~12 years ago, and I was quite out of it. Not sure what exactly they did or did not. Most of this is retelling from what the doctor told me the next day, after surgery.

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  • [–] 64 points 11 months ago (2 children)
    1. He probably knows.

    2. It was his brain or heart.

    3. He's not going to release the results like he never released his tax return.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago

    He’s not going to release the results like he never released his tax return.

    Or his academic record. I remember millions of morons crying how the MSM never "vetted" Obama as a dogwhistle that they blew for 8+ years and how they fell silent on cue when Pedonald went entirely unvetted and divulged nothing about his past.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago

    Considering he said it wasn't the brain, I'd bet good money that it was a head scan of some type. Probably looking for signs of a stroke, age related diseases like dementia or alzheimer, brain shrinkage, or other conditions worth monitoring in the brain.

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  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    “It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”

    No one could write satire like this.

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  • [–] 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    And it was a Perfect MRI. Perfect. Everyone is saying that.

    Honestly, he's like listening to a child trying to lie to you.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Depending on the body part and the "kind of MRI", it is not overly uncommon to more or less just be fully inside a tube while the tech activates the appropriate sensors. And plenty of older men think caring about health is Women's Work and won't ask.

    That said

    “It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”

    So it was the brain.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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    In addition to having his name and the Seal of the President stitched to his goddamn shirt (as a reminder of who he is and what he does,) he's got a sign with his name on the table as well. And the Chef's Kiss is the "45-47" on his hat, implying that he's been the 45th, 46th AND 47th U.S. President.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago*

    Either the MRI show's the skeleton of Epstein's missing hamster or it's going to to show that his brain looks like broccoli now.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    What he actually said was he would release it if they wanted to release it. That he'd have no problem with that

    If we had real journalism in our county, the reporters would have asked who "they" were, since he basically said it's not his decision

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    "they" is nobody. It's his imaginary supporters.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Well, lots of reporters stand there and don't ask any questions. Granted, he often resorts to insults and then flees and most of the people in those gaggles are just suck-ups and not even from real news orgs anyway, but questions such as:

    1. How can one "ace" a dementia test?
    2. Why does he think people that haven't even been asked to be screened cannot pass this test?
    3. Why does he single out people like AOC and Jasmine Crockett for these comments? Does he think they have dementia?
    4. How can his MRI be the best anyone has ever seen?
    5. Assuming medical professional people have told him this, what does he think that even means? In his own words - how can an MRI be "great"?
    6. If it's so great why does he think one was even given to him? Was it just for funsies, or just so people could marvel at how "great" it is?
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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago*

    He will release the MRI, right after jis tax returns.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Don't worry Donald, we'll all find out together when you make good on your promise. Any minute now.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    “They completely immobilized my head, then put my head in the gantry. But maybe they scanned my feet.”

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    I won’t hold my breath.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If our government wasn't completely fucked the 25th Amendment would have been invoked by now.

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    How do you think he'll die? Natural causes? Assassination? Execution? Suicide? He has to die eventually

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    100 hamberders are on the shelf...

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    [–] 15 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Trump added Sunday that he has “no idea” on what part of his body he got the MRI.

    “It was just an MRI,” he said. “What part of the body? It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”

    JFC. He is so unbelievably stupid.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Why would you consent to having an MRI if you had no idea what it was for?

    You have no idea what they scanned, but know that the results were good?

    When the doctor gave you the results, were you not interested in what he was checking for?

    Doubt.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Doctor orders a noninvasive test, I take it. From that perspective, I understand it. But the man just doesn’t care to know … anything. His brain is just a steady stream of fake tits and tumbleweeds.

    I would also remember why they ordered the scan, because I do care about that aspect of it. I’m not a doctor, but I do know there’s a difference between cancer and a slipped disc.

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There's no such thing as a non-invasive test.

    Even if there were zero risks for the actual procedure, and they're just doing it for the fuck of it, what happens if they find a little abnormality? Now you need a biopsy, more scans, and possibly treatment for something that doesn't show any symptoms and never would have.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)
    1. He knows.

    2. It was his brain or heart.

    3. He won't release the results like he never released his tax returns. Because he is a liar.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sure he will right along with his taxes.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    It was a microscope MRI, so his crotch.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    So you are telling me he has no one in his administration who would be able to tell him what the MRI was for? Yup, totally aligns with what I expect their capabilities to be!

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