Proper pt care or corporate bottom line profits ?

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 Early in the morning on Aug. 12, 2015, a 68-year-old man named Barry turned up at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., confused and feverish. The case was not a candidate for even a minor subplot on “House.” The admitting doctor stopped one of the […]

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Pt dies because hospital staff won’t listen… Genocide American Style

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

The Danger of Treating ER Patients as Drug Seekers http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/13/the-danger-of-treating-er-patients-as-drug-seekers By Emily Ulrich, Columnist Recently the news has been covering the story of Barbara Dawson, a Florida woman who was arrested after she refused to leave a hospital that would not treat her for abdominal pain. While being escorted from the hospital in handcuffs, she […]

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No Knock Warrant: basically a “human hunting license ” ?

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Pharmaciststeve

Police actions need review http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20160116/OPINION02/160119643/0/NEWS03 Last month, State Police and a DEA agent used a battering ram to break down the door of a drug suspect in Burlington and then shot him 13 times. We have just learned that a) only one officer involved in the shooting was wearing a body camera which apparently did […]

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