Please watch this video if you're thinking about becoming a doctor, nurse, or you are a person who cares about some of the serious issues facing our country today and into the future. As always, I would love to see what you think about this issue.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 6:11 PM
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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I actually find this pretty ironic. I hear people who oppose socialized health care make comments like "You'll have to wait in the waiting room for hours with socialized health care". This, right here, is proof that with the current American health care system, people have to wait for hours, even when they are in severe pain. This is just disturbing to me.
Time to move to Sweden I guess.
7:02 PM
Sara,
The folks in the video are people who do not have healthcare and use the ER as their doctor's office.
7:03 PM
I know that this is really far fetched, but in my perfect world everyone would have healthcare and there would be enough hospitals and doctors to take care of everyone. It breaks my heart to know that people who are sick might have to wait just because of a more seroius emergency, which I totally understand. I just wish there were enough rooms and doctors in that ER to treat all the patients and still take care of real emergencys. I wish all ER's everywhere had enough space and staff to take care of all their patients.
7:43 PM
This reminds me of how many doctors and surgeons are using their skills for beautifying instead of helping those in pain. "Not all that is beautiful is good but all that is good is beautiful"
8:16 PM
I cannot imagine having to wait all day to see a doctor and maybe not getting to see them at all or working in the front lobby and having to explain the situation to everyone or turning them away. I think they should be able to disperse the patients to different hospitals that are less crowded and instill a program that will deal with the uninsured at each hospital. Have they tried to recruit doctors by offering a higher pay or are funds too limited? I'm not sure how the problem could be helped other than raising everyone's taxes. It would be hard to be a doctor and know that there are so many people that you can't help but they also are making more of a difference and addressing the problem, helping as many people as they can.
8:58 PM
I personally think this is why our healthcare system should focus most importantly on health- aka preventative measures so that we don't have millions of people going into hospital emergency rooms because of diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, etc- which make up a large percentage of emeregency room visits.
10:12 PM
I find this video disturbing in the sense that neither the doctors or the patients are at fault. I mean the patients have to wait hours to be attended, and I can see why they would get frustrated, but at the same time the doctors could only do so much. Obviously there is a problem with the healthcare system because it is doing a poor job helping the people who need it. I dont blame the ER, they are doing there best.
11:24 PM
I had to wait for the doctor with a dislocated thumb. That sucked. I can't imagine how some of the people with serious conditions feel. The only way I see health care improving is by increasing the number of hospitals and by educating more kids to become doctors, surgeons, nurses, etc. That way more people can be treated in the same amount of time. That will require more facilities though. It would be an expensive thing to pursue.
4:10 PM
I agree with Margaret about focusing on preventive measures. The US population is too large to effectively sustain a universal health care system on our current budget. Until we can reduce the poverty levels and decrease the frequency of sickness people are just going to have to be thankful that they can see a doctor at all; in many places around the world if you get sick without insurance, you're effectively screwed.
8:45 PM
It is depressing, but it is the truth. There will always be suffering in the world. There will always be patients in pain without enough doctors to take care of them all.
But just because we might never stop world suffering doesn't mean we should stop fighting world suffering. Whatever we can do, we should do.
If we socialized health care, we must remember that that's taking money from everyone's pockets. Some people are too greedy to have that happen, and that's one of the reasons why it hasn't happened yet.
8:48 PM
Brian Josephson
Being an ER doctor must be an incredibly stressful job. The constant pressured situations plus knowing that there will most likely never be a break plus the stress of trying to organize the chaos they are working in sounds like a real nightmare. It must take a very unique person to operate well in those circumstances.
11:13 PM
Healthcare is definitely one thing that I believe everyone needs to have. One of the issues with this is that it's simply a necessity.Everybody needs to have medical care, it's not like it's something you can go without. So like you see in the video, if people aren't getting their regular doctor's visits they find other ways, because they have to. So now not only do you have all these people who can't go to the doctor sitting in the waiting room, but when real emergencies come through the door all the rooms are completely full and all the doctors stretched to their limits. So now the care of their emergency department is being compromised as well. It's kind of a lose-lose. At the end of the day, healthcare isn't debatable. We all need it, and we all deserve it. I hope by the time I finish medical school that we've made improvements in this area of society or that I can be a part of them.
10:09 AM
It really motivates me to want to do something, but I'm left with the question "what to do, and how to do it?" I know some people who have had to wait a while to see a doctor, but for different reasons. It must be a really stressful job.
I know that nurologists are in really high demand here in portland.
10:12 AM
Americans needs more people employed, especially doctors and nurses It is sad to see how many of the unemployed are going to the hospital for help and how they are waiting all day for help. Is Obamacare helping this?
2:16 PM
Everyone should have healthcare, but if socialized medicine came to play a lot of doctors or nurses would be effected greatly, but i do believe there should be some way for people to get medical care if needed or some way to stay healthy, it's a necessity for life and to continue with life.
9:53 PM
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