re: NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has passed away

And your point is?

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Sounds more like a piss poor diagnosis of a pulmonary embolism.

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That's my feeling on the story as well. Really bad diagnosis because Dr's or their staff sometimes can't overcome their bias.

I recently recovered from walking pneumonia. Felt real bad a week before easter, I was always tired and started running a low grade fever at night that would go away with OTC meds. Then Easter Sunday I woke up with a 101F fever and felt like I'd been run over by a steamroller. Went to the clinic the next day. Saw some NP who basically listened to all of my symptoms and how I had this once before about 4 years ago and this felt exactly the same.

She listened to my lungs and said she didn't think it was anything. And when I say listened she just had me take breaths not cough. I demanded an X-Ray and got it. A few minutes after she got the result, she walked back into the room and said: "I'll be danged, you have pneumonia".

Got a steroid shot, an shot of anti-botics and a prescribed Z-Pack. Felt way better within 3 days. If I had not demanded the X-Ray she would not have done it. About time I got home from the clinic and laid down after getting the medication, my chest started rattling so hard when I coughed my dog looked at me funny.

If you feel something isn't right, demand a second option or more tests. It's your health, don't let someone in position of authority brush you off.

Also if anyone suggests you go home and take mucinex, which the active ingredient has been proven by the FDA to have no impact, that person is trying to get you out of their medical clinic because they don't know what's wrong or are too lazy to go further. That's exactly what this NP tried to do with me.

I will repeat something I said before. Only he knew what he was really feeling like and shared with doctors leading up to this, and he can't tell us anymore.

And sometimes, basically, s**t happens.

Bell won the 2017 truck title in the KBM 4.

Got it, edited post, I just cut and pasted that

Remind me, why did KBM shut its doors?

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Going forward, I bet that a full scan for possible pneumonia will now be a part of every NASCAR driver's standard medical check. A driver so much as coughs, he'd going for a look.

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Just a cheap chest xray would be reasonable

Nobody is going to hand out chest X-rays for a cold that’s ridiculous. Now if a driver is calling for a doctor after a race and is having issues breathing that’s a different story. Ultimately we don’t know what treatment his medical team gave him. They very well could have gave him antibiotics and told him to get some rest and he felt better a few days later and quit taking his medication. We just don’t know.