Video: Mystery of Glenn Beck’s surgery revealed; Update: GMA video added
posted at 8:12 pm on January 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
He doesn’t elaborate, which is probably for the best. Dude. Click the image to watch.
Update: I feel for the guy, but he is … one odd individual. No way around it.
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I agree. Get the government out of health care and some of the problems will go away.
Glenn seemed to be primarily taking issue with 2 things:
#1 Being told by his HMO he couldn’t stay in the hospital even though he and his doctor didn’t feel he was equipped to leave because of his level of pain and the amount of medication he was taking.
#2 The level of customer service (care/compassion) he received from the clinical staff.
My post just stated that he could have addressed #1 by switching to self-pay. That one was within his control. If he changes to self pay he has more control over #2. He can then go to any facility he wants that has the level of customer service that meets his needs. This is the free market at work. This is where the rest of us get stuck. We don’t have Glenn’s resources. We can’t just go to any health care facility we want because we are dependent on third party payment.
Terri on January 10, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Hello?
I,m talking about how he was crying from pain and expecting front of the line treatment and couldn’t handle it better than a 13 year old with a broken pelvis and NO pain meds.
I,m not refering at all to how he felt he was treated by the staff.
efears on January 10, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Glenn is lucky to have a caring woman like his wife.
Thank God for women’s compassion!
omnipotent on January 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM
I’m going stand on solid ground and state that if he received lack of compassion it was because he was acting like a total ahole. In fact, even if he was acting like a total ahole, I still wd find it difficult to believe that he did not receive compassionate care.
Again, if Beck wanted someone by his bedside holding his hand 24/7 than he should have hired a private duty nurse.
The hospital, doctors, and nurses can’t defend themselves here. Why everyone is taking what he says as 100% truth beats me.
Blake on January 10, 2008 at 12:08 PM
must have been hemroids
Drunk Report on January 10, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Maybe it’s because “everyone”-and by that I presume you’re referring to people who disagree with your assumptions-has had personal experiences similar-if not to the same degree-to those of Mr. Beck, and realize that, just perhaps, the average hospital is not run as brilliantly as those portrayed on E.R., Chicago Hope, Grey’s Anatomy, or any other prime-time, hour-long network drama.
Gerard on January 10, 2008 at 1:11 PM
By “everyone,” I am referring to people who are assuming what Beck said is true without knowledge of all the facts. My own personal experiences have been that I have had to sit in the waiting room in extreme pain while they took the guy with chest pains and a history of MIs first. Neither you nor he knew who was being treated in the emergency department and if their condition was life threatening while his clearly was not. Again, if Beck wanted one on one service, he had the money to hire a private duty nurse. She could have administered pain meds, monitored his condition, cathed him, rubbed his brow while saying over and over “poor little bunnie.”
Blake on January 10, 2008 at 2:09 PM
reading the comments at Huffington Post, I am again moved by the posts of the “compassionate left”
/sarc
Son of Sam Kinison on January 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Glenn’s rich. Glenn’s lying. Waking up on the operating table is funneeee. Glenn got what he deserved. Glenn should really shut his piehole.
/pea soup spewing on Hot Air.
RushBaby on January 10, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Forgot to mention:
I got victimized worse!
RushBaby on January 10, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Glenn must sat on a Jerry Fusilli – from Seinfeld – one in a million.
Kini on January 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Maybe he is going a little overboard with the emotions, but I happen to agree with him about the lack of compassion in the medical field. I work in the medical field and have for 35 years. The guy rolling his fingers and sighing…seen it a hundred times.
Glynn on January 10, 2008 at 8:46 PM
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