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UMass nurses association protest staffing cuts while hospital rakes in millions
Related to the Texas Presbyterian hospital shoving Duncan out the door because he couldn’t pay, the UMass nurses association had this press release in July, on patient care and hospital CEO’s greed.
Despite raking in $80 million dollars in profits in 2013, the CEO is cutting staff, to the detriment of patient health.
Despite posting profits of more than $80 million in 2013 and more than $300 million over the last five years, UMass CEO Eric Dickson has endorsed cost cutting measures and the reorganization of patient care services based on a manufacturing model borrowed from the auto industry.
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Yeah, because patients are not individual humans who get well at their own pace. The auto industry? Seriously?
“As registered nurses, we provide 90 percent of the clinical care our patients receive in our hospitals. We are the nurses who bear witness to the suffering of our patients, needless suffering caused by administrative neglect and the callous focus on the bottom line over patient care,” said Lynne Starbard, RN, a maternity nurse at the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s Memorial campus.
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I was shocked to see that Dickson is a physician. Must be one of those physicians that entered the professions with $$$ in his eyes, instead of wanting to be a healer. What a creep.
B.C. Nurses’ Union says province is not ready to deal with Ebola
The smug arrogance of the doctor is just absolutely astounding. You don’t wait until a crises occurs before you prepare for it. The whole idea of being prepared is knowing what to do and hoping that you never have to put it into action. Good Grief, we now have three people infected with Ebola. How stupid can one be? You’re just an airplane ride away from Canada also being infected.
Protected: The Dream
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn
Happy Columbus Day. Not.
I can’t imagine Jesus doing to these people what the Spaniards did and it sickens me that Christianity was used as an excuse to murder, rape and take from them.
by Howard Zinn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
October 12, 2009
Image by Whiskeygonebad via Flickr
An excerpt from A People’s History of the United States.
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:
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Well, this is not good…healthcare worker tests positive **edited
…for Ebola. Note how they immediately blame the healthcare worker for “breach in protocol”…without confirming what happened.
With what has happened with this hospital from the get-go, I’m not too confident with their assessment.
They sent Duncan home when he had a 103 degree fever…because he didn’t have health insurance.
#%&*!
This is the problem with for-profit medicine….thank you, President Nixon…and with hospitals run by CEOs instead of doctors. Yes, young ones, doctors used to be in charge of running hospitals, before medicine became profit-driven. Doctors used to run hospitals as they should be run–with compassion and an understanding of health issues.
They shove poor patients out the door before they are truly well enough to be dismissed, and here is the prime example of why this practice should be illegal….and why medicine needs to go back to how it was before Nixon thought HMO’s would be a great idea.
**edited to add: I also question their blaming the victim for not following protocol, because as is reported, she was taking her temps twice a day. She was being vigilant…so why would she break protocol when she obviously was aware of the risk and was monitoring herself?
Weather Window, October 3-10
More stunning pics from Canada….
I just can’t get over how beautiful it is there. Breathtaking.
Cowen Institute Erased Its Flawed VAM Report… But I Did Not.
The Cowen Institute at Tulane University has been promoting the New Orleans Charter Miracle since 2007. Cowen Institute has been trying since then to sell the “transformed” post-Katrina education system in New Orleans.
The results are tepid. Still, Cowen tries to sell this New Orleans. Consider this excerpt from Cowen’s history:
[Following Hurricane Katrina] the majority of schools reopened as charter schools, which are publicly-funded and operated by nonprofit organizations or universities, giving New Orleans a greater percentage of students in charter schools than any other district in the United States. Education entrepreneurs and veteran educators from around the country flocked to the city to participate in the greatest public school renaissance in the country. …
…the new model of delivering education to the city’s youth has begun to yield results. Parental involvement, teacher quality, and community engagement have all improved. Between the 2006-07 and the 2007-08 school years, student…
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Alberta Energy Regulator approves pipeline from oilsands to Edmonton
….and men’s violence against other men…
The New Jersey male rape incident. I won’t call it hazing because that diminishes what went on here.
WTH?
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