Jonathan, What you say about the indifference of hospital personnel, during your mother's stay there, is certainly a shock, but not surprising. After all, it is the atmosphere of consumerism and profiteering that has made the medical establishment in the U.S. just what it is: highly corrupt. This is the same atmosphere that has allowed the drug companies to put a strangle hold on the FDA, the end result: the kind of criminal negligence we all see in their position on colloidal silver.
That you found one single dedicated respiratory technician, and that there are a few caring personnel in the hospital is the only saving grace, though ironically this prevents more people seeing clearly just how bad it all is. I can honestly say that unless I had megabucks I would prefer going to almost any old hospital here in Bangladesh. At least I know that the personnel have not received the kinds of training courses in 'professional distance' their U.S. counterparts have. Yes, U.S. hospital personnel have actually been trained not to care, on the basis they may become emotionally involved. Five years ago when my family lived in Kenya, my wife gave birth to our second son in the Nairobi Hospital. I have never seen in the U.S. so professional a hospital as the Nairobi, Kenya, Hospital. Not only were the African personnel their superbly trained, but they were caring and attentive to my wife's every need. Reid Harvey Jonathan B. Britten said: My mother recently had a cerbral hemmorage. My siblings and I were at the bedside around the clock for ten days. Had we not been, she would have died; the indifference and incompetence of some staff members -- and of my mother's own doctor -- were shocking to me then and now. This was in an "excellent hospital" in the D.C. area, the cost of which was a thousand dollars per day. I am still keeping a close eye on the MD involved, and will follow his doings until my dying day or his retirement. His eagerness to get my mother out of the hospital stemmed entirely from the fact that Medicaid pays less than other insurance forms; at one point he bluntly told me the cost of her care and said it was simply impossible that she stay in the hospital another day. We never left her side. She stayed another week. Had we not been there she woudl have died from choking to death on her own vomit, or continued to aspirate gastric fluids into her lungs. Her life was saved partly by a single dedicated respiratory technician, who happened to be a licsenced healing touch practioner. He was the most caring member of the entire staff. I was disgusted then and disgusted now. The American medical system is an unmitigated disgrace, and this goes for care of a person with some financial resources; God pity the poor. JBB -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
