Comments on: Frustrated at a hospital visit http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68689 Anonymous Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68689 If you don't like how you were treated or disagree with how a hospital spends its money, here's a novel concept. Go somewhere else. Its our nature to bitch and moan about everthing. If you don’t like how you were treated or disagree with how a hospital spends its money, here’s a novel concept. Go somewhere else. Its our nature to bitch and moan about everthing.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68675 Anonymous Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68675 A hospital can't pay for a lithotripsy machine when they have to put 20% of the budget into a "risk Management department". The Democrats will cause an increase in the risk management budget to 40%! A hospital can’t pay for a lithotripsy machine when they have to put 20% of the budget into a “risk Management department”. The Democrats will cause an increase in the risk management budget to 40%!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68671 Anonymous Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:07:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68671 There is an inverse correlation between convenience and cost. Learn this public. When you drain the system of money, convenience will go down. Take your pic--hospital like a day spa and 50% of your paycheck to healthcare costs, or barebones, run-ragged hospital with 17% of your paycheck to healthcare costs. It is not just like this at St. Elsewhere, but at most University Hospitals as well.<br/><br/>1. It is stent, not stint<br/><br/>2. you can't get uremia or kidney failure with unilateral disease.<br/><br/>b There is an inverse correlation between convenience and cost. Learn this public. When you drain the system of money, convenience will go down. Take your pic–hospital like a day spa and 50% of your paycheck to healthcare costs, or barebones, run-ragged hospital with 17% of your paycheck to healthcare costs. It is not just like this at St. Elsewhere, but at most University Hospitals as well.

1. It is stent, not stint

2. you can’t get uremia or kidney failure with unilateral disease.

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]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68665 Anonymous Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68665 Interesting how this "concerned citizen" managed to take a swipe at everyone except the lawyers. Hmmmm Interesting how this “concerned citizen” managed to take a swipe at everyone except the lawyers. Hmmmm

]]> By: Criminallopathhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68662 Criminallopath Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68662 What did she expect? Nobody in the healthcare system is an advocate for anybody besides themselves. The sooner that people get over this "santa claus and tooth fairy both exist" mentality that others are looking out for them or are their advocates, the sooner we can get some actual meaningful reform. What did she expect? Nobody in the healthcare system is an advocate for anybody besides themselves. The sooner that people get over this “santa claus and tooth fairy both exist” mentality that others are looking out for them or are their advocates, the sooner we can get some actual meaningful reform.

]]> By: Michael Rack, MDhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/frustrated-at-hospital-visit.html#comment-68657 Michael Rack, MD Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/frustrated-at-a-hospital-visit.html#comment-68657 If extracoporeal shock wave lithotripsy wasn't available at that hospital, wouldn't semi-urgent uteroscopic extraction (or percutaneous nephrolithotomy, depending on the stone's location)be indicated for a painful stone the size of a "boulder"? If extracoporeal shock wave lithotripsy wasn’t available at that hospital, wouldn’t semi-urgent uteroscopic extraction (or percutaneous nephrolithotomy, depending on the stone’s location)be indicated for a painful stone the size of a “boulder”?

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