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Nelson Gibson, a 59-year-old resident of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Fresenius Kidney Care have been having quite the disagreement on social media. According to the Miami Herald, Mr. Gibson, who’d been undergoing dialysis treatment three times a week at the center, has discontinued his treatment there because they banned his new choice of emotional support.

Now, you’re probably thinking that Mr. Nelson tried to bring in his dog or some other animal, and that’s surely an issue of hygiene. But no, Mr. Gibson wasn’t bringing in a dog or cat, or even a squirrel or turkey, but a president.

Specifically, Mr. Nelson’s emotional support was one President Donald J. Trump.

Okay, it wasn’t actually Mr. Trump himself, but a life-sized (bigly?) cardboard cutout of the president smiling and offering two thumbs up. This, um, unusual choice was based on the president’s signing of an executive order in July 2019 launching an initiative promoting kidney disease awareness.

Mr. Nelson had previously been bringing in smaller images of the president. But when he brought in the large cutout – made by his son – a social worker at the center told him that the president couldn’t stay, adding that “this is not a Trump rally,” according to Mr. Nelson.

Naturally, this has caused quite a rift. Mr. Nelson feels that his freedom of expression and speech has been violated, and Fresenius says they can’t allow a support item so big because of those pesky health and safety regulations. Typical doctors.

The actual President Trump has yet to respond to this odd situation, but no doubt he’ll offer Fresenius a hearty “you’re fired!”
 

Your friendly neighborhood pandemic robot

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It’s now nearly impossible to go one day without hearing “coronavirus this, coronavirus that.” In the face of a global panic, what’s the best solution?

Robots, of course!

A shiny new robot in Times Square not only can recognize symptoms of the coronavirus, it also can provide information to promote prevention and stop the spread. And if you look like a tourist, it’ll try to sell you half-priced tickets for a Big Apple bus tour. Move over, smartphones; having a robot analyze my symptoms sounds way more fun than frantically googling them.

The “Promobot” was designed with a friendly face and welcoming smile – that’s how you know the robot isn’t a local.

Interested users can interact with the Promobot’s iPad, which has a questionnaire regarding signs and symptoms of the coronavirus. Promobot doesn’t actually physically detect the virus (it’s a robot, not a blood test), but the questionnaire asks about general symptoms of coronavirus. At the end, the robot gives advice on how to proceed if the answers indicate the virus is present (hopefully without any panic-inducing fanfare).

Ah, New York: Where even the robots are friendlier than the residents.
 

Beating? No. Delicious? Yes

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It’s a heart!

No, it’s a cake!

Heart!

Cake!

 

 

Wait, you’re both right. It’s two treats in one! It’s a heart and a cake. It’s the cake that looks like a heart.

Seriously, it really looks like a heart. It looks like it should still be beating. We’re talking anatomically correct and glistening with just-pulled-from-the-body freshness.

This latest wonder of the baking world comes from Crabby Cakes in Portland, Tex., just across the Nueces Bay Causeway from Corpus Christi. Just get on West Broadway Avenue from the I-181 frontage road, then make a right onto Wildcat Drive and a left at Maple Drive.

Crabby Cakes owner Jessica Wolfe is a big fan of horror movies and has even visited some of the sites where scenes were shot for “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” She told the Dallas Morning News that she “was trying to do something different for Valentine’s Day, cake-wise.”

She posted a video of the cake on the bakery’s Facebook page and it went viral, gobbling up over a million views in less than a week, the Morning News reported. Each cake costs $70 and will feed about five people, but the bakery cannot ship them out of state.

Among the cake-generated surprises was the attention she got from the health care industry. “Nurses, doctor’s offices, and graduates want the hearts,” Ms. Wolfe told the Morning News. “But they also want livers, kidneys, and lungs.”

Let’s just hope there aren’t any transplant surgeons calling.



 

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Make dialysis great again!

benedeck/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Nelson Gibson, a 59-year-old resident of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Fresenius Kidney Care have been having quite the disagreement on social media. According to the Miami Herald, Mr. Gibson, who’d been undergoing dialysis treatment three times a week at the center, has discontinued his treatment there because they banned his new choice of emotional support.

Now, you’re probably thinking that Mr. Nelson tried to bring in his dog or some other animal, and that’s surely an issue of hygiene. But no, Mr. Gibson wasn’t bringing in a dog or cat, or even a squirrel or turkey, but a president.

Specifically, Mr. Nelson’s emotional support was one President Donald J. Trump.

Okay, it wasn’t actually Mr. Trump himself, but a life-sized (bigly?) cardboard cutout of the president smiling and offering two thumbs up. This, um, unusual choice was based on the president’s signing of an executive order in July 2019 launching an initiative promoting kidney disease awareness.

Mr. Nelson had previously been bringing in smaller images of the president. But when he brought in the large cutout – made by his son – a social worker at the center told him that the president couldn’t stay, adding that “this is not a Trump rally,” according to Mr. Nelson.

Naturally, this has caused quite a rift. Mr. Nelson feels that his freedom of expression and speech has been violated, and Fresenius says they can’t allow a support item so big because of those pesky health and safety regulations. Typical doctors.

The actual President Trump has yet to respond to this odd situation, but no doubt he’ll offer Fresenius a hearty “you’re fired!”
 

Your friendly neighborhood pandemic robot

ThomasVogel/E+
It’s now nearly impossible to go one day without hearing “coronavirus this, coronavirus that.” In the face of a global panic, what’s the best solution?

Robots, of course!

A shiny new robot in Times Square not only can recognize symptoms of the coronavirus, it also can provide information to promote prevention and stop the spread. And if you look like a tourist, it’ll try to sell you half-priced tickets for a Big Apple bus tour. Move over, smartphones; having a robot analyze my symptoms sounds way more fun than frantically googling them.

The “Promobot” was designed with a friendly face and welcoming smile – that’s how you know the robot isn’t a local.

Interested users can interact with the Promobot’s iPad, which has a questionnaire regarding signs and symptoms of the coronavirus. Promobot doesn’t actually physically detect the virus (it’s a robot, not a blood test), but the questionnaire asks about general symptoms of coronavirus. At the end, the robot gives advice on how to proceed if the answers indicate the virus is present (hopefully without any panic-inducing fanfare).

Ah, New York: Where even the robots are friendlier than the residents.
 

Beating? No. Delicious? Yes

Mikhail Spazkov/iStock/Getty Images Plus
It’s a heart!

No, it’s a cake!

Heart!

Cake!

 

 

Wait, you’re both right. It’s two treats in one! It’s a heart and a cake. It’s the cake that looks like a heart.

Seriously, it really looks like a heart. It looks like it should still be beating. We’re talking anatomically correct and glistening with just-pulled-from-the-body freshness.

This latest wonder of the baking world comes from Crabby Cakes in Portland, Tex., just across the Nueces Bay Causeway from Corpus Christi. Just get on West Broadway Avenue from the I-181 frontage road, then make a right onto Wildcat Drive and a left at Maple Drive.

Crabby Cakes owner Jessica Wolfe is a big fan of horror movies and has even visited some of the sites where scenes were shot for “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” She told the Dallas Morning News that she “was trying to do something different for Valentine’s Day, cake-wise.”

She posted a video of the cake on the bakery’s Facebook page and it went viral, gobbling up over a million views in less than a week, the Morning News reported. Each cake costs $70 and will feed about five people, but the bakery cannot ship them out of state.

Among the cake-generated surprises was the attention she got from the health care industry. “Nurses, doctor’s offices, and graduates want the hearts,” Ms. Wolfe told the Morning News. “But they also want livers, kidneys, and lungs.”

Let’s just hope there aren’t any transplant surgeons calling.



 

 

Make dialysis great again!

benedeck/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Nelson Gibson, a 59-year-old resident of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Fresenius Kidney Care have been having quite the disagreement on social media. According to the Miami Herald, Mr. Gibson, who’d been undergoing dialysis treatment three times a week at the center, has discontinued his treatment there because they banned his new choice of emotional support.

Now, you’re probably thinking that Mr. Nelson tried to bring in his dog or some other animal, and that’s surely an issue of hygiene. But no, Mr. Gibson wasn’t bringing in a dog or cat, or even a squirrel or turkey, but a president.

Specifically, Mr. Nelson’s emotional support was one President Donald J. Trump.

Okay, it wasn’t actually Mr. Trump himself, but a life-sized (bigly?) cardboard cutout of the president smiling and offering two thumbs up. This, um, unusual choice was based on the president’s signing of an executive order in July 2019 launching an initiative promoting kidney disease awareness.

Mr. Nelson had previously been bringing in smaller images of the president. But when he brought in the large cutout – made by his son – a social worker at the center told him that the president couldn’t stay, adding that “this is not a Trump rally,” according to Mr. Nelson.

Naturally, this has caused quite a rift. Mr. Nelson feels that his freedom of expression and speech has been violated, and Fresenius says they can’t allow a support item so big because of those pesky health and safety regulations. Typical doctors.

The actual President Trump has yet to respond to this odd situation, but no doubt he’ll offer Fresenius a hearty “you’re fired!”
 

Your friendly neighborhood pandemic robot

ThomasVogel/E+
It’s now nearly impossible to go one day without hearing “coronavirus this, coronavirus that.” In the face of a global panic, what’s the best solution?

Robots, of course!

A shiny new robot in Times Square not only can recognize symptoms of the coronavirus, it also can provide information to promote prevention and stop the spread. And if you look like a tourist, it’ll try to sell you half-priced tickets for a Big Apple bus tour. Move over, smartphones; having a robot analyze my symptoms sounds way more fun than frantically googling them.

The “Promobot” was designed with a friendly face and welcoming smile – that’s how you know the robot isn’t a local.

Interested users can interact with the Promobot’s iPad, which has a questionnaire regarding signs and symptoms of the coronavirus. Promobot doesn’t actually physically detect the virus (it’s a robot, not a blood test), but the questionnaire asks about general symptoms of coronavirus. At the end, the robot gives advice on how to proceed if the answers indicate the virus is present (hopefully without any panic-inducing fanfare).

Ah, New York: Where even the robots are friendlier than the residents.
 

Beating? No. Delicious? Yes

Mikhail Spazkov/iStock/Getty Images Plus
It’s a heart!

No, it’s a cake!

Heart!

Cake!

 

 

Wait, you’re both right. It’s two treats in one! It’s a heart and a cake. It’s the cake that looks like a heart.

Seriously, it really looks like a heart. It looks like it should still be beating. We’re talking anatomically correct and glistening with just-pulled-from-the-body freshness.

This latest wonder of the baking world comes from Crabby Cakes in Portland, Tex., just across the Nueces Bay Causeway from Corpus Christi. Just get on West Broadway Avenue from the I-181 frontage road, then make a right onto Wildcat Drive and a left at Maple Drive.

Crabby Cakes owner Jessica Wolfe is a big fan of horror movies and has even visited some of the sites where scenes were shot for “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” She told the Dallas Morning News that she “was trying to do something different for Valentine’s Day, cake-wise.”

She posted a video of the cake on the bakery’s Facebook page and it went viral, gobbling up over a million views in less than a week, the Morning News reported. Each cake costs $70 and will feed about five people, but the bakery cannot ship them out of state.

Among the cake-generated surprises was the attention she got from the health care industry. “Nurses, doctor’s offices, and graduates want the hearts,” Ms. Wolfe told the Morning News. “But they also want livers, kidneys, and lungs.”

Let’s just hope there aren’t any transplant surgeons calling.



 

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