Celebrity patients anyone?

Nurse Ratched, RN · May 17, 2003

Originally posted by hogan4736
this is okay, but using names isn't???

Can you say "ethical" hypocrisy!

we are all anonymous here...

question: what's hippa?

answer: a female hippo!

relax everyone, no one is giving specific hospitals, and the stories are all in the past...

Um - just for reference, mine was a joke - I know nothing about Mickael Jackson's personal health stuff. Never been near the man to my knowledge.

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · May 17, 2003

I've only heard the vicious rumors about celebrity admits from coworkers. Never actually been the nurse, but rumors are fun even if they aren't quite true.

John Travolta's wife and he are exceptionally nice and family oriented people.

Rod Stewart has some bizarre eating habits.

Stephen King can be teasingly friendly, but also uses his celebrity pull- but used it on someone who wasn't all that impressed at one hospital. But they loved him anyway in the end.

Christopher Reeve still has a really nice butt. (and eyes to swoon over)

There, does that satisfy some celebrity gossip seekers?

karenG · May 17, 2003

ok have to ask- whats hippo????

karen :confused:

hogan4736, BSN, RN · May 17, 2003

hippopotamus...

tongue in cheek

joke

healingtouchRN · May 18, 2003

HIPPA is the new government enforced confidentiality rules that protect patient rights. Lots of stuff but what we should have been doing any way. More paper work though. :confused:

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · May 18, 2003

I once took care of "George Bush." No, the elderly gent wasn't the senior or the junior; just shared the famous name.

Agnus · May 18, 2003

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funnygirl_rn · May 19, 2003

No celebrity patients here, however...had one guy that could pass for Sting!

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · May 20, 2003

I took care of a famous woman. The day she died, Jay Leno made a joke about it on the Tonight Show, and mentioned the name of the city where our facility was, and that she had died there.

This woman worked with and had potentially damaging knowledge involving very powerful polititans, especially one in particular. There have been quite a few books and articles written speculating about what she knew and the role she played in one particular polititan's activities. The polititan is deceased also.

There was even an episode on 20/20 about her and what she knew, the week after she died. There was lots of stuff on "A Current Affair" and all the gossip type TV shows about her and the famous polititan she worked with.

She was very ill, so hardly spoke when she was on our unit, but she was nice.

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I used to know a nurse who took care of Klaus Von Bulow's comatose wife, Daisy.

jemb · May 20, 2003

Originally posted by healingtouchRN
HIPPA is the new government enforced confidentiality rules that protect patient rights. Lots of stuff but what we should have been doing any way. More paper work though.

Nope. Hogan's definition sounds better for Hippa (a female hippo). HIPAA is what you are describing.

:)

allnurses Guide · May 20, 2003

Jemb . . .

:roll :chuckle

steph