Anonymous865

In April, May, and August of 2019 CMS cited MDAnderson for a lot of things one of which was similar to what you describe. In May CMS said that deficient practices in Patient Rights, Infection Control, and Surgical Services posed an Immediate Jeo...

I want to start with saying I agree vaccines have improved and extended lives. I got my 2nd shingrix vaccine yesterday. You have to recognize that a percentage of the population does not trust the CDC, so telling people to read the pink book and...

They would have been at risk of shingles if they had been vaccinated. "About 91 percent of U.S. children are vaccinated against chickenpox, according to the most recent National Immunization Survey data, but that does not necessarily mean they cannot...

That was an interesting question. What I have read supports your interpretation. I found this reason for not using sterile water for irrigation: "Sterile water for irrigation is NOT FDA labeled for any use as an injection in patients. Sterile water ...

per the CDC "At end of workday, any remaining vaccine in provider predrawn syringes should be discarded." https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/vax_clinic.htm#storage-administration also "Syringes other than those filled by the manufactur...

HCAPPS has removed the questions about pain management from the survey. "On July 31, 2018, in the CY 2019 OPPS Proposed Rule, CMS proposed a plan to remove the HCAHPS Survey's Communication About Pain items (questions 12, 13 and 14 on the HCAHPS Surv...

Use a calculator to divide 0.5g by 104.5. You won't get 4.78. You are off by a factor of 1000. When doing math ask yourself if it makes sense that by dividing 0.5 by 104 that you would get a number BIGGER than you started with. Of course not. If ...

Your friend didn't pay attention to their units when doing the problem. For example, they divided 230 lbs by 2.2 lbs and came up with 104.55 lbs. The patient weighed 104.5 kg not 104.5 lbs. The correct way to do the problem would be 230 lbs x 1 kg/...

I didn't know that. That is very interesting.

To me what shows a tremendous disconnect is the photo she chose for her gofundme page. She is all dolled-up and sitting in her husband's lap at a party/celebration. She is trying to raise money to defend herself after killing Charlene Murphy. Sam ...

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You are right. The letter said it did not merit further action. I couldn't download the PDF document from the document cloud. I instead downloaded the Txt document from their document cloud. Apparently when it was converted to a txt document it ...

Just curious - Why do you think there is bad blood between Mr. Funk and Ms. Welch?

That's the article. Here's the letter for anyone who can't access it. STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DIVISION OF HEALTH LICENSURE AND REGULATION OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS Metro Center 665 Mainstream Drive, Second Floor Nashville, TN 37243 615...

Apparently in Tennessee it's really, really, really hard to lose your license. What is really scary - if the board decides not to take action, the complaint is never made public. There is no way to know how many similar or even worse nurses were re...

You just have to look at the way hospitals and medical boards protect physicians who sexually abuse patients to see that. They don't care if they are abusing children or women. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/generalprofessionalissue...

A few nurse examples would include: Genene Jones Charles Cullen John Meehan (a.k.a. “Dirty John”)

Next look at Dr. Michael Anthony Lapaglia. Lapaglia first came to the attention of a medical board in 2002 when he was a psychiatric resident in NC for having an “inappropriate relationship” with an inpatient psychiatric 16 year old female patient. ...

I would say that Tennessee DAs have a legitimate concern that hospitals and professional boards are not protecting the public. Consider a few cases that have been in the news recently (warning this is long). Christopher Duntsch Christopher Duntsch (a...

What you are saying is that medical professionals should not be subject to the same laws that govern every other person in the US. The purpose of professional boards is to define the professional standards that members of that profession must adhere ...

I know physicians who have sent loved ones to Vanderbilt when they thought they needed care that couldn't be provided in the patient's community. On the other hand I wouldn't go to Vanderbilt, but I wouldn't go to any academic medical center. I don'...

You keep arguing that the environment and staffing are to blame. You assert that she wasn't experienced enough to be in the helper role. The only evidence you present to support your argument is that everywhere you have worked nurses are so overwor...

One of the people charged was a nurse practitioner. The nurse practitioner and the ADON were the people with the most serious of the charges. I would assume that the nurse practitioner was the "Doctor" who was "paid a nice salary to oversee these p...

I am not sure how to feel about the BON. The law directs the BON to meet quarterly, so meeting in Nov and then in Feb follows the law. On the other hand the law permits the BON to meet in special sessions if something requires their immediate attenti...

You're welcome. ? I agree with you. If you read some of their monthly disciplinary action reports, it looks like they are fair to the nurse while protecting the public from unsafe practitioners.