Comments on: EMTALA and liability http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Samson Isberghttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66184 Samson Isberg Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66184 Just thought you might want to know that I thought the Caduceus blog was great. I even linked it. Reflects my own views completely. Just thought you might want to know that I thought the Caduceus blog was great. I even linked it. Reflects my own views completely.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66104 Anonymous Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66104 Yes, a gradual extension of the notion of taking, from that of an action by the state, presumably with due process, to that of an action by private persons with the acquiescence of the state but without the same protections. Yes, a gradual extension of the notion of taking, from that of an action by the state, presumably with due process, to that of an action by private persons with the acquiescence of the state but without the same protections.

]]> By: Matthewhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66079 Matthew Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66079 This is accurate, but it's a symptom of a much larger societal problem. People have been encouraged at all levels to believe that they have "rights" to the labor of others; they have a right to control the environment of private business owners, they have a right to control hiring and firing practices, hell, there's even been talk of a right to broadband internet access in some cities. Once this floodgate was opened, and it most certainly has been, there's no reason for anyone to respect the genuine, inherent rights of others to do as they wish with their labor and property. There needs to be a total societal change in how we view and respect the lives of others. This is accurate, but it’s a symptom of a much larger societal problem. People have been encouraged at all levels to believe that they have “rights” to the labor of others; they have a right to control the environment of private business owners, they have a right to control hiring and firing practices, hell, there’s even been talk of a right to broadband internet access in some cities. Once this floodgate was opened, and it most certainly has been, there’s no reason for anyone to respect the genuine, inherent rights of others to do as they wish with their labor and property. There needs to be a total societal change in how we view and respect the lives of others.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66068 Anonymous Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66068 And you get paid well for it. If you don't like it, quit. Or quit whining. And you get paid well for it. If you don’t like it, quit. Or quit whining.

]]> By: Caduceushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66060 Caduceus Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66060 To the comment referring to me as a "poor bastard" I can honestly say that I like my job. Sometimes I even love it. However, just like your job that you like most of the time, there are moments of frustration, anger, apathy. The only difference between you and I, at your job, you probably get mad when the coffee machine is broken...at mine, I've been punched in the gut by a demented Alzheimer's patient, pissed on, shit on, hit in the eye with blood from an AIDS patient and put on prophylactic meds for it, and dealt with far too many patients who think they deserve better care than the homeless guy next to them. But, I'm sure you are none of these, right? To the comment referring to me as a “poor bastard” I can honestly say that I like my job. Sometimes I even love it. However, just like your job that you like most of the time, there are moments of frustration, anger, apathy. The only difference between you and I, at your job, you probably get mad when the coffee machine is broken…at mine, I’ve been punched in the gut by a demented Alzheimer’s patient, pissed on, shit on, hit in the eye with blood from an AIDS patient and put on prophylactic meds for it, and dealt with far too many patients who think they deserve better care than the homeless guy next to them. But, I’m sure you are none of these, right?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66048 Anonymous Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66048 -there is no billing code for manual fecal disimpaction<br/>-The HEP C patient more than likely has no insurance<br/>-The HIV patient either has medicaid or is an illegal alien<br/><br/>so yeah, it is basically volunteering. -there is no billing code for manual fecal disimpaction
-The HEP C patient more than likely has no insurance
-The HIV patient either has medicaid or is an illegal alien

so yeah, it is basically volunteering.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66043 Anonymous Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66043 And when you do those things you're just being a volunteer right? Like when you finsih with doing them for your job that you get "paid" for doing. You scut on over to the county home and hang around waiting to disimpact someone when you're not being paid just because you wanna? And when you do those things you’re just being a volunteer right? Like when you finsih with doing them for your job that you get “paid” for doing. You scut on over to the county home and hang around waiting to disimpact someone when you’re not being paid just because you wanna?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66042 Anonymous Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66042 Yet more examples as to why breeding should be a privilege and not a right. Yet more examples as to why breeding should be a privilege and not a right.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66038 Anonymous Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66038 I have yet to see a volunteer or CNA digitally disimpact 2 months worth of stool from an alzheimers patient, or take a bucket of amnitoic fluid in the face from coke high HIV patient sqeezing out number 9, or trying to find a central line on the HEP C GI bleeder that is flopping around from CPR. We have great scut workers but they don't do that. I have yet to see a volunteer or CNA digitally disimpact 2 months worth of stool from an alzheimers patient, or take a bucket of amnitoic fluid in the face from coke high HIV patient sqeezing out number 9, or trying to find a central line on the HEP C GI bleeder that is flopping around from CPR. We have great scut workers but they don’t do that.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66036 Anonymous Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/emtala-and-liability.html#comment-66036 "Funny, I never see any of these bleeding heart bloggers volunteering in the emergency room, or taking the homeless to a shelter, or wiping the vomit off a drunk, or cleaning the shit pan of a nursing home patient"<br/><br/>I never see any physicians doing any of those things either. Particularly the last two - I can't imagine a physician deigning to do what they almost certainly believe is the job of lesser mortals like CNAs. “Funny, I never see any of these bleeding heart bloggers volunteering in the emergency room, or taking the homeless to a shelter, or wiping the vomit off a drunk, or cleaning the shit pan of a nursing home patient”

I never see any physicians doing any of those things either. Particularly the last two – I can’t imagine a physician deigning to do what they almost certainly believe is the job of lesser mortals like CNAs.

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