Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I link blog, yes?

I saw this on the Boing Boing, and had to share. Not only does this resonate with the creepy themed hospital a while back, but it takes place in a place where I have ethnic heritage! Yay, my people are doing something creepy!
Ugh. I can't find that old hello kitty themed hospital post. This is what happens when I use labels frivolously.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Doctors who terrorize

Fugu has witnessed these horror shows firsthand. To be fair, I have met very nice surgeons. But others are from hell.

Every nurse has a story about obnoxious doctors. A few say they have ducked scalpels thrown across the operating room by angry surgeons. More frequently, though, they are belittled, insulted or yelled at — often in front of patients and other staff members — and made to feel like the bottom of the food chain. A third of the nurses in Dr. Rosenstein’s study were aware of a nurse who had left a hospital because of a disruptive physician....

A survey of health care workers at 102 nonprofit hospitals from 2004 to2007 blames "badly behaved doctors for low morale, stress and high
turnover. ... Recent studies suggest that such behavior contributes to medical mistakes, preventable complications and even death."