My daughter found out this morning that her boyfriend died. He had been very ill and although we should have expected this, it still came as quite a shock. He had a blood clot in his lung and spent a lot of the last few months in the hospital. He checked himself into the hospital,…
Category Archives: Health Care Providers
Should Surgeons Disclose Lack of Sleep?
Three doctors published an article that says they believe a surgeon should disclose lack of sleep to patients before doing an elective surgery and further require that patients sign a form saying they were so informed. This article was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Other surgeons disagree with this suggested new policy…
Illegal Nurses?
I was recently asked my opinion of illegal aliens being hired as unqualified nurses? First of all, no one in their right mind wants unqualified people hired to be nurses. That being said let’s just deal with illegal aliens being hired as nurses. That brings us to the second point hiring illegals is illegal, so…
Puerto Rican Doctors Laughing in Photos With Haitian Victims
It seems that 60 or so PR doctors thought it would be a good idea to pose with Haitian Earthquake victims holding soldiers guns and having a great time doing it. Some were holding beers, condoms, and saws next to people who were bloody, hurt, and half dressed. Puerto Rico is investigating the doctors for…
England Waiting for Verdict in 2007 Case of Suicide and Bullying
In 2007 a mother and her 18 year old daughter who had a severe learning disability, committed suicide by sitting in their car and setting fire to it. They are survived by a now 19 year old son who is fighting dyslexia. As I understand the story, the family was often the target of…
Doctors and Gods
Most people won’t admit this, but doctors are often treated like gods, or least the pope in the respect that they think they are infallible, that is until a mistake happens. Most doctors are very dedicated to their patients and to doing the best they can to keep them healthy, cure them of disease,…
The VA Sends Bad News To Vets by Mistake
A glitch in the computer system at the VA sent out letters by accident to about 1200 Vets, telling them that they have ALS or more popularly known as Lou Gehrigs Disease. This disease is fatal and affects the muscles in the body. Many of these vets have already spent up to $3000 of…
Medical Residents and Sleep
I have watched my share of medical shows on TV and one of the things you learn from these shows is that doctors in training work very long shifts, somtimes 24, 36, or even more hours straight. That has always worried me. As a patient walking into an ER, I don’t want an overtired…
When a Medical Test Makes You Sick
This story involves the Veterans Administration Hospitals in several states and colonoscopies done without the tubing on the equipment being properly sterilized. How would you like to be told that the colonoscopy you had five years ago may have had body fluids from another person on the equipment that was inserted into your body,…
Final Thoughts On Hospice
It’s been a while since my last post because I’ve lost both my parents. My mother unexpectedly died December 2 morning, and my father died December 4. We had hospice take my dad to a hospice unit in a hospital, where they were better staffed and equiped to care for him. I believe that…