tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post5143685614796472448..comments2024-03-28T00:38:49.562-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Okay, For Real This TimeAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-20777893635396088802018-09-03T00:40:54.452-07:002018-09-03T00:40:54.452-07:00I do not burn bridges. I just loosen the bolts a b...I do not burn bridges. I just loosen the bolts a bit every day.Tactless Wookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04862772337726377080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38667274614792380632018-09-02T10:22:32.975-07:002018-09-02T10:22:32.975-07:00Pat H., I'm trying to think of calm hospitals ...Pat H., I'm trying to think of calm hospitals in Palo Alto :) LOL! Stanford's ER isn't calm (well not anymore), and PAMC become PAMF and they're not calm anymore either, though back in time they were PAMC and didn't have an urgent care or surgery center, just great doctors on Homer Avenue who were awesome with patients. Now it's like anywhere else - you're a number. My mother retired early because of that number thing - with eyes you NEED time with patients, and that time is now limited. Bay Area got crowded :( El Camino is in Mountain View.... they're sort of calmer. <br /><br />I'm about to put together a relocation enticement package for doctors to head up here to the Sierras - two VERY calm hospitals within 15 minutes of each other. Had to go to the ER twice in the past 6 years (once for me), both times (once a weekend night) the ER was just about empty. Most up-to-date equipment, better than Stanford's, I mean the CT was new and FAST! But lack of doctors who didn't get their degree from "Podunk School 'o Medicine and Chitlin Fryin'". Beautiful area, clean air and water, and up here you can get 10 acres with a mansion for under a million - I have no idea why any doctor or nurse would CHOOSE to stay in the Bay Area anymore. They should move up here :D Baldricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-55730017498376678562018-09-02T07:48:47.778-07:002018-09-02T07:48:47.778-07:00I hear you on the EMR. In the last 20 years, I hav...I hear you on the EMR. In the last 20 years, I have only worked with 2 that I liked, one I wrote myself, and one the agency involved sent one of their supervisor types back to college to get another Master's in computer tech so she could talk with the software company to be able to get the program to do what we front line nurses needed it to do when we are in the home. That EMR was awesome!!<br />I would go back, but it would entail moving back to NY...so, no, putting up with a lousy EMR here in MI.<br /><br />And yes, medicine is a very small world indeed...have worked for a couple of folks a couple of different times. Never, ever burn bridges is truly a pearl of wisdom!Suzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117433684554337583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-84430336240395647962018-09-02T07:06:21.199-07:002018-09-02T07:06:21.199-07:00I understand. Much like you, been there, done that...I understand. Much like you, been there, done that for the last 15 years. Tired of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-82237162396401056212018-09-02T06:43:29.166-07:002018-09-02T06:43:29.166-07:00Started in '96, nights at the community hospit...Started in '96, nights at the community hospital, working charge on a rehab unit.<br /><br />From there, 7 years of nights..ICU, ER, locked Psych...<br /><br />Loved the simplicity. No managers, no white coats, no idiotic CNOs.<br /><br />Just the trauma, drama, and crazy mommas...<br /><br />And yes. Very small pool.<br /><br />I always tell the orientees- "you LIVE and DIE on your professional reputation."<br /><br />Some get the message. Some don't. Odysseusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-47998535965073259612018-09-01T17:45:36.117-07:002018-09-01T17:45:36.117-07:00OH MY GAWD!!!
How in hell did they slide THAT thr...OH MY GAWD!!!<br /><br />How in hell did they slide THAT through EMTALA/COBRA??!!??<br /><br />My most recent clinical experience was riding the phone for our tertiary teaching Hospital (OK Cleveland has several of these, this is the one with the College/University in their name, not the city or county) and my job was, yep, answer the damn phone. could be a squad SERIOUSLY needing Med Control (grabbed a passing doc or paged one and they handled that shit), or a smaller near or DISTANT quasi suburban hospital with a patient that DESPERATELY needed to come down to the Mother Ship and die on OUR M&M report, or a doc's office who wanted their patient to get his/her/ze's ass into an institution of higher healing RFN!!!!<br /><br />I also dispatched a couple birds and the Green Machine for the neonate shop we had. (Neonate shop typical national rating=1, 2, or 3) When I went back to work there 20 friggin years later, after my Medic precepting, there were 3 nurses who I was VERY HAPPY to be working with since they had been my Medic Preceptors 20+ years before. So yeah, DO NOT treat folks poorly. It's a DAMN small pool. the Bride did HER Medic clinicals at the CLE Knife and Gun Club (St V's) and THEY enjoyed running the nurses from the major Level I shop thru there just to teach them how to handle penetrating trauma...Metro is and was SPECIAL for multi-system trauma. On Adults.<br />WE did kids.<br />Night DriverNight driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14034183882627686763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-6735934239289543412018-09-01T17:08:23.713-07:002018-09-01T17:08:23.713-07:00I worked ER night registration at a rural Level II...I worked ER night registration at a rural Level III Trauma for a few years after my Army-ankle let go and I couldn't run in the bush painting trees anymore, or much of anything useful until it got stronger.<br /><br />The final straw, after the non-profit was bought out by a big regional, to saying "F#@K THIS!" was when I was told we were going to start running credit checks on patients.<br /><br />Didn't burn that bridge so much as reverted to my 12B past, and rigged it with C4...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-37511375931551473692018-09-01T14:18:57.787-07:002018-09-01T14:18:57.787-07:00Aesop, I don't know which medical profession y...Aesop, I don't know which medical profession you're in, and no, I don't need to know. My wife was OR trauma coordinator at San Jose Medical Center for many years. During her tenure, the Vietnamese gangs were at their height of operation, so she was busy to say the least. That's was 1980s and 90s. Those people literally died out, prisoned out, or decided to seek legal professions.<br /><br />While she was at that task, I was in a rather calm hospital, located in Palo Alto, right across the highway from Xerox PARC. I liked my environment and colleagues quite a bit. In the two months before I started, I worked as a Scrub Tech (though I had an RN license) at about six different hospitals, including Alameda County, the ER for Oakland, CA. Lot's of Gun and Knife Club players there.<br /><br />I found that each hospital has its own "personality", either you fit in, or move on. I never did "traveling" nurse stuff, I could see that it would not suit my personality.Pat H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18297461069687246149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-45089695123102238722018-09-01T13:55:45.592-07:002018-09-01T13:55:45.592-07:00I liked the night shift for those very reasons... ...I liked the night shift for those very reasons... I hated the idea people. They were like those little minions that got their way and lab coats, what can I say, most good nurses refused to be seen in them, only the dweebs and gammas wore them and most doctors that were nincompoops anyway. Most everybody used a clip board so it wasn't a commando thing.Cederqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05603951063463035196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-89249620219486113452018-09-01T10:58:12.302-07:002018-09-01T10:58:12.302-07:00"...Sketchy Ghetto General Hospital, I'm ..."...Sketchy Ghetto General Hospital, I'm at the sister hospital, Barrio Knife & Gun Club."<br /><br />Nothing more need be said, and thanks for the (not derisive) laugh.<br />Be well & cha-CHING!<br />:)Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728311767575235395noreply@blogger.com