Posted on 04/29/2020 9:03:27 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Years ago,while working in a big city ER,we got a memo from the legal department stating that in the future all patients who were transported from our unit to “Ward X” (the morgue) had to be accompanied by at least one female.The word I heard (unofficially) was that there was some article in some periodical targeted at hospital administrators,or lawyers, stating that there had been one,or more,reports of patients being “violated” by hospital personnel after death.
Yup,been there...done that.Sounds like you speak from experience.
One of my many memories of my time in a big city ER was when I was called upon to count just over $9,000 (in small bills) that a patient had on him.Typically I’d do that kind of thing alone (it was part of my job in my early days there) but I had the good sense to ask the charge nurse to help me...so that no accusations could be make against me.
I remember working a wreck with stripper that was so drunk she couldn’t hardly crawl after she played Dukes of Hazzard in her Jeep. There were undies and dollar bills blowing around like leaves.
I worked with a young woman who was present when her grandmother had a fatal heart attack at home. They were waiting for the ambulance, and during that wait she decided to remove all of the rings her grandmother was wearing. It was a smart move. My grandmother had a massive heart attack while she was out with my late brother and his wife. When the family came to view the casket, she was wearing a plain gold band instead of the diamond engagement/wedding rings that she normally wore.
I can’t tell you how many times I verbally lashed staff at my Gran’s nursing home until management started firing and hiring better staff; it greatly improved after a Christian organization took over almost overnight because they cleaned house. (Now it’s Bridgeway Christian Village.)
I was there at minimum once a week (I was on dialysis at the time, at 21), but usually two to three times. There was generally a family member there once almost every day, but she needed PT and care that we couldn’t provide at home or afford otherwise, plus a wheelchair can’t move easily in our house; it was built in the ‘40’s and is very narrow, whereas Gran was not.
Staff learned not to fvck with my Gran, because I didn’t tolerate anything, and neither did my mom, who was a service coordinator at that facility previously. I was about as imposing as a 5’2” woman can be without cussing or threats.
There are crappy nurses and PCTs everywhere, and it’s hard to avoid them. The best you can do in a hospital is ask for someone else, but when you aren’t lucid and have no family, that’s a GD nightmare. People who do this kind of thing to the vulnerable need severe punishments.
My Dad and his sister and brother found out about this after he had died. When they got the insurance money that my grandfather had left to them, they split it between themselves and she was left out. When she complained, they explained to her that she had already taken her portion.
I was shocked to learn what she had done when my Dad told me the details. She didn't ever seem like the type of person who would do such a thing; but, she did.
I thought this was going to be about a PBS Frontline employee. Would have been a better story.
Happens all the time.
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