Very poignant post from a nurse that I read on a blog

[Horse with no Name]

She has the right idea.


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I've always been proud to be a nurse. I've taken pride in my work, and making people more comfortable, and doing what I could to make bad situations better.

I feel like there is not a branch of nursing now, that is not about DRG's, ICD 9 codes, and how to get the most money. Making pt's go home sick, and it won't be long until home health agencies are going to be letting go of their sick patients, or not picking them up because of poor prognosis, and that lovely evidence based practice.
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I've watched technology explode, and health care implode in the last 15 years, and it just sickens me. I want the public to know what it is for the patient that leaves the hospital a few days after bypass surgery, with no family.
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I want to show them how the almighty dollar has produced MRSA rampid due to lack of staff, and the same people taking care of infected patients, that are taking care of surgical patients.


But most telling of all:
I want the public to know the choices that we are forced to make, to put food on the table.


And that is it in a nutshell. This person nailed it. I know I have read on here that many don't think that nurses and doctors personalize this stuff that they are forced to do...but I would almost guarantee that this person doesn't stand alone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. As a medic at times I had to fight

to get my Pts into the ER because they did not have health insurance

This was oh 10 years ago...

and things have just gotten worst

I was talking to my mom... I told her plainly, we need national health single payer

Rightly so she pointed to the mess the Seguro Social is in Mexico, mostly due to graft and other policies... yet I pointed to Canada

At this point we can go the Mexican system way, full of graft and those who have the money get the care (and boy am I glad my parents have the money), or the Canadian way. Yep some do fall through the cracks, but the stats don't lie. Canucks spend about half of what we spend per patient and have far better outcomes.

But those are the stark choices, and having worked inside the Mexican health system and due to living in the border seeing how it works this side of the border (plus being a patient this side of the border), boy I can tell you... our system, if you don't have health insurance, ain't that much better.