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Do you ever get the feeling that your doctor and physicians don’t care about you or see you as merely another source of income and nothing more? Have you ever felt forgotten or mistreated by them? Well rest assured, your fears are probably legitimate.

What, you thought I was going to be reassuring you that they do care? Pft! Check this out:

A cancer patient says she was left alone in a CT scanner for hours after a technician apparently forget about her, and she finally crawled out of the device, only to find herself locked in the closed clinic.

A technician placed her inside the large machine at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 19, dimmed the lights so she could relax and told her not to move during the 25-minute procedure.

“At some point, my mom lost track of time and felt like too much time had passed, but she couldn’t look at a clock or anything because it was dark,” her son Ariel Tellez said.

After calling out, then screaming for help, she said, she spent several hours trying to free herself from the machine. Finally, she wiggled out from under a heavy blanket and out of the machine. By the time deputies found her, it had been five hours since she was placed inside.

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You’ve got to love the fact that the office that this happened at is now going to institute a lockup procedure, whereby all employees will have a checklist of things to check on and secure before leaving to insure a full sweep of the premises is conducted in order to prevent another occurrence.

Hey that sounds like an excellent idea!

But wait, if gas stations, business offices, and what not already check to make sure everyone is gone and things tidying up before closing for the evening then why wasn’t a medical practice doing the same?

Do you think you know it all when it comes to a certain team, sport, or sports? Maybe you would just like to test your knowledge of sports trivia? Either way, you may want to head on over to TriviaFix.com and go at it head to head with other sports junkies in the ultimate test of skills.

TriviaFix.com is a bit different from most sports trivia sites however, so listen up. TriviaFix.com is user generated community that is driven by you. Members submit their own questions (including video and audio) and will create their own trivia teams, as well as organize the competitions. You can follow your progress and check the stats of not just your friends and yourself but other members as well. This allows you to determine who you want on your team and what areas you need to work on. There is a scoreboard on every category and sub category page for just this reason.

This unique community environment allows members to truly test the limits of their knowledge, learn, and most of all, interact on a new level with fellow junkies. And with monthly prizes being awarded every month to the top members in all sports there is no reason not to sign up and test your knowledge.

It’s always been said that you can find anything at an auction. You’ll find those rare and hard to find items as well as the just plain strange and sometimes grotesque. Here’s one of the later:

Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches above the knee.

The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.

The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery “for religious reasons” she doesn’t know much about.

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After an hour of brain wracking I still cannot pin down the religious beliefs that say you must hold on to amputated body parts. But hey, to each their own.

I wonder how traumatized the purchaser was?

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The Iraq government has failed time and time again to hit the benchmarks that have been set for it so now President Bush is forced to call in the big guns.

July 17, 2007 - Increasingly frustrated by the Iraqi government’s failure to meet a series of defined benchmarks, President George W. Bush today proposed sending a group of giant robots known as the Transformers™ to Iraq.

When questioned about his decision, President Bush had the following to say:

“I’d like to see what would happen if Al Qaeda tried to attack one of our tanks, and instead the tank got up on its legs and turned out to be a robot and started shooting at them,” Mr. Bush said. “That would be so cool.”

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