BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

Alex[_10_]

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/24/17 12:58 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:55:40 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

I had a routine stress test done a few years ago and the
hospital charged the insurance company $14,000. Made me start
thinking
about it.

My nuclear
stress test a few years ago was $4700.

I guess this was a more involved test than what I got.
They just had me hooked up to an EKG and had me go up and down a
little step box, right there in the office with the little blonde girl
who works for doc running the machine. It was just part of a wellness
physical.
It was essentially the same as the one I did at Georgetown in 1961-2
when they thought I had a heart murmur. (I was in a study)
I wish I had the tape from my test at 13 to compare to me at 70.

Mine was a colossal pain in the ass. First, I was injected with
isotopes and sat on a torture chair while some sort of radiation
reading camera whirled slowly around me. Then I was up on a treadmill
until I was ready to pass out, died, or completed the test. Then I
rested for 30 minutes and was back up on the chair with the whirling
camera. To increase my anxiety during the treadmill portion, the doc
told me ( I was looking out the window) that he was sure my mother in
law was walking down the medical campus.

Anxiety? It's nothing. I had one this year. Piece of cake. You must
be in really bad shape if that treadmill was so bad. They only let you
walk/jog until you reach a rather low heart rate.