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ER Doctor's view on the culture of dependence in the rural and urban poor
Emergency Medicine News ^ | January 2011 | Edwin Leap MD

Posted on 01/14/2011 12:38:49 PM PST by oneprolifewoman

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I think the doctor's comments at the end of this little vignette are very true. I have always believed that people rise or fall according to the expectations set for them. If you set the bar low, most people will never try for anything more. If you set it high, and you don't make excuses for people, then they will try harder and accomplish more. Ignoring the problem because we don't want to be seen as judgmental really doesn't help anyone.
1 posted on 01/14/2011 12:38:54 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
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Putting it in script form was weird... I was thinking Chastity’s back wouldn’t be hurting if she would stay off it.

*shrug*

I’m in a weird mood.


2 posted on 01/14/2011 12:42:58 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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“I was thinking Chastity’s back wouldn’t be hurting if she would stay off it.”

LOL—’beat me to it!


3 posted on 01/14/2011 12:55:29 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: oneprolifewoman

ER doctors have been passing out Vicodin and Percoset like small packs of M&M’s for YEARS. That has to stop. and I think it finally is slowing down.


4 posted on 01/14/2011 12:56:06 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: freeangel

Its not an inaccurate article but its not very subtle either.


5 posted on 01/14/2011 12:57:37 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: oneprolifewoman
He fell out of that tree stand a few years ago...

Wrecked him? Darned near killed him!

6 posted on 01/14/2011 12:57:57 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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“....Is this only in Appalachia? Hardly. The inner cities experience similar problems.

But the greater problem, and perhaps the greater tragedy, is that many of those in positions of influence — in medicine, politics, education — know it. But they’re afraid to point it out for fear of being branded judgmental or unkind. I think not telling the truth is the unkindest cut of all....”

Anyone who has worked in an ER has seen this play out time and time again. His closing statement is dead on. This scenario is not limited to any region nor it is limited to any economic level. The well heeled are just as likely be drug seekers as the flat broke.


7 posted on 01/14/2011 12:58:02 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: oneprolifewoman

This story is more true than fantasy, and in a way I don’t blame the people, human nature being what it is. This all goes back to the Great Society and the generational impact of government providing a so called “safety net” for the poorer souls out there. If you provide a freebie out there, people will find a way to exploit it.
There is a complete network these people have created, and they are as sharp as lawyers in understanding and taking advantage of every government program out there.


8 posted on 01/14/2011 12:59:00 PM PST by WILLIALAL
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I was thinking Chastity’s back wouldn’t be hurting if she would stay off it.

That's setting the amusement bar terribly high for only the second post of the thread...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 01/14/2011 1:02:53 PM PST by The Comedian (Sarah Palin: America's last, best hope.)
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To: The Comedian

I’m usually really late to the party, I got in that one fast though.


10 posted on 01/14/2011 1:05:26 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: Islander7

Nah, in the inner city there ain’t no father around the house. He is either unknown, in prison or on the Maury Povich show.


11 posted on 01/14/2011 1:07:51 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: oneprolifewoman

That is incredibly condescending and insulting......................


12 posted on 01/14/2011 1:13:01 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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Consequence of licensing and fees for everything. People who once worked, and worked hard develope an instant sense of entitlement when a society legislates their jobs away. It does not take being born into it, as the leftists understood well when they planned this.


13 posted on 01/14/2011 1:25:21 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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Consequence of licensing and fees for everything. People who once worked, and worked hard develope an instant sense of entitlement when a society legislates their jobs away. It does not take being born into it, as the leftists understood well when they planned this.


14 posted on 01/14/2011 1:26:24 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: The Comedian

Damn. He beat me to it.


15 posted on 01/14/2011 1:27:32 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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a career in government-sponsored childbirth

I've never seen it put this way, but this is as accurate a description as you could get.

16 posted on 01/14/2011 1:29:05 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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One of our very dear friends is a 3rd year Medical Resident at a major hospital in Wisconsin. She's studying Anesthesiology. She's also Canadian. She came here to escape the Canadian health care system.

This woman was shriekingly liberal 3 years ago. Now, not so much. She says things that would make me blush, if I could blush that is.

17 posted on 01/14/2011 1:31:29 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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lol. That is a very accurate term.


18 posted on 01/14/2011 1:33:38 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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> Consequence of licensing and fees for everything.

You’re not kidding.

Choose a business type and see what forms, permits and other Requirements for opening a new business in California.

http://www.calgold.ca.gov/Default.asp?VW=OUT&TOP=N&KYWD=

Not just one or two, 15 or twenty.


19 posted on 01/14/2011 1:43:55 PM PST by AQuietThinkingMan ((jus' tryin' to get by))
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“..people will find a way to exploit it.”

And the most vicious exploitation is that of the bureaucrats, who have figured out their road to promotion is through the miseries of these people via our wallets.


20 posted on 01/14/2011 1:44:34 PM PST by mo
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