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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:34 PM Original message |
Man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. This was in Canada right? |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Just what I was thinking. |
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The Croquist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
44. You are right. It was socialized medicine. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Non issue. |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. And it's not just the doctors either. It's the health care workers farther down the |
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Tace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 09:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
37. Wow -- And You Really Only Scratched The Surface... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 09:20 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. It's the fucking system |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
39. They've gotta make enough profit, or "excess revenue" to keep those MBA's off the streetcorner. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
46. Pay for performance??? |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. But, but the U.S. has the best health care! Waiting happens in those socialized medicine countries. |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 07:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. My point exactly. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. And the patient was Bill Gates, right? |
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alstephenson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. U.S. Health Care System.... |
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Truth4Justice (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Happens everyday in US medical care to one extent or another. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Thank gawd we don't have nationalized healthcare |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. But at least North Carolina doesn't have all those pesky state taxes and regulations |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Still non-issue. |
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Changenow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. That is the truth |
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alstephenson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 07:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
34. Actually my SO has gotten excellent care... |
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Changenow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 08:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. A lucky guy |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I can't disagree with you there. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. I know a lot of wonderful healthcare workers who care very much about their patients. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. He wasn't even in the emergency room waiting room |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The Mentally Ill |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't think he died after sitting unattended in the chair for 22 hours. |
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moc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. We need a "Christmas in Purgatory" for the mentally ill |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Hospitals are doing this to anyone they can. |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
16. I'm a North Carolinian and I'm disgusted by this. But it could have happened in any/every state, |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. It just happened last month in NYC |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 01:19 AM Response to Reply #16 |
42. I drove myself to the ER one night after I'd been assaulted. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
18. I've always given hospitals a lot of lee-way for being a bit apathetic BUT |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. And twenty two hours sitting in a chair is unexcusable, at that point they should |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
22. This is a state psychiatric hospital, not a full-service hospital |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Ugh.... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Based on this |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #31 |
43. This is no indictment against socialized medicine. Do you see this happening in London or Paris? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 12:26 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. None of it makes any difference.... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-22-08 07:16 AM Response to Reply #43 |
51. Maybe, maybe not. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. The last one a few weeks ago - the lady that died in the emergency |
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kanrok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. What we really need is tort reform! |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. Its no longer about health care workers dealing with patients. |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. Poor man.... |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 01:06 AM Response to Reply #27 |
40. I'm so sorry, F.S.C., |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
28. every Health Care worker should be sworn oath on a Bible |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
30. Another fucking outrage! |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
33. Pretty damning about Steven, but if anybody bit me I doubt I'd have the wherewithal to control my |
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freelancer3072 (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-20-08 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
36. Deju vu all over again. This kind of stuff is happening all too often. Heck, even one occurance is |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
41. how hard did the kid bite, and how hard did the dr. punch back? |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
45. That's two. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
48. If the hospital is this bad, wonder what the local nursing homes are like? |
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snailly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-21-08 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
50. People are losing their humanity |
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