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Are hospitals as safe as they used to be?  |
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( Anonymous )
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I was just looking at the news on AOL the other day and I noticed that some more babies at Corpus Christi hospital had been given an overdose of the blood thinner Heparin. This happend to Dennis Quaid's little girls a little while ago, at the same hospital. It makes me wonder.....Are hospitals as safe as they used to be? And are there more precautions that could be taken to make them safer? I know that alot of doctors and nurses work long hours and also work overtime, eventually making their work weeks in excess of 60 hours. I know that in some places you get sent home if you start to approach overtime, not only for money reasons, but for your health. A few weeks ago, a lady passed out on the floor of a hospital and died, and NO ONE did a thing to help her. She toppled over due to a massive MI and people sat around her for an hour and did nothing. Finally a woman told a lady at the reception desk and she took about 30 minutes to call a response team, but it was already too late and the woman died. In an unrelated event, a top toyota engineer in Japan just died, and the company said he died as a result of "extreme fatigue, due to overworking and stress". For some reason, I just don't feel that I would be safe in a hospital anymore.... Your thoughts?
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agrayson22
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they arent
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carbonara 
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My mother has great issues on this topic and i kind of agree with what she says about hospitals. Certainly here in Britain the hospitals have gone down hill, there is no doubt about that. They are dirtier which makes it even more possible for people to get infections and pick up bugs while staying there (MRSA). Now, my mother believes that this is because they abolished the 'matrons' and i have to say she makes a convincing argument.
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I'm not impressed with them.
At all.
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LaMotta
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Definitely not, we have a super bug in the hospitals over here!!
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( Anonymous )
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What kind of a super bug?
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MaryLin
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I don't know.
But I guess the lack of doctors gives the existing ones a lot of extra pressure due to which they have to work overtime which results in fatigue and probably abstraction if you see what I mean. Doctors are humans also and it's human to make mistakes. Believe me, they feel like shit when they screw up but they have to get over it. They have to be very strong emotionally. And they can't save every single patient, that's the rule of life.
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( Anonymous )
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Oh, okay.
Thanks.
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( Anonymous )
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I suppose it could be where you live as well that affects it.
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devilindisguize
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no, i dont think they are. doctors just dont seem to have the time or patience for anyone anymore, as long as they get paid the big bucks, they dont really care.
this doesnt go for all of them though, just alot,
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( Anonymous )
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No one does.
Everything is machine operated or some shit.
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handsfree
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Quote: from carbonara at 7:35 am on July 11, 2008
 My mother has great issues on this topic and i kind of agree with what she says about hospitals. Certainly here in Britain the hospitals have gone down hill, there is no doubt about that. They are dirtier which makes it even more possible for people to get infections and pick up bugs while staying there (MRSA). Now, my mother believes that this is because they abolished the 'matrons' and i have to say she makes a convincing argument. 
Sorry, I made a mistake, read the next post.... mods, if ya want to remove this, go on, my actual post is the next one. Post edited at 2:25 pm on July 11, 2008 by handsfree
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