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In reply to the discussion: I took a friend to the emergency room at 3am Saturday morning. [View all]Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)83. As I said on the linked thread, a bonus-mad upper level admin destroyed....
(no other word suffices) one of the finest transplant programs in the country (if not the world).
Result: He got an $800,000 bonus.
Actual sequence of events:
1.) Shit for brains cuts staff and removes world's finest transplant surgeon from leadership.
2.) Profits temporarily soars due to labor savings
3.) Shit for brains gets $800,000 bonus
4.) Effects of staff cuts come home to roost
5.) Mass exodus of all the best people
6.) I see writing on wall and leave too
7.) Survivability drops to 50%
8.) Patients flee
9.) Program now in deep trouble with regulatory agencies
Ain't short term thinking grand?
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I took a friend to the emergency room at 3am Saturday morning. [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Feb 2013
OP
Give yourself a couple of pats on the shoulder, and I'm wishing some luck over to your friend..(NT)
FleetwoodMac
Feb 2013
#3
Absolutely. In case of any further emergencies, it might be worth traveling further to another
Squinch
Feb 2013
#31
They got some of that from Freud. Any pain a woman has is Hysteria. Women are just nuts, see?
freshwest
Feb 2013
#80
Sad that we're the richest nation in the world with medical infrastructure this badly run. nt
Selatius
Feb 2013
#6
Personally, I think the ACA merely forestalled the collapse of the health care system.
Selatius
Feb 2013
#10
Sounds like Jameson hospital in New Castle. I'll keep your friend in my thoughts.
diabeticman
Feb 2013
#22
Wishingthe best. Lucky there was an emergency room there at all, too bad for
geckosfeet
Feb 2013
#25
Usually bodily emissions gets them to take someone out of the waiting area pretty quickly
undeterred
Feb 2013
#35
You should not have to put up with that kind of treatment. You can call the
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#59