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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.'"
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.
What the FUCK? ... seriously ... WHAT. THE. FUCK?
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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.