1. Our patients would not have to wait 2 hrs for a 15 min appointment, with a Doctor who doesn't really care

2. There would be no such issue as a pre-exsisting problem, so insurances couldn't deny your claim

3. My dad could take the pill form of Chemo and not the IV form...

4. Private insurance wouldn't be so hard to get or be too expensive

laura59 says ...

All good changes and none of them are extreme. Doesn't make sense, does it?

I'm sorry your Dad has to take Chemo in any form.

 

Thanks Laura...me too....then off to have a bone marrow transplant.....

No one would do without. Everyone would have the medicine that they need.  evry hospital room would be a private room

Don't say bunk beds too loud; it might give someone ideas. A new hospital was built and opened last August in my little town. The one thing that was good for the pts was private rooms. At the old building, only a couple of private rooms and if admissions got high, pts were moved in their beds into and out of rooms anytime, day or night, private room or not, to accommodate the incoming pts and try to match up diagnoses. I still remember one very nice lady at 3 am telling me she had paid for a private room when I had had to go tell her she was getting a roommate. You all think I have alot to say on my posts?  This is nothing compared to those night moves. The rest of the story continues when families came to sit with their mom, dad, etc. the next morning and they weren't in the room they had left them in the night before. They expressed their displeasure, too.

The hospital I worked at in NC had all private rooms and had been that way for quite a while. There were two other hospitals I did my nursing clinicals at in NC that still had some semi-private rooms. I haven't heard that it is a law though.

I don't know about the hospital I work at now. I work in the OR and never make it out to the floors. Maybe I need to find out.

YIKES...I WENT TO CLICK THE THUMBS UP AND MY MOUSE ROLLED OVER THE THUMBS DOWN :(  HOW DO YOU FIX IT.

ANYWAY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT POST!!!!! THUMBS UP!! :)

Chiara: Kill that mouse. The chances of a good nurse to patient ratio is something to dream about. When I worked in the hospital, nurses were put on call if the census was down a little. Patients' condition/diagnosis were apparently not taken into consideration. What made the difference was BUDGET!! Nurses can't get a break and the patients pay the ultimate price.