great_bu

great_bu has 22 years experience and specializes in Respiratory Medicine.

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1. To all "medical coverage is a privilege" folks:

   great_bu replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Activism

   As usual, the problem arises not from an ethical debate about whether it is 'right' for individuals to pay for their own healthcare or society to pay for it - ethically it would seem far more 'social' for payment to come from all for all. Unfortunat...

2. new RN dealing with patient privacy issues??

   great_bu replied to mo~lyssa's topic in Activism

   Just do a periodic backup of your e-mails (export to a file, look in your e-mail programme's help file if you are not sure how) and then save it to an encrypted drive - you can either encrypt the whole drive or just the relevant file (search windows ...

3. Health care a right or privilege

   great_bu replied to jcasablanca's topic in Activism

   This thread just struck a chord with me as when I had my original telephone interview for the post I am coming to at JHH, the interviewer was at some pains to emphasise the significant amount of pro-bono work that JHH provides (a good thing) as she c...

4. Health care a right or privilege

   great_bu replied to jcasablanca's topic in Activism

   I am a UK nurse who has worked in the National Health Service (NHS) for my whole career (why am I posting on allnurses.com ? because I am in the process of emigrating to Baltimore to work at John's Hopkins), so I have a great familirarity with univer...