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Memoirs of a CouchSurfer {Shelterpop}
Jun 2nd 2010 12:13AM They would have to have multiple positive things said about them by previous hosts and a photo ID on line, for me to do this.
I have, however, awakened in the past to find a young friend of my son's spending the night unbeknownst to me, in his underwear, peeing into my linen closet, thinking it was the commode.
Protein Drink Dangers: Study Finds Toxins in Liquids, Powders {AOL Health}
Jun 2nd 2010 12:03AM Most of these protein drinks get their raw ingredients from China. No additive or vitamin supplement which comes from China is safe.
Waking During Surgery Like 'Being Entombed in a Corpse,' Woman Says {AOL Health}
May 18th 2010 3:58PM I was a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist for almost 25 years. During that time, I had one patient who had recall. It was on a C-section, who weighed 375 pounds and had the slowest obstetrician on our staff. There were known dosages which could be used on anesthesia on a general anesthetic for C-section before the fetus could be adversely effected to the point of needing to be resuscitated after delivery, and this was explained to the patient. I told her explicitly that I could almost guarantee that she may have recall, meaning that she would be able to hear things in the operating room. In most instances, the patient doesn't have pain, but remembers having the breathing tube, being unable to speak or move, and it can be quite unpleasant. Her weight almost assured that she would suffer from it because of things in the literature, and I had to be tactful, but she had this surgeon who was just plain slow, too slow, in fact, in getting the fetus out after the anesthetic commenced.
I suggested, and highly, a spinal or an epidural for her C-section. She refused. I wrote out a whole page permit explaining that I had explained recall and the fact that I thought it was likely in her case, unless she wanted me to use UNSAFE levels of anesthesia for the fetus, in order for her to be completely asleep, but she REFUSED the higher levels. Then, she had recall and one of the assistants said something unpleasant about her size and she was furious afterwards.
I understood her anger, but she had been told THREE TIMES clearly that she was undoubtedly going to have recall, and had refused added anesthesia to prevent in because the fetus could be imperiled and had refused to have a spinal or epidural, which would have been much better for she and the fetus.
A House Made From... Plastic Bottles? {Shelterpop}
Apr 3rd 2010 1:09PM I have been studying the method for building a small home near our parents. It is labor intensive but the cost and the environmental things are superb.
A House Made From... Plastic Bottles? {Shelterpop}
Apr 3rd 2010 1:07PM Were they to fill the bottles with sand or with recycles peanuts for packaging, then the insulation problems might be solved. Use a combination of sand and a minimum of concrete to fill in between and it would be airtight and would keep in heat in the winter, and keep it out in the summer.
Health Care and Cancer: Reforming the Odds in a Costly System {Politics Daily}
Dec 7th 2009 4:20PM The problem with Thalidomide costing that much, when it is a very old drug and generic, is that the pharmaceutical industry and the company use claims of possible lawsuits were a pregnant woman somehow to access it and have an infant which is disabled as an EXCUSE. They can put proper and necessary warnings on the drug, and hae the pharmacist issue the drugs, and then give immunity to the manufacturer if these actions take place to prevent accompanying lawsuits, AND THEN SALE THE DRUG FOR $50 a month instead of $11,000.
My guess is that you and your wife could access Thalidomide in other countries for the generic price, but the pharmaceutical company is SOAKING AMERICAN CONSUMERS BECAUSE THEY CAN. The government should step in, accept the responsibility for the drug, and then issue it at slightly over cost to be used for multiple myeloma. Save the $11,000 per year.
Health Care and Cancer: Reforming the Odds in a Costly System {Politics Daily}
Dec 7th 2009 4:12PM I am an Advanced Nurse Practitoner, or was before becoming seriously ill, so I have experience from both sides of the issue.
We do spend far too much on care and things which are not really effective. Medically based care should be instituted on a good many of those issues. We have surgeons who continue to perform surgeries with an approach which is outmoded, not as effective and far more painful because they have done it that way for twenty years and will not change.
We also have physicians who will ignore rational, well-conducted studies which often can point to more effective and even cheaper treatment with the same or better results.
I have seen cancer patients and their families, as well as individuals with other conditions who insist on treatment and surgery which has little or no chance of effective relief or longer life, and in man cases it can shorten life or make the end of life a living hell. A lot of the time it is because the patient or family is in denial, and in some cases, the treatment may be misrepresented to them because THE DOCTORS will get paid for that treatment.
We also spend money on things which are not health related. I'm sorry, but if insurance and government will not pay for birth control measures, why should they pay for expensive erectile dysfunction medications? The answer for me is they shouldn't, or their compensation should be limited. Why should they pay for penile implants when usually the need for a penile implant can be due to the fact that the individual's vascular system is so impaired that they should't be having sex anyway.
I have seen unscrupulous physicians and surgeons litterally operate patients to death. The patient will have what is a normal part of the progression of their disease process happen, and instead of giving palliative care for it, as it is in the very late days of their life expectancy, they are taken to surgery and have a $40,000 surgery which will neither improve their quality of life or the length of it, but the hospital and the surgeron get a fat paycheck.
We do need to make signficant changes in our system and Medicare needs to be permitted to have a system which flags fraud before the payments go out. Believe it or not, Congress forbids Medicare from having fraud systems and mapping systems within their billing sytem, because the special interests go to them and didn't want it there, so they omitted it. All private insurers have it, but not Medicare. Put in the markers and mapping sytems and investigate it before the money goes out, as it rarely is retrieved. It is estimated that fraud costs $40 BILLION a year, particularly in home health care.
There are significant changes which could be made to lower costs without lowering quality of care, and those need to be initiated.
Goldman's call to arms: Bankers seeking gun permits ahead of bonus season {Daily Finance}
Dec 2nd 2009 1:21AM These guys should be given the French version of a haircut via Madamoiselle Guillotine.
Early Toys R Us shoppers get worm: 2 charges for purchases {WalletPop}
Dec 2nd 2009 12:57AM Legally, I would think that Toys R Us would be responsible for the charges anyone incurred because of their negligence, and that is what happened here. They cannot hide behind our system did it, because IT IS THEIR SYSTEM, and customers have a legal right to be charged the correct, and only the correct amount which they purchased.
Woman Compares Forced C-Section to Rape {Lemondrop}
Oct 7th 2009 11:13AM Everyone must understand that once a woman has a C-section, her uterine wall is weakened and the chance of uterine rupture or other complications expands many times over.
There are times when physicians and hospitals will permit a woman to have a vaginal delivery after a C-section but many hospitals have taken the onus off the physicians by just putting in policies which say that once a C-section always a C-section. I was a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and did epidurals for labor and deliveries and for C-sections and I saw a placenta prematurely separate on a woman who had delivered by C-section and was attempting a vaginal delivery and the baby sustained brain damage.
