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Hepatitis C tests urged for all baby boomers
The Philadelphia Inquirer / The Washington Post ^ | May 19, 2012 | David Brown

Posted on 05/19/2012 3:19:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Northern Yankee
Like anyone's gonna really care what the federal government recommends at this point. Good grief... pour me another gin and tonic.

Notch up the temp in the hot tub while you're at it -- oh never mind, the gubmint has that function pre-installed.

Here's lookin' at Euclid!

41 posted on 05/19/2012 6:47:38 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: All
Hep C
For those who do need to know.
42 posted on 05/19/2012 6:48:57 AM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

When i was in Basic Training my tent mate got bit on the butt by a snake while pooping in the woods. I had no idea what to do so i ran to ask the Drill Sgt. He told me about cutting the fang marks and sucking out the poison. When I returned to our pup tent the victim asked me what the Drill Sgt said. I rplied, “The Drill Sgt said you are going to die!”

;)


43 posted on 05/19/2012 6:53:08 AM PDT by csmusaret (Obama's new slogan: "Fo Mo Mo Fo.")
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To: LibsRJerks
And soooo ...what will they do about it once they find out you have it

Heigh-o, silver hair, away -- to the sanitarium.

"Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home..."

/Boomerish

44 posted on 05/19/2012 6:53:25 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: bigtoona

I was hit with that battery of questions with every doctors’ visit in Minnesota. The questions were always asked in some sniveling condescending tone. When my annoyance of these questions became obvious, I was “diagnosed” with various “problems”. I am no longer in Minnesota, and no longer recognize any professional license issued by that state.


45 posted on 05/19/2012 6:55:43 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you’re eligible for THE MONTANA LIFE SAVING MEDAL WITH BREAST DEVICE. I’ve got a room full of those medals. I’m not a hero.....just doing my duty.


46 posted on 05/19/2012 6:59:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: riri

Agree hep C can lay dormant for up to thirty years.


47 posted on 05/19/2012 7:00:05 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Fred Hayek

You’re on a list somewhere, Fred. :)


48 posted on 05/19/2012 7:00:06 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The hepatitis C virus is transmitted by blood, usually through intravenous drug use or transfusions

Wow, who knew ALL baby boomers had transfusions and are intravenous drug users. I must have been doing some serious tripping since I can't remember either one happening.

49 posted on 05/19/2012 7:05:28 AM PDT by bgill
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To: EBH
wow...actually maybe...considering that almost all our money is tainted on some level with drugs.

If that were the case, then they'd have everyone, not just baby boomers, getting tested. The whole thing is a crock of hooey. Follow the $$$$. What we should be most concerned about is which medical supply company makes the test and is that company getting government money?

50 posted on 05/19/2012 7:11:39 AM PDT by bgill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the virus ruined the liver, why do we give Hepatitis C patients another one?


51 posted on 05/19/2012 7:13:40 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: bigtoona

I was asked that same question by my doctor 12 years ago, I told him NOYFB. This did not originate with the usurper.


52 posted on 05/19/2012 7:13:58 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ( R)
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To: bigtoona

Experiences of the past couple of years lead me to believe without a doubt that information collection is a priority for the “leadership” perhaps of the NWO movement.

Seems every time I turn around some action related to squeezing information about me, or my wife’s personal business is in play.

Even the water department locally has a program in attempt to suck information out of us similar to that we refuse to answer on the Census as none of the governments business.

It’s as though there is an effort to create a thorough data base on each, and every person in this society.

IF NOT, then why do these assaults on our privacy exist?


53 posted on 05/19/2012 7:15:29 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: bigtoona
part of the standard new patient questionnaire ‘Are there any guns in your house?’ This happened in NC

It happened to us about 10 years ago in TX so it's not new. The obviously liberal non-Southern doctor asked the kids about guns being in the house and they said yes. She never bothered to look to see that hubby was in law enforcement but went into a tirad about the evils of guns, blah, blah, blah. The kids picked up real quick she was nuts and refused to answer any more questions. We immediately complained and apparently we weren't the only ones because she was gone within weeks.

54 posted on 05/19/2012 7:19:52 AM PDT by bgill
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To: rockinqsranch
Seems every time I turn around some action related to squeezing information about me, or my wife’s personal business is in play.

Lie. The main thing most of these form readers want is for the blanks to be filled in. If you know it won't be checked and it's not going to bring jail time, then give them mickey mouse answers and be done with it. If nothing else, it'll screw with the data base file they have on you, lol.

55 posted on 05/19/2012 7:29:39 AM PDT by bgill
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You pulled that from a Playboy or Penthouse “letters” column, right? :-)


56 posted on 05/19/2012 7:29:53 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

And he never thought it would happen to him.


57 posted on 05/19/2012 7:33:16 AM PDT by Dysart (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: bgill

Kindly specify what you mean by “lie”.


58 posted on 05/19/2012 7:33:16 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“rolled-up dollar bills used to snort cocaine”

Thankfully we used $100 bills.


59 posted on 05/19/2012 7:37:37 AM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many baby boomers have had colonoscopies? Certainly quite a few in Clark County that were exposed to hep. C. As my nursing school teachers told me over 30 years ago- laproscopic instruments can never be adequately sterilized, only cleaned. Perhaps the concern is really related to that. You know they’ll never tell us the real reason.


60 posted on 05/19/2012 7:41:43 AM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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