January 26, 2013

• Health Care or Physicians Punishment — Patients Screwed

  I began this weblog hours ago only; “Hello,”  My  back space stopped working, so it is probably the little green men stuck in my blog site. According to A former regular visitor to my site, one who states that he is a computer genius, for he has been told he is by professors; One only gets visits to their websites if we use words like, “Fuck,” which I use sparingly; but this is an important matter, so I shall give you a word list to call people to, “Pinkhoneysuckle,”  which is my book, for which you can check Amazon, but for this Pinkhoneysuckle blog of mine.   Here is my list of attention grabbers:  Vagina, Penis, Clitoral Massage, Testicles, Prostate Massage; ( Do not ask anyone about this procedure; and FGS; Do not try it unless you have some anatomy lessons first;  Look, six years of school, and a twenty plus career allows health professionals some knowledge not observed by the general public!

  Do I have your attention;”No,” Alright, I will add more sexually explicit words: Intercourse, Orgasm, Oral Sex; but, for God’s sake; Do not go sticking your mouth on someone’s other parts unless you know them well, because you can still get AIDS or funky mouth sores, plus some folks are just nasty and do not wash between partners.  I am getting to you, so here I end with ejaculation, self pleasuring, and premature  ejaculation.  That does it for now, so now that I have your attention and my computer is not back spacing on its own, then I would like to bring up some concerns of mine regarding, President Obama, and his health care side kicks, especially — The Clintons.  Now I will admit that I voted for these people, sadly knowing that I had to choose the lesser evil, for a president has about zero power unless we finally elect a congress who will hellp them pass bills, and honestly;  I think Mr. Obama is probably about as good as it gets as far as having some definite and valued Judeo-Christian ethics, for the man has among the more readible face than any one other than the times poor President Ford smashed his head boarding Air Force One.

  We voted for him, because only an idiot would endeavor to win an election based on raising the price of Medicare or eliminating more services, and only the heartless would dream of endeavoring to touch our Social Security and not find his finger gently smashed in good organic cow manure.  I believe that Mormon people are very smart, but to have one of their own get out there and bring up touching our Medicare and our Social Security is like sticking your head in a hyenna’s mouth and yelling, “Eat Me,” for you will not get elected to the office for which you are seeking.  The church elders should have had a talk with Senator Romney about the facts of life, for clearly — Having five children shows that you have not figured out birth control yet.  I shall not address that I am slightly too young for Medicare, and do not ask me the number of children which we passionate people had together, for ours came about me fully aware of the integrity of all body parts listed above — All that darned anatomy and physiology just blew right past our genitalia, and thus we have several brilliant children.

  Now, though, I believed that President Obama had NIH, and CDC doing the right thing by encouraging people to endeavor to recover from their colds and flue at home with watchful care.  Even I can tell you that, if a person continues a fever after they have had tylenol, and if their mucous is as green as guacamole — or darker and the consistency of play dough, then this person needs to get to the physician, Pronto!

  The problem is that elderly people and folks with little children do not get there always in time, and people are now afraid to bother their physicians until they are short of breath (SOB) and knocking at death’s door.  Patients are having to decide whether or not they should see a doctor this flu season, and I want the folks in Washington to know that some of these deaths were likely unnecessary, but people do not know what to do when they have no money, and people certainly do not want to have a physician itching to get to the golf course or out to the next drug representative’s free meal, for; Look, these people went to school way longer than me, and we nurses are really who is going to make the judgment to call the Dr. in if you are looking a little grey around the ocular orbits and if your lips and nail beds are tinged a color of blue.

  I respect most physicians, and I earnestly believe that we need to let the doctors and health care teams do patient care, even keeping them in the hospital, for instance, if they say, “I feel too weak to go home,” as the nurse or tech ties their shoe and drags them off the stretcher to slam them in a wheel chair, for folks — It is the truth, I am too heavy right now going back to grabbing sweets to go to keep up the energy through a thirteen hour day when I, along with every body else did not have time to eat.   I mean this!  There were times when we nurses would suddently realize we had no break, had no lunch or dinner, but worse; We forgot to pee!”  I know that I should say, urinate, but I am testing to see how awake you are.  At the time I left Hospice nursing which I did in the latter part of my career, we had gone up to where we had five to six patients per shift, and five was the easy evening.

  I put up with occassionally being questioned about my organizational skills, for I was going to take care of you as if you were my mother, That was the best advice Mrs. Lela Brown, my first nursing supervisor gave to me:  “Take care of every patient like that patient is your mother, and in the beginning, I could get this and all of the paper work done with four patients assigned to me; but now my friend, you are not guaranteed that you are going to see an RN, because two year program folks and three month trained techs have been touched with wands, for they are given responsibilities  which they told us back in the 1980s that those programs did not prepare the nurse enough, but either we are to believe that two years of extra training from a college was a joke, for even then two year RNs could do what four year RNs did, but bathing was the main patient care assigned to techs who hated RNs, for would you not hate someone who asked you to go and change some poor soul’s diaper, but most of us, not wanting to be hated went and helped anyway. 

  The point I am making here is that you are getting less skilled nursing care unless you are in the ICU or the ER where there is usually a stronger ream of more highly trained staff, or people who can make more rapid judgments, so I would suggest that instead of going to the hospital for a new on set headache that you never had before; then you might could say that in addition, you were hit by a car this same time last year;  You will get more aggressive care.  I want to make it doubly understood that there are amazingly skilled two year people out there in the hospitals,  and those techs have more crammed in to their programs, plus nurses as professionals work their rear ends off.  Now wouldn’t it be something if Mr. Obama and his team got together and limited the number of sicker patients found in hospitals now back to four.  Wouldn’t it be kinder that hospital’s could see that you were washed and cared for instead of wiping you down with a bunch of baby wipes. 

  Here is a neat trick for you.  Go out and dig a great big hole, run around that hole about ten times, and get all smelly and then sweaty, and then wipe under your arms with baby wipes or hospital wipes; Good Lord, I don’t care; Try them all, for what you are going to find is that you usually still smell bad if you give yourself the old arm pit sniff test.  Come on; Is that a way you want to treat your mother?  What kind of health care do you want, for we are letting the insurance companies  and drug companies determine patient care, for they have to spend a whole lot of research time, but they also have to gain physician’s favor to hope he will prescribe the new hundred thousand dollar a year medication which was developed to allow for a timed released sexual encounter.  Women suffer through menopause, for so little has been developed to ease the symptoms, but put your money on the testosterone and the erection from which you could hang a coat hangar, and this world is a better place.

  Would it not be an amazing event for researchers who come to these drug companies and insurance companies spent a week in a hospital setting on a general medical surgical floor to get an idea of what sick patients look like, how hard the staff is worked at these hospital for profit places.  Once you could count on the religious order hospitals, but now a lot of them are having to sell to what I call the Hospital Makeurcash owned by the doctors, some who have stock in the drug companies, and most who enjoy vacations courtesy of the drug companies who then charge the patient, because they have so much research money involved.  I would tell you that you are not only paying for the back research and testing, but you are also sending families on cruises.  I’m not going to beat up these physicians too much, for some work tirelessly and have no family time, and I am no genie, but I think I can look at the crystal ball and see the fat cats feeding the fish; But you do not want to hear about national health care.

  I am getting more anxious about national care as well which I saw as the fix all, but now the Obama administration is going after the physicians who have endeavored to observe the chart which shows levels of pain, and the doctors who cared, instead of being contol freaks afraid of older people getting addicted to pain medicine as these elders endeavor to greet another day of bone on bone pain when they are that arthritic and not candidates for joint replacement surgery; There is now a move on from NIH and from CDC to avoid giving people medication which actually takes care of your pain.  We do not keep bottles of Vicodin sitting around, but most doctors write for that when a patient has chronic pain, or after a surgical or extensive dental procedure, but; Yes, it is being suggested that doctors stop writing these perscriptions, for patients may get addicted.  Once more, immediately after the election, we have government going in and telling physicians what they can and cannot prescribe?  In other words, stay out of the doctor’s office you Medicare and Medicaid patients, for we are going to make it uncomfortable for the physician to write you a script for pain.  They have at least eight years of school, and many specialist have 6 to 10 more years in for residencies, but cut health care off at the knees.  Let us see the picture here.  Elder people with degenerative bone issues, arthritic spines, and even the service people who suffer from limbs pieced together after being in a vehicle blown up as on duty personnel in Iraq or Afghanistan, and I do not want to ask where we go from here; these are the people most apt to follow the President and his Administration’s pact of saving on health care; Just do not come in for your pain medicine, for we are watching your physician, for you might become dependent and have a happier and more pleasant old age if we fix your pain meds as such you have to feel bad that you need them, for between your pain and quality of life; NIH and CDC see it as more fit for you to bear the burden of pain than think you are going to get medication from a doctor or hospital.  That is again government deciding what is best for a patient, and I know that President Obama’s mother suffered as most of our parents suffer from some age related degenerative process, but you know what?  That suffering is not necessary, for physicians can titrate doses of medication to make certain a patient is not receiving too much, and all people should be entitled to such care.

  So, I am worried for you and for me, for if this is the way the Obama administration wants to fix health care; then I want my vote back, and Mr. Romney, I was selling you short, for you got a plan for Massachusetts citizens to have access to health care.  President Clinton is a powerful man, and I heard him on the news talking about how they have to get  doctors to stop perscribing this medication, so I knew we were in trouble then.  I believe that we, the people, and our M.D.’s know us better than anyone running either of these major respected houses of health care which is paid for the American people.  So, now that I have your attention;  what is your concern of our broken health care system, and is it appropriate for our politicians to be threatening our doctors and their patients?

  I do ask you if Mr. Clinton, our former President being very active in this kind of work.  Does he care that average citizens do not get his level of care?  I should sum all of this up with one word, “Humanity,” for where is our humanity when we get our health care advice over a TV news broadcast.  Lord, would you help our physicians, our nurses, researchers, pharmacist, and all who endeavor to act out of mercy to care for every human being, “Take care of them as if they were your mother.”

  Thank you Mrs. Lela Brown, for I carried that with me and practiced it throughout my career.  I wish that you were here today, but all lives seem too short.  Let us take Mrs. Brpwm’s lesson, among the earliest of African American women to be a head nurse in a major university hospital all the way to Washington, for you would not have wanted your job today. It is hard, and we need  a teacher, a guide, but mainly, we need your heart.

  Barbara Everett Heintz, RN,BSN – Retired

  Author of, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” on Amazon, Kindle Ready – KDP, Create Space — Book Awards, Hollywood and San Francisco — 1st in Hollywood Book Festival 2012 – See Reviews on Amazon

   

   

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