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"Where Did You Get You're Bedside Manner?" "S&M.com?"  

Rdyguy4u 64M
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3/1/2014 9:40 am
"Where Did You Get You're Bedside Manner?" "S&M.com?"
Well, Here we are again, It's March and for most of us we find ourselves asking where winter was this year.
Now save me all the obvious comments as I do watch the news and have seen some of the unbearable weather that some of you have had to deal with, not to mention flooding, freezing temperatures, and loads of snow, which I would take any day of the week as I truly love snow!
But this is not about the weather, just an update for anyone that might care and a couple more observations about our hospital system.
I went in on Wed. and had the 32 staples removed from my stomach which I must say was not one of the most pleasant things I've ever had to endure in my lifetime, especially when a medical student is doing the pulling!
Now I was told that my doctor had two students with him the day I was there, and had the choice of whether to allow them into the room or not, but I figured, how do you learn anything unless you see it first hand as one can only learn so much from books in the medical profession.
What I didn't expect was for the doctor to start pulling out the staples only to hand the torture device he was using over to one of the students and then told her how to pull the staples like she had never done it before. So between the two of them they tag teamed the rest of the staples all the while the doctor was trying to make small talk to me and instruct them at the same time. I'm guessing the small talk was to try and defer the fact that neither of them could pull a staple without it hurting or for that matter bleeding! I am a very patient and easy going type of person except when I've reached and gone beyond my threshold of pain which happened about half way through the procedure at which time I found myself saying things like "You're fired for that staple", "After this I guess we"re moving on to stitching? Right?", "Do you have ADD?, as it seems that you didn't pay much attention to the instructions!"
Now I know that wasn't probably very nice, but after all the pain that I've been through and am currently in, one reaches a point at which you really don't give a s**t what others think! The doctor though thought it was funny as all get out as I could hear him snickering and trying to be professional at the same time.
After everything was done I happened to get a glimpse of their handiwork before they covered it up and couldn't help myself one more time by saying, " Ahhh, Hey Doc, should there be this much blood running down my stomach?" which seemed to put the students into a tizzy thinking that they had caused more harm than good, but the doctor reassured them that all was well and that I was just not being very nice and to not listen to me! He told me that we were done period and gave me instructions on final care and of course if there was any problems to get back to him. So, one down and another to go on Monday! That one is so important to me as I still have a catheter in and it's been in for almost a month and I've got to tell you this has got to be the most uncomfortable situation I've ever been in! Especially when I've had to Goggle how to take care of it as I never received any instructions on how to care for it and just recently was told about the benefits of Oral gel as places had become raw and extremely painful which now are numbed and I can handle it! (Trying not to be graphic, but I think you understand)
All in all though I am getting better, slow and steady wins the race in this case!
There was one other problem that has come up, which I'm not sure was created by or is a byproduct of being in the hospital for a length of time, but I have almost no use of my right arm for which of course I'm right handed!
I saw my regular doctor last week and brought this up to him and showed him so he wrote me a prescription or an order for me to go to the hospital and get some X-ray's taken.
Now the last time that I needed to get X-ray's from the hospital I just walked in and went to radiology and handed them my orders and got X-rayed, but since we've become a sue happy nation one can no longer do that as I found out. (Now I know what those security guards are for!)
It seems as though you are not allowed to just run around the hospital going where you need to go without first checking in at the emergency or out-patient desk, followed by an interview checking to make sure that you are you and have insurance or some way to pay for whatever you are there for, which I thought was kind of stupid as I had just got out of there less than a week ago! So, after giving a blood, urine and stool sample to prove who I was, over-exaggeration, I was given more papers and then allowed to go get my X-ray's.
Now in some macabe way I do understand this but it just goes to show you one of two things: How streamline our medical system has become, or, How really scared, insecure, over-protective, and paperwork happy to protect their own asses, our medical profession is!
It's another product of those that want something for nothing and those who can't perform their job properly.
Just my opinion!!!

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