Control Healthcare and you control the people Saul Alinsky
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I can attest from personal and documented experience that our current system is NOT healthcare and you must protect yourself and your loved ones by advocating and being vigilant. Do not stay in the hospital without some who can protect you. In the last few years I stopped multiple mistakes that could have been deadly in medication. Mistakes that had I not been there to step in my son would have been helpless to stop. Most happened during shift change or when first admitted. The nurses disperse what the doctor writes and because of Obama care we no longer have physicians trained to investigate they are trained to give you pills that match your profile. Sometimes they give the wrong dose or sometimes they don’t look into affects on other conditions or interactions. Occasionally you have nurses not log properly and the next shift gives the wrong dosage. Go to the hospital sooner than later if you have a need BTW just be prepared when you go. Make friends with your nurses they are your best line of defense fyi
Agree with you. Staying with my son in hospital who had shattered neck and 2 fx in spine with ACIF surgery 2 days post admit. Issues discussed with CMO revolved around informed consent (procedures not fully explained, questions asked while pt heavily medicated, choices not offered for non emergent procedures), provider bullying (doctor saying I'm going to do what's best irregardless of what you want), IV pumps set incorrectly so med infusion out earlier (pump read air in line for PIC Line cath), anesthetist knocking out sons tooth during non emergent intubation and did not report it), med changes ordered were not implemented due to nurse not entering order in EHR. O8therwise, most individual nurses and clinicians were great. Have to also compliment CMO of hospital as he spoke to everyone re all issues.
Yes!!! Thank you for adding your experiences as well. This is survival of current system 101. I had no idea until we experienced it. Our son was even placed on palliative care without our permission or discussion with him. The death panels may not be official but I have noticed a push toward less expensive measures versus those that produce better outcomes in the last few years especially. The most frightening moment for us was being released from the hospital under protest and being told not to go to the ER unless he lost consciousness. This was after a complicated surgery. Had I obeyed he would have certainly died instead I took him to the nearest ER and he was life flighted. That hospitalist was either incredibly incompetent or intentionally placing his life at risk because insurance gave her our marching orders and refused to pay for the test the hospitalist the week before requested.
Agree about doctors and specialty but it all boils down to people. Some doctors only learn from books and are driven by their egos and what is easiest. Others are selfless, inquisitive, constantly learning. I find those that are hospitalists don't 'go that extra mile' - like how nurses do travel nursing and are not invested.... driven by money, they don't strive for excellence (or maybe proper term would be they are not as engaged) the same way doctors or nurses do that are hired by the organization.
Agreed. We have horrible medical staff but we have also encountered incredible individuals fighting for my son’s life in a system designed to end him because he is too expensive to live. I would say more often than not the nurses care more. Doctor’s are a smaller percentage of the genuinely dedicated but those that are - they are a force of nature. We have even had a few experts with terrible bedside and absolute jack wagons but they were determined to do the right thing as well as unbroken by the system. They are worth their weight in Gold and often provided us a window others could not. Sadly the brilliant AND compassionate are downtrodden by the system they work in and we lose them to other pursuits. We have to fix this mess for everyone involved and reward the true healers instead of bind their hands