He is so one of us. That really sums him up. He is just a super nice and fun loving guy who happens to brilliantly talented AND INCREDIBLY DEDICATED TO HIS PATIENTS AND EVEN THOSE WHO AREN'T.Even surgeons take selfies to document their life as a patient. He's one of us!
When I was working as a research tech at UCLA during my break between college and grad school, I had to learn how to read Xrays (of rat fetuses whose mothers had diabetes, looking for birth defects). I spent a night or two shadowing a doctor at the UCLA ER (it was 1975). He would put up the Xrays and tell me what he was seeing on them so I could get the idea of how to read them.
One series came up and the radiologist was practically giddy explaining what was going on – he had done an IVP on a patient with flank pain, and the series of Xrays clearly showed a kidney stone moving from the top of the ureter all the way down and into the bladder – by the time the IVP was over, the patient was no longer in acute pain. He was tickled because as a radiologist, the IVP was one of the few ways he could actually CURE a patient, rather than just diagnose – the rush of fluid into the kidney and ureters occasionally flushed it through.
I wonder - with MRIs and such, and better dyes (these IVPs were pretty unpleasant) do they still sometimes wash out the kidney stone?
Knowing him I am certain he probably had the pain start up in the afternoon and fought through it treating patients until the end of the day. Then he probably went down to the ER. His office is in Verdugo Hills Hospital professional building that is connected to the hospital.My kidney stones in the 1970s, before MRI, all were flushed out with the dye while I was in the ER. This one last month was MRI Dxed -- then I writhed in agony for a week until it worked its way out. I'll take the dye, thank you, but it's no longer offered.
I'm sorry for his stone, but I'll bet Keshishian didn't have to whimper and grunt in the ER's waiting room for 2 hours before he was seen.
I'm sorry for his stone, but I'll bet Keshishian didn't have to whimper and grunt in the ER's waiting room for 2 hours before he was seen.