Re: Clinical Trial doctors vs private practice - ny

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hi,I can image how strange it must be to work at the ER, I have met people going there for nothing, like this one time I asked this dude why he was there, he said, I am not kidding "I can't sleep" I thought you come to the ER because you can't sleep. I can see the doctors being frustrated working there.Hugs, nyOn Jan 24, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Theresa Gottlieb wrote:

ny,You would be surprised at how many doctors get to a point where they hate people. I have a friend that I grew up with who is an ER Doc in Las Vegas... He used to be the ER Chief of Staff and he stepped down cause he didn't have enough time to spend with his kids, so now he is just an ER Doc... he is a constant source of amusement to me! The stories he comes up with about what he sees in the ER are priceless. He posts some of them on Facebook and oh my GOD is it funny... you do this long enough and you start to think that all patients are idiots and they get to a point where the less interaction they have the better off they are. With clinical trials they don't have to build that patient trust thing up. When I worked in the ER, some of the people that would come in.. I swear ny, it would just take your breath away. They would come into ER for the strangest stuff... Makes you wonder if anyone has any common sense left. Doctors get this day in and day out 30 or 40 times a day and I'm sure it gets old.

Hugs,TeriOn Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Barrett <barrjohnm@...> wrote:

I see. I guess they would rather do it this way, I don't like this as there are less docs to just treat people.On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Theresa Gottlieb wrote:

Many doctors are going into clinical trials vs treating patients because the stress is less and the insurance is cheaper. Plus they don't have to deal with billing patients for services they get paid by the drug companies.

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There, Teri has just described a lot of folks that are sitting in the ER. Where I live, no one should even be going to the ER until all the clinics are closed anyway.Now, that father definitely did wrong; but, can you imagine him having to wait because some idiot got there before him with a sore throat?? Maybe that's why they have made the waiting room in our local ER, so that we can not hear the new person's complaint. Hell, you are going to sit there for at least an hour. Say, does anyone know how many ambulances pick somebody up and bring them to the hospital, in the space of that hour??I did a really really stupid thing when my son was still in a crib! That particular day, he had a

cold and I had picked up a bottle of children's cold medicine. The type that tastes like grape juice. I had taken the bottle and the spoon into his bedroom to give it to him. Stupidly, I put it down on the night stand while I was pulling hangers out of his closet. Yup, walked away without the medicine. Well, I would check on him every night before I went to bed. You should have seen what I walked in on!!!! My baby had upchucked anything that he had eaten for days, I swear. Also, his pupils were sooo big!! Needless to say, that was a trip to ER for us. I learned my lesson that night, I can tell you. Never ever again did I take any medication into his bedroom. He could have it in the kitchen while we were getting him ready for bed.Gloria

My friend told me about a guy that brought his 2 year old in over the weekend for a fever and vomiting. The kid had a fever and the Dad was giving him Tylenol... the directions state: 2 teaspoons every 4 hours. The Dad was giving the kid 3 teaspoons every 3 hours because the vomiting and fever weren't stopping... well, the kid was throwing up from too much tylenol and all the vomiting kept the fever going. If he'd have just given the medication properly...... instead, the kid had to be admitted. Tylenol overdose.

It would make me crazy when the ER was full and some would come in because they had a sore throat for 4 days... Why is this an emergency? 4 days... you think you'd have called your doctor. Nope, ER visit. It got to the point where I would have people like that come in and I would send them right over to their doctor's office. If it was the middle of the night, I would pick up the phone and schedule them an appointment with their doctor in the morning... they didn't want that... didn't want to wait at the doctors office but they'd take up valuable space in the ER for non emergency stuff. Crazy.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Barrett <barrjohnm@...> wrote:

hi,I can image how strange it must be to work at the ER, I have met people going there for nothing, like this one time I asked this dude why he was there, he said, I am not kidding "I can't sleep" I thought you come to the ER because you can't sleep. I can see the doctors being frustrated working there.

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