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Vatican Disinvites Gay Advocates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a little companion story I saw earlier today that a number of gay activists had sought permission, an invitation to attend the Vatican\u2019s highly anticipated global meeting on family life, and they had been denied. The Vatican denied their request to be invited, so they will not be there. In the article I read, they were quite put out about this. They were quite disappointed because they felt, these gay activists, that Pope Francis had indicated to them some time ago with other speeches that he had made, that he might be open to changing Church doctrine on homosexuality. They really thought that was gonna happen. So they sought an invitation to the upcoming global meeting on family life in October, and they were denied. <\/p>\n

Escaped Murderers Still on the Loose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, there\u2019s that guard from the Shawshank prison up there. You talk about an unbelievable story. Almost every aspect of this that we know, you look at it, “That can\u2019t be.” Have you seen what the New York Post is calling Joyce Tillie Mitchell? You know what they\u2019re calling here? Shawskank. I kid you not. Yeah, as in the movie Shawshank Redemption. Shawskank. And her poor husband is out there saying there\u2019s no way, Tillie never had sex with any of those inmates, it never happened. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve learned that it happened hundreds of times in an eight-by-15 closet, eight-by-15-foot closet somewhere off the kitchen somehow. I don\u2019t know what they found. I don\u2019t know how they know this. DNA. I have no idea. You just look at this, everything about this. They can\u2019t find these guys. They don\u2019t know where they are. They\u2019ve got DNA in a cabin a hundred miles away. What are the odds these guys are in Mexico by now? I mean, they had the whole state, it looked like they had every uniformed cop and sheriff\u2019s department and highway patrolman looking for these guys, walking through the woods. Nothing. <\/p>\n

And then this babe — well, woman, who assisted, she was supposed to drive the getaway car and she got cold feet at the last minute and didn\u2019t show up with the getaway car so these guys emerged from whatever sewer they climbed out of, no getaway car, they improvised quickly and nobody knows where they are. It\u2019s just — (laughing) — I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

Patient Gets Shafted By Doctors During Colonoscopy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear about this guy who went in from colonoscopy? Did you hear about this? This is not a joke. This is not a joke. A guy goes in for a colonoscopy, and he turns on the audio memo app on his phone to record everything that happens. The reason is, he\u2019s afraid that when it\u2019s over he\u2019s going to be too groggy from anesthetic when they\u2019re giving him instructions on what to do postop, and he wants to have those instructions. They don\u2019t know. The doctor, the anesthesiologist, none of these people know that the phone has been turned on, and the things that they said about this guy during the procedure, the jokes they told about him, he has successfully sued them for half a million dollars because of what his phone recorded them saying.<\/p>\n

Okay, so a guy walks in for a colonoscopy — not a joke — anesthesiologist trashed this guy unmercifully while he was under anesthesia. And it ended up costing her big time. This guy sued three different doctors for a total of $500,000 and won. \u00c2\u201cSitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Virginia, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing the record button on the Audio Memos app on his smartphone in order to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cHe wanted to know what to do, and he thought he\u2019d be too groggy to understand and remember.\u00c2\u201d So before the procedure, he starts the audio recording procedure. He goes through the operation, he gets dressed, and he\u2019s on his way home. He grabs his phone, grabs his Audio Memos app and hits “play,” and was \u00c2\u201cshocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor. He found that he had recorded the entire examination and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep. In addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then they placed a false diagnosis on his chart. <\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201c\u00c2\u2019After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op,\u00c2\u2019 the anesthesiologist told the sedated patient…\u00c2\u201d She was talking to him while he was under. The anesthesiologist is a woman, and on the tape or on the phone recording is, \u00c2\u201c\u00c2\u2019After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit.\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d She says this to the guy while he\u2019s under the anesthesia! \u00c2\u201cWhen a medical assistant noted that the man had a rash in the genitals region, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might \u00c2\u2018get some syphilis on your arm or something,\u00c2\u2019 and then added, \u00c2\u2018It\u2019s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you\u2019ll be all right.\u00c2\u2019<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cWhen the assistant noted that the man reported getting queasy when watching a needle placed in his arm,\u00c2\u201d he\u00c2\u2019s one of these people who doesn\u2019t like needles, \u00c2\u201cthe anesthesiologist remarked on the recording, \u00c2\u2018Well, why are you looking, then, retard?\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d <\/p>\n

The guy\u2019s under anesthesia! The assistant comes over and ways, “Yeah, this guy doesn\u2019t like needles. He got really queasy.” So she looks at the guy getting the colonoscopy while he\u2019s under anesthesia, “Well, then why did you look at it, retard?” <\/p>\n

She\u2019s mad at this guy. She doesn\u2019t like this guy from the moment she saw him; wanted to punch him out. Now, that\u2019s not all. There was much more. After he heard everything, this guy \u00c2\u201csued the two doctors and their practices for defamation and medical malpractice, and last week after a three-day trial a Fairfax County jury ordered the anesthesiologist and her practice to pay him $500,000. The anesthesiologist is named in this story, Tiffany Ingham, 42, couldn\u2019t be reached for comment. <\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cHer lawyer did not return messages. Court documents said that one of the doctors made some insulting remarks, \u00c2\u2018Hey, as long as it\u2019s not Ebola, you\u2019re okay.\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d That\u00c2\u2019s other doctors in touching this guy and his rash and so forth. And then they put some false diagnosis of a genuine medical disease on his chart, that he did not have, that he walked out of the Medical Center with in his medical records. <\/p>\n

A bunch of people who want to know what happened to these people, and I didn\u2019t print enough of the story out, don\u2019t know what the false diagnosis they put on the guy\u2019s chart was, but it was a serious things to be accused of having that he didn\u2019t have. And it\u2019s not explained why, what about this guy they didn\u2019t like. It\u2019s just that they didn\u2019t like this the guy and they immediately started ragging on him, making fun of him as soon as he was under anesthesia, making jokes about him. Why in the world they would enter the false diagnosis, I haven\u2019t the slightest idea. <\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cThe jury ruled…\u00c2\u201d There were three different doctors and anesthesiologists total involved here, and they all were found guilty. The combined amount the guy is getting is half a million dollars, $200,000 in punitive damages, $50,000 from one doctor, $150,000 from somebody else. This anesthesiologist no longer works at this place in Reston, Virginia. \u00c2\u201cState licensing records indicate that she has moved to Florida. An anesthesiology practice in Tavares, Florida, said she no longer worked there.\u00c2\u201d So she left Reston, came to Florida, and didn\u2019t last long at that place.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cCalls to a number believed to be hers were not returned and there wasn\u2019t an answering machine or voice mail on the number. \u00c2\u201cOn the opening day of the trial last week the gastroenterologist who actually did the colonoscopy, Solomon Shah, 48, was dismissed from the case. Court documents state that he also made some insulting remarks.\u00c2\u201d He\u2019s the guy who said about this guy\u2019s rash, “As long as it\u2019s not Ebola you\u2019re okay to touch him,” to one of the other doctors. The doctor also, it is said here, \u00c2\u201cdid not discourage the anesthesiologist Ingham from her comments or actions.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh. Here\u2019s what it is. She is the one who entered the false diagnosis on his chart, and it was for having hemorrhoids, which he doesn\u2019t have. How many of you have gone in for an outpatient procedure — or, doesn\u2019t matter, inpatient surgical procedure — and you know you\u2019re under anesthesia? How many of you have wondered what they\u2019re saying about you? Have you ever wondered that, Snerdley? Have you ever wondered what…? (interruption) Oh, I do. I have. Me, a powerful, influential member of the media? <\/p>\n

I wonder how many of them are tempted to overdose something. You can\u2019t help but wonder this kind of stuff when you\u2019re a powerful, influential member of the media like me. But I bet a lot of people wonder about this. This story, this gets out, and the first thing that\u2019s gonna happen is big signs: \u00c2\u201cNo cell phones allowed in OR!\u00c2\u201d That\u2019s the first thing that\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n

Pope Says It\u00c2\u2019s Now Cool to Break Up Families<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: “Pope Francis said today that it may be ‘morally necessary\u2019 for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church\u2019s attitude to troubled marriages. ‘There are cases in which separation is inevitable,\u2019 he said during his weekly general audience, with a message hoping to encourage greater compassion in the Church ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October.”<\/p>\n

By the way, one thing about that family meeting. The Pope said, “‘Sometimes, it can even be morally necessary, when it\u2019s about shielding the weaker spouse or young children from the more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation and exploitation.\u2019 Francis said there were many families in ‘irregular situations\u2019 and the question should be how to best help them, and ‘how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mummy\u2019s hostage.\u2019 The issue is likely to be addressed during the upcoming synod — a gathering of bishops — on the family, which Francis hopes will help reconcile Catholic thinking with the realities of believers\u2019 lives in the early 21st century.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what Catholics are gonna think of that. As I say, I\u2019m not a Catholic. I don\u2019t know what Catholics are gonna think of that. It\u00c2\u2019s sometimes “morally necessary” to separate families. <\/p>\n

Medical Marijuana Researchers Say They Need More Studies, Doritos <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: On the medical front, by the way, in a shocking news story; we are all here beside ourselves. We cannot possibly believe this is true. But medical marijuana has been found to be practically worthless. \u00c2\u201cMedical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for, this according to the first comprehensive analysis of research on marijuana\u2019s potential benefits. The strongest evidence that it does good for is chronic pain or muscle stiffness in multiple sclerosis. This review evaluated 79 studies involving more than 6,000 patients,\u00c2\u201d and they couldn\u2019t find any practical medical application for marijuana. <\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cEvidence was weak for many other conditions, including anxiety, sleep disorders, and Tourette\u00c2\u2019s Syndrome. And the authors — he-he — recommend more research. He-he-he. Rather than conclude it, “We need more research,” meaning we need more marijuana. (chuckling) We need more people smoking marijuana under medical supervision so that we can continue to study whether or not there are any upside effects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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