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SWINE FLU?

Started by JohninRI, August 25, 2009, 06:45 AM NHFT

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jerryswife

#30
September 16, 2009, 01:37 PM NHFT
 I've wondered though if doctors are against the vaccine and it becomes mandatory, could you lose your job for not giving it to people?   If so, I wonder how many doctors against it would comply, couldn't they write so and so was vaccinated even if they weren't, is that possible to do?  :-\
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Well, this doctor works for herself so, no, I wouldn't fire myself.  I am a podiatrist, so I do not give out flu shots.  At the various facilities I do go to I may encounter a request that I take the flu shot --I will refuse and plead allergies, if they bar me from the facility, it is their loss, my services are in demand so it is not a big deal.  Falsifying medical records is probably some sort of crime--what isn't these days; it would definitely be a crime to say you did and charge for it and not do it.  Just another illustration why we do not need the f***ing gummint in healthcare.  Your choices should be your choices in consultation with your doctor but doctors do not dictate what you should do, you dictate what they can do for you. 

When I was in school, we had a course on "practice management" and the doc who taught it was a "used car salesman" kind of guy (I can say that as I come from a long line of used car salesmen and they are well aware of the deserved sleazy rep of such), anywyay his advice was to put a sign in our offices that said "the success of your treatment depends on which one of us is the doctor."  I found that horrible condescending then and still do.

The attitude adopted by enlightened healthcare workers is "concordance." Instead of the "I am God" attitude which demands "patient compliance," the more patient-friendly "concordance" seeks to work out a treatment plan the patient and doctor both agree is reasonable, helpful and will meet the patient's needs and desires.  It takes into account the patient's values and abilities (mental, physical, financial etc.) and is not driven by the doctor's desires.  As a podiatrist, I think if you wear high heels a lot you are doing your feet a disservice, but it is your choice and it is my job to relieve the problems your behavior causes to the best of my abilities, it is not to yell at you for what I consider to be bad  choices.  Wearing high heels may be awful for your feet but great for your ego or height issues.  It is perfectly reasonable for someone to understand that they are damaging their feet but choose to do so anyway because they value looking good or whatever reason they have more than pain-free feet and it is not my business to judge those reasons only to help them as much as I can.

Medicine today is not embracing the "concordance" attitude but is becoming more the naggy parent trying to force "evidence-based" (code words for big pharma driven) medicine  on everyone.

littlehawk

#31
September 16, 2009, 02:23 PM NHFT
Most MD's violate their oath on a daily basis, "first do no harm."

Littlehawk

Little Owl

#32
September 16, 2009, 05:18 PM NHFT
Lumpy,

You got bitten by a Brown Recluse?  I hope you're going to tell me it wasn't up here.  If its not prying, may I ask if they gave you anything to deal with the necrotising toxin?  (I used to have a tarantula.  It never bit me, but one in a pet store did.)

QuoteMost MD's violate their oath on a daily basis, "first do no harm."

Baseless.

djbridgeland

#33
September 16, 2009, 06:33 PM NHFT
I was at a restaurant today and saw on the news that the Portsmouth hospital is going to require it's employees to either get the shot or wear masks October - March or lose their jobs.  Even non direct care employees, I believe (i.e. secretaries, IT, Biomed, ect.).   

cathleeninnh

#34
September 17, 2009, 08:49 AM NHFT
Required or not, wearing a mask is a good  way to go. Hospitals are very dangerous places to be.

FreelanceFreedomFighter

#35
September 17, 2009, 10:18 AM NHFT

Maybe they could all wear "V" masks...  ;D

Lumpy

#36
September 22, 2009, 02:33 AM NHFT
Yup.  It was either a brown recluse or a very close relative.  They gave me an antibiotic because it got infected...  I hate to admit that I had dirty ankles on line for the whole world to hear but I must have.  Yeah, the venom took me down but.  I forget how it's spelled exactly but it sounded something like "keflex" I think?  That was the pill.  It was day 3 and I know what could happen if I didn't go to the ER.  So I submitted to the oil based pills.  Been eating as much organic pro-biotic as I can to get the body healthier after the raping of my cells.
There are nests everywhere around here.  It's a wonder to me why people don't get bitten more often.
I still think the swine flu is a bunch of crap.

jerryswife

#37
October 05, 2009, 02:57 PM NHFT
Interesting study out of Canada, seasonal flu vaccine makes you twice as likely to get swine flu!

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2009/09/29/flu.html

KBCraig

#39
December 27, 2009, 02:43 AM NHFT
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