David,
Working in the travel industry and suggesting someone use
American over United is not the same as being a doctor and placing a
sick person in a hospital you own without disclosing that. That's the
conflict of interest. People know she works for an airline and will
be suggesting they travel on that one and they are free to search for
other fares or whatever. How many times have you said to your doctor,
Can I see a list of hospitals I might be admitted to? Do you have a
financial interest in the one you are sending me to? Do you have a
financial interest in the drug you are prescribing?
I work for so called greedy Personal Injury attorneys and am
proud of it because they try and get their clients the most money
they can for their damages.
Discharging too early is the same as keeping beds full for
the wrong reasons. Both are problems. After I gave birth they wanted
me up and walking right away. That's the model program now and works
for most. I knew my body and that I would pass out if asked to walk.
They insisted and I stood up and dropped to the floor. This was not
life threatening and no big deal but in other cases it could be. I am
so sorry they did that to your wife. Miserable system we are suffering under.
All the best,
Linda
> If I
>remember correctly Linda, you, or your daughter, work in the travel
>industry. Should you be prohibited from owning shares in United
>Airlines or Hilton Hotels because of that?=20
>
>Because of the way the US healthcare (read: insurance) system is
>currently structured, doctors are often placed in the position of
>discharging patients before they feel they are ready. When my wife had
>a Baclofen pump placed a month ago, she was still vomiting as we got in
>the car to go home. Her doctor would have liked her to stay another
>day, not because it made him or the hospital more money, but because he
>knew that our trip home (a 3 hour drive) would be unpleasant at best.
>He'd been able to get our insurance to cover an additional 24 hours, but
>they weren't willing to do more time without an additional diagnosis,
>which wasn't warranted. =20
>
>Kendall=20
>
>An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
>progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>
>-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:51 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Breaking News - Heart attack victim wins $4.5 million in
>case against Vioxx-maker Merck
>
>you only have to go north of the u.s. border to know
>how good our privatised system is. it can't be better
>to have people die waiting on needed care. we can't
>afford the government running it. sorry, but, you are
>just plain wrong here just like you are with bush.
>sorry lynda. =20
>
>--- Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Yes there are trade offs for everything. I would say
> > these suits are=20
> > a major red herring reason for our rising medical
> > costs. I am against=20
> > our privatized medical system. Medicine is one
> > industry that should=20
> > NOT be run for profit in my opinion. Doctors now own
> > hospitals. Is it=20
> > right for them to have a financial incentive to keep
> > patients=20
> > hospitalized? What about investments in drug
> > companies? Any conflict=20
> > there? I mean there are so many problems with our
> > medical delivery=20
> > system, where do we begin?
> > We're something like 17th in our ratio of live
> > births per 1000. Why=20
> > so low? France is number one in medicine and we
> > should look at=20
> > modeling our system similarly.
> > You may be right and I am warped from what I've seen
> > of the bad guys=20
> > including bad docs. One doctor got a huge rep as a
> > great oncologist=20
> > for curing cancer. Well it is mighty easy to cure
> > cancer when you've=20
> > diagnosed someone who doesn't have it as having it
> > and then say=20
> > you've cured that person. First she underwent
> > chemotherapy treatments=20
> > that nearly destroyed her. Then to find out the doc
> > was lying for money.
> > Thanks to Bush we have the best weapons in the world
> > and people be=20
> > damned. Have I vented about Bush yet today? Sorry
> > Ken.
> >=20
> > At 02:01 PM 4/5/2006, you wrote:
> > >But ... but ... these sort of suits are a major
> > factor in our
> > >increasing medical bills. I think there ought to
> > be a low cap on the
> > >awards given by juries.
> > >
> > >Kat
> > >
> > >On 5 Apr 2006, at 19:59, Linda Walker wrote:
> > >
> > >I work for lawyers on these types of cases -
> > personal injury civil
> > >lawsuits. Without civil law average people would
> > have no recourse
> > >against government or business. Yes the attorneys
> > who take them get a
> > >percentage of the settlement. That percentage is
> > set by statute on a
> > >state by state basis, always to my knowledge less
> > than half. They
> > >also front all the costs, experts, research,
> > motions to dismiss,
> > >discovery, motions to compel, and expertly prevail
> > over a myriad of
> > >legal problems no one thinks about. Their payday is
> > often years away.
> > >Most people would never have the resources to do
> > this by the hour in
> > >order to protect themselves and if the attorneys
> > lose they take the
> > >financial hit. If you think it is easy to fight big
> > business when
> > >they damage people, you might want to think again.
> > Civil attorneys
> > >have always been heroes of mine, they brought us
> > equal rights, civil
> > >rights, disability law and have fought to put into
> > law just about
> > >every other progressive idea on the planet.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > It will ALL GO to the lawyers I
> > assume............
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