Please forgive me for getting sidetracked with my families health issues, but it got me to wondering why the hospital my parents are going to is so underpar, and the one we go to is so much better. Also still trying to figure out about the 2 to 3 month wait for the colonoscopy,…
Category Archives: Health Care Providers
Our Recent Hospital Stays
My mother was just in the hospital last weekend and told me that her room mate was so disgusted with the level of her care and the way she was treated, that she packed her clothes and walked out. A couple of doctors tried to stop her and convince her to stay but she…
Doctors and Empathy
Researchers looked at the relationships between 137 patients and their oncologists or thoracic surgeons and found that even when the patients seemed to ask or need some understanding their doctors were cold and unfeeling. The doctors of course did respond to physical concerns about pain and things of that nature however they did not…
Retail Medical Centers
Retail Medical Centers are those clinics usually run by a nurse practitioner who is there to treat simple and common conditions such as colds, sore throats, and Ut infections. From the start, doctors did not like this idea because they reasoned that first if you’re anything less than a doctor you can’t possibly be…
Infection Control
I’ve been running across a few people lately who have had hospital stays and have been discharged with a case of Mrsa. Mrsa is the “superbug” that laughs at antibiotics. Mrsa comes in different forms but in all its forms it is a bad bug to get. You would think that the hospital would…
Two California Doctors Lose Case Denying Service
Two doctors in California lost a case against them for refusing to artificially inseminate a lesbian based on their religious prejudices , I mean beliefs. After some of my previous posts I think you already know where I stand on this, and I am not alone. I would like to point out something else…
Cancer Treatment Centers Commercial
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America sound like a wonderful place to go when you have cancer. I’m sure that everything they claim in their commercials is true and bless them for being there when people who have cancer have lost hope and confidence in their prognosis. The commercials have me convinced that if…
Hospital Compare, A New Website
Hospital Compare is a new website by the department of Health and Human Services. It lets consumers compare 26 quality of care measures in about 4,000 hospitals nation wide. Patients rated hospital services such as how quickly they were given care and how well the communication was between them and the medical staff. In all…
Nurses
We just finished National Nurse’s week and I didn’t want to let it go by without a mention. Nurses truly are the heart and soul of medicine. They are special people who are there for their patients and who care about those they take care of. A nurse is expected to do so many…
Patient Dumping
A hospital in Costa Mesa discharged a 42 year old homeless man, put him in a taxi that drove him 42 miles away to a Mission in skid row. Even though there were many other missions along the way the hospital decided skid row was where he belonged. This is not the first time hospitals…