HeyJude

It was trying, for sure. I think people have some very unrealistic expectations when it comes to their newborns.

No, your apple juice isn't as important as the lady trying to bleed to death in the next room, nor the 33-weeker antepartum down the hall who's sitting on the toilet trying to push, that I am trying to get transferred to labor and delivery. I'll be ...

While I would eventually like to do something outside the hospital job, I really can't think of what I'd like to do on a fulltime basis apart from that. I don't really see myself as a teacher, I don't want to do management, and I'm not (at least not ...

Link #2 posted: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/26/healthmag.circumcision.hpv.herpes/index.html In Uganda. They also point out that roughly 3/4 of US adults have already had at least one HPV infection....already. That in a country that still ...

Hate to be the one to point this out to you, but I am quoting directly from the links you posted. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/circumcision.htm Your research sites were located in Africa, and this research is far from concl...

You hate male doctors and nurses? Without even knowing them? You certainly can ask for the caregiver you want, but to say you hate someone just because they are male? I don't understand. On what are you basing this? I have never ever had this exper...

What really fries me is when it's not the VIP making such a big deal over themselves, but admin does. We had one not too long ago who was a very nice patient with a very nice family, and probably had no idea this big a deal was being made over them, ...

I have to admire this doc's candor but do not agree with his stance on so many things. The evidence strongly suggests that many of the things he is intent on doing are either a) not helpful; or b) downright harmful. And on the flipside, I have se...

Want pt satisfaction to go up? Staff us adequately!!!!!

CRNA, and I find these generalizations disturbing and, more importantly, inaccurate. You act as if you are the only person whose tax dollars would be used to support the healthcare of the entire country and you know that's not true. Everybody ...

Silas, Unless you have been to nursing school and medical school, is there any way to know which is more rigorous? I cannot tell you how many times I have been right and a physician has been wrong. Do I rub it anyone's face? No, because that's not t...

I'm a pretty crunchy kind of gal. I have a shirt that says "The Hippies Were Right", if that gives you any idea of the kind of things I believe. So if you don't want the Vit K, Emycin, Hep B, or PKU for your baby, I will probably be ok with that. Ho...

Oh Lord, how terrible. I think it's perfectly understandable for you to be sensitive about things like that years after they happen.

I completely understand and respect where you are coming from, ingelein. I didn't mean to make light of your family's history. I was referring to several hundred years ago, and the 'Manifest Destiny', not displaced people who were kicked out of their...

I have a question. I'm just throwing it out there. Do you think Native Americans ever sat around having this exact same discussion about the invading hordes of colonists? People who: - for the most part, forced their language(s) on the Native America...

My biggest issue is that there is no proper channel for the whopping majority of these people to go through to get here legally. A generation or two a go it wasn't so difficult, not even for Mexicans. Now, it's virtually impossible. It's reasonable t...

I don't think that's going to happen. 1) Whose tax dollars are we going to use to send them home? 'Home' is not just Mexico. It's Jamaica, the UK, Russia, China, South Africa, Jordan, Venezuela, and you name the country. Whose tax dollars are we goin...

He was hardly being rewarded. I'm sure if he'd had his druthers, he'd have rather not been raped and infected with HIV and not needed the Neulasta to begin with. Go, live in his country for an hour, see what it's like to try and get here legally (im...

I'm not so sure that's a fair statement to make, especially that last sentence. Some of us don't like to brag about what we give of our own time, effort, and money to help others out. How do you know, then, that those of us who want universal healthc...

The posters are referring to obstetric emergencies.

Drives me bonkers! I can't stand it. As if someone's more worthy of my time or attention, or caring, just because they're 'somebody important.'

....and continue to be far lower than those here in the US....

Ok...lemme rephrase that. So you mean the government was not my friend when it recognized my God-given right as a woman to vote? That only happened in the last 100 years or so. The government is made up of individuals...so when I say the government, ...

You mean it wasn't my friend when it gave me the right to vote??

I don't think you could pay me enough money to be a surgeon, or any other sort of MD.