Health

Aries & OOmis, – I don’t know what the “conventional” wisdom is but I do know how to practice medicine. Antibiotics are reserved for bacterial infections. Most cases of Acute Bronchitis are due to viral infections. This is why I preempted my comments with -“I don’t like commenting on medical issues without seeing them,”.

I don’t want to second guess your PCP -maybe you were from the rare cases of bacterial infectious causes, so he/she gave you antibiotics. A practioner has to feel your illness is caused by bacteria before they give antibiotics -this can be done clinically or by testing.

Aries – “However, if you are starting over with an adult forty years and over, someone who was married before, they should have learned the basics”

I don’t know about the men in your life, but I learnt basic hygiene when I was growing up.

eclipse – “Health,I respectfully disagree with you strongly!

Bedside manners is HOW YOU TALK TO YOUR PATIENTS.

Being abused by the system as you describe cannot affect the way you treat VULNERABLE PATIENTS IN PAIN AND DISCOMFORT.

If that’s what it does to a person,said person needs to switch jobs.

No one needs a doctor that makes them feel worse.”

I wasn’t condoning their behavior, just explaining it.

Like I compared it to abuse, noone thinks the abused child now has a right to abuse his/her own kids!

I also don’t agree with- “If that’s what it does to a person,said person needs to switch jobs.”

In the perfect world, I would agree with you. But there aren’t enough doctors as it is. There are so few doctors that have good bedside manners and are competent. I found a lot of doctors that have a good bedside manner, but just they are soooo incompetent!

Me personally, if I’m the patient, I’d rather a competent physician, who yells, than the sweetist, nicest guy who hasn’t the foggiest what to do! Which one would you prefer?

eclipse – “On a more serious note,RIGHT NOW MY CHILDREN NEED ME.”

I think all chidren also need a father figure. Did I perhaps mention this before?

eclipse – “Wow,probation!So howcome soooo many docs still have horrible bedside manners?”

They have bad manners because they have been abused and are burnt out. Ya’know it’s like the guy/gal who was abused as a child and then they repeat the same thing to their children. Even though I’ve been abused, I try to make it a point not to abuse others.

The buck stops here!

eclipse – “But the only way to be safe from future abuse is TO BE FULLY ACCEPTING OF ONESELF,FLAWS AND ALL.”

I hate to be sounding like a therapist but you have self-esteem. You show it to yourself dealing with bloggers, phone conversations. You only have to transition this when it’s the whole person live, not just their voice. People like me, who have been criticized their whole life have difficulty dealing with criticism. What I do now, if it’s someone I don’t want to open my mouth to, I mull it over. If I feel it’s an incorrect criticism, I’ll just ignore it. If the person is correct, I’ll say to myself, Ok another thing to work on. In order not to let this damage my self-esteem, I’ll also say to Myself -Yea, but look who’s talking, you have xyz wrong with you. Noone is perfect in this world and this fact should not make you feel any less than anyone else!

When one parent isn’t a good role model, esp. in the case where the parents are divorced, the other parent should seek someone else to fill that void. It is necessary for kids to have two good role models, one a male and the other a female. This doesn’t always have to be the kid’s parents.

Charlie -I also envisioned you as clean-shaved. Now I envision you with a mid-length white beard squared.

Chapstix & Blistex are top two brands.

Ah! Abuse. Part and parcel of the world we live in. Try being a student in a medical center. You get abused from both sides. Sometime you get abused from the people on top of you and sometimes from the patients. Did I tell everyone yet that your local hospital isn’t your 5 star hotel? Phone and TV service are extra.

Aries – Thanks, but you should have put eclipse in the space where you put Health. I thought it was quite obvious I was asking about her. She got that right away and tried to answer herself. My makeup is -I never give up and you know what -I don’t know why.

I’ve lost a kid. My wife went OTD and she is trying to bring 4 of my kids the same way, but I still haven’t given up on life. I sometimes feel like nothing will ever go right, but I still haven’t given up. I guess being born so stubborn has it’s Maalos!

Of course you can aspirate anything, but being you aren’t elderly, your gag reflex probably wouldn’t let you.

support- “No the ER dr agreed it was an emergency but he said the neurology department doesn’t respond unless it is a stroke patient. he paged them for three patients including me numerous times and they never responded.”

What does it mean they “never responded”, they didn’t answer their page or they discussed it with the ER doc and decided it wasn’t a neuro emergency?

“So he wasn’t being manipulative he just didn’t like that I wasn’t given proper care.”

So far you haven’t proven to anyone you haven’t gotten proper care, except about the spinal tap, which could have happenned anywhere. You haven’t even told us what kind of surgery you had.

Maybe you told the doc from the other hospitals’ a lot more than you are posting here.

“I think we should just agree to disagree on the level of care patients recieve at Maimonodies and other hospitals. We obviously aren’t going to change each others opinions.”

There are definitely differences amongst hospitals in medical care. As a matter of fact, the US News & World Report doesn’t just differentiate between hospitals, it separates everything by speciality. So you could have hospital “A” is better than hospital “B” in cardiology and worse than hospital “B” in pulmonology. My “beef” is you kept saying Maimo is a bad hospital with lousy medical care. You have never proved your point!

RB -Keep changing the scenario for your benefit. No Yid goes to respond to an ad looking for a part time job only for Sat. They apply for regular part time or full time jobs. Some of these jobs include Sat. The employer by law can’t say I’m not going to hire you because you won’t work on Sat. which is one of the days included, unless they have an “undue hardship” which would prevent them from accommodating you!

Aries – If a person feels they were abused during their marriage and subsequently divorced, do you think that person should give up on marriage altogether?

yitayningwut -It’s funny that you think yidden have nothing better to do than to cry wolf about employment discrimination. The tzoros I was put through to even make a claim that the gov. would even notice it to do an investigation was definitely not worth it for any yid. But I definitely saw different groups, non-yidden, screaming discrimination. From discussing it with them, most of their stories sounded like they were crying wolf. But after I researched a lot of court cases about discrimination, I found many of these non-yidden discrimination cases that actually won. Some of these court cases were so farfetched it seemed a bias from the court or jury on the plaintiff’s side. On the other hand, I found so few Shabbos accommodation cases that actually won. You’re right it can’t be discrimination due to antisemitism, I must be paranoid! I did admit though, that it doesn’t start out that way, but once you ask to be given off for religious purposes, that’s when the “Sinah” kicks in!

All Americans want democracy. But I proved in my previous post that the radical muslims aren’t capable of that. Iran, Syria, Lebanon. And now people are saying when the US leaves Iraq, they are going to abandon us and hitch up with Iran. Even well meaning Republicans like the second Bush, not the first, get caught up with this fallacy. People whose beliefs are still anchored in the 9th century, like radical muslims, can’t even begin to understand what democracy is. We have just wasted the last umpteen years trying to bring it to that region. If we wanted to fix up the region, we should have done it like we fixed up Japan. The Japanese were going to fight us until they had noone left to fight. It literally was a fight to the finish. The great American leaders at that time realized this and dropped the “A” bomb. The american leaders in our generation are living in some sort of dream world -that’s why I called them all “libs”. Don’t think for a moment that our leaders in WW2 didn’t care about the civilian loss of life that they knew would occur. But their decision was based on which way would end up with less loss of life. Dropping the “A” bomb, not only saved American lives, but it saved Japanese lives too, because every Japanese male (or almost every) wasn’t going to be taken alive. They were courageous leaders (American gov.). The Japanese learned real quick how to be democratic and abandoned their philosophies. If you want to bring new philosophies into the barbaric world of radical muslims, you first must totally destroy them and then you can plant democracy.

This monologue isn’t based on baseless hatred and racism, but on learning from history. Like everyone says -those who don’t learn from history are condemmed to repeat it. I hope some real courageous leader stands up in the West and does what has to be done, before we have to repeat History!

Y.W. Editor- What he said, adds one more piece to the puzzle that I posted. If what he said about that Egyptian Nobel “Peace” prize guy is true, then almost for sure if they overthrow Mubarack, which now we have all the libs saying this- including the Republican lib Mccain should be done, we will have another Iran. Thank you liberal American politicians, Hashem will now for sure have to bring Moshiach to get us out of the mess you created trying to make a “democratic” Middle East! The only way the US should have mixed into the Middle East in 1990 was with Intercontinetal Ballistic Missiles with nuke warheads on top. The US liberal gov. couldn’t do that because it’s not Politically Correct to nuke “innocent” radical muslims; so now we will have only radical muslim regimes in the whole Middle East!

SC – “She would always go around with a conscience of “who knows my secret?” The answer to this question I posted -“I doubt it. She might just think the neighbor got it by mistake.”

Take out the last line. It’s obviously not applicable -I didn’t know exactly what the card said. I still think my approach is the middle ground.

I doubt it. She might just think the neighbor got it by mistake.

The reason I posted, not like the others to dump it, is because you said that the store owner is frum. Perhaps his letters and calls aren’t being ignored on purpose. So by you putting it the mail box or under the door, you might just help him get his money, if your neighbor isn’t aware of the situation. If your neighbor is ignoring the store on purpose -they will ignore this card also. But by you leaving it, it will almost for sure advise them of the situation, if they really want to correct it, but are not informed.

support- Again, it probably was a resident doing it for the first time. I got news for you, you probably didn’t even need one. But this occurs in every teaching hospital. In order for students to become professionals, they have to learn on somebody. The only choice is not going to a teaching hospital, but the problem with this is all the top hospitals in this country are teaching hospitals. But if you could blame Maimonides, why not?

BTW, I’m not pro them or against them for any reason. I have no affiliation to them, nor does any of my family members. I’m just here to set the record straight on levels of care. MMC and Coney Island are about avg. I heard that the two other hospitals in Flatbush, each near each other are below avg.

HadaLXTP- How do you know his infection was caused by negligence? Did you see them not using sterile technique placing it? Nosocomial infections aren’t just caused by negligence! All hospitals have nosocomial infections.

Also, why would you go to the hospital to have your cast removed and not the orthopedist? The guy removing it probably never used one of those saws before. They don’t cut like a regular saw back and forth, only oscillate. They can’t cut you, but they can get very hot. If you don’t know how to use it, this heat will penetrate or burn the skin. Unluckly you, it was his first time.

commonsense – I never heard of this unit and I live here. Please elaborate. Also, I thought Dr. L was affilated with CSH of Toms River -this has changed?

Drink tea. Take chicken soup. Take zinc -Zicam works. Go for a throat culture. If the fever and chills came first, could be the flu. The flu can be diagnosed by a test in your doctor’s office. You can get medicine to treat the flu.

There are certain groups of people in every society, who don’t like their social status. This was the basis of socialism and communism. Here in America we have such groups also whom believe they should get something for nothing. They don’t revolt like they did in the sixties because they are fed welfare and other many social services. This uprising can have one of three possible outcomes either Egypt becomes more democratic, which is the least likely scenario. The other two are about equal -either Mubarak remains in power or they become another Iran. As much as I am against violence against protesters, it seems if they don’t use force right now, they will sink into another Iran. American leaders have no concept of the mentality of the people that live over there. They think they all can be a great democratic country, like us. My proof is look at history, the Shah of Iran was hated by the people. When the Students revolted, the US pressured the Shah to leave. He did and not only did democracy not take over, but it remains the center of radical muslims today. Iran is about to threaten world peace with their development of nukes. If Egypt falls because of these demonstrations, the students aren’t taking over the gov.; it will be the Muslim Brotherhood and the radicals. How do I know? Maybe muslim radicals are capable of sitting in a democratic gov.? Well here is another example -Lebanon. Hizbollah has been sitting in the Lebanese gov. democratically for years. But now they wanted to bring some terrorists to justice for murder of the former Prime Minister. What happenned -Hizbollah broke the gov. This is their version of democracy -you do any violence against us -this is a crime, but we can do anything against you and we are freedom fighters. This new power will threaten world peace immediately, it’s not going to take them 30 years like Iran. It won’t just threaten Israel, but the whole West! Now you know why we need conservatives to lead our country, not liberals like we have- calling for mercy on the students. Isolationism never worked and this was the reason we almost lost both World Wars. We need real leadership in the White House right now, not people who are falling over backwards to be PC. We need to tell Mubarack that in no certain terms anarchy can’t be permitted. They must stop it, even if innocents unfortunately become victims and then they can talk reforms. But what do you hear from the libs in power? “Egypt- we kept warning you over the last 30 years and now it’s too late!” Thank you libs, but I for one don’t want another Iran no matter what!