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movonne

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17. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing...I like not
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 06:11 PM
Apr 2012

having people who smoke around me (and I am a reformed smoker) but then again it is just another freedom taken away and that is scary..

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First they came for the smokers..... Lionessa Apr 2012 #1
perhaps ironically, i'd bet that smoking is not a disqualifier from working at that hospital. unblock Apr 2012 #4
Whole cities and counties gov'ts, and hospitals, and USSC says it's Lionessa Apr 2012 #5
At my last job some workers got snagged XanaDUer Apr 2012 #11
One hospital went from hiring them to not XanaDUer Apr 2012 #9
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing...I like not movonne Apr 2012 #17
This is getting to be SOP XanaDUer Apr 2012 #2
And they wonder why no one Ilsa Apr 2012 #3
I got over my assumption that hospitals XanaDUer Apr 2012 #7
My health insurance co sent out a Ilsa Apr 2012 #19
Quite a few hospital employees had to quit XanaDUer Apr 2012 #20
That's what I remember Ilsa Apr 2012 #23
Before long the only people who will be qualified are whites who are fit between the ages of southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #6
I did a google image search for 5' 10" 250 lbs snooper2 Apr 2012 #8
What a fattie. slampoet Apr 2012 #21
Oh and they Outsource this body-fluid info XanaDUer Apr 2012 #10
I find it telling that this is only for "administrative" positions Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #12
From the nurses I've met, floor nurses, it's because Lionessa Apr 2012 #13
Wait...they're doing this because the majority of their patients are over 65? Iris Apr 2012 #14
In the article I read (not this one) the hospital admitted BlueIris Apr 2012 #15
Weird XanaDUer Apr 2012 #16
In other words we are feeding the paranoid prejudices that are part of the aging process.... slampoet Apr 2012 #22
Interesting info Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #18
This is the logical end result of seeing obesity as a moral fault rather than a medical problem. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #24
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