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Leaked Letter: Unsupervised Nurses to Replace Doctors in VA Medical Facilities?
Special Operations Speaks ^ | 8/26/13 | SOS

Posted on 08/26/2013 9:22:31 AM PDT by lward99

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To: DeFault User

Yes, 2 years, then you are sent toVenezuela for oil. Don’t worry, you will still receive your $25 monthly salary and a ration of rice and beans.


21 posted on 08/26/2013 10:37:27 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: lward99

This level of borderline medical experience is common in prisons, nursing homes and other government institutes that claim medical care for people.

A nursing home in NC had it’s entire staff wearing $9.95 stethoscopes, (even the janitor)as it’s been found to have a calming effect on the patients.


22 posted on 08/26/2013 11:56:45 AM PDT by AKinAK
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I SHOWED THIS ARTICLE TO MY FRIEND WHO IS AN ARNP.
SHE HAD SOME GREAT INSIGHTS:

“Interesting article. People still don’t know what NP’s or PA’s do. 30 years since the onset of NP’s as a profession they still see us as nurses. I have often advocated for the change in the title. I think it misrepresents us as still being nurses. Nurses follow doctor’s orders. They are task oriented. Depending on their specialty they can observe, document, assess, suggest, but they cannot diagnose, prescribe, nor run a code.

The profession started as a means to do basic medical functions such as physical exams and take care of the colds and runny noses. If a condition required more complex analysis then we referred to physicians. We don’t take anything away from physicians.

The fact is that young medical students are not going into general practice, family practice, or internal medicine after medical school. There’s not enough money in it for them. The universities keep pushing up the cost of a medical school education. The school loan companies are completely unforgiving in their handling of student loans. They are loan sharks in every sense of the word and it is BIG BUSINESS. Why should you be in hock for $200,000 of premed and another $300,000 for medical school and then another unheard of amount for family practice?

Most family practice physicians stop delivering babies because the liability insurance is through the roof. You get mothers who get late or nonexistent prenatal care. They smoke. They drink. They do drugs. Then when they have complications or the baby is born with problems they blame the doctor and sue them.

It’s easy to point fingers when it comes to health care. It’s easy to create generalizations and make believe scenarios. Health care is one of the most complicated issues on the planet right now. As if we don’t have enough of them. Try reading Obama’s health care proposal for a mouth opening, dry and convoluted document. I still cannot believe he had people with actual university degrees helping him on that piece of rotten crap.

Anyone who has ever taken a medical ethics class as I have know that when it comes to health care sometimes there are no right and wrong answers. We as Americans have a lot to be thankful for. We have, for the most part, dedicated people who do go into the health professions, from doctors to medical assistants mostly because they want to help people. Some do it because it’s a good job. Try getting your health care in Calcutta as a comparison. There is none.

But we are spoiled. We want to eat as much as we want, exercise as little as we want, smoke anything we want, drive our cars to the corner store and consume, consume, consume. And we don’t want to be accountable for anything.

The television peddles a magic pill for everything from gas to erectile disorder, and we buy it all. Our health care system is up to the gills with sick people. People want to continue to smoke and eat and gain weight without any accountability, and it’s always someone else’s fault.

I am currently over-paneled by almost 200%. That means I am seeing over 100% of my patient limit. It takes 3 months to see me. If my profession was obliterated tomorrow it would take over a year for any of my patients to see the podiatrists, orthopedics, plastic surgeons, oncologists and otolaryngologist specialties.

I studied hard for my degree and I learned from some of the best doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in the industry. I cannot speak to the issue of foreign doctors, but I have worked with some quite good ones and some questionable ones. Same with the American educated.

I do not say I have any grand solutions, but I do say there are a great deal of misconceptions of what health care means today in the 21st century. And I always find it amusing to hear people say they want a “real” doctor without having the slightest idea what that is and how it applies to them personally. What I can say is that the times I have diagnosed something like an extremely rare form of dwarfism or caught a femoral aneurysm the patient and the family were very grateful. “


23 posted on 08/26/2013 12:44:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for our country...Pray for America and the brave souls who are defending us!)
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Armed Forces

Veterans Affairs workers reap bonuses despite claims backlog
Published August 26, 2013
FoxNews.com

AP

Staffers in the Department of Veterans Affairs have been reaping millions of dollars in bonuses despite a huge backlog of cases that has veterans waiting hundreds of days for compensation.

The bonuses were reported Monday by journalism project News21, whose findings were published in The Washington Post.

The report said that in 2011, more than two-thirds of claims processors received a total of $5.5 million in bonuses. That same year, the backlog of claims swelled by 155 percent.

The bonuses reportedly created a perverse system, where workers were encouraged to stick to simple cases in order to meet certain performance benchmarks — in turn ignoring claims that required additional attention.

“At the beginning of the month ... I’d try to work my really easy stuff so I could get my numbers up,” Renee Cotter, a union steward for a Reno, Nev., chapter, reportedly said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/26/veterans-affairs-workers-reap-bonuses-despite-claims-backlog/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29#ixzz2d78bqpAc


24 posted on 08/26/2013 2:48:08 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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In 2004 this was going on at the VA in Memphis. My Sister (a PhD. in nursing and oncology) and I were looking at my Father's medical record and noted he was not being treated for his diabetes and heart condition while at the VA. We brought this to the attention to the nurses at the Memphis VA and their response? Big letters on the record to not let this patients relatives see the chart.

Memphis' VA is an affirmative action facility where Veterans are sent to die.

25 posted on 08/26/2013 2:49:53 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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bump


26 posted on 08/26/2013 5:05:12 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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