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Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down
CurtMonash writes "The Indianapolis Star reports that Tuesday Morning, Methodist Hospital turned away patients in ambulances, for the first time in its 100-plus history. Why? Because the electronic health records (EHR) system had gone down the prior afternoon — due to a power surge — and the backlog of paperwork was no longer tolerable.
If you think about that story, it has a couple of disturbing aspects. Clearly the investment in or design of high availability, surge protection, etc. were sadly lacking. But even leaving that aside — why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?
Maybe the latter is OK, since there obviously were other, more smoothly running hospitals to send the patient to. Still, the whole story should be held up as a cautionary tale for hospitals and IT suppliers everywhere."
Indeed. It would be nice to thin out the stupid, unless, leeches of society so that those of us that actually WANT to try to make our own living can.
The computers go down, but the nurses don't.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
It's a reply that WILL get you karma from "fight-the-machine", "vaccines-cause-autism", and "they're-hiding-cures" crowd... but one that has no bearing at all on reality, and only reflects your ignorant disdain for the healthcare system.
People who make statements like this have NO IDEA how lucky they are to have NO IDEA what the hell they are talking about.
It isn't like I'm wary of vaccinations because I find it fashionable. Its because my 5-year old is incompatible with society due to a very real, very un-treatable, very constant, very intolerable condition. They want me to subject him to a flu vaccine because he MIGHT come into contact with that strain sometime in the next year while they discount that they MIGHT also be COMPLETELY FUCKING UP HIS BRAIN in a way no one is even close to understanding.
And you call ME the 'ignorant' one.
In the name of Jesus H Christ, could you PLEASE pause for a second and reflect on how insensitive that sort of statement comes across to a parent?
Apologies, but I haven't been this mad at slashdot in a long time...
I think you've been watching too much House.
I'm sorry your child has autism.
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And I know that you're looking to blame an external force for this condition.
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Vaccines didn't give your child autism, and they're not going to make him worse.
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YOU gave your child autism... or the other parent did... or probably both.
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This terrible condition has NOTHING to do with vaccines,
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By denying basic healthcare to your child, you're in no way protecting him, but rather endangering him, as well as the other children he comes in contact with.
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That is both selfish,
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and stupid.
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After all, I am sure you can find a site on the internet that will tell you that antibiotics cause autism.
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You're presenting your opinions as facts. And you missed my point entirely. Gratz.