Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
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Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
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Re: Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
#2Very well thought out article, but I promise your life will improve if all you do is read the caption on the first image.
Re: Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
#3Very well thought out article, but I promise your life will improve if all you do is read the caption on the first image.
This is not a picture of a real hospital. This is a picture of Mystic Falls hospital, from the CW show “The Vampire Diaries”. If I remember correctly, the guy on the left is an evil vampire hunter (the vampires in the show are mostly heroes, except when they’re evil and trying to take over the world), and the doctor on the right is maybe a vampire? Or she might just be friends with a vampire but not realize it. Or she gets killed by a vampire. I forget and refuse to look it up. It's a really stupid show.
Re: Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
#4> the next time you have trouble booking a surgeon or even a gastroenterologist, you can remember that America’s supply of surgeons and gastroenterologists is being disproportionately used by the AARP crowd.
What a horrible sentiment.
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#5It's politically toxic to discuss but a ton of money goes to keeping people not dead (not really alive either). You could give a lot more people medicare/medicaid if we let a 90 yr old with dementia/diatebetes/etc. pass with dignity.
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#6Great, well written article, I wish your father a speedy recovery.
Anecdotally, when I was in the hospital (much more minor, at a much younger age), they kept waking me up at 3am to draw blood and clean and do god knows what, and the light outside my room was constantly on. It felt... at best annoying, at worst, downright jarring and disruptive. It certainly feels like the sleep and rest parts of recovery and care need to be revisited.
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#7> the next time you have trouble booking a surgeon or even a gastroenterologist, you can remember that America’s supply of surgeons and gastroenterologists is being disproportionately used by the AARP crowd. What a horrible sentiment.
Because of demographics this is a problem we will have to confront regardless - do you think medicare/medicaid spending will become 80% of government spending?
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#8It's politically toxic to discuss but a ton of money goes to keeping people not dead (not really alive either). You could give a lot more people medicare/medicaid if we let a 90 yr old with dementia/diatebetes/etc. pass with dignity.
I don't think its politically toxic, but rather, extremely humane that we care for our elderly. The real unfortunate part is that we, in the working class, have to make due with sharing slices of the pie so more money can go to our exploiters and owners - especially in the US, we are such a wealthy nation, and yet here we are bickering around who deserves care based on age. Sad.
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#9The hallucinations sound like a side effect from lorazepam (Ativan) -- something hospitals give almost everyone but is a hardcore drug.
Consider asking nurses to stop administering it after you do your own research.
https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-6685/ativan-oral/details#...).
Re: Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
#10It's politically toxic to discuss but a ton of money goes to keeping people not dead (not really alive either). You could give a lot more people medicare/medicaid if we let a 90 yr old with dementia/diatebetes/etc. pass with dignity.
Is it the same dilemma if we can kill one to save more?