"Just calling to check your recent medical status."

[vaskidmark]

or, the dangers of being a medical guinea pig.

Just got a call from a place that does contract medical research.  I've been an participant in a fair number of their studies so they have a good history of my conditions, which do seem to be desired by a number of folks each year who think they have found, if not the cure for X, then the best treatment for helping folks live longer with X.

Seems they have a new clot-dissolving med in testing that supposedly can get rid of clots in hearts or brains up to about 90 days from formation.

"Hi.  Is this vaskidmark?  This is xx Labs and we were wondering if you had a heart attack or stroke within the last 90 days and would be interested in participating in a study about dissolving the clots that caused it."

We discussed how they were not all that dissapointed that I had not had a heart attack or stroke recently, and gossipped about some of the staff there that I had come to know fairly well over the years - new babies, kids graduating college, when is Dr, So-and-so ever going to retire and the like.

But I'm thinking that deep down, they really were hoping I had had a heart attack or stroke.

stay safe.

[geronimotwo]

either they're looking for a antother test subject, or they are conserned for some of the meds they gave you previously.    ask them to supply you with extra bacon and smokes for the next quarter so that you can live up to their needs.   

[roo_ster]

either they're looking for a antother test subject, or they are conserned for some of the meds they gave you previously.    ask them to supply you with extra bacon and smokes for the next quarter so that you can live up to their needs.   

And fast women in skimpy nurse uniforms.

[Jocassee]

The OP made me giggle uncontrollably, I'm not sure why.

[HankB]

. . . But I'm thinking that deep down, they really were hoping I had had a heart attack or stroke.

If they send you an autographed copy of Obama's Best Speeches you'll know it . . .

 

[MillCreek]

And fast women in skimpy nurse uniforms.

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

[geronimotwo]

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

that's funny, all the video's i own have them.....

[roo_ster]

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

As fantastical as getting free bacon & smokes from medical researchers.

[Tallpine]

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

That's why there's a dominatrix industry 

[Doggy Daddy]

Novum?

[RoadKingLarry]

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

When I was 16 I had my knee overhauled. 6 days in the hospital and left with a cast from ankle to crotch, I was pick plaster out of the pubes for days. The nurse that came and helped me dress the day I left got my attention, and she knew it before she was done.

But I'm thinking that deep down, they really were hoping I had had a heart attack or stroke.

Sounds like you're just not a team player.

[BlueStarLizzard]

If they send you an autographed copy of Obama's Best Speeches you'll know it . . .

 

That wouldn't work. He has to be able to recover and live to useful, not end up in a grave.

[RevDisk]

And you well know, from where your wife works, that such people in healthcare don't really exist.  I certainly don't see them in my hospitals.

Eh, there's a couple cuties in scrubs. No skimpy outfits, but scrubs can...  well, flattering, I suppose. On the plus side, if they work in an ER for a while, not a lot will shake them.

When I was 16 I had my knee overhauled. 6 days in the hospital and left with a cast from ankle to crotch, I was pick plaster out of the pubes for days. The nurse that came and helped me dress the day I left got my attention, and she knew it before she was done.

At 16, anything unrelated female with a pulse would get your attention.   

[Scout26]

Getting back to the OP, could you tell if there was disappointment in their voice when you told them you were fine?


 

[Tallpine]

...

At 16, anything unrelated female with a pulse would get your attention.   

And at 60 - well, never mind 

[vaskidmark]

Getting back to the OP, could you tell if there was disappointment in their voice when you told them you were fine?

Their frank disappointment was quite openly expressed.

Seems it is hard enough finding enough people who have had a heart attact or stroke in the last 90 days, let alone finding enough folks who wants to play guinia pig with drugs that might make you better, or might leave you as you currently are, or might even make things worse than thewy already are, all for science and a $50/visit "honorarium" (it isn't ethical to actually pay people to be medically 'speriminted on).

They might have had better luck a few centuries ago, poring over obituaries is search of likely bodies to dig up for those mad doctors.

stay safe.