nicotine is a drug and people who are smokers are addicted to it.
This same person who says they are a smoker, or an alcoholic are predisposed to addictions and a doctor worth his/her weight will think very seriously about prescribing pain or sleep medications that are habit forming.
I would post the blushing icon but I have been poked and prodded into ultimate nakedness removing all modesty over the last few weeks.
I don't think I ever had anyone write a poem to me. How sweet is that? Well, there was that one time in the 3rd grade, but any poem that starts with Roses are red does not really constitute a poem.
VA hospitals suck. Not because they do not have well intentioned doctors, but the standard of care there is much lower whereas the cost to the government to run them is higher than simply contracting with a privately owned hospital for care.
You took what I said and twisted it out of context. I did not say that poor people do not deserve to be treated for medical needs.
What I said was that it is not a "right" in terms of this - anything that the government deems is a right is something that the government tries to take over. And as I said before, anything that the government takes over is screwed for all eternity.
This is what will fix the health care system 1) Break the lawyers monopoly 2) Fix the justice system that encourages lawyers to file frivolous lawsuits 3) Allow Doctors to make health care decisions based on proper care of the patient 4) Stop providing any non emergency medical coverage for people working in this country illegally.
Is it a person's right, who does not have health insurance and lives off the system, to jam up an emergency room when they have a cold? No it is not.
I totally agree with this. As an owner of several firearms, I feel very strongly that gun control only reduces the number of guns that are in the hands of law abiding citizens. Criminals are emboldened when they aren't afraid of an armed victim.
I think states ought to constrain the lawyers so that malpractice insurance will come down. Then doctors can afford their mp insurance and hospitals can afford the liability so that the cost of health care drops.
This will also lower the amount that states have to pay in medicaid, and what the federal government has to pay in medicare.
Once that is operational, a community based clinic system is the answer for simple triage of local issues and the government can begin to provide payments for care on procedures and treatments that are above the community based clinic system.
But until you fix the trial attorney issue, you are going to continue to have doctor shortages, and you are going to continue to have astronomical health care costs.
I have to do so much extra work (or did before I had this aneurism) documenting and going above and beyond in terms of defensive medicine that the average patient bill costs 30 times more than it should in reality.
A guy a few months ago came in to get an antibiotic for a toe. we didn't have to do anything to him, we could tell he had an infection and needed antibiotic. The hospital charged the guy's insurance $1,600 for him to come in and get an antibiotic script in the ER - and of course since it was the beginning of the year, he has not met his deductible.
As a doctor I can tell you why. Anytime the government gets involved in anything it screws it up. I can't tell you how many doctors would just plain go out of business in their practice because by the time they take medicaid and medicare patients with their slow and low reimbursements, and pay their malpractice, licenses and all the other garbage, the doctor doesn't make any money.
Why go to college for years if you aren't going to wind up making enough money to take care of your family.
The government is NOT the answer to having health care for everyone.
Get rid of the attorneys and you will have a lot better chance of having health care for everyone. Doctors might actually make house calls again.
I have been gone for a few weeks now, as some have noticed. A few weeks ago I as observing at a hospital where I potentially would start work March 1. I stayed over night observing staff and left at shift change in the morning.
I was talking on the sidewalk with the guy who was interviewing me for the position and I passed out. We couldn't find anything wrong but we scheduled an MRI.
While having the MRI I started seizing. Long story short I had a brain aneurysm. I am not the man I used to be after multiple surgeries, induced coma, and now partial paralysis.
I will likely never practice again unless it is on a small scale - certainly never the pace that I kept in a hospital ER.
As I told sweetowen in an email tonight, to say I am depressed is an understatement. I felt like I owed the friends I have made on here an explanation for my sudden absence a few weeks ago.
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RE: Say unto others as you wish to be spoken to....
I am sorry I offended you Tamarin. I know I am scum.