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RealSub58 -> RE: Read cuz I said so!!! (4/4/2009 8:52:23 AM)
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I'm an RN with vast ICU experience and now I have a resume that says just about every sort of "out of hospital" experience.
The gal or guy (mostly gals) who comes in and takes your B/P and HR are trained to do only that.
They have NO idea what in the world it means.
They are medical assistants.
Women and heart disease was not understood until the last 5 years so if you have a heart issue, a female MD prolly will not go the gamut on tests until you have a heart attack (MI). Male MD's just look at a woman and say "it's just stress." Slowly that is changing.
Office RN's are way too busy compiling charts, answering mindless phone calls from people that demand to be seen for issues they can "cure" at therapy or a confessional, giving injections, etc. Office RN's once did major patient teaching, now they have to have a Master's degree of Nurse Practitioner to do this, with a specialty.
The sadist thing is that health care consumers think and act like MD's are gods. Consumers will investigate the cars they buy, the iPod they purchase but have no idea that the internet has a wealth of information on any health issue known to mankind. Healthcare consumers
don't investigate the MD's they have.
Healthcare consumer's don't ask enough questions or sadly to say the right question of their MD's.
MD's are driven as the hospitals and clinics are by capitalism. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Bottom line.
I am labeled a "psycho bitch" by just about everyone of mom's MD's and medical staff and yes, by my own.
I know too much and make them accountable.
Mom was treated for well over 1 1/2 yrs for iron deficiency. Many of the same symptoms SB had.
I was busy with my life until she called me at work and told me she was faint, dizzy and had fallen. Her B/P was way less than normal, her blood sugar just fine. I rushed to her house and took her to the doc the next day. One question: you had her take an ECG 2 weeks ago, what are the results?
2 hours later she was in the cardiac ICU, having coded in the cardiac cath lab. 2 days later she was transferred to Milw cause the MD's could not would not (?) follow the cardiologists instructions.
She came home with a 2 lead pacer and a defibrillator.
Her disease was so severe her ejection fraction was 5%.
It should be about 45%.
I really don't care if I am the psycho bitch from hell when it comes to being a knowledgeable healthcare consumer, they listen to me cause my family nor I will be a mistake they bury.
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Insurance companies will not, sadly to say, will not pay for an ECG or stress test until an EKG has proven to have an underlying pathology.
I took a 4 week chronic pain management program that the insurance company would not pay for until a pysiatrist, physical therapist and psychiatrist, followed by a total body MRI scan demonstrated a need for the $22,000 program.
Private MD in countries that have social medicine are allowed to do anything they choose. I worked in Zimbabwe as an SRN so I understand socialized medicine somewhat.
Once again the bottom line is capitalism. A visit to the MD in one of the largest healthcare systems in SE WI begins with a visit to the financial advisor. How will it be paid for and when.
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