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  1. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    rph3664 replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why? So she could suffer for a few more months and die anyway? What person who really did have a chance at recovery AND a relatively normal life wouldn't have had that chance if she received that...

  2. Thousands Of Doctors Secretly In Rehab While Practicing

    rph3664 replied to TeleNurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, well, when he got arrested, his ex-wife had to get a second job because she was no longer receiving child support. Most people who knew him, when they heard he had been married, assumed he had...

  3. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    rph3664 replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Not necessarily. Like I said before, Erma Bombeck had to wait a long time to get her kidney (and her intervening, unrelated cancer delayed this) and died from the operation itself. Walter Payton...

  4. Thousands Of Doctors Secretly In Rehab While Practicing

    rph3664 replied to TeleNurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    Do you believe it was a gender thing? Do you know the whole story in both cases? Maybe the female nurse had been caught many times before and/or had no desire to quit, and this was the male nurse's...

  5. 17- year-old girl needs liver transplant, CIGNA denies

    rph3664 replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i have never seen any evidence that a liver was even available for transplant for her. if anyone does, please post a link. ita about the procedure quite likely prolonging her death and the...

  6. What MD speciality do you find the most difficult to work with?

    rph3664 replied to nurturing_angel's topic in General Nursing

    how many bullies have you actually stood up to, both in and out of medicine? my experience has been "you do that and you will get your butt kicked worse next time."

  7. Thousands Of Doctors Secretly In Rehab While Practicing

    rph3664 replied to TeleNurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    I knew one pharmacist who lost his license because he was drinking cough syrup right out of the bottle, in clear sight of grocery store customers. Makes me think he WANTED to get caught. And I had a...

  8. Some parents amaze me

    rph3664 replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    She was probably trying to get something on him so he couldn't see the kids again. At least she didn't bring them in and say he molested them! I've heard of that too - great way to lose custody,

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work in health care but am not a nurse, and to be perfectly honest, if it were my child, I would probably have done the same thing. And I'm

  10. A Generation of Wimps?

    rph3664 replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

    Is the mom divorced? I have a relative who, after her divorce, would do things like this just to soak her ex-husband, because part of the divorce decree was that he had to pay all the kids' uninsured...

  11. Some parents amaze me

    rph3664 replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    That worked with my Grandma, but that would NOT work with someone who has a serious disability like the 40-pound retarded adult. And what about people who have disabled children? I don't have a...

  12. Some parents amaze me

    rph3664 replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    A while back, I briefly dated a very nice man who survived a horrible car accident; when I met him, I thought he had a BKA but this turned out not to be the case. He used a cane, and even had...

  13. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    IMHO, my original post was like that Geico commercial: "How could it be offensive if it's true?" but some people didn't see it that way and it was edited. I've said the exact same thing on other...

  14. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Considering how many doctors are morbidly obese, counseling someone about their weight could be a problem. At least, the ones around here are. We have quite a few, both male and female, who are in the...

  15. A Generation of Wimps?

    rph3664 replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

    Yes, especially their bowel function like the next poster. I've worked with the public since I was a teenager in the late 1970s, and I have ALWAYS found that seniors are the biggest troublemakers....

  16. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What about the diabetic healthcare professionals who don't check their sugars, eat candy by the pound, smoke, defiantly refuse to lose weight, etc.? I've certainly seen plenty of

  17. A Generation of Wimps?

    rph3664 replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, well, my parents took us to a pediatric dentist who did fillings and extractions without painkillers (I now realize that he probably injected me with plain water) and when we protested, we were...

  18. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You can't say that to people who AREN'T your patients. I almost said something like that recently to a woman I know who is highly educated and mostly associates with ex-convicts. I wisely kept my...

  19. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry about offending people with my earlier post about "American poverty, 2007." My point was that many people create their own problems, and this includes modifying their bodies in ways that...

  20. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Another case of someone who's had something, like, forever, and wants it taken care of NOW? Sounds like

  21. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But doctors sit by the patient's bed, just waiting for the nurse to come in! Or at least they do on TV. Oh, and on TV, they always inform family members of a death in the parking lot or a crowded...

  22. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    American poverty, 2007: Morbid obesity Top of the line cell phone with all the extras, for each family member, even if it isn't necessary Cable or satellite with every movie package All the latest...

  23. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My mother had a tubal ligation back in the day when that procedure was 3 days in the hospital, and it was also the only time she ever heard anyone really complain about the food. Her roommate was a...

  24. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You will encounter that no matter where you work, as a nurse or anything

  25. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "You wouldn't have most of your health problems if you would lose some weight." No, I'm not a nurse, but