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Many seriously ill get too much care: docs, nurses
Yahoo Health/ ^ | 12/27/11

Posted on 12/27/2011 7:06:37 PM PST by EBH

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To: EBH

I just had a spinal fusion and spent 4 days in the hospital. Wow..the care I received was great! The staff provided whatever I wanted and it didn’t take long to get it. As a matter of fact, I wrote a letter to the hospital praising the employees I came in contact with.


21 posted on 12/28/2011 1:12:21 AM PST by AnneDB (mark levin radio show; neurosurgeon calls radio show; obama health care)
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Lucky you. Either you are young or have great insurance.

Soon, a lot of things are going to change. It will be interesting say around 2015-2016 and 0bamacare is in full swing. Let’s see what they define as elderly?


22 posted on 12/28/2011 6:22:29 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Washi

Yep!

But also note the article claims 50% of American doctors think their patients get too much care...

As doctors leave the medical field due to 0bamacare, expect that disgruntlement percentage to increase.


23 posted on 12/28/2011 6:24:41 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: COgamer

Is it the one’s needing excessive amounts of care or that they are demanding it, receiving it, and not paying for it?

I do believe there are two sides to this coin.

So what constitutes a waste of resources and doctor’s services?


24 posted on 12/28/2011 6:29:47 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: ApplegateRanch; WilliamofCarmichael
half of American primary care physicians believe their patients are getting too much medical care

That statement should scare the hell out us. The 50% level would equate out to how many left to die, left to go untreated etc? I am sure there is a static that can be extrapolated from that tidbit of information.

If half your physicians client base were declined care because what they wanted was considered excessive...what happens to the overall health of the client base?

25 posted on 12/28/2011 6:35:22 AM PST by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: EBH

From the time I first heard that the government wanted to take over healthcare I thought to myself, we are screwed. It won’t be long and you will need to be an expert at self treatment because there will be no assurance you would be able to actually see a doctor. Decades later, I have not changed my mind one bit.


26 posted on 12/28/2011 7:09:50 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: EBH

If I were an energetic writer, I would pen a story where doctors and nurses who denied care, medicine or benefit of their oath, were each and every one afflicted with the ailments of those they let die. I’d call it “First, Do No Harm.”


27 posted on 12/28/2011 7:13:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: EBH

Liberals have absolutely no trouble lying on the results of expert opinion surveys to give them the results (political cover) they want as they exert government power to take over our bodies when we are sick to decide who to kill and who to keep alive.

They will turn medicine up-side-down and “doctors” will all agree with them on every survey. Nurses, too.


28 posted on 12/28/2011 10:23:09 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Paladin2
Of all the things that require a long hospital stay a ruptured appendix should not be anywhere on the list in this day and age. But after it happened to us I was astounded by how many people had the same thing happened.

Always with the same, “your systems were atypical” reason given. If there are so many people running around with atypical systems maybe they should change what they are looking for when it comes to appendicitis

29 posted on 12/28/2011 11:40:19 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: EBH

If they’re including facelifts, breast implants, Viagra for 20 year olds; and ‘treatment’ for colds, mild flu, drippy sinuses, and sideways farts, etc. as “medical care”, it may not be quite so dire.


30 posted on 12/28/2011 11:48:27 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: A Satanically Transmitted Disease spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus)
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To: goat granny
I try to be nice to people even dumb ones but when it comes to safety of my family the fangs come out.
31 posted on 12/28/2011 7:38:50 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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