Dr. Guy McHendry
@acaguy.bsky.social
ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀ ʀʜᴇᴛᴏʀɪᴄ & sᴜʀᴠᴇɪʟʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴇ/ʜɪs/ʜɪᴍ Author of The Rhetoric of Western Thought https://bit.ly/RWT11e
Hospital: We sent it to our legal team. Resolution could take up to 2 years.
Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.
Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hospital: We sent it to our legal team. Resolution could take up to 2 years.
Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.
Sigh. Guess I need a lawyer.
Hospital: Files appeal via third party company.
Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Me: Ummm?
Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Me: Ummm?
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hospital: Files appeal via third party company.
Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Me: Ummm?
Insurance: Claim denied. Those were not really complications. You just took a few extra hours waking up from anesthesia and needed prolonged mechanical ventilation.
Me: Ummm?
Insurance: That’s better.
Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers.
3 Months Later…
Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim.
Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!
Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers.
3 Months Later…
Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim.
Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Insurance: That’s better.
Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers.
3 Months Later…
Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim.
Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!
Me: Goes into surgery and is anxious about insurance. Has rare complication, wakes up in the ICU. Spends a night there and then fully recovers.
3 Months Later…
Insurance: Ope you were in-patient so we are denying your claim.
Doctor: Ummm complications. ICU!
Which is to say, it will be what David Lyon calls liquid surveillance. It will melt into existing systems to the point where we stop seeing it as separate or disruptive technology.
September 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Which is to say, it will be what David Lyon calls liquid surveillance. It will melt into existing systems to the point where we stop seeing it as separate or disruptive technology.
Too soon! Thankfully no.
May 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Too soon! Thankfully no.
It’s for sure gonna be uOS or some crap.
May 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It’s for sure gonna be uOS or some crap.