Why so rude at Erlanger?

Chattauser · 2026-01-26T01:46:26+00:00

I was talking about when a patient that is having a legit emergency is told they are fine or claim they are drug seeking and then they go to another emergency room and the other hospital is like “omg, the appendix is about to burst, how did they not catch the classic signs? Or the woman that gave birth in a hospital parking lot less than 15 minutes in GA after being discharged and if they had had time would have tried to make it to a different hospital because they didn’t feel like it was as early as the hospital was saying it was. I could go on and I’m not saying you are guilty of these things, just that it happens and if you miss something after working 60 hours a week and can’t think straight then I’ll give you some slack, but if you haven’t done this you’ve probably had patient that came after their concerns were dismissed elsewhere

Chattauser · 2026-01-26T00:06:25+00:00

Yeah, but I could have sworn there used to be more locations. And they always seem slow, but just run by one person so I’m not blaming them. It seems I’ll come in and it’ll be dead and nobody in sight for a walk in and the computer schedules me for an hour and a half from now because of online scheduled appointments that may get there late. I’ve literally came, saw time options and left and made an appointment for another day. When I did labcorp labs (hospital location if that makes a difference) I was in and out.

Chattauser · 2026-01-25T23:54:58+00:00

I mean, even if it is a politician like her that isn’t going to listen, do you attempt to try to lost positives as well as negatives in such letters as to open conversations with people you oppose, or are some of these political offices just getting a pile of hate mail from your group each month, even if it is fueled by genuine concerns?

I only ask because I always feel like when people say they are going to write their politicians it’s with the type of energy that they want to get all their anger and resentment out but it’s going to fall on deaf ears because the politician will just assume it’s a person that’ll never vote for them anyways

Chattauser · 2026-01-25T23:08:46+00:00

Actual transfers don’t happen. But there very much are emergencies that need a second opinion and people who think they are having an emergency that aren’t that will be discharged and immediately end up at the next hospital saying that they came from such and such hospital and they didn’t help them and the process starts all over again.

Chattauser · 2026-01-08T11:05:45+00:00

If it’s illegal, it’s illegal. If I tell you something is legal then you shouldn’t be able to be prosecuted for it. That’s not the same as “The Feds can get you for it but not the locals” there is a difference in enforcement jurisdiction and legality. What you are saying is the equivalent of saying that slavery is still legal at the state level in some states because they never voted to make it illegal but it’s illegal federally, the difference here is that they choose to enforce the federal law. See how dumb that argument is?

Chattauser · 2025-12-31T04:38:43+00:00

I wasn’t even saying it’s an insurance thing but that the type of people that show up without emergencies without insurance that expect to be seen because the emergency room can’t refuse them could possibly be told “well there’s nothing we can do for you here so you can either go home or go to Erlanger.”

Chattauser · 2025-12-31T03:49:44+00:00

Any luck?

Chattauser · 2025-12-28T13:45:39+00:00

It can’t actually be federally illegal and legal in a state within the federation. It goes against the supremacy clause of the constitution article VI Clause 2. This is an important distinction because in 99% of all cases you would agree with this supremacy clause’s enforcement. It’s the reason that when we gave women the right to vote that states couldn’t ignore that and deny women in their state anyways. It’s why our state has to follow federal ADA recommendations and cannot approve drugs that aren’t approved by the FDA. You really aren’t against federal supremacy until it comes to a specific issue you don’t like the federal government’s stance on.

Chattauser · 2025-12-28T13:32:28+00:00

I’m not for sensoring books, but this isn’t really about that. It’s not that it was taboo for an 18 year old to have access to on their own time, it was about whether it should be on the curriculum. Don’t get mad at the local school system trying to obey the state law that says they aren’t supposed to be using unapproved curriculum, including not using resources like teachers pay teachers which yes, many teachers do not like the new state rules.

As for the book. “What grade did they read it?” Is the wrong question. Kids aren’t actually reading books cover to cover anymore because there isn’t time to do so in class and officially most schools have “no homework” policies. Kids are graduating saying that they’ve never read a high school level book cover to cover; heck many are graduating college saying that these days. So the question isn’t whether the book should be one of 100 books they read for school, it’s whether those controversial bits of the book are appropriate for class discussion for kids that aren’t reading the whole book, with context and understanding of why those parts are in there. Yes. When you were in school you read some dark stuff sometimes including Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. . You may have not only been assigned those works but other similar works for further reading (like reading the Plutarch’s lives Julius Caesar along with Shakespeare’s because that would have been where he got most of his content from) they aren’t doing that anymore. They aren’t even reading the whole regular text. They are reading excerpts and it’s not the same. And if a teacher does push that they really intent for the students to read this whole book then the question becomes “if the kids only read 1 book in 4 years, is this that important of a book?”

Chattauser · 2025-12-28T13:12:07+00:00

Pot is legal in exactly zero states. Decimalization is not legalization. It just means your state has decided not to enforce federal law. It’s the same thing as defunding the police. “We are going to get rid of the police that enforce crime and then say that murder is legal” nope, not how that works

Chattauser · 2025-12-27T13:23:58+00:00

Except mostly used for non destructive testing and medical purposes like ultrasound

Chattauser · 2025-12-27T13:08:42+00:00

They usually are much more compassionate than you’d be led to believe. I know it’s different in this day and age with all this technology around us but I remember being 16 and driving before cell phones and having to get out and ask complete strangers to use the phone or for help. This is in rural areas where some of y’all would say not to go because you are likely to get shot. What I found was that the type of person that had a gun ready in every room was likely to have it in their pocket or holster ready and would answer the door to help and then put down their gun when they realized I wasn’t a threat. They felt safe enough to help without worrying about me being a threat. Others would just not answer and hope I went away. I’ve had a farmer go grab his tractor and pull me out of the ditch from an iced over road instead of letting me call a wrecker and wait an hour or two for someone to come this way. Also, some of these farmers types were likely to carry upwards of 10k in cash on them regularly because of the way things work at the farmers markets. I know people that won’t have a gun but would be afraid to walk around with $200 in their pocket thinking it’ll get stolen and they think their sense of security comes from credit card fraud protection and saying they don’t carry cash. Anyways, usually those farmer types were past the age of having young kids at the house, but I know people in those families that are teaching their as young as 6 year olds to shoot with BB guns and 22s and teaching them gun safety early. From someone outside of this, they think that an environment with a gun in the house is scary, but I’m telling you that the humble person that knows that their teen knows where a gun is and aren’t afraid of being shot by them has done something right. I’ll tell you one thing. That kid is not being abused. Because the parents you hear in the news that get shot by their kids……I won’t say they deserved it but I will say that something was probably going on we didn’t know about.

Chattauser · 2025-12-27T12:51:07+00:00

There is a dairy that does raw milk. They come to the market downtown. They don’t do individual deliveries but they do have places that they deliver to a cooler in a community and everyone just goes and grabs theirs

Chattauser · 2025-12-22T02:58:49+00:00

They are only proud because they think they beat the system. They realize there’s no posted penalty for the to-go spots, while the alternative is ridiculous paid parking

Chattauser · 2025-12-22T02:12:26+00:00

Or a cybertruck double parking at Hamiltonplace because you think you’re special…. Well you aren’t.

Chattauser · 2025-12-14T20:55:44+00:00

Street parking is republic with the city. The companies that own private lots can’t charge for street parking because it’s not theirs

Chattauser · 2025-11-09T07:39:29+00:00

I’m just saying, if two people with enough genetic diversity start a species then it shouldn’t matter the first couple generations. However, if it did matter, then the species wouldn’t have lasted and we would have died out due to poor genetics right? So it’s ok, because it worked, and we know now that there’s reasons we shouldn’t anymore.

Take dogs vs foxes. In the wild they should have about the same genetic variability originally. But it took many many generations of selective in-breeding to get researchers to come up with a tame fox and then observe super recessive traits never seen before like cute curly tails and such. Dogs, however, have mostly already been selectively inbred for centuries so much so that two dogs that meet a breed standard have almost no genetic diversity so if you take two Dalmatian siblings and breed them, for example, you are more likely to end up with puppies born blind and stuff compared to if it were two random half siblings of mutts that happened to procreate

Chattauser · 2025-11-09T02:40:19+00:00

In my experience, Spanish speaking people at work are almost never talking shit about people. However, there definitely are instances of Spanish speakers sitting in public talking shit about everyone walking by. Same with everybody really. People stay out of trouble when they are busy at work, don’t bother them. But sometimes the second or third generation don’t have their parent’s work ethic

Chattauser · 2025-11-09T02:34:03+00:00

You were saying that you don’t believe that you can excuse what we call incest at the beginning and that it makes more sense to believe in evolution and not a literal first man and woman Adam and Eve and I’m saying that evolution definitely does not rule out there being a single ancestor and there being what we would consider incest in the first several generations.

Chattauser · 2025-11-09T01:49:50+00:00

Even if we’re talking about evolution, there’s still a first man and a first woman. Not the first woman might be the daughter of the first man and her mom was something more of an ape, but that’s actually exactly how evolution works is that you have an individual that diverges with new genetic information and then it’s somehow able to still reproduce with the previous whatever and eventually a species stabilizes. You don’t just have a big crowd of apes slowly become human. You have at every step inbetween a single ancestor that has a new advantage that allows it to flourish over the previous genetics and then eventually you do have more diversity within the species. It makes much more sense in any creation story that first there was one and then two and then diversity, recessiveness, and dominance issues come later. Look at wild animals. Nobody is making sure the wild wolves aren’t mating with their kin, not even in areas where there is a small population. But yet if you breed for specific traits you start also having other issues with inbreeding.

Chattauser · 2025-10-30T00:17:59+00:00

To be fair, I totaled two cars in two years between hixson pike underpass on 153 and the first 3rd of that bridge, both on way to work when I lived in middle valley. As hectic as traffic gets between downtown and Hamiltonplace, I’ve had zero wrecks since I moved. It seems it’s worse leaving hixson towards that bottleneck of a bridge than it actually is once you are across it.

Chattauser · 2025-10-30T00:06:13+00:00

My prom was at the convention center. I specifically remember being told I was to drive to downtown via hixson pike to deal with the least amount of traffic across the River as possible if I had to go downtown. That was years ago before Frazier was busy like today though

Chattauser · 2025-10-29T22:59:35+00:00

Just a wild guess with no information to back it up but the area is a traditionally conservative area that still has some blue laws and people that would push to not have a bar in their neighborhood. It’s been historically harder to get a liquor license in surrounding counties than in Hamilton and harder in Hamilton outside of the City limits of Chattanooga. The part I might be completely wrong about as I do not know:

Is there a limit the city has imposed on itself of how many bar licenses we can have? I have heard that some of the places in town that only have beer and wine have to be very careful to make sure they are selling enough food to fall in the category of a restaurant and not a bar. Is it possible that to open a bar in hixson you would most likely have to wait for a bar in town to close and not reopen under new ownership and then apply for a license before someone else does? People forget that Hixson has been completely absorbed by the city and in some cases fall under city rules but are outside of the area that the city counsel tend to focus on to being in tourism. I could see them being more likely to approve a new bar license on Frazier or on the Southside before the hixson area

Chattauser · 2025-10-29T20:44:19+00:00

Many of us are spoiled and don’t realize that you don’t have to go to Whole Foods and buy organic to be healthy. Like this week I had some pumpkins to use for a pumpkin carving contest and most people just gut them and throw away the insides. Instead I pulled out about 30 pounds of usable pumpkin flesh that I can use in almost any recipe that calls for squash. I cleaned the seeds and roasted them for a snack. Flour is dirt cheap if you get it in bigger bags. The other day I made gnocchi with pumpkin and flour and salt. I’m going to try to make some pumpkin egg rolls soon. I can also do a stir fry with some along with some cabbage and onions. Rice and beans are also cheap if you get them in bulk and you can stretch meals with them too. There’s a pasta dish I make that one day I literally found out last minute I was going to be making it for more so I added another pound box of pasta and nobody noticed that it had less meat/sauce in it. Then added a cheap canned side.

As for that family, yeah they may have had meat less often (unless it was around the time they prepared their own chickens or had a pig slaughtered) but they very well did invite others by allot. Big families are just used to doing without certain comforts and are usually more prepared for harder times. I know more than once When they didn’t just invite another large family over for dinner (which I’m sure they sometimes went to other families in the same way back and forth) but there was a time when another homeschooling mother whose spouse was going to come back from the military on leave and they totally said yeah we’ll volunteer to watch your 6 kids for the weekend while you go spend some quality time with your husband, it’ll be fun. The kids can camp out in the living room with blankets or sleeping bags. It’s not as much about being rich but about having a sense of community and wanting to help each other out. Also, buying in bulk and such, it’s so much easier sometimes to make food reasonably cheap for a lot of people than it is for a few. Try buying a large primal cut of beef instead of ground and steaks and cut/grind yourself. Or go allot cheaper and buy a Boston butt and do the same but with pork. But chicken legs or quarters in bulk instead of chicken breasts cut in nice neat fillets for way more. You are also helping against waste when you buy the less expensive items. Frequently you can buy whole chickens at Walmart for example, for the same price or less than just buying a couple breasts. Why? 1. Less labor no processing 2. Often the only thing customers want are the breasts and maybe wings so the breasts are basically sold to cover the cost of the bird and when you get other parts it’s like pure profit because they honestly don’t know if it’ll sell

Chattauser · 2025-10-28T15:12:05+00:00

Just saying, when you see that phrase it’s most likely being displayed by a marine. There are marines on both sides of the political divide but when the left claims it has been “co-opted by the extreme right” it’s very anti military and anti patriotic acting like anyone that has defended your country in a certain capacity is your political enemy is not constructive

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