During covid a lot of the medical staff that cared and were intelligent quit as they had to be given the shots, give toxic shots to innocent people, give kidney killing Remdesivir or other toxic drugs. Only the rotten, stupid people were left. Often they were traveling nurses.
During the Emergency both Australian and US hospitals and care homes were staffed by military after dismissing normal staff. This was a key aspect of Operation Warp Speed, also government providing indemnity for murder for hospital staff.
Edit: Happy to get you documents if you want them.
My mom received her vaccines from a national guard site in Chicago Heights, Illinois. When the shots first rolled out, it was "impossible" for the elderly to get appointments anywhere else, because the "demand" was so high.
I am always interested in every document you send.
As horrible as I am when it comes to medical stuff, you are doing such a service to people like me - I’ve known for a long time I want no part of the medical industrial complex for some time (for different reasons), but you are showing me how important it is to keep those I love out of it!
I do think there are good staff but no doubt the horrible ones have ruined the whole system
I've read all of your posts about your mom, and I think this one is the most horrifying so far. I'd say it's unbelievable, except that I've seen how the medical system works from how they treated a friend of mine in a much less serious situation. The system seems to be designed now to maximize suffering.
Yes, they are precision engineered at the top administration to keep a tight control and make the most money off of every patient while giving the least service, the least supplies, etc. We are well aware of how they overcharge, like $200.00 for a small box of kleenex, etc.
They will order something expensive that you don't need to make a profit.
I had severe hemorrhaging after giving birth to my third child requiring surgery. After surgery I was wheeled back to the maternity ward hooked up to several IV's and waiting on a blood transfusion. My husband had returned home with our two older children. I was weak and ill and tired. I couldn't get out of bed without assistance. I was also suffering from ocular migraines and while not painful they made me completely blind for periods of time. Back in the maternity ward, waiting for my blood transfusion, I needed to use the bathroom and hit the call button on my bed. The buzzer went off and I waited 10 minutes. I hit the call button again. A nurse walked in and as she walked towards me I whispered, "I need to use the bathroom". She pushed the call button on my bed to indicate a nurse had seen me and then turned around and walked out without even making eye contact with me or saying a single word. I hit the call button a third time and waited 10 minutes before I thought I would mess the bed. I pulled my IV's out so I could untangle myself from the bed/wires/machines and alarms started going off. A different nurse came into my room as I was half-way hobbled to the toilet. She proceeded to loudly chastise me about unhooking my IV's. She impatiently waited for me to use the bathroom, didn't touch me at all she watched me hobble back to bed, hooked my IV's back up, ordered me to stay in bed, and walked out.
What monsters!!! Absolutely unconscionable!! How can a human not have compassion. You had just had a baby. It’s unbelievable that such people exist. But clearly it’s not just one creep. It’s the mentality of the staff…cruel and insane. Sorry you had such horrific treatment…you deserved kid gloves. Hope everything went well with three little ones when you returned home.
*Some* nurses are GREAT. A lot don't gaf. A lot of staff on the front lines in hospitals are also CNA's (not RN's) who got their degrees online with minimal in person training.
No, Kristie - they are so sweet and caring and act amiably - but they will turn on you every tme to protect their system. Do not be fooled. These days you see LVN's, CVN's -nurse aids, PAs- physician assistants who may have no degree, and at the very top the RN - NP, RNP. You will never see any MD on most visits.
Doctors have gone extinct, they get salaries from hospitals, their boss, they do not work for you.
The only MD worth taling to at all is one who has his own private practice.
One thing I noticed being in and out of the hospital with my sister is that there are no old nurses now. They’re all 30 and under, every single one of them. Prior to about 20 years ago, older nurses ran the wards and trained the new staff coming on. Some of them ruled their hospital wings with fists of iron, but in general they were fierce patient advocates. Also with the advent of online charting and order entry systems there are no unit or ward secretaries any more. These women, bless their hearts, instilled the fear of God in new residents and taught them how “things were done” on a unit. In the early to mid aughts, something changed: hospitals which were once nonprofit became for profit and were bought out by private equity. These new owners came through and got rid of all the senior nursing staff positions, nurse educators, nurse advocates, etc. The structure and chain of command in these hospitals fundamentally changed. Also, you barely see these nurses now, for the entire shift. I’m not sure where they are or what they are doing, because they have relatively few patients compared to the past. And they know nothing! Most of them have been out of school for 2-3 years or less. It used to be that good nurses sometimes knew as much or more than the doctors and would again advocate for what their patients needed based on years of having worked in the field.
Not saying that medicine was perfect in the past —It wasn’t and there were plenty of abuses— but something has palpably changed in the last 20 years. Also, this is not a comment against youth; it’s not! However, it’s an observation that the training, mentoring, and accountability are just gone and patients are the ones who are suffering.
The other thing that has changed is bodily integrity after death. After my sister died, we explicitly told hospital staff that she was not to be an organ/tissue donor candidate in any form. The funeral home was supposed to pick her up within the next hour or so to transport her to the mortuary. The next morning I received a call from the organ donor office at the university hospital (different from one where she died) that they were ready to start tissue donation and were letting us know. I said, No under no circumstances! I called the funeral home. They had not yet received a call from the hospital to pick up her body. It took almost 24 hours and calls to the nurse house manager to finally release her as they were evaluating her for tissue and bone donation. I said, No, she’s already been through enough in life. Let her body be at peace in death. We want the integrity of her body respected. This is an evil, godless system.
Unbelievable!! Nothing is sacred. No respect or dignity given to a person, even in death. How dare they attempt to do this. The family is suffering the loss of their loved one and they take advantage. Unconscionable! Do not to trust and stay vigilant.
Yes, this is so so true. All of the nurses look like they're 30 or under. Same with MD's. Two years ago I was switching providers and specifically asked for an older male doctor. They said they had the perfect doctor for me and sent me to a physician who was 37 and dumb as a rock. Back in the mid 2000's there was a hospital coup that flushed out the senior doctors and nurses. The major hospital systems (in Charlotte it was Carolina's Medical Clinic and Presbyterian, but this happened all over the country at the same time) were bought out by different hospital systems and they strategically cut the doctor and nurse salaries by almost half. This caused a mass exodus of older MD's and RN's who wouldn't stand for the pay cut. The hospital buy outs was also around the time when they consolidated medical charts into HUGE online databases, supposedly for the convenience of the patient; if you see Dr. X first, Dr. Y can pull up the results of his exam even though they're not in the same practice! What a great system! We know now the consolidation of medical records was to short leash the MD's and take their autonomy away and give the authority to the insurance companies and hospitals administration - many of whom have NO MEDICAL TRAINING WHATSOEVER! I was working at a breast clinic at the time and watched this unfold. When the coup took place the seasoned MD's and RN's chose to start new practices or retire early. When the doctors left they would start their own practices but many times they would choose to practice outside the insurance system. Meaning every visit would be out of pocket and completely unaffordable. Look around hospitals and doctor's offices. Most MD's are under 40 and heavily indoctrinated with the pharmaceutical curriculum, they lack critical thinking skills and most are desperate to get out of triple figure student loan debt. RN's and CNA's can get their degrees online now.
Yes, exactly this! Insurance companies have made it almost impossible for good doctors to do their jobs and b/c of online medical records, it is nigh impossible to get an independent second opinion. I’ve seen this in examples after example around the country. Some of these things came into place based on requirements or changes that were made with the Affordable Care Act— it was not just about affordable healthcare.
Yes, "second opinion" is a curse word in the medical community. Working in the breast clinic we would see patients who would ask to see a different radiologist than the one who had read her films. Let's say the woman came in for the mammogram and the radiologist saw something suspicious and called her in for additional tests. If the patient wanted a different radiologist to read her films to double check or make sure additional testing was necessary we were told to tell the patient that our radiologists will not "overread" another radiologist in our practice. The patient would usually give up at this point and come in for the second, more inclusive exam, which 99% of the time turned up nothing except a $600 radiology bill. Only rarely would the patient request her films and go to a different provider for the second opinion. In general, across all medical "expertises" if you do try to get a second opinion the MD will usually default back to the first MD's response saying they won't undermine another doctor. It's a brotherhood and we are excluded.
Going back to the short leashes on the MD's... 12 years ago if I brought my 4 year old in for a well check I could easily ask her pediatrician to take a peek in my 1 yr olds ears and she would do it no questions asked. If there was an infection a script would be called in with no need for a separate billed appointment. By the time I had my 3rd and 4th child this was out the window. 5 years ago I brought my then 3 yr old in for an appointment and asked the pediatrician, whom we had known for a decade at this point, if she would look in my 1 yr old's ears because he was fussy and slightly feverish. The MD got almost wild eyed and quickly shut me down, explaining that she would be glad to look in his ears once the front desk scheduled him for a sick visit (all out of pocket for my family with high deductible insurance). She assured me she could see him right away but first the appointment needed to be on the books and properly billed to insurance. I declined and treated for ear infection symptoms at home. The doctors are literally scared of the insurance companies. If this MD had to call in a script for an ear infection to the pharmacy the insurance company was going to come back to the practice and ask where the sick visit charge was. I don't know what punishments or fines there are for calling in a script for a patient without a documented appointment but it must be tremendous for the MD to refuse to even peek in my son's ears when 10 years prior it was common practice.
Yes! This is exactly correct! ⬆⬆⬆ Edited to add: And, unless it is an office independently owned by the physician, the front and back office staff are the gatekeepers who work against the good MDs to keep them in line along with the insurance companies. Hence why many of these physicians get out of the system, establish their own office, and refuse to deal with insurance.
Yes, I worked front desk and "gatekeeper" is the correct term. The "gatekeepers" are able to punish patients by withholding their check-ins for 30-60 minutes because the "gatekeeper" was pissed off or offended by something the patient said at check-in. A patient could be sitting in the waiting room for 30 minutes before their information is entered into the system as punishment for a perceived wrong. The "gatekeepers" also tattle on doctors, RN's, and technologists to hospital admin and are given praises while the offending professional is chastised. These doctors, RN's, or technologists are then put on virtual watch lists where the hospital admin will virtually watch a MD as s/he works through the patients to make sure notes are complete, everything is billed properly, EVERY test is ordered, etc...
This is so true and has been my experience in the UK. I can recommend ukcolumn.org - one of their contributors, Debi Evans, is a retired old-school SRN and she says pretty much the same thing and that she is ashamed of what her profession has become.
Thank you, Susan, for chiming in and thank you for this link from the UK. Sometimes I doubt my memory and wonder if I'm just trying to sugar coat the past. But something has changed-- it's a whole different atmosphere. It's really shocking. And as much as I avoid the medical system for myself and my family, there are times where you have critical or emergency care needs and have to enter the system. I just read a Substack article by A Midwestern Doctor which highlights the whistleblower testimony of what one physician saw occur in his hospital during COVID. We suspected, but now we are starting to get these eye witness accounts of what was happening behind closed doors: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-price-of-truth-vs-deception-in?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fremdesivir&utm_medium=reader2
>They knew. Every single one of them was willing to be a part of the lie.
Kristi, there were up to 11,000 health care workers in New Zealand who received vaccine exemptions from the health minister and worked the entire Emergency unjabbed. They jabbed others, worked in aged care, operating theatres, everywhere. https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/secret-jab-exemptions-for-healthcare
11,000.
We did not find out about this until October 2023 well into the season of sudden deaths and turbo cancers.
They were all part of it. The Massive Lie. They knew it was dangerous and did not tell anyone.
Also, I know for a fact that nurses will turn off the buzzers of patients they 'do not want to deal with' especially if the 'family is difficult.' You rightly called them out on their lie and laziness with pushing mom's intake to night shift. They then closed ranks and then punished your mom for it. Nurses are vindictive harpies on a power trip with the ability to make vulnerable people suffer.
They are on a power trip, for sure. The hospital is a miserable place to be.
It is one gigantic death cult. People have become a part of it without understanding what was happening. Now, it is all being revealed, and they cannot comprehend what they have become.
When I learned that there was fetal tissue in the vaccine I decided not to take it. I then learned that there is fetal tissue in many medications and processed foods. We are being fed our sacrificed children. There are dark forces at play.
Some of them are caught from time to time actually whipping and beating patients when they can get away with it.
And some are caught deliberately killing patients.
Cheap thrills for them, I guess.
The medical system is rotten to their core but the ones at the top have it engineered so that those with a helpful demeanor lull you into trusting them. They use "visiting nurses" so you never see the same one twice, you can't identify them, you cannot hold the accountable.
Patients are abandoned every morning and every evening for an hour before and an hour after shift changes and are also abandoned during the lunch hour. They play tricks with their menus, so sneak in your own food. They cannot be trusted.
Hospitals are just evil. Avoid them. Home Birth! Home Death!
Do your own surgery, ordinary sewing tools will work fine.
***Get your own street drug dealer, you will be better off with them. This is important.
The medical system is evil and corrupt. Avoid them all. It's worse than we think.
I would rather turn to blood letting and leaches than turn to doctors again. The human race survived for a very long time without western medicine. We can do it again.
I would have checked her out the same way, with the Police if needed.
If they all treat the patients that way, I guess the way the cardiologist does, with Lipitor, or was it another drug, I don't remember, whoever he gets his biggest kickback from, it is all about money, and nothing else. Maybe if you had offered them money, not a 5 or 10 spot, but real money, like a roll of 100s, you might have gotten a response, might.
Once, in the pharmacy (community) in 1985, I filled a script for the only white supremacist I have ever met. How did I know he was a white supremacist, he remarked on how the community looked like little Africa. I reminded him, that was primitive thinking, we call it "Little Mogadishu." This gentlemen offered to pay me in Krugerands, I told him even one would wipe out my change in the register, and asked for anything smaller. He gave me a $100 bill, and told me to keep the change.
I wish that I would have had the presence of mind to make direct accusations, call the police and get my mom out. From inside of the fishbowl, I could not see a way out of the fishbowl.
Everyone is a gangster behind the keyboard but when one is in pain one is vulnerable. Of COURSE someone should be able to go to the hospital for help. You are helping people see there are other options by telling this story.
I thought they were cruel only during covid out of fear and ignorance, but this seems to be beyond the pale, and the norm, at least at this facility. My husband has been hospitalized three times so far this year, and our experience was so much different! We are in Southeast GA/Jacksonville FL area. I can’t believe your mom would have been treated so callously here. I am livid for you both right now!
Someone has already said that they found this daily record the most gruelling; I feel the same. I’ve not had time to analyse why that is, but it’s true. I so admire your self-control, it must have been a Herculean effort.
It probably won’t stop you from doing it but please try not to beat yourself up about leaving your mum there. At that stage in ‘the game’ there is no way you could have even imagined the extent of their cruelty, their evil. Why would you? How could you?
This is horrific. My blood is boiling just reading it. I don't swear often, but in your shoes I think I'd have been very vocal and possibly swinging my fists.
I can tell you that it is the people sitting in their shiny offices, shuffling pieces of paper and tapping calculators, that are making the decisions that result in the scenario you speak of. There simply is too much for a nurse to do on a shift. A lot of it is 'busy' work - ticking boxes and checking paperwork. Actual caring and nursing takes second place. I just came home from a shift myself, where post op patients came close together, and I was running between rooms just checking vital signs. Getting pain relief requires finding another nurse, the set of keys, checking the drug out, going to the patient together to administer it. Meanwhile, the patient's pain is increasing. I'm not saying we shouldn't be careful and check, but having more nurses so that we can take the time to actually listen and care would be bliss. That's why I became a nurse. Wards are staffed at the barest minimum ratios, and it's possible to do what's needed sometimes. But just one thing not being exactly straight-forward makes it difficult or impossible. We hold it together by working hard, acutely aware that at any moment disaster may strike, and our patients may be harmed. It's incredibly stressful most shifts.
I am sitting here in the ER advocating for a woman who fractured her ribs in a fall and I am having allllll the emotions.
During covid a lot of the medical staff that cared and were intelligent quit as they had to be given the shots, give toxic shots to innocent people, give kidney killing Remdesivir or other toxic drugs. Only the rotten, stupid people were left. Often they were traveling nurses.
Because this trip to the hospital was the week of thanksgiving, they were mostly travelling nurses. No accountability.
During the Emergency both Australian and US hospitals and care homes were staffed by military after dismissing normal staff. This was a key aspect of Operation Warp Speed, also government providing indemnity for murder for hospital staff.
Edit: Happy to get you documents if you want them.
My mom received her vaccines from a national guard site in Chicago Heights, Illinois. When the shots first rolled out, it was "impossible" for the elderly to get appointments anywhere else, because the "demand" was so high.
I am always interested in every document you send.
No accountability, but huge pay!
The doctors who stay are not anyone I would want to be around - in any situation I would leave the room. They are now rat demons.
I agree, Dee. And many who stayed were much emboldened by having gotten away with murder during COVID.
Yep, that sure does stand to reason.
As horrible as I am when it comes to medical stuff, you are doing such a service to people like me - I’ve known for a long time I want no part of the medical industrial complex for some time (for different reasons), but you are showing me how important it is to keep those I love out of it!
I do think there are good staff but no doubt the horrible ones have ruined the whole system
There are no "good" staff because they all stick together - the medical mafia.
Even the sweetest, nicest ones will sacrifice you in an instant to protect their system.
I've read all of your posts about your mom, and I think this one is the most horrifying so far. I'd say it's unbelievable, except that I've seen how the medical system works from how they treated a friend of mine in a much less serious situation. The system seems to be designed now to maximize suffering.
I find it unbelievable after living through it.
Yes, they are precision engineered at the top administration to keep a tight control and make the most money off of every patient while giving the least service, the least supplies, etc. We are well aware of how they overcharge, like $200.00 for a small box of kleenex, etc.
They will order something expensive that you don't need to make a profit.
Yes. Yes, they are
I had severe hemorrhaging after giving birth to my third child requiring surgery. After surgery I was wheeled back to the maternity ward hooked up to several IV's and waiting on a blood transfusion. My husband had returned home with our two older children. I was weak and ill and tired. I couldn't get out of bed without assistance. I was also suffering from ocular migraines and while not painful they made me completely blind for periods of time. Back in the maternity ward, waiting for my blood transfusion, I needed to use the bathroom and hit the call button on my bed. The buzzer went off and I waited 10 minutes. I hit the call button again. A nurse walked in and as she walked towards me I whispered, "I need to use the bathroom". She pushed the call button on my bed to indicate a nurse had seen me and then turned around and walked out without even making eye contact with me or saying a single word. I hit the call button a third time and waited 10 minutes before I thought I would mess the bed. I pulled my IV's out so I could untangle myself from the bed/wires/machines and alarms started going off. A different nurse came into my room as I was half-way hobbled to the toilet. She proceeded to loudly chastise me about unhooking my IV's. She impatiently waited for me to use the bathroom, didn't touch me at all she watched me hobble back to bed, hooked my IV's back up, ordered me to stay in bed, and walked out.
The hospital is an evil place.
What monsters!!! Absolutely unconscionable!! How can a human not have compassion. You had just had a baby. It’s unbelievable that such people exist. But clearly it’s not just one creep. It’s the mentality of the staff…cruel and insane. Sorry you had such horrific treatment…you deserved kid gloves. Hope everything went well with three little ones when you returned home.
She's lucky they didn't hurt her. They have secret ways to hurt you and you will never know.
it's so much worse when you've had a baby! so sorry you went through that
*Some* nurses are GREAT. A lot don't gaf. A lot of staff on the front lines in hospitals are also CNA's (not RN's) who got their degrees online with minimal in person training.
No, Kristie - they are so sweet and caring and act amiably - but they will turn on you every tme to protect their system. Do not be fooled. These days you see LVN's, CVN's -nurse aids, PAs- physician assistants who may have no degree, and at the very top the RN - NP, RNP. You will never see any MD on most visits.
Doctors have gone extinct, they get salaries from hospitals, their boss, they do not work for you.
The only MD worth taling to at all is one who has his own private practice.
One thing I noticed being in and out of the hospital with my sister is that there are no old nurses now. They’re all 30 and under, every single one of them. Prior to about 20 years ago, older nurses ran the wards and trained the new staff coming on. Some of them ruled their hospital wings with fists of iron, but in general they were fierce patient advocates. Also with the advent of online charting and order entry systems there are no unit or ward secretaries any more. These women, bless their hearts, instilled the fear of God in new residents and taught them how “things were done” on a unit. In the early to mid aughts, something changed: hospitals which were once nonprofit became for profit and were bought out by private equity. These new owners came through and got rid of all the senior nursing staff positions, nurse educators, nurse advocates, etc. The structure and chain of command in these hospitals fundamentally changed. Also, you barely see these nurses now, for the entire shift. I’m not sure where they are or what they are doing, because they have relatively few patients compared to the past. And they know nothing! Most of them have been out of school for 2-3 years or less. It used to be that good nurses sometimes knew as much or more than the doctors and would again advocate for what their patients needed based on years of having worked in the field.
Not saying that medicine was perfect in the past —It wasn’t and there were plenty of abuses— but something has palpably changed in the last 20 years. Also, this is not a comment against youth; it’s not! However, it’s an observation that the training, mentoring, and accountability are just gone and patients are the ones who are suffering.
The other thing that has changed is bodily integrity after death. After my sister died, we explicitly told hospital staff that she was not to be an organ/tissue donor candidate in any form. The funeral home was supposed to pick her up within the next hour or so to transport her to the mortuary. The next morning I received a call from the organ donor office at the university hospital (different from one where she died) that they were ready to start tissue donation and were letting us know. I said, No under no circumstances! I called the funeral home. They had not yet received a call from the hospital to pick up her body. It took almost 24 hours and calls to the nurse house manager to finally release her as they were evaluating her for tissue and bone donation. I said, No, she’s already been through enough in life. Let her body be at peace in death. We want the integrity of her body respected. This is an evil, godless system.
Unbelievable!! Nothing is sacred. No respect or dignity given to a person, even in death. How dare they attempt to do this. The family is suffering the loss of their loved one and they take advantage. Unconscionable! Do not to trust and stay vigilant.
Yes, this is so so true. All of the nurses look like they're 30 or under. Same with MD's. Two years ago I was switching providers and specifically asked for an older male doctor. They said they had the perfect doctor for me and sent me to a physician who was 37 and dumb as a rock. Back in the mid 2000's there was a hospital coup that flushed out the senior doctors and nurses. The major hospital systems (in Charlotte it was Carolina's Medical Clinic and Presbyterian, but this happened all over the country at the same time) were bought out by different hospital systems and they strategically cut the doctor and nurse salaries by almost half. This caused a mass exodus of older MD's and RN's who wouldn't stand for the pay cut. The hospital buy outs was also around the time when they consolidated medical charts into HUGE online databases, supposedly for the convenience of the patient; if you see Dr. X first, Dr. Y can pull up the results of his exam even though they're not in the same practice! What a great system! We know now the consolidation of medical records was to short leash the MD's and take their autonomy away and give the authority to the insurance companies and hospitals administration - many of whom have NO MEDICAL TRAINING WHATSOEVER! I was working at a breast clinic at the time and watched this unfold. When the coup took place the seasoned MD's and RN's chose to start new practices or retire early. When the doctors left they would start their own practices but many times they would choose to practice outside the insurance system. Meaning every visit would be out of pocket and completely unaffordable. Look around hospitals and doctor's offices. Most MD's are under 40 and heavily indoctrinated with the pharmaceutical curriculum, they lack critical thinking skills and most are desperate to get out of triple figure student loan debt. RN's and CNA's can get their degrees online now.
Yes, exactly this! Insurance companies have made it almost impossible for good doctors to do their jobs and b/c of online medical records, it is nigh impossible to get an independent second opinion. I’ve seen this in examples after example around the country. Some of these things came into place based on requirements or changes that were made with the Affordable Care Act— it was not just about affordable healthcare.
Yes, "second opinion" is a curse word in the medical community. Working in the breast clinic we would see patients who would ask to see a different radiologist than the one who had read her films. Let's say the woman came in for the mammogram and the radiologist saw something suspicious and called her in for additional tests. If the patient wanted a different radiologist to read her films to double check or make sure additional testing was necessary we were told to tell the patient that our radiologists will not "overread" another radiologist in our practice. The patient would usually give up at this point and come in for the second, more inclusive exam, which 99% of the time turned up nothing except a $600 radiology bill. Only rarely would the patient request her films and go to a different provider for the second opinion. In general, across all medical "expertises" if you do try to get a second opinion the MD will usually default back to the first MD's response saying they won't undermine another doctor. It's a brotherhood and we are excluded.
Going back to the short leashes on the MD's... 12 years ago if I brought my 4 year old in for a well check I could easily ask her pediatrician to take a peek in my 1 yr olds ears and she would do it no questions asked. If there was an infection a script would be called in with no need for a separate billed appointment. By the time I had my 3rd and 4th child this was out the window. 5 years ago I brought my then 3 yr old in for an appointment and asked the pediatrician, whom we had known for a decade at this point, if she would look in my 1 yr old's ears because he was fussy and slightly feverish. The MD got almost wild eyed and quickly shut me down, explaining that she would be glad to look in his ears once the front desk scheduled him for a sick visit (all out of pocket for my family with high deductible insurance). She assured me she could see him right away but first the appointment needed to be on the books and properly billed to insurance. I declined and treated for ear infection symptoms at home. The doctors are literally scared of the insurance companies. If this MD had to call in a script for an ear infection to the pharmacy the insurance company was going to come back to the practice and ask where the sick visit charge was. I don't know what punishments or fines there are for calling in a script for a patient without a documented appointment but it must be tremendous for the MD to refuse to even peek in my son's ears when 10 years prior it was common practice.
Yes! This is exactly correct! ⬆⬆⬆ Edited to add: And, unless it is an office independently owned by the physician, the front and back office staff are the gatekeepers who work against the good MDs to keep them in line along with the insurance companies. Hence why many of these physicians get out of the system, establish their own office, and refuse to deal with insurance.
Yes, I worked front desk and "gatekeeper" is the correct term. The "gatekeepers" are able to punish patients by withholding their check-ins for 30-60 minutes because the "gatekeeper" was pissed off or offended by something the patient said at check-in. A patient could be sitting in the waiting room for 30 minutes before their information is entered into the system as punishment for a perceived wrong. The "gatekeepers" also tattle on doctors, RN's, and technologists to hospital admin and are given praises while the offending professional is chastised. These doctors, RN's, or technologists are then put on virtual watch lists where the hospital admin will virtually watch a MD as s/he works through the patients to make sure notes are complete, everything is billed properly, EVERY test is ordered, etc...
This is so true and has been my experience in the UK. I can recommend ukcolumn.org - one of their contributors, Debi Evans, is a retired old-school SRN and she says pretty much the same thing and that she is ashamed of what her profession has become.
Thank you, Susan, for chiming in and thank you for this link from the UK. Sometimes I doubt my memory and wonder if I'm just trying to sugar coat the past. But something has changed-- it's a whole different atmosphere. It's really shocking. And as much as I avoid the medical system for myself and my family, there are times where you have critical or emergency care needs and have to enter the system. I just read a Substack article by A Midwestern Doctor which highlights the whistleblower testimony of what one physician saw occur in his hospital during COVID. We suspected, but now we are starting to get these eye witness accounts of what was happening behind closed doors: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-price-of-truth-vs-deception-in?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fremdesivir&utm_medium=reader2
>They knew. Every single one of them was willing to be a part of the lie.
Kristi, there were up to 11,000 health care workers in New Zealand who received vaccine exemptions from the health minister and worked the entire Emergency unjabbed. They jabbed others, worked in aged care, operating theatres, everywhere. https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/secret-jab-exemptions-for-healthcare
11,000.
We did not find out about this until October 2023 well into the season of sudden deaths and turbo cancers.
They were all part of it. The Massive Lie. They knew it was dangerous and did not tell anyone.
Also, I know for a fact that nurses will turn off the buzzers of patients they 'do not want to deal with' especially if the 'family is difficult.' You rightly called them out on their lie and laziness with pushing mom's intake to night shift. They then closed ranks and then punished your mom for it. Nurses are vindictive harpies on a power trip with the ability to make vulnerable people suffer.
They are on a power trip, for sure. The hospital is a miserable place to be.
It is one gigantic death cult. People have become a part of it without understanding what was happening. Now, it is all being revealed, and they cannot comprehend what they have become.
When I learned that there was fetal tissue in the vaccine I decided not to take it. I then learned that there is fetal tissue in many medications and processed foods. We are being fed our sacrificed children. There are dark forces at play.
Kristi- tragically true
Some of them are caught from time to time actually whipping and beating patients when they can get away with it.
And some are caught deliberately killing patients.
Cheap thrills for them, I guess.
The medical system is rotten to their core but the ones at the top have it engineered so that those with a helpful demeanor lull you into trusting them. They use "visiting nurses" so you never see the same one twice, you can't identify them, you cannot hold the accountable.
Patients are abandoned every morning and every evening for an hour before and an hour after shift changes and are also abandoned during the lunch hour. They play tricks with their menus, so sneak in your own food. They cannot be trusted.
Hospitals are just evil. Avoid them. Home Birth! Home Death!
Do your own surgery, ordinary sewing tools will work fine.
***Get your own street drug dealer, you will be better off with them. This is important.
The medical system is evil and corrupt. Avoid them all. It's worse than we think.
I would rather turn to blood letting and leaches than turn to doctors again. The human race survived for a very long time without western medicine. We can do it again.
I would have checked her out the same way, with the Police if needed.
If they all treat the patients that way, I guess the way the cardiologist does, with Lipitor, or was it another drug, I don't remember, whoever he gets his biggest kickback from, it is all about money, and nothing else. Maybe if you had offered them money, not a 5 or 10 spot, but real money, like a roll of 100s, you might have gotten a response, might.
Once, in the pharmacy (community) in 1985, I filled a script for the only white supremacist I have ever met. How did I know he was a white supremacist, he remarked on how the community looked like little Africa. I reminded him, that was primitive thinking, we call it "Little Mogadishu." This gentlemen offered to pay me in Krugerands, I told him even one would wipe out my change in the register, and asked for anything smaller. He gave me a $100 bill, and told me to keep the change.
I wish that I would have had the presence of mind to make direct accusations, call the police and get my mom out. From inside of the fishbowl, I could not see a way out of the fishbowl.
Never again.
Don't beat yourself up.
Everyone is a gangster behind the keyboard but when one is in pain one is vulnerable. Of COURSE someone should be able to go to the hospital for help. You are helping people see there are other options by telling this story.
Yes! Leave against medical advice. AMA. If they try to stop you, it is false arrest or false imprisonment. You have the right to get up and leave.
I thought they were cruel only during covid out of fear and ignorance, but this seems to be beyond the pale, and the norm, at least at this facility. My husband has been hospitalized three times so far this year, and our experience was so much different! We are in Southeast GA/Jacksonville FL area. I can’t believe your mom would have been treated so callously here. I am livid for you both right now!
Someone has already said that they found this daily record the most gruelling; I feel the same. I’ve not had time to analyse why that is, but it’s true. I so admire your self-control, it must have been a Herculean effort.
It probably won’t stop you from doing it but please try not to beat yourself up about leaving your mum there. At that stage in ‘the game’ there is no way you could have even imagined the extent of their cruelty, their evil. Why would you? How could you?
This is horrific. My blood is boiling just reading it. I don't swear often, but in your shoes I think I'd have been very vocal and possibly swinging my fists.
I can tell you that it is the people sitting in their shiny offices, shuffling pieces of paper and tapping calculators, that are making the decisions that result in the scenario you speak of. There simply is too much for a nurse to do on a shift. A lot of it is 'busy' work - ticking boxes and checking paperwork. Actual caring and nursing takes second place. I just came home from a shift myself, where post op patients came close together, and I was running between rooms just checking vital signs. Getting pain relief requires finding another nurse, the set of keys, checking the drug out, going to the patient together to administer it. Meanwhile, the patient's pain is increasing. I'm not saying we shouldn't be careful and check, but having more nurses so that we can take the time to actually listen and care would be bliss. That's why I became a nurse. Wards are staffed at the barest minimum ratios, and it's possible to do what's needed sometimes. But just one thing not being exactly straight-forward makes it difficult or impossible. We hold it together by working hard, acutely aware that at any moment disaster may strike, and our patients may be harmed. It's incredibly stressful most shifts.