Nurses, teachers 'in crisis'. Still dedicated despite hardships, survey finds.
Kathryn May, Montréal Gazette, August 25, 2002
Canada's nurses, doctors and teachers are the most committed, overworked, stressed and politically maligned workers in the country, a landmark federal study of nearly 31,500 working Canadians indicates.
It found that those employed in health, education and other social services work the hardest and longest but feel the least appreciated and believe they are unfairly blamed for mismanaged systems. Linda Duxbury, a co-author of the National Work-Life Conflict Study, said the health and education professions have been so badly "devalued" by years of job cuts and poor labour relations that the country's schools and hospitals can't keep or attract workers. ...
While a universal healthcare program may seem to be a good idea, those that have it have significantly less healthcare availability, those in the professions feel less than appropriately appreciated...and when has any government program come in under budget?
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Socialized Medicine...10/4
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I think the government here has screwed up the medical system enough.
I can remember when I had time to take care of my patients. Now with every patient, I have to leave a paper trail 2 miles long.
Everything now is about proving what you are doing for reinbursement. The government is dictating what we can do for our patient.
Not only do we in healthcare have to worry about malpractice, but we have to worry about business.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I were into business, I would have sought another degree.
I have seen many changes, and not many of them have been for the benifit of the patient.
It seems to me that we have socialized medicine-with more frustration than a true socialized medicine structure. The government dictates what we are allowed to do anymore===bottom line.
Seems like our little pocket of paradise has the same problems as socialized medicine--"but feel the least appreciated and believe they are unfairly blamed for mismanaged systems" would pretty well describe the original staff that is still working at PRMC.
But, when a surgeon is honest and recommends that a patient go to Dallas to have a procedure done that they have done here in the past, mainly because of post-operative care, then we have problems over and above "feelings".
Seems like our little pocket of paradise has the same problems as socialized medicine--"but feel the least appreciated and believe they are unfairly blamed for mismanaged systems" would pretty well describe the original staff that is still working at PRMC.
But, when a surgeon is honest and recommends that a patient go to Dallas to have a procedure done that they have done here in the past, mainly because of post-operative care, then we have problems over and above "feelings".
I had a dream about 10 years ago,that scared me to death, and is coming to be the truth.
I dreamed that I had a pt. in v-fib and I charged the paddles to shock, and someone stopped me and yelled medicare won't pay for that on this pt. In my dream, they just about had to call a code white on me to get me not to shock.
Then they sent me to the floor (as punishment) and there were people pulling on me, and pulling on my stethescope. There were no nurses around and patients were covered in urine, feces, with decubitus all over them, and I went to get supplies to clean them up with, and fix their decubs, and someone came up to me, and started taking my supplies away from me, yelling medicare don't pay for that--put it up.
Ten years later, I'm seeing my nightmare come true. It's not that bad yet, but getting closer by the day.
Lets just call me,
FRUSTRATED AS HELL
With the welfare system, we have individual abuses, so why would medicine be any different? In government, your status, pay grade, and importance are determined by the levels of bureaucracy and the number of people that you have working for you--apply that to medicine and you get the picture.
556 PM IF THAT SCARES YOU TRY BEING IN AN ACTUAL CODE AND THE MONITOR IS NOT WORKING SO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO SHOCK THE PT UNTIL THEY CAN BRING ONE UP FROM ANOTHER FLOOR!! IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT PRMC. AND GETTING SUPPLIES IS LIKE TRYING TO PULL TEETH W/ PLYERS AROUND THERE, WE ASKED FOR DYNAMAPS THOUSANDS OF TIMES NOT B/C WE DONT KNOW HOW TO TAKE A MANUAL BP BUT B/C GUESS WHAT WE NEVER HAD A MANUAL BP CUFF TO GET A MANUAL BP. IT WAS RIDCULOUS THERE AND IM GLAD IM NOT THERE ANYMORE.
0310 I'm 5:56
When I left PRMC it was horrible in my opinion as well. Even though I'm probably going to get flogged for saying so, I have had 2 experiences at the hospital last week, I have to say were showing signs of improvement.
Two of my patients (who were terrified to go to the ER here), and I didn't have a choice but to send them there, were very happy with their care. They were in and out in a reasonable amount of time, and were well cared for.
I may gripe when things are bad--but I will give credit where it is due.
To the ER staff that this pertains to- and you know who you are, thank you for caring enough to do your job well. I would give the names, but I don't know what administration would think if their names were posted on the site, and I know it would tell who I am.
556
It's a sad day when an atta-boy can't be given for hard dedicated work due to possible repercussions
from administration.
How true, how true. But Essents' logic, as we all know and have come to expect, is rather skewed!
It seems that the old socialized medicine game show is already in place in the PRMC theater of idiots, it seems more like the old GONG SHOW. I have personal knowledge of an ER situation where a person was allowed to remain in physical harm because they had no insurance and they weren't the community elite. This went on for a full year and they had their "specialist" write a letter to them and told them NOT TO COME BACK TO THEIR OFFICE Because there was no insurance or Medicare. This joker had done a surgical procedure placing a faulty piece of equipment in the patient and after the equip. malfunctioned shortly after the surgery he told them not to come back to his office and the ER told the patient the equipment could not be fixed because it was the responsibility of the surgeon!!!!
What a wonderful game of pass the buck!! This was not some hip replacement socket or bone implant, this equipment was used to shock the heart back into rhythm and it started shocking indiscrimately, when it was not needed. Would any of us want to live like this for a year?
What has happen to the Hippocratic Oath? Guess it was not a part of this "specialist's" required reading in Medical School.
Needless to say, the vet( and I don't mean Veterans) hospital patients are getting better care than those at PRMC.
The medical forefathers of Paris, Texas must be spinning like tops in their graves.
God help the people of Paris and the surrounding area you need all the help you can get.
I truly hope it won't be long until the Good Ol' Boys in the powers-that-be office are in the looking-for-work line at Texas Workforce.
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