Baloney Amputation

I was told long ago by a dermatologist that people with eczema had lots more fine lines on their palms than the palms belonging to those without eczema. The reason wasn't known at that time by the dermatologist, but I've found it to be true.

I am exactly the same way! I assume the educator in the OP's situation took a fair amount of time researching material for the inservice, which probably included coming across the expanded version of the term HIPAA. Why is it so difficult for presumably intelligent people to extrapolate the correct letters from the words "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?"

I believe the OP was posting about how ridiculous it is that her healthcare-related in-service documents and quiz said "HIPPA" instead of "HIPAA." I agree wholeheartedly with her.

Argh! The "Ads by Google" on my page say "HIPPA" whenever I visit this thread! It hurts my eyes. :)

If I were you, I think I'd take a good look at that paper that you supposedly signed...

How on earth would your job enforce that?!?

If a child is asthmatic, for example, and forced to live with cigarette smoke, this is much more immediate and concerning than being fat. Hands down. Being fat doesn't hinder breathing in quite the same way that an acute asthma attack does.

My dad found out fairly recently that he has alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, many years after he stopped smoking, so his few years of smoking did much more lung damage than it normally would to a normal person's lungs. I am lucky I don't have it (it's hereditary), because the second-hand smoke could have done far more damage to my lungs. Smoking sucks and can do incredible damage to the smoker and those around them, even if people don't want to admit it.

I had dozens of hospitalizations due to asthma attacks while my dad was smoking in the house when I was a child. Once he quit smoking and went to chewing tobacco, my hospitalizations for asthma attacks went down sharply. I don't think outlawing smoking around children would have done anything for me as far as day-to-day living in my house because he would have done it anyway, but at least someone would have had my back.

That is not true. You can get lung cancer without ever smoking and you can get cirrhosis as a nondrinker. You knew that, right?

You can harp on your coworkers all you want about their English, but your post quoted here doesn't exactly command a lot of respect from those of us who know how to spell and properly use plural nouns.

My husband has it. Anyone who thinks it's not a real disease needs to hang out with him when he's having real issues with it. It's awful, and he is a tough cookie. A PM&R doctor and a rheumatologist both diagnosed him with it. The rheumatologist explained it being something where the brain isn't getting the pain signals quite right, so certain sensations that are normally not painful are painful for fibro people. For him, Lyrica works and so does Savella, but the Savella has side effects he doesn't like. Incidentally, he takes the rare Vicodin for back pain (an old very serious injury of fractured vertebrae) maybe once every few weeks to few months, and those do nothing for the fibro pain. He can distinguish the fibro pain and the pain from the old injury and doesn't take pain pills for the fibro pain. It's hard to make some people "believe" it's real if they don't have the joy of living with it. To me, fibro is like depression where the symptoms show up in pain and tenderness rather than depressive gloom. By the way, the fibro brain fog is frustrating, too.

You're only overcharting if you document the flavor.

I'm trying to understand...the charge nurse told you could not leave, but the other nurses covered for you while you left anyway?

What's that mean? I know what "rev them up" means, but what is she specifically doing?

Unfortunately I don't have that option to let the doc hear the dictation. I work for a large national company with my accounts being a few states away from me. :)

At least y'all can holler at the doc or your coworkers. Since my pay is dependent on how fast I can understand what a doc is saying, I am less than thrilled the many, many, many times I can only hear the staff in the background talking about their kids or new diet program or over-the-top guffaws that drown out the doctor's dictating. At least if the staff is going to be loud and laughing, include the doctor whose dictating in your joking around. It breaks up the workday for me when the doctor is goofy while dictating. Otherwise, to any of you staff members in the background, have some respect for the dictation and transcription process. You mess up turnaround time on transcrptions along with being loud and annoying. My rant is over!

Stores around here have wipes located near the carts, though I'd say that if I saw all that stuff on the cart handle, you can bet that I'd pass it up and just use a different cart with a less crusty handle.

I don't THINK I said that, but then again, I don't "train" my family to pander to any sort of neurosis, either.

LOL with a snort!

You know, these pain in the butt conditions of atopy and allergic asthma that I've had my whole life are much less common in developing countries or in settings where there are lots of germs present (like families with lots of kids). The hygiene hypothesis is an interesting idea to consider here...apparently with industrialization in the "olden days," we may have messed with our immune systems.

I'm much more appalled when the caregiver of the baby fusses and yells at the baby to sit still when all the baby wants to do is be a normal baby and crawl around.

I ate dirt as a kid. I still use the 5-second rule. Getting out of scrubs ASAP and showering right after work was only urgent to me when I had stuff on my scrubs that wasn't supposed to be there or when the facility in which I worked had some sort of bug making its way through as many GI tracts as possible. I don't get sick very often, even with 3 kids in elementary school (who, incidentally, do not strip and shower when they come home from their school a.k.a. Petri dish full of kids).

It'll be darned nice that with the general paucity of jobs available for the picking, the holder of the health insurance for the family will not be limited to only jobs that already provide health insurance. Not terribly long ago when my hubby was in the midst of searching for a new job, he was pretty limited in where he could choose to work because of this. We have preexisting conditions that are no fault of our own and insurance won't cover the conditions if we were to buy the policy ourselves.

We can pee standing up too, but afterwards a change of pants is sometimes in order.