Comments on: Healthcare Update 10-04-2012

By: Write-in Candidate

Write-in Candidate — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:03:47 +0000

It is against everyone’s interests for me to be sitting here waiting. It would have been in everyone’s interests for me to finish the phd and to problem solve years ago.

By: Write-in Candidate

Write-in Candidate — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:32:05 +0000

I do not understand the deliberate non-communication. I have no clue what to do. There is no security issue and never was.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:04:24 +0000

Other than the untrue statements about tort reform, that’s the kind of proactive, market based ideas all physicians should be promoting. Especially platform #s 1-6, and 10.

By: Write-in Candidate

Write-in Candidate — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:59:41 +0000

I have no clue what I am supposed to do to address confusion and misinformation. I tried being patient and have been waiting for years now.

By: joules

joules — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:54:52 +0000

http://americandoctors4truth.org/about.html

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:07:52 +0000

I second that- when I did my EMT class circa 1999 (2 years before this incident) I was taught to never hog tie a patient or transport them face down for exactly that reason. I don’t think this is a great case to highlight the catch-22 that EMS providers face with combative patients because protocols were most likely broken with the hog tie.

In the past few years there has been much more emphasis on no physical restraint without chemical restraint first (or shortly thereafter). This has made things a lot safer for the patient and the providers- assuming that you have a progressive EMS system with ALS providers with sedative meds available.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:12:07 +0000

We had a case at a local hospital in my area where a mentally ill, combative patient was also hog-tied and placed face down and left alone in an exam room. He pleaded repeatedly that he couldn’t breathe and was told that if he was talking, he was breathing. He stopped talking after a while…..yep, he was dead.

By: NRn

NRn — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:26:40 +0000

It never fails to zing me when a patient (or family member) starts off an ER visit with:

I hate this hospital.

I wouldn’t bring a dog to this hospital.

Last time we came here I had to be stuck 18 times before they finally got my blood.

They screwed up and killed my relative here.

Its really sad. I came out of nursing school taking very seriously a study I’d read stating that nurses are consistently voted the most “trusted” people by profession. This is what I’ve faced daily in many years being an ER nurse in 2 very good hospitals. Its only getting worse, this “you against me” hostile attitude I see in patients.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:46:21 +0000

That case is a good one to highlight the usefulness of having a videotape of the incident.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:45:29 +0000

” How exactly is quality improved when the government is encouraging hospitals to discharge patients early and then fining them if they let patients back in the doors?”

This is Obamacare, my friend. You want government to solve your “tort problems”, this is how they’re going to solve it. Sure, you’ll have no malpractice liability, but here come the arbitrary rules and regulations regarding “quality of care.”

Still looking for that physician legislation to roll back the increase of government in medicine. The AMA that hopped on the Obamacare bandwagon certainly isn’t going to propose it. Where are the other physician lobbyists?