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suzanna's avatar

Good Morning,

Patients that are scheduled for admission to hospital are asked to bring in (physically)

all of the medications they are presently taking. Many came in, often with an adult child,

carrying a plastic bag chock full of pill bottles. Often those were taken at random by the

patient that lost the scheduling and didn't know what some were even for. Some bags

contained 20 or more pill bottles.

I was an RN with 2 university degrees, but jobs for nurse included sign on bonuses

as we were in a shortage. My nursing degree came from a rigorous and demanding

program that many washed out of. I never "studied" for my board exams, or crammed

as many did, because I understood systems within the body/and interactions between

systems. I could figure out the answers even if they weren't memorized/integrated

fully.

I have questioned doctors, and made suggestions to ease a procedure, and was met with

resistance. Years later, I continued that questioning to include medications and procedures.

Example: A patient may have had 3-4 recent MRI procedures, yet the MD would order

yet another. Supplements were included in the medication regime that did no good

but added to the burden of the patient physically. Mentally: in my latter years , I practiced

(20 yrs) in behavioral medicine and gave out psych drugs and patients also got ECT

(shock) treatments. Gradually I saw the poor results of the drugs and treatments and

reported all to the prescribing physician/psychiatrist. The answers? Revenue building.

I had had enough and subsequently retired early (I was nudged by my supervisors) and

grieved a bit over it all, but I would not have gone back. Those bastards will prescribe

horrible drugs with severe SE especially for the elderly, but any age group can receive

these "medications" that can be debilitating. You might not even believe me if I elaborated.

The system has changed from sometimes bad to consistently bad. Most physicians no

longer have a private practice. Some do, eg Ophthalmologists. They pay their own

liability insurance. A physician with admitting privileges, now work for the hospital, and

must follow hospital "protocols" to the letter. They have 15" per patient, and the entire

visit is dominated by the doc typing the required "medical record thing" on their computer.

The docs get pd. by the # of patients seen and recorded. They are told to push certain

medications and recommended vaccinations unrelentingly, and the more they give, the more

bonus $ they earn. The trade off? The hospital pays their liability insurance, without it

Docs can't afford to practice anywhere.

So there you have it. End of story.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

Is this the same Mercola who hawked a tanning bed that wouldn't give you cancer?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-sunbed-doc-settles-0415-biz-20160414-story.html

I don't know, Ray, many of his followers consider him a hero. He is a cultist of a sort.

You can't buy that stairway to heaven if heaven for you is good health but that's exactly what Mercola wants you to do. "Don't trust Big Pharma, trust me." The irony is, Big Pharma is the supplement industry now too so anyone who hawks supplements is hawking Big Pharma. Mercola is burning both sides of this profitable candle.

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