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Originally Posted by raybec 4
Yep, it's healthcare "professionals" like this that all us of have to look forward to if we ever get sick or god forbid we can't do things for ourselves. Most of them are awesome and sacrifice untold amounts for the good of other people, but this crap makes me nervous to get old or sick.
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You don't have to be old, Mr. raybec. Or deathly ill, for that matter. The problem is that patients sometimes actually get worse in the hospital. It's difficult to believe, I know, but it happens. I have long declared hospitals to be very dangerous places. I, myself, once had a reaction to an injection at UCLA that stopped my heart. Had it not been for a friend in attendance, I would have died because the onset took several minutes, the docs and nurses had left the room, and I was unable to reach the call light. Close one, that.
I can easily imagine a scenario in which Ms. badgirl decides for herself that a particular patient is being overly demanding and eventually ignores a call light for 10 to 15 minutes and it's during that delay that the patient has a reaction to a medication and chokes to death on their own vomit.
Others have said it better than I, but the attitude described by Ms. badgirl is indicative of a person who should not be responsible for the care of others in an hospital environment. Eventually, someone will die.
Oh. And, by the way, it's called "neglect". Lawyers love that stuff.
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