OT:Fwd: Hospitals in 'huge crisis'

[Guest guest]

Another reason to learn all one can about alternative medicine and helping

oneself.

 

BTW, AZ is one of the states which has a very high percentage of the

population covered by HMOs and corporate medicine. Problems caused by HMOs

are surfacing first in the states with these high percentages. It's long

been known in this state that there are nursing shortages due to corporate

hospitals short-staffing and relying on temp nurses which are cheaper.

Public hospitals are forced to follow in order to stay operational. And

problems have surfaced because full-time nurses are required to work

dangerous amounts of overtime in order to take up the slack. Over-worked and

tired workers tend to make more mistakes than those who are rested and

working more reasonable hours. It's no surprise that more and more nurses

are getting out of the field and less and less people are choosing to become

nurses.

 

What this article doesn't mention is that good doctors have left this state

and gone to states where less of the population are covered by HMOs. I had

a very good doctor who got fed-up with the HMO situation in this state and

left because of it. Other good doctors also have left the state because

they're tired of HMOs dictating medical decisions based on the bottom line

instead of what's best for the patient.

 

http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/000923NOBEDS.html

 

Victoria

 

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