http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/just-because-im-terminal-doesnt-mean-im-stupid/ Advice for Dying and Death - When Sympathy Isnt Enough Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/just-because-im-terminal-doesnt-mean-im-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Kitty Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:35:09 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/just-because-im-terminal-doesnt-mean-im-stupid/#comment-191 I'm so thrilled someone has come out publicly with the way patients are treated! Both my parents had medical humiliation added to their pain, both suffered terribly. Because they were both so totally dependent on the goodwill of doctors and nurses, they avoided all confrontation. Neither of my parents (none of us, their grown children either!!) dared say a word against the awful way older people and sick people were treated in the hospital. In any other profession, that kind of attitude which would get you fired! I know how hard doctors and nurses and doctors' assistants work., but there's no excuse for treating the sick and the elderly as though they are either invisible or a piece of meat. I’m so thrilled someone has come out publicly with the way patients are treated! Both my parents had medical humiliation added to their pain, both suffered terribly. Because they were both so totally dependent on the goodwill of doctors and nurses, they avoided all confrontation. Neither of my parents (none of us, their grown children either!!) dared say a word against the awful way older people and sick people were treated in the hospital. In any other profession, that kind of attitude which would get you fired! I know how hard doctors and nurses and doctors’ assistants work., but there’s no excuse for treating the sick and the elderly as though they are either invisible or a piece of meat.

]]> http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/just-because-im-terminal-doesnt-mean-im-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Nathan Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:28:27 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/just-because-im-terminal-doesnt-mean-im-stupid/#comment-192 I am sorry once again to see that your website is being used as a guided missile against my former colleagues. Doctors have a hard enough time not collapsing under the burden of work and trying to avoid mistakes. Holding them to a higher standard of manners than any other profession is counterproductive. Do not judge us by Miss Congeniality standards. I am sorry once again to see that your website is being used as a guided missile against my former colleagues. Doctors have a hard enough time not collapsing under the burden of work and trying to avoid mistakes. Holding them to a higher standard of manners than any other profession is counterproductive. Do not judge us by Miss Congeniality standards.

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