Hospitals

[82Rigger]

Anyone who has ever had a loved one in the hospital will enjoy this:

A woman called a local hospital:

"Hello. Could you connect me to the person
who gives information about patients. I'd like to find out if a patient is
getting better, doing as expected, or getting worse."

The voice on the other end said, "What is the patient's name and room
number?"

Sarah Finkel, room 302."

I'll connect you with the nursing station."

"3-A Nursing Station. How can I help You?



"I'd like to know the condition of Sarah Finkel in room 302."

"Just a moment. Let me look at her records. Mrs. Finkel is doing
very well. In fact, she's had two full meals, her blood pressure is fine,
she is to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of hours and, if she
continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send her home Tuesday at
noon."

The woman said, "What a relief! Oh, that's fantastic... that's wonderful
news!"

The nurse said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you are a close family
member or a very close friend."


"Neither. I am Sarah Finkel in 302. Nobody here tells me shit."

[reconeil]

OUSTANDING!!!,...Oh "Loose" One.

Plus, remember the world truism that states:
......."More truth is said in jest, than anyway else".

Neil

[Jerry D]

good for Ms Finkel

[SparrowHawk62]

Isn't that the truth!

[revwardoc]

Rigger,

I sent that one to my wife's email. She's a nurse! But I had better be ready to defend myself when she gets home!

[reconeil]

Nothing to defend yourself against.

About 20-30 or so years ago it was documented and revealed that about 10% of all hospital fatalities were attributable to mis-diagnosis, wrong medications given, contracting unrelated maladies, incompetance, negligence or whatever.

Just a few years back, same sad and quite lethal statistic was upgraded on TV, and made more timely. Apparently, and with all the high-tech improvements and much better medical assistance given patients (theoretically?),...The Percentage of unrelated to ACTUAL patient maladies fatalities during hospital stays, had increased to about 30%...or better.
Beautiful! Fanatastic! And,...so much for Modern Medicine.

I guess that if realistic and really wanting to be kept up-to-date about such things,...it's fair concluding that TODAY such fatalities are about a 50% chance that any patient's death from some unrelated causes due to either her or his hospital stay (even if only for an ingrown toe nail),...is pretty-much: "Even Money"?

As Andy most always says,..."Stay healthy".

Neil

P.S. Doc,
Guess this little doodle should sort-of(?) get you off-the-hook?

[revwardoc]

Neil,

My mother told me a story about how, back in '51, she had to have all her teeth surgically removed (2 kids in less than 2 years will badly deplete the calcium in your body). In the same hospital, but on a different floor, was another woman with the same name who was there to have a failed kidney removed on the same day. The nurses went into my mother's room and told her they were there to prepare her for her surgery and not to worry as many people live full and healthy lives with only one kidney. Mom about panicked and told them she was there about her teeth. While they were headed off before that disaster, they were too late to save the other woman from a lifetime with dentures!

About 10 years ago, my Dad went into the hospital for a day-surgery procedure, local anesthetic type stuff. Just as the doctor was about to begin, he announced he had to move his bowels. Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go, so he went. Fifteen minutes later, he hadn't returned so the anesthesiologist went to look for him. The doctor was found in the men's room, sitting on the toilet, DEAD! He suffered heart failure from a cocaine overdose! Needless to say Dad's surgery was postponed.

[catman]

More true words have never been spoken!

Trav