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56 Hours In The Emergency Room – Suffering On A Mass Scale

The Icarian Posted on April 4, 2025 by adminApril 5, 2025

This is about what was happening around us in a Level 1 trauma center emergency room, not why we were there. At 1PM on a Friday the trio of paramedics rolled the gurney up to the sliding door of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, culture | Tagged doctors, emergency department, emergency room, hospitals, medical, nurses, overcrowding

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Previously

  • America Getting Screwed By The Screwworm June 18, 2026
  • THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME June 7, 2026
  • THAT NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME June 7, 2026
  • Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE June 6, 2026
  • CHAPTER THREE. MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN June 6, 2026
  • Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MATT & ANTHONY A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE June 6, 2026
  • STILL HERE! A NURSING HOME TALE June 5, 2026
  • Dying… Or Not. How People Die. Better Days June 5, 2026
  • Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell June 5, 2026
  • Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso – 2020-08-25 June 4, 2026
  • COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague 08/02/20 June 4, 2026
  • Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything June 4, 2026
  • Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure May 24, 2026
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors May 24, 2026
  • The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty May 11, 2026
  • The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality April 27, 2026
  • Honoré de Balzac On Coffee – A Terrible And Cruel Method February 19, 2026
  • Miller And Goebbels: A One-Sided Love Story October 29, 2025
  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025
  • Honoré de Balzac – The Human Comedy: Books That Killed Their Authors #8 September 9, 2025
  • Lammas or Lughnasadh? Let The Harvest Begin July 31, 2025

The Icarian On Mastodon

Opened up more TestFlight slots for Wallflower - a Mastodon and Bluesky unified iOS/iPadOS/macOS and web app.
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19 June 2026 @ 4:23 pm

Whenever I see IYKYK written, I mistake it for a reference to the zipper manufacturer YKK. We all have our crosses to bear.

18 June 2026 @ 6:17 pm

I'll take this author's thesis a step further and argue OSes peaked with Windows 2000.
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html

18 June 2026 @ 4:02 pm

Wallflower for iOS beta? Sure.
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17 June 2026 @ 7:46 pm

Instacart made some significant changes to its TOS.
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17 June 2026 @ 12:43 am

Please stop generating AI images of Musk in a space suit for your crummy articles about SpaceX's valuation.
It's up there with using "Battle of the Bulge" when referring to weight loss.
Straight cringe.

16 June 2026 @ 5:46 pm

A report on the IRS sharing address information with ICE suggests that failing to prioritize taxpayer confidentiality is the real scandal, not interagency data sharing.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/irs-sharing-taxpayer-info-with-ice-is-a-data-governance-issue

16 June 2026 @ 1:58 pm

My latest Recent Rulemakings Reviewed, for the month of May, is up on Yale JREG Notice & Comment.
https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/recent-rulemakings-reviewed-may-2026/

12 June 2026 @ 4:13 pm

And on that note, I think I've had enough internet for today.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/farmer-donates-land-for-a-park-city-sells-it-for-data-center-development-usd10-gift-became-usd10m-for-city-government-with-usd30m-tax-expected-over-next-decade

11 June 2026 @ 2:28 am

I'm sorry, but the President of the United States insinuating that oil prices have been kept low because we're sneaking barrels out of Iran at night is *empirically* funny.

11 June 2026 @ 1:24 am

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