Posted on 03/25/2002 12:48:29 PM PST by Cagey
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two comatose patients had maggots growing in their noses as a result of a housekeeping lapse at a Missouri hospital, researchers said on Monday.
A canteen and storage areas at Kansas City's Veteran's hospital were not properly cleaned after staff cuts in 1998, and the hospital hired exterminators for a massive infestation of mice.
Scattered mouse carcasses through the hospital brought flies, which somehow invaded the hospital's intensive care unit and laid eggs in the "fetid nasal discharge" of the two comatose patients, Dr. Richard Beckendof of the Veteran's hospital wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a medical journal published by the American Medical Association.
One patient died two days after the maggots were removed, though neither patient was believed harmed by them.
The treatment described in this post is disgusting, those mudering bastards at Gitmo are getting better treatment than the hero's that have kept us free, SHAME.....
I say feed those at Gitmo rat poison and use the saved money to take better care of our hero's.
Wait a minute, rat poison can be expensive... an M16 shell only costs under a quarter....
I've been in several in Texas, Snow Bunny, and I agree with you!
This is a disgrace...nay, this is a CRIME against our vets!
"I went into the veterans hospital recently with a friend. It smelled of piss."
Everyone I've been in smelled that way!
It bothers us for a short while; imagine having to lay there and smell that day after day, month after month.
One of those "tastes like chicken" kinda lines.
Take a look at what they provide for themselves:
Medical care for themselves, that we all pay for, that the average person only can dream about.
A pension that in some cases allows them more in retirement than they earn (sic) while they were working(sic).
A raise in pay that takes affect, without these cowards having to vote for it so that they can say that they would not have voted for it if they had the time.
When are we going to wake up? Things that are good for them are unacceptable and to costly for the general public.
If they had to do an honest day work, like the rest of us poor slobs, they would be screaming and whining even more than they do now about things that are so self serving it makes you want to laugh, because if you don't you'll only cry.
When the people we pay to govern start ranting things will change, but that seems to be a pipe dream.
Jay Rockerfeller (D-WV)E-mail: senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
Web Site: http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/rockefeller.cfm
Phone: 202 / 224-6472
FAX: 202 / 224-7665
District Nr: 304 / 347-5372
For the savy, we do have access (outside 9to5, and on wknds) to the Elmendorf AFB Hospital and their excellent staff and facilities. The VA Clinic however, is full of your typical slothful Affirmative Action/Federal Bureaucrat types, sprinkled with a few outstanding, dedicated and concerned exceptions.
If Bush can afford to give $10 Billion to Bono's favorite foreign-aid charity, Bush can afford to fulfill the promise given to all the GI's I knew back in '65 who were answering their country's call, of "full and complete healthcare benefits for life."
I guess THEIR definition and mine are different!
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