Comments on: "Hospitals care about profits, nurses care about patients" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses.html#comment-84939 Anonymous Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses-care-about-patients.html#comment-84939 Those articles come in handy when the surgeons ask us to fix their pts.<br/><br/>Some we have to get ready for the OR - other we have to help recover from the experience! Those articles come in handy when the surgeons ask us to fix their pts.

Some we have to get ready for the OR – other we have to help recover from the experience!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses.html#comment-84930 Anonymous Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses-care-about-patients.html#comment-84930 Reminds me of my favorite medical aphorism:<br/>"Surgeons save lives, internists save articles." Reminds me of my favorite medical aphorism:
“Surgeons save lives, internists save articles.”

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses.html#comment-84915 Anonymous Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses-care-about-patients.html#comment-84915 I guess thats true, except for the nurses that are more concerned with their union mandated breaks, the DON's (a nurse, too) insistence on silly bureaucratic forms-filling, and not working overtime. I guess thats true, except for the nurses that are more concerned with their union mandated breaks, the DON’s (a nurse, too) insistence on silly bureaucratic forms-filling, and not working overtime.

]]> By: CThttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses.html#comment-84912 CT Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/hospitals-care-about-profits-nurses-care-about-patients.html#comment-84912 With the requisite disclaimer that most nurses are amazing and do the work of the hospital let me say that I just got done with a rotation at the VA. Let me stop laughing at that tagline before I comment more. With the requisite disclaimer that most nurses are amazing and do the work of the hospital let me say that I just got done with a rotation at the VA. Let me stop laughing at that tagline before I comment more.

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