Bush to Be Sedated for Colonoscopy (IS THIS REALLY A NEWSSTORY-AP has a slow newsday???)

Associated Press ^ | Fri Jun 28, 7:31 PM ET | RON FOURNIER

[jraven]

Sounds like a lot of crap to me.

[bonesmccoy]

gosh come on!

The man's name is BUTLER... isn't it?

[Fast 1975]

Please Lord, don't let Senator KKK take charge.BWAAAA!

Give it a little thought. Give him a term in office, it would be four years of slow news days. The man would be to senile to invent new volunteer, education, or any other new social engineering projects to burden us with. Just long-winded speeches and appointing judges who aren't "stupid".

[Rome2000]

Didn't Klintoon have this done several times?

Or was he the one performing it on Monica?

[NC_Libertarian]

IS THIS REALLY A NEWSSTORY

In case you weren't told, Bush is the President of the United States. Of course it's a newsstory, silly.

[Coleus]

Sounds like a bunch of crap to me.

[IncPen]

I heard somewhere that an unnamed Democrat House member offered to take the exam for him...

I heard the purpose of the exam is to find that Democrat House member...

[gov_bean_ counter]

ROFLOL!!!!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Unfortunately, I had em all. NOT fun, especially when they fill you with air and you let it out in recovery. Yeesh.

[rintense]

Yeah, I think it's a news story. I would rather know than not know. And, the President's procedure will probably get a great deal of publicity for the prevention of colon cancer. Maybe we'll never hear from Katie Colonic again.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Bad mental image!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Maybe it is a good thing those gowns are open in the back.

[MinuteGal]

Hope they don't show a re-run of Katie Colon's procedure just so the Dems have equal time.

Leni

[aruanan]

Bush to Be Sedated for Colonoscopy

Probably with the wonderful Versed:

Midazolam (Versed) is a water-soluble benzodiazepine that has become widely used in procedures requiring conscious sedation, because of its optimal physicochemical properties.

When I was undergoing a colonoscopy, I watched the doctor snake the colonoscope all the way around. I asked him, "So, do you ever see anything and say, like, "Oh, sh-t!" He said he did. Then I realized that in spite of the Co-lyte, he probably would see something like that.

[Tony in Hawaii]

It's worse than that! Do you realize this man is TOTALLY UNCONSCIOUS for six to eight hours EVERY DAY?

[aruanan]

The question before the house, though, should be why the hell would Mr. Bush or anyone want to be awake for a colonoscopy.

So you can move when the doctor tells you to in order to facilitate guiding the colonoscope around the colon.

[VOA]

...the President's procedure will probably get a great deal of publicity for the prevention of colon cancer.

Oh, you are right.
What I was relating was my shock in those innocent days of about 20 years ago!
At that time, about the only Presidential body parts I'd heard a lot about
was LBJ's operation scar!

[Ben Hecks]

Your #15 is correct. I underwent this procedure day before yesterday - a little Valium in the IV and I never knew what happened. The worst part is fasting the day before and having to drink that gallon water with that terrible-tasting stuff added to it.

[Randjuke]

Unfortunately, I had em all. NOT fun, especially when they fill you with air and you let it out in recovery. Yeesh.

I've always said one of the advantages of performing sigmoid/colonoscopies is that you can pass gas and everyone thinks it's the patient, including the patient.

[Fast 1975]

Midazolam (Versed) is a water-soluble benzodiazepine that has become widely used in procedures requiring conscious sedation, because of its optimal physicochemical properties.

Is that covered in the Republican prescription drug plan?