Joe Hill

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1. Uncharitable Care: How Hospitals Are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured

   Joe Hill replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

   KitKat, you quoted the preamble, and the enumerated rights that are provided in the constitution but the fountainhead of our rights is really in the ninth admendment of the bill of rights... It is here where we are able to secure the unenumerated r...

2. Don't Get Sick and Expect the Government to Take Care of You..

   Joe Hill replied to CseMgr1's topic in Activism

   What we continually forget is that in this country, the government is: of the People by the People for the People We as a people must take the responsibility and decide how much of our resources will go to care for one another. The problem is...

3. Doctors Orders

   Joe Hill posted a topic in Humor

   On a busy Med/Surg floor the doctor stops the nurse to brief her on a patient's condition. "This patient is a fellow physician and my favorite golf partner. His injury is serious and I fear he will not be able to play golf again unless you follow my ...

4. Union vs. Nonunion-Worth Dues Paid?

   Joe Hill replied to allsmiles's topic in General Nursing

   To paraphrase Winston Churchhill, a unionized hospital is the worst kind of employment except for all those others....For example, in a unionized hospital you have a legal contract protecting you, which cannot be changed without negotiations. In a n...

5. The Death Knell of Nursing?!

   Joe Hill posted a topic in General Nursing

   call me a luddite, but the first three paragraph of this nyt article on the nursing shortage sends shivers down my spine. it portends the end of nursing as a viable career!! the physician inventor of penelope the or robot is hoping that his one-ar...

6. Lawyer Joke Thread

   Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   Murphy, a lawyer, bribed a man on his client's jury to hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the charge of murder that had been brought by the state. The jury was out for several days before they returned with the manslaughter verdict....

7. Lawyer Joke Thread

   Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   A very wealthy lawyer retreated for several weeks each year to his summer home in the backwoods of Maine. Every summer, he would invite one friend or another to stay with him there for a week or two. One summer he invited a Czechoslovakian friend to ...

8. Lawyer Joke Thread

   Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   A doctor and a lawyer in two cars collided on a country road. The lawyer, seeing that the doctor was a little shaken up, helped him from the car and offered him a drink from his hip flask. The doctor accepted and handed the flask back to the lawyer, ...

9. A safe place to hide from predators....

   Joe Hill posted a topic in Humor

   It's well known that clown fish on the coral reef have adapted to be able to survive the poisonous sea anemone's sting, which gives them a safe place to hide from predators. What isn't so well known is the story of the single fish that decided to be ...

10. A graduate nurse..........

    Joe Hill replied to debRNo1's topic in Humor

    Very astute observation, Karen, you sure know pts! :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

11. A graduate nurse..........

    Joe Hill replied to debRNo1's topic in Humor

    a minor correction: a graduate nurse thinks psych patients are interesting. an experienced nurse thinks all patients are crazy.

12. Charting Bloopers

    Joe Hill replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

    After a really hard night a harried new resident came to our unit at 6:00am and wrote the following order: 1 penis po q4 hrs porn for moderate pain or may give second in 1 hr if pain not relieved. I literally fell on the floor laughing!! :roll :roll ...

13. Nurse Strike at MCP/Hahnemann???

    Joe Hill replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in Activism

    I for one will try to attend. I just want to thank you for taking a stand for our profession. Mandation is a form of slavery, economic slavery, but slavery none the less. I will see to it that all the Nurses at my facility become aware of the Rall...

14. An Order of Spaghetti

    Joe Hill replied to skybirdrising's topic in Humor

    Geez, I had always been under the impression that the mediteranean diet helped prevent heart disease! :chuckle :chuckle

15. Seasons Greetings (after the lawyers were done)

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Humor

    Monday, December 8, 2003 Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday ( or summe...