Here's what cheezed me off today

Good Morning-friends, have been working on an issue with a member. Wanted to share with you all the note below b/c of it's importance. Hope you find it useful Sassy

(members name deleted) Glad the link helped. If you get the AARP magazine this months issue (probably dated may 2013) , there is a story about the safest hospitals and what safety procedures that are in place that cause them to be safe. The article cites that 180,000 people die a year due to medical/surgical errors AND 400,000 drug errors are made a year. The articles states that these numbers are likely higher b/c these are the ones that are reported. I agree. I know you've seen where I've said on the threads "Sorry etc for too much info, just want too make you(BCO memebers) safer". Guess I should stop apologizing for writing stuff in this regard. These numbers are higher then the last set of numbers that I had known. The problem is either getting worse OR there is better reporting. I'll go with better reporting.

It cited that one of the safety items was having an ICU Intensivist. It cited that only 35% of hospitals had Intensivist. I was dismayed at this percentage since residencies for Critical Care Medicine have been available since the 1980's. Truly thought by now that the "industry" would have been driven by demand for better care that this statistic would be 70 to 80%. ICU medicine is absolutely in need of a specially trained doc. Just as in all subspecialties of the American Medical Association(AMA), the knowledge and skills of this subspecialty are critical to survival when a patient is at this level of need.

I'm going to post this on the threads, I'll take off identifiers. My hope is those seeing this will locate a copy of the AARP article. Read it throroughly. Then question there local hospitals on each item. Based on what they elicit re:safety of each facility, they can choose the safest hospital near them for care. It can mean the difference between life and death, and or avoidable complications. Spreading the word to others regarding this may save lives.

Your description of where your friends daughter is now is typical. So, the care may have been fine or she recovered in spite of them. I'll go with the care b/c of your description of how she appears now. What was truly lacking here was the communication in lay terms to the family of was what was going on with the patient. All the lay person then can do observing is assume, as in this patients case, there appeared to be fractured care delivery and choas. What can the untrained person concluded observing this. As in all care, communication is the center of it all. Very often even the care givers question what the recovery will be. AND then the patient pulls through. Continuing with evaluating the records will lend a lot to the understanding of this event.

I guess I can post this here? I'm not just cheezed off, I'm ready to cry and throw things



Was at the dog park with Spookie, a Maltese, and Kris, a min poodle. Other dogs there, all were running around having a good time. A new couple came in with 5 dogs. Over the limit for starters. They all ran to Kris. The man comes running over waving a poop bag, which scared Kris. He did it again, and yelled at all of his mutts. I yelled at him to please stop scaring my dog! He calls ME a bitch! So I'm trying to get me and my dogs out of there, he continues to call ME obscene names. I was soooo upset I almost forgot Spookie



I've been going for about 10 years, I can't do it any more. You don't mess with somebody's kid or dog or face mama lion.



I had to tell somebody, thanks for reading!

spookie

PLEASE keep going to your dog park!  Dont let one jerk spoil it for you and your furkidz! If possible, can you report him to anyone ?

Thanks Rowan47. He is!



Purple, no body to report to, except maybe the cops if he comes back



I had to take Vicodin to knock me out for bed, I'm still upset.

Spookie, Had similar problem at a dog park. My dog was attack by another. The Vet bill totaled 260.00. Couldn't recover from county or person. Pissed. I talked with the police and the lawyer for the county. One of the recommendations was to put the dog warden in my cell phone on speed dial. Spookie if you did not yell at him or swear, what that guy did to you falls under ASSAULT, you could have him arrested. Talk to a police officer and describe scenario. Please, post back here what the police recommend to you. I'm solid on what I would do based on what I was told, but we each need to seek what we're comfortable with doing.

Unfortunately, I did yell and swear. There was a witness, and he tried to defend himself to her. I heard her say "you scared her dog""



The city won't do anything, they don't when your car gets hit from a softball from the nearby field. Still have the dent to prove it. Unless the guy had an open container or was becoming violent, the cops won't do anything either



Spookie is only 7#. Usually the smallest one there. Kris is 18#, a little better to protect himself. I so enjoy going, but I can't put them at risk from aggressive dogs, and dumb a$$ people.

Purple, HUGS you never know where a word, or a sentence may save or change a life. Rather than corny this is regrettfully to true. What's great about this being in AARP, is the membership is so vast and diverse. What was fairly hidden is now OUTED. I'm going to put this on my Pinktober revolution thread. How about tees that say" is Your Hospital  Killing People?" PO is big into tees that are very very graphic LOL. sassy

Spookie,our county has a fenced area for dogs under X#'s forget X. Maybe >20? Largest breed on that side I've seen is a Scottie. My German Wired Pointer-75#'s, gets along with all dogs. With small dogs it's SO FUNNY trying to watch her get SMALL. A friends chiuaha(sic)mix >10#, Schatzi had her head on the ground  trying to be littler. Try to get the powers to divide area, there's no excuse not too. Talk with the commissioners. sassy

Purple, HUGS you never know where a word, or a sentence may save or change a life. Rather than corny this is regrettfully to true.

Oh, I soooooo believe it is true, sas!  

Reality, so, true about cocooning and not running in to STUPIDS. Enjoy those grands, I have none yet, Wish DS would get serious about finding a life love.

Purple, what's new?

Has anyone seen Ro, she's been absent for awhile? Rocky has too?

Purple, yes, wish I could say it does get easier. But in away it does. Had 4th cancerversary this year in Jan. I know any day can bring another damn phone call. I've decided &^%^it. Really, after all this time I am starting to live in the day.

Dumb ? What date do you use for cancerversairy? Dx date? Tx end date?

Spookie, agree with Purple, what date has the most significance to you. I knew on the day of the MRI, that was Dec8th 2008, biopsy with pathology was Jan23 rd. I chose 23rd b/c path report was definitive tissue, but i could have chosen dec just as well. The point being, is it gives you a target date each year. Each target date is a date of accomplishment so to speak. Beginning and ending.

I asked the mods awhile back if they could try to get ahold of Ro. Nothing so far. Does anyone have a contact for her???????

It's been four months Rohanna since you've been around.  I'm cheezed we haven't heard from you.  I'm also cheezed by washing machine is broken, but that's another story :-)