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In reply to the discussion: My God, I almost can't believe it! [View all]Warpy
(114,593 posts)They have no medical training. They have little medical knowledge beyond a course in hospital administration. They don't understand infection control. They count the beans, short staff every department, come up with mission statements, and admonish nurses trying to keep people alive to smile and be happy perky people persons and in some hospitals, have even handed out customer service speeches for overworked nurses to read to patients, the hospital equivalent of "happy to serve you, want fries with that?"
The corporatization of health care makes this a perfect storm of idiocy, mismanagement and outright ignorance to make sure their staff dies off from treating people with deadly disease.
And now it looks like they've used their nurses caring for Mr. Duncan to expose other patients on the floor because they were too fucking ignorant to know that Ebola is different and nurses caring for patients down with it should never be assigned to other patients, especially when their nurses were so poorly equipped.
Let the lawsuits begin! It's the only language those corporate drones understand. It's the only thing that will cause an organizational shakeup in which doctors and nurses will have the final word on patient care issues.