Posted on 06/30/2014 3:59:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Massachusetts General Hospital plans to begin questioning all patients about their use of alcohol and illegal drugs starting this fall, even if they are at MGH for a totally unrelated issue.
Four questions will be posed, including “how often have you had six or more drinks on one occasion,” and “how often have you used an illegal drug in the past year?”
Enough “yes” answers could prompt a special team to conduct what’s being called a “bedside intervention” and possible treatment.
The mandatory treatment plan comes amid soaring numbers of opiate addiction across Massachusetts and the region, with many hospitals working to improve addiction treatment
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...
I gave blood right after 9-11 (A Neg, not too common) & went on giving until they banned anyone stationed in Germany between 1980-1990. Mad Cow disease is the reason they still give when I asked to donate last month even though I came back from Germany in 1983. It’s ridiculous!
Ironically the price of beef in the commissary over there was cheap since it was bought locally. Some Congressman who was also big in the American Cattlemens’ Association tried to ban local beef purchases but failed.
Anyway, if I’m ever allowed to donate again, they’ll probably ask me, “Do you own guns?”
Yup,presence in Europe is one of the questions asked.I knew that it was connected to "mad cow" disease because British beef was widely distributed throughout Europe during that time.
Heck, at the time our U.S. Commissary beef came from not-so-communist Hungary!
The same folks who exported that wonderful canned bacon from way back.
Real question: is there ANYPLACE where I can donate my 6%ile blood? Hate to waste it all on me.
I assume that the logic is (backed up by research,presumably) that if you were living in Europe during a particular period there was a real possibility that you could have eaten infected beef from a Burger King,McDonalds of from supermarkets not located on base.
Real question: is there ANYPLACE where I can donate my 6%ile blood? Hate to waste it all on me.
Very probably not.A few months ago I tried to give blood at my usual place (Children's Hospital in Boston...a very well known pediatric hospital) and was refused.I was refused when I informed them,upon being questioned regarding foreign travel (which is one of the standard questions) that I had just traveled to southern China about a month before.When I asked the nurse to explain she said that donor guidelines are formulated mainly by the CDC and she implied that donor centers are legally obliged to obey them.She told me that I'm banned from donating blood or blood products for a year from that visit.My guess is that your ban is also thanks to CDC regulations and will be in force for as long as the CDC proclaims that it should be.
By the powers vested in the CDC, I’m SOL as a blood donor.
So are those in need of some A-Neg. C’est la guerre!
Assuming that my belief is correct one can only hope that there's a valid scientific basis to that rule.I do wonder,however,what blood donors who've lived their entire lives in Europe do.
Gun ownership, or dog ownership...
Or how about all those American military stationed in Germany up until the fall of the Warsaw Pact and then the USSR?
Remember the Mad Cow scare didn’t start until years later, after 9-11-2001, as noted.
Or maybe.....banning U.S. vets serving there 1980-1990 was a sop to the homosexuals who are also completely banned.
I sense a tit for tat, if you get my drift.
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