Did you ever think back about the way things once were, and wonder why it was ever that way? How did people exist without computers, for example? Whenever the computers go down at work, the nurses have to chart medications – on PAPER – and they act like it is prehistory.
Doctors have admitting rights to only some hospitals and not others. Why? I intend to find out. They have to maintain a license in the state, so what is the difficulty? I believe this one limitation of the medical system causes more errors and harm than many other issues combined.
My father has spent the last 2 weeks having a stroke, being worked up for it and in the process has been in 5 medical facilities. I will have been a registered nurse for 10 years in August, and as far as we’ve come in medicine, I believe we have a lot further to go.
I intend to write about some of the problems I see with the medical system here, and to discuss why they are problems, and what might be done about them. I hope to affect some rational change in the beaurocracy of medical care by discussion of how the institution of medical care veers from its mission.
