hospital CEO's at fault too

• Dennis Quaid's children in medicine mix up sm - Hey
  • What gets me about this is that the very same thing - annabanana
    • Change - nana
  • This is scary. How could they be so careless? nm - justme2
    • Not "careless" - nana
      • No excuse for this - lastmohican
        • hospital CEO's at fault too - jlynn
        • I agree. But I heard it was a careless "tech." - nm
      • I know, I also feel so sorry for the nurse who administered the meds (nm) - NC MT
  • That is sooooo sad!!! :( (nm) - NCMT

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The OP was complaining of just barking.  I was complaining about a lot more than just barking.  My mother is 64 y/o, widowed, and suffers from MS.  She has a right to be able to walk in her yard without worrying about the neighbor's dog knocking her over, barking at her, tearing out her trash, or getting under her feet and making her fall. 

I understand that it isn't the dog's fault but no matter how many times you call the Sherriff or the humane society.....nothing is done.  They still have the dogs and my mom still deals with it everyday.  She has no rights whatsoever to keep her yard animal free and she has to live like this. 

I personally feel that anyone should have a right to shoot any stray animal on their property.  If pet owners aren't going to be responsible enough to keep their pets in their own yard, they have to live with the idea of someone shooting their pet.  I don't like other dogs on my property.  I don't allow my dog to go off of our property. 

My dad is a teacher in California (I live in a different state) and has had 10 days per school year cut from his paycheck. The vacations are also longer during the school year as well. I don't understand the whole new office furniture purchase from your superintendent, but it sounds like your school system is just like everywhere else. Government-run systems/jobs have all had to make cuts, and schools seem to be the first that get screwed. All of the changes he has made probably stem from mandatory cuts he has to make to save money. Each school is going to be different how they implement them.

My husband's parents work for a government college and they are having the same problem with money. The college laid off so many people to save money. It is sad, but nothing can be done when it comes to mandatory cut backs. Hopefully things will change in the future, but it sounds like they are floundering to find ways to save money anyway the can.

If my opinion upsets someone, I think it is their "fault" (for lack of a better word) if they get upset.  Everyone owns their own feelings and should not let someone else's opinion have so much power over how they feel.  As far as lemmings and masses, those are generalities, a comment on society as a whole, not aimed at any one person.

I am sorry if my opinions have so much influence over others. I will try to keep my thoughts in check.

Sorry, but the dog needs to stay where she is.  Parvo is highly contagious and very often fatal.  The dog needs constant monitoring by a trained staff, not a loving mom. 

Hope the baby gets better soon. Sorry to hear she came down with this.

My 72yo FIL was transferred to the trauma unit in a bigger city this past Saturday because of a fall and head injury he sustained Saturday morning.

Since he has been there (more than 48 hours now), he has not eaten and is not receiving a dextrose drip or the like through his IV. They only took complete x-rays, CT, and MRI on Sunday afternoon. The first time a doctor/resident evaluated him was on Sunday evening sometime after 9 p.m. Also, he is somewhat delusional. He knows his name and where he is, but he is grabbing at things in the air, wants to take the trash out, etc. This is definetly abnormal for him. He has always been alert and oriented.

My question is this: Should it take 36 hours before he is evaluated by a doctor? Is it normal not to give him any type of nourishment (no food, no IV) for more than 48 hours? Is it normal to wait 2 days to see a neurologist (who won't be in to see him until late today) when the main reason he was transferred was for neurology consult? I understand he went in on the weekend, but should it take this long to get answers.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Melissa

As long as you pay something every month, there is nothing they can do to you.

I would not take my money out of the CD's or move it.  Just keep paying something every month. 

pampered chef, anything you wanted to buy, you could purchase all on company time.  There were also people that would sell dinner plates through their church.

This "daylighting" is nothing new.  I myself on breaks would "deliver typed reports to an internal office."  I stayed in the building, but I was on my break (not paid) or on lunch (not paid).  So, what's the difference?

Tell me this isn't true; anyone who has worked on-site knows it happens every day.

as a nurse's aide, there were several episodes similar to that.  I was young about 19 to 20.  One particular episode, I went in and picked up a breakfast tray and asked the guy if he was ready for his shower.  He said yes, I told him I will be back with a new gown and towels.  He said okay.  When I came back in he was stripped down to nothing but his birth suit.  I put the towels down and went and told the other nurses about the incident.  Also, there was another man wanting me to wash his thing, KWIM.  If he were comatose or had both hands broken I would have to but there was not a thing wrong with this man and I refused.  I went and got another aide and asked her advice and she said she wouldn't either.   We told the nurse's and the doc about the incident and he wrote that up as an incident report.  

Usually men like that I took it that they had some screws loose. 

she went in with breathing problems, but the longer she was there the more issues came up.  She apparent came down with C. diff.  They started coming in with the yellow suits, for infectious disease precautions.  She finally asked why, and the nurse said according to her chart she had a history or MRSA with open wounds. I said WHAT.  The last problem she had with a wound was in 1987 with gallbladder surgery when she had a bile leak and some wound dehiscence.  MRSA was not even around then.  She has never been told anything about MRSA.

My question is:  Should I confront them and ask when this was diagnosed, and what the circumstances were.  I am wondering if this is another example of OFFSHORING records where mistakes were made.  I mean really, if this is an error I feel it should be corrected, and if not, why was she never told this?

It was a physician owned hospital.  The story was on CNN.  A man had back surgery there, had some sort of bad reaction to the anesthesia and the wife herself had to do CPR.  The surgeon walked in and told her to call 911. 

The hospital has been shut down. 

Uneeda Lay (had to call out her name on a loudspeaker)

Crystal Chandal Lear

North West

Sandy Beach (married name)