Where's Kim?
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@Loki said in Where's Kim?:
So you are saying you can create a credible rumor by merely saying he had a stent put in?
No, I'm saying that I've seen more than a handful of patients have catastrophes while on the cath table during a stent placement. Not many, but more than a handful in 35 years of being on the heart surgery team. If Kim had a stent put in, it is within the realms of possibility that things didn't go well. I have no idea how talented the cardiologists in North Korea are, but I would not go there for my procedure.
It happens, and when you add complicating factors, like obesity, smoking, etc., the risks escalate.
In the early days of doing this (I'm talking late 1980s to early 1990s, every time the cath lab was going to place a stent, or do an angioplasty, everyone on the heart surgery team was required to be in-house during the procedure, lest things go pear-shaped. As the cardiologists got better at it, that requirement was dropped. What do you think the skills of North Korean cardiologists are? How commonly do they place stents/do angioplasty. My guess is rare. With experience comes expertise. With expertise, complications go down.
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https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/25/north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-dead-dies-heart-surgery-reports/
North Korea's Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation -- according to media outlets in China and Japan.
Amid reports China has sent a medical team to their communist neighbors this week to check in/advise on Kim, a Hong Kong-backed news channel's vice director -- who's apparently the niece of a Chinese foreign minister -- blasted out the news herself ... he's dead. TMZ has not confirmed that.
The woman put the report on a social media app called Weibo for her nearly 15 million followers to read, citing a "very solid source" about the claim Kim had, in fact, perished. A Japanese magazine reports he's in a "vegetative state" after a heart surgery gone wrong.
The outlet reports -- citing a Chinese medical expert privy to the situation -- that Kim had clutched his chest in early April and fell down while visiting the countryside there. He needed a stent procedure done, but apparently ... it either wasn't done rapidly enough, or it was botched completely by the surgeon -- with some reports saying he had shaky hands.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Jackass, you don't inject bleach. You inhale it.
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@Improviso said in Where's Kim?:
@George-K said in Where's Kim?:
or it was botched completely by the surgeon -- with some reports saying he had shaky hands.
If as a surgeon, a patient said to me, "I die,you die", I'd have shaky hands too.
Kim was not in such a low position in the hierarchy that he'd need to say that. Making threats is for the little people.
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@brenda said in Where's Kim?:
@jon-nyc said in Where's Kim?:
Any closer to resolution, or is this still Schrödinger's dictator?
Love this!
Thanks, jon!
NYPost headline:
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un rumored to be dead, brain dead or just fine
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