Edwin, thanks for another great article from the good doctor. I think things are better here in the US than they are in Britain, but not by much. I'm old enough to remember when your doctor visited you (hospital rounds) and worked with the nurses on your care. Now they have hospitalists that don't know anything about you or even your name unless they glance at your chart (which is no longer left at the foot of the bed due to HIPAA). If you don't get a doctor you are stuck with a physicians assistant (PA), who is a glorified nurse that can write scripts. RN's are essentially as Dr. Vernon has said, next to useless. The bulk of the work, giving of care, medicine, compassion is done by LPNs. They also work with the doctors, as the RNs are busy doing their nails or shopping on Amazon. In England, the government runs the hospitals (socialized medicine), and here, the hospitals are run by money grubbing corporations top heavy with administrators. The corporations have fired the LPNs and now rely on CNAs, who are one step up from the janitor. Like just about everything else, hospital (and, in general medical) care ain't what it used to be. My non-medical advise is if you are not dying, stay out of the hospitals. If you are dying, the outcome of your stay will likely be the same-- death. If by some chance you end up in a hospital, my best non-medical device is get out as soon as possible. [Never forget that during the COVID plandemic, hospitals were like concentration camps, especially for the elderly.]
Must be English ones , thank god for American nurses . My daughter is one and other than the DEI ones I encountered in New Haven most have saved my life from Doctors
too horrifying to read when tired. I will have to revisit it later when stronger -- can only skim it now. Thank you to the readers who clarified that this is the case in the UK, not the US.
It is sad indeed -- I know a woman who trained as a nurse in England decades ago, and she knew many 'patient care' things that modern American nurses simply are not taught.
Do these dear sweet wonderful hospitals allow the patients to bring/provide their own caregivers ? perhaps a daughter or spouse willing to do the needed, "little" things? Maybe there is now a need for "patient advocates", for daily care. In the US there is definitely a need for Patient Advocates who will speak up on behalf of a patient who -- after all -- is tired, possibly sick or in pain, out of their familiar surroundings. In other words, the patient is a Vulnerable Adult. In the US this means they have rights, but I don't think that connection has been made in the legal sense yet. It should be!
My husband was in an expensive 'top" cancer hospital in Los Angeles...the treatment he received was appalling. There was a button to push, if a patient needed help, but no one answered, when he was freezing and needed a blanket; or when he needed help to go to the bathroom. I observed nurses doing paperwork; and chatting with each other. They weren't there for the patients. .When I was seven, my father asked me, "What do you want to be, when you grow up?" I replied, "A nurse!." Then he went down the list of the duties nurses had to do: feed patients, bathe them, and help them use bedpans. I said that I wouldn't mind. Then he said, "What would you do, if a doctor told you to do something, which you knew was not right?" I said, "I wouldn't do it!" Then he said, "In that case you would not have job." I replied, "In that case, i will not become a nurse!" I remember this dialogue from almost 84 years ago.
Edwin, thanks for another great article from the good doctor. I think things are better here in the US than they are in Britain, but not by much. I'm old enough to remember when your doctor visited you (hospital rounds) and worked with the nurses on your care. Now they have hospitalists that don't know anything about you or even your name unless they glance at your chart (which is no longer left at the foot of the bed due to HIPAA). If you don't get a doctor you are stuck with a physicians assistant (PA), who is a glorified nurse that can write scripts. RN's are essentially as Dr. Vernon has said, next to useless. The bulk of the work, giving of care, medicine, compassion is done by LPNs. They also work with the doctors, as the RNs are busy doing their nails or shopping on Amazon. In England, the government runs the hospitals (socialized medicine), and here, the hospitals are run by money grubbing corporations top heavy with administrators. The corporations have fired the LPNs and now rely on CNAs, who are one step up from the janitor. Like just about everything else, hospital (and, in general medical) care ain't what it used to be. My non-medical advise is if you are not dying, stay out of the hospitals. If you are dying, the outcome of your stay will likely be the same-- death. If by some chance you end up in a hospital, my best non-medical device is get out as soon as possible. [Never forget that during the COVID plandemic, hospitals were like concentration camps, especially for the elderly.]
Must be English ones , thank god for American nurses . My daughter is one and other than the DEI ones I encountered in New Haven most have saved my life from Doctors
Oh yes, he is speaking about the English ones, thank goodness you have found some of the good ones here in the USA. They are a dying breed.
Here is my list of anti doctors. Serrapeptase, borax, chelation EDTA, DMSO, L-Arginine
too horrifying to read when tired. I will have to revisit it later when stronger -- can only skim it now. Thank you to the readers who clarified that this is the case in the UK, not the US.
It is sad indeed -- I know a woman who trained as a nurse in England decades ago, and she knew many 'patient care' things that modern American nurses simply are not taught.
Do these dear sweet wonderful hospitals allow the patients to bring/provide their own caregivers ? perhaps a daughter or spouse willing to do the needed, "little" things? Maybe there is now a need for "patient advocates", for daily care. In the US there is definitely a need for Patient Advocates who will speak up on behalf of a patient who -- after all -- is tired, possibly sick or in pain, out of their familiar surroundings. In other words, the patient is a Vulnerable Adult. In the US this means they have rights, but I don't think that connection has been made in the legal sense yet. It should be!
VERY TRUE.
My husband was in an expensive 'top" cancer hospital in Los Angeles...the treatment he received was appalling. There was a button to push, if a patient needed help, but no one answered, when he was freezing and needed a blanket; or when he needed help to go to the bathroom. I observed nurses doing paperwork; and chatting with each other. They weren't there for the patients. .When I was seven, my father asked me, "What do you want to be, when you grow up?" I replied, "A nurse!." Then he went down the list of the duties nurses had to do: feed patients, bathe them, and help them use bedpans. I said that I wouldn't mind. Then he said, "What would you do, if a doctor told you to do something, which you knew was not right?" I said, "I wouldn't do it!" Then he said, "In that case you would not have job." I replied, "In that case, i will not become a nurse!" I remember this dialogue from almost 84 years ago.