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A comment on Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

Jim Y — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:19:42 GMT

It's not just the nursing industry. We see staffing in many areas where hospitals are overworking staff and not realizing that more staff actually helps them achieve their goals. We're geared mainly towards financial areas, but our consultants can see other areas lacking in sufficient staffing as well.

A comment on Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

Catherine Orcutt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:01:04 GMT

Nurses in VA are grossly underpaid as well. I think that is pretty much everywhere. We are overworked, underpaid , understaffed, abused, disrespected (also by our peers) and held responsible for everything that goes wrong. We ARE the lifeline of patients. MD's would not make it without Nurses. All States should have regulations addressing staffing. The bottom line today is not only with Nurses but with the Facilities, Doctors, Drug Companies etc. Care of the patient has gone away.I don't see this changing. If Obama gets his wish, we can say goodbye to good healthcare, let alone baseline healthcare and jobs. Maybe that is a rescue for me, because I am way beyond burned out. How can I recommend Nursing as a profession to anyone with the above description of treatment of Nurses. Life is too short for such a miserable profession!

A comment on Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

JILL PAUL RN — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:44 GMT

Don, Florida RN's are grossly underpaid compared to other States. If they upped the pay scale significantly in Florida, there would not be 52 openings at the Tampa General. They also need to put a cap on the number of patients that one RN can handle, as they do here in California. Your statement "Nurses have just as much impact on patient care as Doctors", is just wrong. We are with the Patients 24/7, we are the eyes and ears for Doctor's who might spend 10 - 15 minutes/day with the patient. We are the patient's advocate - we are the ones who call the Doctor (in his absence) requesting orders to benefit the health and welfare of his patient. Our job is enormous and most often, under appreciated by the public at large. We are the ones who call the Doctor at 3am and bare the brunt of his irrational behaviour for doing so - all for the welfare of our patient. Give me a knowledgeable RN anyday and I know that I will have the best possible chance of returning to good health. Financial compensation goes a long way to enticing students into the health care profession. Today's youth are looking at the bottom line - not my consideration when I ventured into Nursing many years' ago.

A comment on Matt Noyes On The Herniated Disk

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A comment on The Epidemic With Many Names

pwdennis — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:44:58 GMT

I suspect the major cause of the "epidemic of diagnosis" is the effort by physicians to avoid being sued for not pulling out all the stops on every illness lest it turn out to be a rare exotic disease

The cost of defensive medicine is high and will only get higher

A comment on Benefits Of A Doctor Who Takes His Time To Do It Right

Michael Townes Watson — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:56:12 GMT

We applaud that our healthcare industry can now save the lives of tiny premature infants never before considered "viable." Yet those same infants, who may later be afflicted with serious illnesses, have been deprived of medical wonders because of a blind President's moralistic and inaccurate view of the meaning of the term "stem-cell research."

We are proud that our hospitals are being infused with the brightest talent, energy and education that we can provide, but we mourn when our loved one become a statistic--one of 190,000 people who die every year as a result of hospital error; one of 90,000 people who die every year from hospital-acquired infections; one of 1.5 million people every year who is injured by a medication error. We should mourn that there is an irony here. The leaders in Congress were busy trying to take away from the victims of medical error the right to seek justice, at that same time that they were ignoring the plight of the sixteen-year old pages. Makes you wonder who they have been protecting. It's not the youth, it's not the sick and injured, it's not the needy or the poor or the downtrodden. They don't even protect the soldiers they send abroad to protect us. And who is it that we now read are the "Godless" ones? Oh, yes, it's those crazy Godless liberals. By which God's standards do we come to that conclusion?
Michael Townes Watson, author of America's Tunnel Vision--How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine and Law.

A comment on Brittle Bone Disease Caused Fractures But Father Wrongly Accused Of Abuse

Renee — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:20:20 GMT

There are a lot of incompetent doctors in the military. I was in the medical field in the military (not a doctor), and I saw this first hand. My son and I were victims as well. When I left the service, I requested my son's medical records. They told me they were "lost".

A comment on The West Nile Virus Transplanted Along With Donated Organs

AdamRegiaba — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:50:45 GMT

This article is about my father. He is still alive to this day struggling for his life. Everyday I wish they just checked that organ for west nyle, he would be with us today insted of in a coma in the hospital.

A comment on Be A Questioning Patient In Your Doctor's Office

Leona — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:34:11 GMT

I was talking to a doc yesterday whose practice is accredited by the Joint Commission (JCAHO) as an Office Based Surgery. He said that before accreditation it didn't occur to him to discuss the details of what he'd be doing and why with his patients, but JCAHO requires it, so now he and his staff do it every time. I'd just advise people to seek JCAHO accredited offices or encourage their docs to get accredited.

A comment on The Guessing Game We Call The Practice Of Medicine?

Melanie — Fri, 26 May 2006 20:56:44 GMT

Yes, doctors PRACTICE medicine in the same way lawyers PRACTICE law and both fields are a measure of schooling, past experience, and interpretation. It's ironic that when people have a physicial symptom or problem and they go see their doctor, they expect instant help. Doctors are not God and none I know claim to be. Yet in the middle of the night, if I happen to be suffering from an acute physical problem, my bet is to call my doctor or go to the nearest hospital and not call my lawyer first. I'm betting on better results than what any bottom feeder lawyer could offer me.