On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > So, my younger son is in the hospital - he has had vomiting/diarrhea since > Sunday and the doctor thinks its some kind of virus...but... > > Sometimes I wonder how anyone makes it out of a hospital alive. My wife is > a nurse, and we have had big issues with poor patient care before (she > almost died..twice), so she is like a hawk whenever any of us gets sick.
The idea of putting all the sick people in one place may not have been such a good one. I hear there's a return to the "home visit" type stuff happening, which I like, but man do we need some system-wide reform. > This morning, my son started to get nauseous again so my wife asked for > fenegrin, an anti-emetic medicine, which was ordered for when he got > nauseous. It took about 30 minutes for him to get it because the nurse did > not know how to administer the medicine. If my wife was not there to talk > her through it, who knows how long it would have taken. My mother-in-law is a nurse for the VA, it's a real boon to know someone in the field, as it were. Maybe this social networking stuff will eventually help people connect with other people who have Knowledge, for those not fortunate to have, um, advocates, as it were. Also some measure of "this person is good, this person sucks" type deal, perhaps, tho subjectivity is a PITA. I learned how to be a tech pretty quick. Taking blood pressure, watching fluid levels, heart rate, oxygen, etc.. I tried to help out as much as I could. Practice makes perfect, neh? > Sadly, I hear stories like this, and worse - like Deny's recent issues - > far too often. We have an advantage since we both have medical backgrounds, > but I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't know what is (or is not) happening > when they go to the hospital. > > </rant> Straight up. I think the main problem is similar to other problems we face. It's not that cops suck, or teachers suck, or health care people suck; so much as it's the system itself which breeds suckyness, and crushes non-suckyness. I'm sorry if I've made it seem like it's the people's fault themselves. Eh. Force be with you, mate. We're pulling for yer boy. Denny -- Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. Isaiah B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
