I spent ten years working in a county hospital. 600 beds. Great care for the patients.
County sold it to a for profit medical group. Fired long time employees and brought in new hires ( inexperienced rookies with minimal training ).
Patient care went downhill fast.
And the last time I was hospitalized with herniated discs the doctors at the hospital here in Islamorada wanted to send me home with a opiate prescription.
I asked why they weren't going to send me to Miami and be treated with a steroid injection.
They said Medicare wouldn't pay for it. I said that I'd pay for it out of my own pocket. They still weren't going to send me. I asked them why. They hemmed and hawed. I said my brother-in-law has a dozen lawyers in his firm that would find out the reason.
Apparently those were the magic words. Went to Baptist Hospital in an ambulance.
The docs were looking forward to a payback from the opioid manufacturer.
I'm not cynical. I'm realistic.
Naïve folk often think knowledgeable folk are cynical.
What does that have to do with contributions to a charitable organization?
It means the profit motive often corrupts what should be a process that heals someone not just treats their symptoms.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I spent ten years working in a county hospital. 600 beds. Great care for the patients.
County sold it to a for profit medical group. Fired long time employees and brought in new hires ( inexperienced rookies with minimal training ).
Patient care went downhill fast.
And the last time I was hospitalized with herniated discs the doctors at the hospital here in Islamorada wanted to send me home with a opiate prescription.
I asked why they weren't going to send me to Miami and be treated with a steroid injection.
They said Medicare wouldn't pay for it. I said that I'd pay for it out of my own pocket. They still weren't going to send me. I asked them why. They hemmed and hawed. I said my brother-in-law has a dozen lawyers in his firm that would find out the reason.
Apparently those were the magic words. Went to Baptist Hospital in an ambulance.
The docs were looking forward to a payback from the opioid manufacturer.
I'm not cynical. I'm realistic.
Naïve folk often think knowledgeable folk are cynical.
What does that have to do with contributions to a charitable organization?
It means the profit motive often corrupts what should be a process that heals someone not just treats their symptoms.
100% on the money donated to the v foundation goes for cancer research. When I have time I’ll tell y’all how the docs CURED my wife’s cancer
I know nothing on the subject? I've summer interned at hospitals. Have you? My father, until retirement, was a director at a major hospital. The industry has changed, I've heard it from the horses mouth. Have you? Didn't think so. Talk about ignorant posts, you nailed the ignorant part.
Edit The hospital in which I have worked at in the past, fired their MD head and replaced him with an MBA...... because it is a business now, not a service.
I just had to laugh at this again. Please tell me what you learned in your summer intern job... you can’t be serious.
or whatbyour daddy told you at the dinner table?? You have no more knowledge on the subject than a guy in the street. Only difference, the guy on the street knows ha doesn’t know anything. Your “ credentials “ are hilarious... thanks for the laugh
I know nothing on the subject? I've summer interned at hospitals. Have you? My father, until retirement, was a director at a major hospital. The industry has changed, I've heard it from the horses mouth. Have you? Didn't think so. Talk about ignorant posts, you nailed the ignorant part.
Edit The hospital in which I have worked at in the past, fired their MD head and replaced him with an MBA...... because it is a business now, not a service.
I just had to laugh at this again. Please tell me what you learned in your summer intern job... you can’t be serious.
or whatbyour daddy told you at the dinner table?? You have no more knowledge on the subject than a guy in the street. Only difference, the guy on the street knows ha doesn’t know anything. Your “ credentials “ are hilarious... thanks for the laugh
No thanks.
1) you have made up your mind already, nothing I say will alter your biased perspective.
2) this thread has been de-railed enough, thanks to your swinging. I'll be letting the folks here get back to it. You can of course do as you please.
“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
He gave the most inspiring and emotional speech I have ever heard. Gets real dusty and I get choked up, every time I hear it.
Yep. Another one of a kind.
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
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or whatbyour daddy told you at the dinner table?? You have no more knowledge on the subject than a guy in the street. Only difference, the guy on the street knows ha doesn’t know anything. Your “ credentials “ are hilarious... thanks for the laugh
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)
1) you have made up your mind already, nothing I say will alter your biased perspective.
2) this thread has been de-railed enough, thanks to your swinging. I'll be letting the folks here get back to it. You can of course do as you please.
“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”