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Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy
Administrators at England's Worthing Hospital are insisting that doctors say the magic word when writing orders for blood tests on weekends. If a doctor refuses to write "please" on the order, the test will be refused. From the article: "However, a doctor at the hospital said on condition of anonymity that he sees the policy as a money-saving measure that could prove dangerous for patients. 'I was shocked to come in on Sunday and find none of my bloods had been done from the night before because I'd not written "please,"' the doctor said. 'I had no results to guide treatment of patients. Myself and a senior nurse had to take the bloods ourselves, which added hours to our 12-hour shifts. This system puts patients' lives at risk. Doctors are wasting time doing the job of the technicians.'"
How hard can it be? If they refuse to do the job or require stupid conditions (seriously? writing "please"?) in order to do it, just fire the people. Its not like there is a shortage of workers.
Really, let the free market (if we have one anyways, and no doubt the UK has screwed themselves already with NHS and the like....) rule and get rid of the worthless technicians. Its not too hard.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
This is the UK we're talking about here. Healthcare is controlled by the government. You are thinking in (soon to be not, if the ultra liberals get their way) US Medical terms.
here we go with the rightwing antiprovidingdecenthealthcaretothosethatcannotaffordit slant!
do not use this to politicise the us situation (like it needs any more of that!) The situation is chalk and cheese.
havent been to a hospital lately have you.
"expidited" adds from $450 - $1200 to the cost. and the MD does not give a rats ass that the patient is the one that will have to pay that.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Fireylord, You have a headache? WEll let's get you down to the MRI to see what's wrong....
The MRI is back, here take these 2 asprin and this $6800 MRI bill, and my $2600 bill for the 4 hours you were here even though I looked at you for 15 minutes total.
Doctors are very free with your money.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
What the FUCK? ... seriously ... WHAT. THE. FUCK?
No
Look man ... I recently spent a week in the hospital ... with a TV that would get TBS, and FOX News ... also every waiting area in the hospital blasted Fox News. There was no escaping it.
There is ZERO straight news on Fox. None whatsoever, period. At all. None of it.
Either that, or it was some amazing coincidence, that every single time I encountered a television with Fox news, there was either a pundit doing his thing, or an anchor snarkily commenting on "straight" news. Except it isn't straight news when you do it like that ... any more than Jon Stewart's Daily Show is "straight news". It's just the "what this dude thinks you should think about the news show".
Clearly, Fox's political leanings irritate me. I can't deny that. But what irritates me even more is that this BULLSHIT that they're doing PASSES FOR JOURNALISM amongst the vast majority of the public.
I'd really have the same issue with it, if Colbert and the Daily Show had a 24 hour news channel and everyone was lapping their schtick up as real journalism too.
Why? Because you don't have to think about it too hard, and the message panders to you. They're CONSISTENTLY reinforcing this message "those crazy people who disagree with you are stupid. You're SMART for LISTENING TO US.". And ... incredibly ... a large number of people swallow this, and buy into it.
Think about that. That's INCREDIBLE ... and it's why I couldn't escape Fox news while I was in the hospital ... because most people don't notice that, and if they do, it doesn't bother them.
That's Fucked up ... with a capital F, people.
As far as American media goes ... the PBS NewsHour is about the closest thing to straight news I've seen lately. They are slightly left biased in political commentary ... but, then again, when that happens, it's CLEARLY delineated as editorial commentary.