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New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sun Jun 26, 2005 at 04:11:53 PM EST
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Arianna has a new report on the Dick Cheney's visit Friday to the Vail Medical Center. She says after seeing Dr. Stedman for his knee, he saw Dr. Jack Eck and had an EKG done. No one in MSM is reporting this.

....sources close to Dr. Jack Eck, whom the vice president saw in the cardiac unit, were acknowledging yesterday in Vail that he had been to the cardiac unit (the AP has still not updated its story to include this) but AFTER he had seen Dr. Steadman, and that he had had a prophylactic EKG while he was there.

Jack Eck, by the way, "started the ICU, the cardio-pulmonary unit and ... the hospice program ...at the Vail Valley Medical Center."

Arianna's first report is here.

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    • New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail | 10 comments (10 topical)
    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    It's amazing Dick would let anything ending in "prophylactic" anywhere near him...

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#2)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    Actually, like his foreign policy, this was an elective procedure. ...maybe he was just curious. I'm going to go watch the movie "Dave" now.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    I hope he is alright and lives for a long time because, in the words of a famous Cuban, "Lu-u-cy-y-y-y! You got some 'splainin' to do!!!"

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#4)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    If I weren't so tired, I would make a wave file of the darth vader song being played on an EKG.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#5)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    They scanned his heart and it was negative.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:35 PM EST
    Oh c'mon. An EKG is not that big a deal and someone with Cheney's medical history and insurance plan probably gets them like I check my weight.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:36 PM EST
    Actually, for someone with his heart condition, EKG is standard. Once you get a pacemaker, for example, you always end up in the cardiac unit after surgery. But isn't news suppression also standard for this administration? Isn't lack of curiosity standard for mainstream press?

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#8)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:36 PM EST
    Acxtually, for a patient with an asynchronous dual lead pacemaker, with an underlying complete heart block, an EKG is useless. All you see are pacer spikes.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:36 PM EST
    Note for the record that Cheney had an EKG, instead of the far more common ECG. A German heart test for a Nazi heart. Now they should test his ability to stay alive chained to a concrete floor naked, lying in his own waste.

    Re: New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail (none / 0) (#10)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:36 PM EST
    At 120 degrees. No problem. It's noodles jefferson for dinner. In the immortal words of Curly Howard: "I can hardly wait!"

    New Report: Dick Cheney Had EKG in Vail | 10 comments (10 topical)