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I just don't get it
29 June 2003 05:41*stepping up on soapbox*
It's time. Time. To. Move. On.
Why would anyone have the heart do perform back surgery on the geriatric patient who has multiple medical problems, poor health and physical condition?
Why would anyone choose to have back surgery in which case the doctors are going to take black and decker power tools to your SPINE, RiPpInG out bones, muscle, tissue, and then sewing it all back together?
Do you THINK that this is going to be pain free? That your not going to be sore, and/or you may not be as "lively" as before.
What do the general public think they are getting themselves into, when they are a patient in a hospital? Do they expect to be treated like royality? Mints on pillows? That the nurse/PCA/DR. is there 24/7 for any and all demands no matter how unrealistic they may be, to be carried out, in less time than it would normally do?
And do they ever wonder, that they are working with complete strangers, who get anoyed ALOT by his/her little routines, or persnicketties, and really could care less what they do at home because this isn't home, and this is an entirely new environment.
In fact, this goes along with my rant on Forigen travel. Americans who think the consitution and "the AMERICAN" way automatically goes with them, when they travel. I. Don't. Fucking. Think. So. Remember Chris colombus (the historian and NOT the movie director of the harry potter films?), and how he crossed the ocean, and how the pilgrims traveled and started a "NEW" colony, and how we fought for FREEDOM? When you travel to another area, you abide by THEIR rules/regulations, and culture, and not your own. There is yet another big bad world outside coke a cola, american idol, reality TV, and baseball-believe it or not!!
Do you even realise that you need to motivate yourself to get better, that medicine and nursing can only do SO MUCH, and that you lock they key to your own recovery within yourself?
The blame, will be placed on ignorance. Ignorance in a global view of the world and how the world is intertwined, which in part is due to the social disposition placed on them by age, location, and disposition. In simpler lingo, the pt is older and unable to comprehend or understand complex matters: i.e. most do not have a h.s. degree, or a college degree, and most live very simple lives (think white trash).
Could someone explain all this to me, cause i just don't get it.
*stepping off soap box*
It's time. Time. To. Move. On.
Why would anyone have the heart do perform back surgery on the geriatric patient who has multiple medical problems, poor health and physical condition?
Why would anyone choose to have back surgery in which case the doctors are going to take black and decker power tools to your SPINE, RiPpInG out bones, muscle, tissue, and then sewing it all back together?
Do you THINK that this is going to be pain free? That your not going to be sore, and/or you may not be as "lively" as before.
What do the general public think they are getting themselves into, when they are a patient in a hospital? Do they expect to be treated like royality? Mints on pillows? That the nurse/PCA/DR. is there 24/7 for any and all demands no matter how unrealistic they may be, to be carried out, in less time than it would normally do?
And do they ever wonder, that they are working with complete strangers, who get anoyed ALOT by his/her little routines, or persnicketties, and really could care less what they do at home because this isn't home, and this is an entirely new environment.
In fact, this goes along with my rant on Forigen travel. Americans who think the consitution and "the AMERICAN" way automatically goes with them, when they travel. I. Don't. Fucking. Think. So. Remember Chris colombus (the historian and NOT the movie director of the harry potter films?), and how he crossed the ocean, and how the pilgrims traveled and started a "NEW" colony, and how we fought for FREEDOM? When you travel to another area, you abide by THEIR rules/regulations, and culture, and not your own. There is yet another big bad world outside coke a cola, american idol, reality TV, and baseball-believe it or not!!
Do you even realise that you need to motivate yourself to get better, that medicine and nursing can only do SO MUCH, and that you lock they key to your own recovery within yourself?
The blame, will be placed on ignorance. Ignorance in a global view of the world and how the world is intertwined, which in part is due to the social disposition placed on them by age, location, and disposition. In simpler lingo, the pt is older and unable to comprehend or understand complex matters: i.e. most do not have a h.s. degree, or a college degree, and most live very simple lives (think white trash).
Could someone explain all this to me, cause i just don't get it.
*stepping off soap box*
