My older sister has been an RN (in N.J.!!!!) for many years so I’m sure that I’ve heard many comparable “war stories”. It really is sickening.

P.S. Cali, your avatar looks just like my cat Boo.

I forgot to include this.

“But, imagine this nationwide with US Healthcare that the WH ‘warrantees’. It would bankrupt the system ”

But this has been tried nationwide. In the UK, Canada to name but two places. And you are right, it has bankrupted their systems

That is why the British Health Service IS bankrupt. I won’t tell the story again..but we have had family starved to death because they were too old and care is rationed.

Where as we would have treated the patient and he would have been about to come home,this person was literally starved to death in England. Try to rectify that with common sense and decency!

NO nationalized health care system has EVER worked. Anywhere.

Its because we have so many in the “gimme” crowd of libs that are too dumb to see the future, and who could, just by watching the past and present. They want “free” health care that along with all the situations we just mentioned will add the “normal” people into all this mix.

As I said, you nailed it when you said it would bankrupt this nation.

I truly believe that is exactly what Obalmy wants. He hates this nation and wants to bring it down as fast as he can. He’s doing a jam up job so far. It has to stop…and very soon.

The hard and fast reality is that if by some chance the patients that turn up at every cold evening complaining of chest pains was turned away because of their past…and just this once WAS suffering from heart problems, the law suit would be more than anyone would want to deal with.

And believe me, even tho these sluggards don’t have a pot to P*** in they know full well how to reach a trial lawyer. Hospitals just can’t take the chance. They are between a rock and a hard place. Damned if they do damned if they don’t.

caligirl,
Maybe we should testify in DC! We “got a million of ‘em” LOL

Unfortunately so do a lot of other health care workers nation wide.
These people are exactly why hospitals charge $5 an asprin pill.

The govenment (medicaid) sure doesn’t pay the full price for anything (except toilet seats), not to mention what the hospitals must “eat”.

jpbeth, you’ll love this one. We had one patient who, once a week, usually after 5 p.m. but prior to 8 p.m., would come in and her doctor would call in a narcotic order: 125 mgs of Demerol and 75 mgs of Phenergan, IM. Yes, that’s lots of Demerol and we all know Demerol has nasty side-effects. The doctor did say she was in the clinic several times a week for her “migraines” and she got the shots there; we’d get her at the hospital after the clinic closed. She refused Imitrex or any other prophylactic/preventative meds.

Corrections medicine is much much more interesting LOL And by corrections I mean prison. What a fun job that was (no sarcasm, seriously, what a great job that was until I got hurt …)

She did have private insurance; her husband was a retired sheriff.

How many dollars are thrown down the drain for these idiots who after racking up thousands and thousands of $$ for EMT, Trauma, O.R. ICU and regular room costs go right back out there and go looking for someone to shoot or knife in retaliation. Thereby sending either someone else or themselves to come back in the revolving door!

Of course not one of these fools had a real job…drug money was way too good to waste their time on that…so never paid taxes and never had insurance…Why bother!

I always get amused when my Brit in-laws keep telling me that they buy insurance when they come here (as they should) because “America won’t treat us if we don’t have the money”. They don’t understand Americans, because THEIR health care is “free”..

….and rationed, and with treatment long in coming IF it gets there in time, and NO patient autonomy as to what care they receive. That is all decided by a paper pusher somewhere.

Heck, we haven’t even brought up the kid with a fever at 10 p.m. and when you ask the parents what they’ve done for it, they look at you like idiots and say “nothing.” So what’s the first thing a nurse does before the doctor gets there (small hospital, doctor on call)? Yep the old tepid bath and a dose of children’s tylenol. By the time the doc gets there, miracle cure! Of course at that point, parents INSIST on antibiotics and maybe even a blood test. So in comes the lab person, also on call!

I never really knew just how much the hospital billed for my tepid baths LOL No matter, 9 out of 10 were MediCal or flat-out uninsured.

If you only knew! If Caligirl and I got together we could really share a lot of horror “war stories” as far as medical abuse is concerned. I could go on and on…about the million and a half dollar hospital bill for a woman who was too lazy to move…yep, not kidding.
She wouldn’t even turn her head to see what time it was but insisted she be place so she could watch TV.

I won’t go on because I’m sure you get the picture!

And the kicker…as always…WE PAY! To keep mom happy while pregnant so she can spend her welfare on drugs, while she nearly kills her baby, then the mega dollars to keep her little one alive on every machine available. And then back to the streets for mom so she can do it all again! This was her 4th or 5th, all removed from her. And to ever suggest she be sterilized is “against HER human rights.

First she wasn’t human! Second, she never once considered the rights of her babies.

Yep, lets expand the welfare rolls to “help” all these “poor”. (extreme sarcasm)

jobeth,

Just dealing with all of those depressed men must have been a nightmare! ; )

There was one time when she was *not quite right* Acted crazier than a loon, claimed she was hearing voices, etc.

I persuaded the doctor (who had never seen her) to 5150 her. She was hauled off to the county’s mental facility, 50 miles to the north.

I learned she was out the next day, and had to ride the bus 50 miles home. She stopped abusing the emergency room.

I was also unfortunate enough to be the L & D nurse (small hospital, my areas were ER & L&D) for this heroin addict complete with hepatitis and God-knows-what else 5 times in 8 years! Every kid was taken away and put in foster care because of her drug abuse. Prior to her admission for the birth of her third kid, I watched her shoot up in the parking lot before she came in. The doctor gave me an order for an immediate shot of narcan just prior to the baby’s birth, which of course threw the baby into immediate withdrawl. Not the right thing to do … Poor thing came out shaking and squealing. Oh, she was on MediCal and welfare—naturally.

–On Sunday late morning, families show up for their weekly physicals and medication refills. (Many come still dressed in their church clothes.)
–On Monday around 5 a.m., people arrive for their I’m-sick-and-need-a-doctor’s-note-to-get-out-of-work exams. (Usually physically-fit young men.)
–On any given Monday so long as the sun is up, women arrive for the weekly burn-and-itch clinic.
–On Friday and Saturday after midnight, careless drivers show up for their it’s-not-my-fault-I’m-a-victim-and-need-to-sue exams. Ditto for I-was-sitting-on-my-porch-minding-my-own-business-when-a-car-pulled-up-and-some-(insert “black” if your white and “white” if your black)-dude-shot me. (Always stupid young men.)
–On cold nights, the homeless arrive soon after sunset.
–One day after welfare checks are cut, the police drop off the addicts intoxicated. One week later, the police return to drop them off again but this time in withdrawal.

Isn’t it grand? The E.R. is where humanity goes to wipe its shoes clean.

They complained of chest pain each time. The hospitals cannot turn them out with that complaint.

They were admited and hooked up to a scarce telemetry bed and there they would sit or I should say…sleep…all night long because they couldn’t turn them out until they were watched for about 8 hrs for any arrhythmias.

In the meantime they would get a bag “lunch” of a sandwich and fruit and drink. All on our dime.

It was a regular thing you could set your clock on. Cold night = Street people with chest pains!

Pretty expensive flop house!…Oh well the tax payers have plenty of $$

Mass deportation is the only solution. Identify and deport. Enough is enough. And I don’t care who they are, what their skin color is, what their citizenship is – outta here. Airdrop them to an island somewhere – anywhere. Ta ta.