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I was waiting for the Metro this morning in the U Street station when a woman approached me and asked if I knew how to get to DC General Hospital. I did not. She then proceeded to ask the twenty or so other people in the station. None of them knew. So, how do you get to DC General Hospital?
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Practice, practice, practice.
Or, take the Metro to Stadium/Armory and head south-ish. It's on the Anacostia River near Independence.
Posted by: David Vacca | Aug 23, 2004 10:36:18 AM
So, how do you get to DC General Hospital?
Practice, practice, practice?
No, that's how you get to Carnegie Hall.
Um, hang out in Columbia Heights after dark?
Posted by: SoCalJustice | Aug 23, 2004 10:37:51 AM
beaten to the punch by Dave!
And you have the actual answer too.
/slinks away, embarrassed.
Posted by: SoCalJustice | Aug 23, 2004 10:38:26 AM
Weird. If she needed care, you know, Howard Hospital is about a block and a half from the Metro station . . .
Posted by: Kriston | Aug 23, 2004 10:42:32 AM
Maureen "the Queen of Mean" Dowd brazenly displays what she and her fellow Kerry Kool-Aid drinkers think of Vietnam Veterans.
I’m getting more and more outraged by the disrespect and downright hatred that these power hungry lefties are spewing on our comrades THE SWIFTBOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH. I ask you:
Is it easier for an intelligent person to believe John Kerry and his handful of shipmates with whom he shared medallic spoils back in ‘Nam and God knows what else during his campaign; or the hundreds of comrades including his entire chain of command who call him a liar and a charlatan thus opening themselves and their loved ones to the unmitigated hatred and bilious slander from the elite media as typified by the following excerpts from Maureen the “Queen of Mean” Dowd..
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/opinion/22dowd.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 22, 2004
WASHINGTON — It's easy for the Bushes to stay gallant. They delegate the gutter...
…Just as the Bush campaign dragged out fringe veteran surrogates in South Carolina to slime the former P.O.W. for being antiveteran, now the stomach-turning Swift boat attackers are sliming a war hero as a war criminal…
…Charging on Thursday that Mr. Bush wants the Swift boat sleazoids "to do his dirty work," Mr. Kerry reached for yet another Vietnam reference and water metaphor: "When you're under attack, the best thing to do is turn your boat into the attack."…
…The Times revealed that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - is that like the administration's Clear Skies Act for spewing pollution? …
...The Kerry camp knows the Swift boat snipers are hurting the Democrat and fears the Bush oppo campaign will soon move from tarnishing Mr. Kerry's war record to dwell on his days as a shaggy-haired antiwar spokesman. The White House must tear down his heroism before it can tear down his patriotism...
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Posted by: Adrian Spidle | Aug 23, 2004 10:44:23 AM
So, how do you get to DC General Hospital?Reluctantly. =,
Posted by: Greg Greene | Aug 23, 2004 10:49:34 AM
Well, Matt, here's how I'd personally get there if I needed to get to a hospital in less than 41 hours:
1: Start out going Southeast on E 1ST ST toward S LOS ANGELES ST. <0.1 miles
2: Turn LEFT onto N LOS ANGELES ST. 0.2 miles
3: Merge onto US-101 S. 0.7 miles
4: Take I-10 E toward SAN BERNARDINO. 40.1 miles
5: Merge onto I-15 N toward BARSTOW/LAS VEGAS. 72.9 miles
6: Merge onto I-40 E. 1216.7 miles
7: Merge onto I-35 N. 10.0 miles
8: Merge onto I-44 E via exit number 138A toward TULSA (Portions toll). 484.7 miles
9: Take the I-55 N exit- exit number 290A- on the left toward I-70 EAST/ILLINOIS. <0.1 miles
10: Merge onto I-55 N via exit number 290B toward I-70 EAST/ILLINOIS. 20.7 miles
11: Merge onto I-70 E toward INDIANAPOLIS. 214.0 miles
12: Merge onto I-465 S via exit number 73A. 18.4 miles
13: Merge onto I-70 E via exit number 44B toward COLUMBUS OH. (Portions toll). 453.5 miles
14: Take the US-30 W exit. 0.1 miles
15: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto I-70/US-30/LINCOLN HWY. 0.3 miles
16: Turn LEFT onto I-70 E. 76.0 miles
17: Merge onto I-270 S via exit number 53 toward WASHINGTON. 32.7 miles
18: I-270 S becomes CAPITAL BELTWAY/I-495 E. 13.1 miles
19: Take the BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON PARKWAY exit- exit number 22B- toward WASHINGTON. 0.3 miles
20: Merge onto MD-295 S. 7.9
21: Merge onto E CAPITOL ST SE. 0.6 miles
22: E CAPITOL ST SE becomes C ST NE. 0.3 miles
23: Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto 22ND ST NE. <0.1 miles
24: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto E CAPITOL ST NE. 0.3 miles
25: Turn LEFT onto 18TH ST SE. 0.3 miles
26: Turn LEFT onto MASSACHUSETTS AVE SE. <0.1 miles
27: End at 1900 MASSACHUSETTS AVE SE WASHINGTON DC
Total Est. Time: 40 hours, 26 minutes Total Est. Distance: 2664.97 miles
Don't let us boomers all die off before we teach you how to use the Internet, kid.
Posted by: tcb or tcb3 | Aug 23, 2004 10:54:24 AM
First, punch Adrian Spidle in the nose.
Then, take either the orange or blue line to Stadium-Armory.
Follow your nose to the junciton of Independence Avenue, 19th Street, SE, and the Anacostia River.
Posted by: praktike | Aug 23, 2004 11:01:46 AM
How do you get to DC General?
I dunno, maybe get stabbed or something?
Posted by: reuben | Aug 23, 2004 11:05:00 AM
I know -- I raised the Howard U hospital issue, but she really wanted DC General.
Posted by: Matthew Yglesias | Aug 23, 2004 11:07:56 AM
I am surprised anyone is asking, I thought DC General had been closed.
Posted by: Alice Marshall | Aug 23, 2004 11:09:42 AM
It's not closed, but it's public. That's enough to make it invisible, these days.
Posted by: tcb or tcb3 | Aug 23, 2004 11:13:38 AM
Go to Howard Hospital and tell them you don't have insurance.
Posted by: serial catowner | Aug 23, 2004 11:19:53 AM
I know -- I raised the Howard U hospital issue, but she really wanted DC General.
Maybe, you know, she didn't need treatment, but rather was going there to see someone.
Posted by: Al | Aug 23, 2004 11:50:19 AM
You never can tell. Yesterday some woman asked me if I would "make her a sandwich." I shooed her away, which was sort of pathetic considering I was in the middle of a barbecue. But she did ask specifically for a sandwich, for which I had no fixings . . .
Posted by: Kriston | Aug 23, 2004 11:52:18 AM
Jeez, Adrian. Maureen Dowd does not get you to the hospital. Courtney Love will, though.
Posted by: Zizka | Aug 23, 2004 12:20:31 PM
DC Hospitals
That was a 7 full line URL, but basically Yahoo Maps with DC Hospitals highlighted in Yellow
Posted by: bob mcmanus | Aug 23, 2004 12:21:46 PM
Matt, it would make sense that you wouldn't know how to get to DC General Hospital -- there ain't no public hospitals in DC anymore. DC General shut its doors back in 2001 and there's been a movement by members of the public to reopen it.
Some of my friends were working on this issue last year, when I was working in the DC area. It was a very frustrating fight, and the last thing I know is that the mayor wanted to place another Howard University hospital site (private) on the area where DC General (public) was. Sad.
Posted by: Anjali | Aug 23, 2004 12:34:03 PM
Thanks for participating in a piece of collaborative art.
Posted by: jerry | Aug 23, 2004 1:21:50 PM
When you get to the parking lot, make sure you head into the buildings to the left (DC General) and not the buildings on the right (DC Jail).
Posted by: flory | Aug 23, 2004 2:31:23 PM
She might have been looking for the STD clinic at DC General. Its one of the few public services still offered at the defunct hospital. I went with a friend to the free clinic last September and got a kick out of the follow-the-signs-to-the-STD-clinic that had been put up for those less inclined to read directions.
check the photo:
"YOU ARE HERE!"
Posted by: Nikolas ® Schiller | Aug 24, 2004 5:40:48 AM
you catch the metro blue line and get off at stadium of amory and you there.... bye i hope i gave you all some helping advise
Posted by: kiara | Sep 9, 2005 8:08:03 AM
