Atlanta Hospital in Grave Condition

Associated Press ^ | Nov 26, 1:49 PM (ET) | ERRIN HAINES

[Harrius Magnus]

“As far as I know off the top of my head, there are only two med schools in metro Atlanta — Emory and Morehouse.”

Used to be a residency program at the previously named Georgia Baptist. There is a good Med School in Macon, Mercer.

[ArmstedFragg]

In fact, nurses are usually better at that sort of thing.

I have a PA who's also better at doctoring than my Doctor. She knows the specifics of my case better, in part because she actually reads the chart before seeing the patient. I see her once a year just to have her read the chart and send him a note if she spots something he's done that conflicts with my history. She's caught stuff more than once.

[ReignOfError]

>>>“As far as I know off the top of my head, there are only two med schools in metro Atlanta — Emory and Morehouse.”

Used to be a residency program at the previously named Georgia Baptist. There is a good Med School in Macon, Mercer.

Yes. Let me clarify. There are two med schools in metro Atlanta -- but the rest of the state feeds the area residents and interns. I assume Mercer and MCG send at least some of their students and graduates to Atlanta, and to Grady, for the hands-on. And to Georgia Baptist, and to DrKalb, and to all the Pill Hill establishments. I'd assume anyone doing a pediatric rotation spends som time at Scottish Rite or Egleston.

[Doctor Don]

The majority of newborns in public hospitals everywhere are born to illegals.......ship them across the Rio Grande!

[ReignOfError]

I have a PA who's also better at doctoring than my Doctor. She knows the specifics of my case better, in part because she actually reads the chart before seeing the patient. I see her once a year just to have her read the chart and send him a note if she spots something he's done that conflicts with my history. She's caught stuff more than once.

There's a popular notion that nurses and PAs are basically secretaries for doctors. That is far from the truth. Doctors, at least the ones who aren't surgeons, are supposed to diagnose conditions. That's their job. Nurses and PAs are supposed to treat patients. That's their job.

I have my mother's veins. When Mom held out her arm, or when I hold out mine, it's difficult to spot a vein. Even when you find one, they roll when you try to stick them and collapse if you manage to stick them.

Mom used to give blood religiously out of a proper sense of civic duty. That is, until a Red Cross director asked her to please stop. Her veins always collapsed before they could get a full unit -- and partial units are simply thrown away. And, they told Mom, she was depressing the volunteers. She used to come home with bruises on both arms from giving blood.

The first time I tried to giver blood, the volunteer missed the vein and stabbed my bicep. Twice. Let me tell ya, citizen, that hurts a lot.

Back to the point. I drove Mom to the hospital when she had a kidney stone. One nurse tried to stick each arm for a blood test. Neither stick worked. An older, veteran nurse took one look at her arms and hands and fetched a pediatric-gauge needle. Slid it neatly into a vein on the back of Mom's hand and taped it down. She then had a steady flow of IV pain-killers and antibiotics.

These are the things nurses know. I'm certainly not denigrating doctors and the things they know, but they're different things. If I have a wound that needs to be dressed, give me an RN or an EMT over an MD any day of the week. The doctor can check the test results later and tell me if there's lurking nastiness.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Pouring money down a stump hole.Yes the burn unit is one of the best but the management is the problem.Liberals will screw it up everytime.Atlanta is proof positive of that. I have watched Atlanta go from a fun place to go ie the Richs downtown with the Pink Pig at Christmas in the sixties to the crime ridden scathole it has become.Anytime I have to go down there I am armed to the teeth and justifiably so.It is not Atlanta all our northern guest are moving to it anywhere but.Its the burbs and we all need to stay out of fulton county.