{"id":502,"date":"2008-01-03T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=502"},"modified":"2008-01-04T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:07:20","slug":"medicine-and-medieval-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Medicine and medieval torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echocardiography\"> Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) <\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angiography\"> Angiogram <\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echocardiography\"> Transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) <\/a>  in that order over the last three hospital working days, I can truly see that if you have the chance to avoid the hospital, you should make every effort. The medical procedures are more akin to medieval torture than you might believe.  It&#8217;s a good thing they drug you for the last two of these, as they would be a lot less fun than they sound \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) a Angiogram and a Transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) in that order over the last three hospital working days, I can truly see that if you have the chance to avoid the hospital, you should make every<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=502\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medicine and medieval torture<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,70,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-medicine","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}