Have had to deal with hospitals and doctors way too much in the past five years.
No. They do not give everybody heparin shots 3 times a day.
So I would take this rant with a bit of salt.
Good one and accurate.
Lot of truth, here.
Been through similar with my Father.
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Always do your own health research.
I hope we learned from Covid that Hospitals will kill as many people as they can if there is profit in it.
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Thank God, it has been 35 years since I was in hospital as a patient. Last time I was a patient in a hospital was at age 50, when I had my gall bladder surgically removed.
Agree completely, no one should be left alone in any medical facility. When I arrived in emergency department suffering excruciating gall bladder attack pain, they shot me with Demerol pain killer. It worked great, and my pain became bearable quickly. However my heart rate kept dropping and it dropped below 40 BPM. I was hooked up to a monitor but no nurse or other medical staff showed up. Good thing my wife was with me and got hold of a nurse after observing my heart rate dropping precipitously. Nurse injected me with some anti-dote medication, which soon revived my heart rate. My guess is it was probably adrenaline.
If you are getting heparin in a hospital setting, you have clots. Either causing a stroke or PE. They don’t just hook you up to a Heparin IV as a matter of course.
Most of the stuff he talks about sounds like it’s associated with heart issues. If you have a heart attack, they are going to follow a standard protocol until they can get some imaging done.
Pneumonia kills a lot of people in hospitals. It kills a lot of people in Skilled Nursing facilities. I don’t agree that everyone should get one when they go into the hospital, but for the elderly, it’s not a horrifying thing to get.
This whole thing sounds like a bit of over the top click bait.
But…the one point where he is correct: You absolutely need an advocate for you in any clinical environment. I spent years bird dogging my parents and their siblings and then my wife to appointments. If you don’t learn the system, it can bulldoze you.
The theory is that hospitals are killing people. Where is the money in that. They make no money after you are dead.
thousands every day times 365 days
so, lets say “thousands” is more than 2,000, because 2,000 would be described as “a couple of thousand”, so let’s be generous and say that thousands a days is as low as 3,000,
so 3,000 x 365 is nearly 1.1 million people a year “legally killed” in U.S. hospitals ... sorry, this nonsense doesn’t pass the smell test ...
Balderdascious drivel
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My 90 yo mom was just in the hospital from early Tuesday morning to late yesterday afternoon. No problem Tuesday ... yesterday morning, they wanted to give her a Lovenox shot. Mom was out of bed most of the time, sitting in a chair, taking herself to the bathroom, walking around the room at times to stretch her legs. She was going for a CT scan that morning & if her situation had resolved, she was going home ... if not, surgery was on the table. She declined the shot. She also declined another med being given in lieu of her regular med. CT scan was clear so she was glad she declined what she did & she was discharged.
BTW ... I was with her in the ER and all day both days, my brother early morning & evening. Mom can fend for herself, but does have some hearing loss, even with hearing aids, so we have someone with her during waking hours. She has been well-schooled to question every med, shot, etc. & she knows she can decline anything (which she did - 2 out of 3).
I have a serious reaction to chlorhexadine, a common 2% solution used in IV prep kits, that can cause anaphylaxis, and have noticed they do not check. I always ask when they start an IV if I am alert.
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