Light Entertainment or What I say to Versed Pushers

I love this video.  It's of the "Kiss My A$$" song from Brits. Got Talent.  With a few tweaks this could be my theme song for all those drug pushers out there who can't keep their grubby mitts off of the damn Versed vial.  Kiss my a$$ baby!

Britain's Got Talent 2013 Auditions - Kelly Fox shocks and rocks! - YouTube

The Next Victim of Versed Tells His Story

Here's an e-mail I got at nomidazolam@aol.com  In this one a man details a lot of what I personally felt about being assaulted with Versed.  I'm telling you that this drug is bad, so is this guy.  Certain people (including me) change into monsters if their brain is tampered with.  Read his letter and tell me how it exactly parallels what so many of us feel after a bad Versed trip! 

warning; language

"Hi, I saw your blog about Versed. It really is terrible medicine.

 I was given it in the ER and it turned me evil with homicidal rage. I begged them not to give me the medicine and they would give it to me anyway. They had to tie me to the bed. Since I couldn't physically harm anyone, I became verbally abusive.

 I don't remember much from the experience. Just an overwhelming sense of being wronged. Like they bullied and abused me.

 The hallucinations were scary. I hope they were hallucinations. I saw a night nurse bring in a leaded briefcase with radiation warning stickers. It contained radioactive stones and he would put them by my groin. I thought the nurse was trying to give me cancer or something. I also saw him inject a syringe in his arm then into my IV.

 It seemed very real at the time. I was in fear for my life, and was looking for anything that could be used as a weapon, like a screwdriver. I would have killed that nurse, given the opportunity. I was helpless, tied up and couldn't find anything.

 I was so out of it, the nurse asked where I was, and Id say Im at the basketball game, cuz that's what was on the tv. The sitters would watch dumb tv shows like Criminal Minds that's mostly about murder and mayhem. Makes me think they caused the disturbing hallucinations and fear.

 My fears aren't unfounded. I saw a story on 60 Minutes about a nurse that was convicted of killing over 30 people. Investigators think he may killed over 100 people. The hospitals protected him. When they suspected wrong doing, they would just ask him to leave and not investigate further. They avoided knowing what happened to avoid lawsuits.

 I will die before I go back to the hospital. Fuck them!"

 

 

More From Jason About Nurses

Jason Simpson replied | Friday, July 5th | View on The Hill

"How does it feel when the surgeon yells at you to raise the bed up or down?

How does it feel to be a MALE nurse? LMAO"

 

This guy is more rude than I am.  I feel better now.

 

 "NPs suck, they dont know what they are doing and just refer everybody to a specialist who doesnt need to go to one if they actually knew what they were doing.

My doctor wanted me to see his NP that worked in his office. I quite going after 3 visits because the NP wanted me to see a specialist for every little thing because she was too stupid to know how to fix the problem herself."

And another astute observation;

"Sorry dude you're still just a male nurse. I'm sorry you are so broken up over that. You can try to hide it with a white coat or claiming that you got some fake doctorate that nobody respects that you got out of a cracker jack box, but at the end of the day you are just a male nurse. I know this bothers you but you need to get over it and DEAL WITH IT! LOL"

More;
 
"LOL I'm glad you brought up New Mexico. The idiot governor said that giving NPs independence would mean all the rural New Mexico folks would get good primary care. He was wrong!

In 1990 there were exactly 23 rural clinics in New Mexico run by MDs.

In 2012 there were 24 rural clinics, and only one of them is run by an NP.

NPs like 9-5 hours working in big cities just like doctors do. They also like working as employees, they dont like running their own business/clinic.

Thats why for every "independent" NP running a clinic, there are 10,000 who work 9-5 jobs under a doctor.

This is why NPs will never solve the primary care problem, even if they get full independence."

And more;

"Yeah your fake nurse certifications! Where did you get those, out of a cracker jack box? LOL"

There are so many more that I will have to put them in different posts as I find the time.
 
 

Yet another victim

I got this e-mail at nomidazolam@aol.com where I can be reached.  I'm printing this letter with the full permission of the author.

"I needed a hernia operation, my fourth. First one was 20 years ago, second 10 years ago, third a month prior on one side and now needed the other side done.

The three prior surgeries were done with spinal anesthesia methods and went very well, so I absolutely refused general or midazolam. As I had been sexually abused as a child and then felt abused by two male doctors, later, I was adamantly against general anesthesia or memory wiping. Also, as the first three surgeries went very well I was not about to change things.

The student CRNA kept insisting, prior to surgery, that I must have midazolam for anxiety. I said NO on three occasions and reminded her that anesthesia doctor had ordered that I only be given the spinal and no midazolam.

They administered the midazolam intravenously against my will.

I woke up in recovery and instantly felt violated. I was so upset that security escorted me from the recovery room right out of the hospital. I do not remember sleeping any of the next three nights. I was suicidal. It was Christmas and my suicidal thoughts plagued us for weeks without let-up until I checked into a psychiatric hospital for 12 days. I had never sought psychiatric care of any nature before this."

 

Does anything more need to be said? 

Here's Where Things Go Wrong

I'm duplicating some "Conditions of Admission" from an unnamed hospital.  This is the kind of stuff that patients need to be aware of because this is the start of things going wrong.

"MEDICAL TRAINING
I understand it is the policy of the hospital to allow services to be performed by competent authorized personnel who are in education, training, or teaching programs.  Authorized medical personnel do include students of health professions as well as trained medical personnel."

Pretty self explanatory, however, you need to know that even if you strike this clause, you will still be subjected to ONLY medical trainees.  You will probably not see your real doctor, who can't be bothered with the likes of you.  You will probably be surrounded by nurses, phlebotomists and assorted mid-levels who are rookies.  You will be subjected to being asked the same questions over and over and over by different interns and residents.  It's FRUSTRATING.  Why do we patients have to pay exorbitant medical costs for trainees?  Shouldn't we get a cost reduction for being used as the living cadaver?  Why CAN'T we strike this clause and have it mean something?

I also want to point out that "authorized medical personnel" doesn't mean what it you think it means.  The hospital administrators also put this clause into the "Conditions of Admission" document.

"PHYSICIANS ARE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
Many physicians and surgeons furnishing services to the patient in the hospital, including the radiologist, pathologist, anesthesiologist, emergency room physicians and the like, are independent contractors and are generally not employees or agents of the hospital.  Some of these physicians will bill separately for their services."

This means that although the hospital CLAIMS that these people are "authorized medical personnel" it doesn't mean that they are in any way subject to any scrutiny by the hospital.  They are completely autonomous and the hospital is in no way accountable to the patients for allowing substandard people to perform duties within the hospital.  (Where's the part about the crna's hmmm?)  ALL of these people will bill you independently whether you wanted them or not.  They seem to be maximizing patient exposure to multiple billing for the same patient encounter. 

Here's another one.  (Keep in mind that if you can't stop the above from happening, what's to stop the next thing from happening?)

"PHOTOGRAPHS
I agree to allow the hospital to take, reproduce and use photos, video tape, video monitoring/recording, or audio recording for the purpose of diagnosis, testing, medical evaluation, care, or treatment (including invasive procedures) patient safety or medical education, and to preserve clinical information.  I understand that this material may be treated as a part of the medical record and that the hospital's privacy policies apply to them."

How do you like them apples?  What is the hospital's privacy policy?  Practically non existent to start with, and then with all the exclusions, there really isn't one.  You know it and I know it.  You patient modesty people need to know this in particular.  Naked photos are going to be taken, used, reproduced, disseminated and serve as part of the "medical education" among other things. Even if you strike this clause, how are you to know how many people are photographing, taping, viewing you regardless of your wishes?  They certainly won't allow YOU to view these photos etc.  I DO NOT agree to this.  How do you stop them?  Are we CHARGED for this? 

I wish our elected representatives would actually look into this kind of stuff.  Why should we be terrified of getting ill or injured and being subjected to this?

I AM glad and grateful that the hospital at least put these articles in the admissions document.  I WAS allowed to strike the the "training" clause and the "photograph" clause without issue.  They apparently retained the right to reinstate them without my knowledge or consent.  So here we are.

PS  When I contacted the administration they apologized for the errors in my care.  They said that most people simply sign what's in front of them and they don't pay ANY attention to what you struck.  Even if you strike the clauses you disagree with right in front of the admissions clerk and include them in the conversation about what clauses you are striking and why.  *I* myself signed the "Consent to Treat" last time when a hospital asked me to sign a simple little admissions document.  At that time (ORIF featured in this blog) I didn't think that most of the items could possibly apply to anything that was being done to me at the time.  I was wrong.   In the future I'm asking the hospital to FLAG MY DAMN CHART!  They have it electronically on every single computer on every single floor.  There is no excuse for being unaware that the patient has declined certain unnecessary requests from the hospital.

Great Blog (sent by a friend of mine)

Here's the link;  Bioethics Discussion Blog: Patient Modesty: Volume 56  There are some interesting conversations about medical things other than patient modesty.  Little things like that pesky "informed consent" problem.  Things like hospital acquired infections, just a wide range of issues that make for good reading.  I highly encourage people to peruse it.

I Like This Guy

As I wind my way through the internet I occasionally find a kindred spirit.  Here's a guy who "likes" advanced practice nurses as much as I've grown to like them.  (not)  Here are some scathing comments from him.

Jason Simpson • 21 days ago

"Shifting to a team-based model will only increase costs.
For the same episode of care, we are now paying for a physician, an NP, a PA, a social worker, a pharmacist and a copule of other ancillary people when in the past we would have paid only an MD.
Why are we paying 5 people for the work of 1? Costs will skyrocket as everybody bills insurance for the same patient encounter."

I've said the same thing.
 
"When my son needed anesthesia for a tonsillectomy, a person pretending to be a doctor wearing a white coat walked into the room and said "hello I'm Jackie and I'll be your anesthesiologist today." (emphasis mine)

I knew she was lying because her name tag clearly read "Jackie Jones, CRNA" on it.

I called her out on her lies and said that in no way would that lying piece of trash be near my son during the surgery. The surgeon came in, I explained what the charlatan tried to do, and he promptly called the department chairman of the anesthesiology department to come down and handle the anesthesia personally.

I refuse to ever let a watered down nurse play doctor with myself or my kids." (Now where have we heard that sentiment before?  Oh yeah, here on this blog.)

Ditto.
 "My experience: MDs > PAs > NPs

NPs are lazy 9-5 employees who clock out and go home at the end of their shift. They dont contribute anything to medical research or advance the profession. Their idea of "scholarship" is to write a study about the stresses/pressures of home care givers or some other soft social research BS that provides no real value.

Like I said above, there are certainly many lousy MDs out there too, but at least I've found a good number who are smart, hard-working, and actually contribute meaningful information and research to healthcare.

NPs are grocery store clerks sent by their bosses to collect the bill.  (I love this!  Emphasis mine)

I've also had many more misdiagnoses by NPs than MDs. One NP told me that my son should take liquid albuterol instead of inhaled albuterol for his asthma! LOL I've seen a few misdiagnoses by doctors too, but the NP mistakes greatly outnumber them."

ROFL!  I just had this conversation with a nurse in regards to grocery personnel.  A psycho nurse said that we should all be bagging groceries as we are his INFERIORS.  Here Jason puts the correct spin on it.