LydiaNN

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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I didn't refer to you as ignorant, or racist, and I certainly don't appreciate your implication that I did. OTOH, perhaps it is an oversensitivity on your part, to read things into comments that just...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Right, if you consider 20 years as new. They were here when I got here in
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Do you really believe that the talk of walls and volunteer militias are something new? They're not. By a long shot. As a matter of fact, some parts of the border already have a wall, and there are...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Same with California. The costs of immigration are a federal issue and the costs should be picked up by the feds. That doesn't come close to
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    You're absolutely right about the working conditions many of these immigrants face. I watch those guys picking strawberries, as I drive by in my nice car on the freeway, and I scoff at the notion...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I understand full well what your point was. My point, which is the one I'm attempting to make, after all, I suggested you post something to document that undocumented immigrants get full scope...
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    What do you Tell Someone Who Doesn't Believe Mental Illnesses Exist?

    LydiaNN replied to ChristineN's topic in Psychiatric

    If you believe that it is drug induced (btw, although schizophrenics do sometimes become drug addicts its origins have nothing to do with drug use), why are you blaming the devil instead of the drugs?...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    A) The question about people giving birth in the streets was rhetorical. I didn't actually believe anyone would answer me, but at least you both said no. B) None of what you've posted speaks to the...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I don't understand how these stories of lifetime welfare recipients persist. I know that for a very long time, there was a "welfare as paycheck" subculture in America. That changed with the passage of...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    No, I haven't applied for Medi-Cal, but part of my job is helping people navigate the system of application and appeal. I'm not an attorney, but I have a fairly strong understanding of it. You say...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I live in San Diego. Undocumented immigrants can only be approved for emergency Medi-Cal; covering pregnancy and infectious diseases. Do you really want women giving birth in the street or people with...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Where I work, giving clients a ride in our car is a termination
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    What do you Tell Someone Who Doesn't Believe Mental Illnesses Exist?

    LydiaNN replied to ChristineN's topic in Psychiatric

    I've run across a number of these people. I have never found anything particularly useful to tell them. Their minds are pretty much made
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    It is a well established fact that very few people who try to quit cold turkey are able to do it. I think it is far more sensible for health care providers to urge patients to take quit any way they...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    You didn't delete anything; I'm sorry, that was my mistake, made in the haste to reply. I should have checked more
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    You did tell us you applied personal decisions to medical care in an earlier quote. You said something along the lines that because you stopped cold turkey, patients shouldn't be able to have the...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Since when is it ethical (or legal?) for us as nurses to apply our personal morals to decisions concerning the care of others? If you have some problem prescribing the patch because you think that...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Didn't hit stop button in
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Sorry, but the way you quit smoking has nothing whatsoever to do with decisions regarding the care of others. Nor should your feelings about how much you pay in taxes. The only consideration here...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    If I recall correctly, nicotine patches are very expensive. If this doctor would've written a script for an insured patient for one of those patches and refused the Medicaid patient, he was...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Care providers certainly have the "right" (responsibility is a more appropriate word, IMO) to ask an asthmatic if they smoke, etc. when the answer to that question affects treatment in any way. Joe Q...
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    Clocked in - sent home

    LydiaNN replied to jyoung1950's topic in General Nursing

    That's really unfair! (I'm sure you didn't need me to tell you, that,
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    LydiaNN replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    We're hearing about patients who are coming in to the ER when they shouldn't be. That is but a small part of Medicaid. Yes, there is some misuse of Medicaid. But you're not telling us anything about...
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    Nurses Week Gifts

    LydiaNN replied to Tagtg2006's topic in General Nursing

    That's the best one I've heard
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    Experiences with Prozac

    LydiaNN replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    I tried Prozac once, and it made me really anxious. Luvox worked like a dream, but it made me gain too much weight. That wouldn't be a bad thing for Mr. Benson,