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mega anecdotals to add to

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:14:37 +0000

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mega anecdotals to add to Hannah's complaint:

I’ve called to inquire about almost every medical bill I’ve ever received and have never ONCE had to pay the full amount I was originally billed. Unbelievable that this industry is allowed to exist
— Kyle Campbell (@Kyle_C_Campbell) March 2, 2021

Health care, not nursing...

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:14:04 +0000

In reply to America's Nursing Crisis: "Covid-19 Is ‘Probably Going to End My Career’"

Health care, not nursing...

one of the nice things about our health care system is fighting a several hundred dollar bill that you shouldn’t have to pay for months, with all parties claiming they did the coding correctly. then you push them to resubmit the bill and find out you only need to pay $20.
— hannah gais (@hannahgais) February 28, 2021

alternative problem

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 23:56:05 +0000

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alternative problem/conservative "solution" is to have no hospitals at all for emergencies?

Our rural hospitals cannot afford to continue paying for #NCGA's refusal to #expandMedicaid. https://t.co/efYcXsbvpq pic.twitter.com/ViQLjAepCH
— NC Health Advocacy (@healthactionnc) February 25, 2021

Nice to see a nurse admit the

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:53:59 +0000

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Nice to see a nurse admit the truth about what the I.C.U. often is like and our hospital system in general:

[.... During her three months at Stony Brook, Ms. Fink sometimes had more patients than felt safe. I.C.U. care grew to seem “futile.” Because of the pain patients experienced from hands-on care and being on ventilators, she described herself as “a human torture device.” She knew that her care physically hurt patients and, in her experience, offered little benefit: “Most of the patients I didn’t see getting better.”

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I’ve worked as a nurse for a decade and written about what my fellow nurses experience on the job. I worry for America’s nurses, and I am angry. The problems they face are inflicting a deep and lasting wound. For Ms. Fink, it all came to be too much. Now, almost eight months after leaving Stony Brook, she no longer wants to work in the I.C.U. and is studying to become a nurse practitioner. “I’m going into primary care to keep people out of the hospital,” she said [....]

Covid has only made a bad situation way worse. They are all past burn out. Mho, best to stay out of being an inpatient at a hospital if you at all possibly can for the foreseeable future; forget that elective surgery.