Military hospital failures....who knew????

[hester_prynne]

It's like watching something you never thought would fall, fall---and you're goin down with it..like it or not.
Next big story, Military hospital failures. I can't help but think that this is old news to most of us who have been here at home dealing with the all-powerful yet incompetent medical industry ourselves. The Federal Government is a mess, suffering the deep but forseeable consequences of appointing people to be in charge of public services, who've no idea what a public service is, because they've never needed one, or worked directly with people that do. The gap is alarming. It's a free for all for overpaid Bush people that are doing nothing but looking the part, thinking that is their job. This is why Bush's endeavors in the past always ended in failure and loss too. No substance, no wisdom, just a base "showin up fer drill" attitude, smellin like too much mouthwarsh.....
Its as if all we've worked for is being drowned in very shallow waters, and I can't understand why it can't be stopped. It really pains me.
I don't like what i'm seeing, sensing is going on, it's as if I hate to even look at it anymore, I can't bear it! I've narrowed things down to keeping the peace with myself, and hoping for a miracle.
Is that bad? Am I copping out?
H

[stilltrucking]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job. In their own way they were achieving the same thing John and Sylvia were, living with technology without really having anything to do with it. Or rather, they had something to do with it, but their own selves were outside of it, detached, removed. They were involved in it but not in such a way as to care.
http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Qualit ... part1.html

He was talking about motorcycle mechanics but it could just as well be some doctors and nurses.

I can’t tell you what my sister has been going through since July when a sonogram showed some masses in her pelvis. I can’t tell you the half of it. The latest was some kind of test called a CA-25. That was in January nobody has called to tell her anything. I could tell she really did not want to know but I kept after her to call cause I know these people so well by now. Nine months of missing files, wrong tests ordered, mixed up tests results, good news, bad news, a nightmare.
Finally she called three times today. But they were out to lunch, and then they can’t find the results. I could go on and on about wrong tests ordered, tests results lost, false test results, I read Eichman in Jeruselam and she was right, evil is so banal. Hell is not sulfur and brimstone, it is a nasty medical office.


The strange thing is that she is growing more peaceful everyday. When she was a kid she wished that she had never been born.

I don’t know if finding peace within is a cop out for you. But I have no other choice. I want to bitch slap the lot of them.

Punch them to sanity.

There are still some doctors who believe in the art of medicine as well as the science. I hardly know how to pray but I pray for one to come along and help my baby sister.

Sorry hester I suppose it don't really relate, but I needed to write about it.

[jimboloco]

ca-125 is a tumor marker
elevated enzyme level associated with ovarian ca
possibly was not elevated?
if it were and se got no followup treatment or notification or followup
that would be grounds for negligence
but you are right about thhe kind of negligent attitude
it happens with understaffing and overload



florence nightinggale
antennae receiving
the spirit of healing lives on

as far as the generals well
they apologised
yet they never went into inspect the buildings and were ostensible employed constructively elsewhere
and where was the funding?

easy:
we are all about empire and massive expanded military enterprise abroad
so therefore
all the monies go into the deployment and into the weapons contractors, security contractors etc
and the aftermath is not as important

somebody said recently on Dumbocracy Now
y a can't have empire and democracy
and so it duh goes