Since when do hospitals call and ask for money? That shiny beacon of health in Winston on Hawthorne Hill as they call it is now soliciting. The audacity! Calling former patients for donations because your care was so stellar. Do they call families of the unfortunate souls who did make it out of the hospital? What is next, calling former employees? The same employees the stiffed for numerous years to hit the bottom line? That place deserves the sour name it has now gotten in the NC triad. I asked a guy at church a few weeks ago what his job at the beacon was, he honestly looked frightened. Like I was gonna gun him down or hit him in the Sunday school hallway. Health care is failing in America. This place is an example of how, tens upon tens of VP's getting fat checks and bonuses. Paying millions to bring in a new CEO, just to bring him in from Texas. His salary is added to that hush hush bonus. The allied health workers lived in fear for 2 years while all this transpired. X-ray techs got canned, nurses hours got cut, nurses got canned or reassigned, respiratory therapists got canned and had schedules/hours "trimmed". Fancy focus groups formed to lead us into a new golden age. Plus no raises for 3 cycles! Pay freezes and hiring freezes are not the new golden age. Yes the depression was at full force during this time period but as stated above the VP's did not seem to mind. I forgot to mention doctors were purged. The best ones, the ones with demands and great ideas, fired. Some without even being told, he had to read his job ad online. I left to find a place I'd be appreciated and paid for my input and ideas. Surprisingly just a few miles away this problem did not exist. I was shown just how poorly that hospital was run. I do not miss that place, I do not regret leaving, I do feel sorry for my friends employed there. I do hope one day they call and ask me for money or a review of their services/reputation. Any medical center that goes from having 10 specialties in the top 25 in The US world news hospital report to having 2 in the top 50 within a year is in deep trouble. Hospitals are today's factories. In the days of our grandparents a HS diploma would get a job at a local factory making something for a honest wage, a livable wage. Today a HS diploma gets you a PT job at Sheetz for minimum wage and you may have to drive 25 miles round trip to get there at $3.75 a gallon. Money gone! For 3 years at a community college anyone with a C average can become some form of healthcare worker. Now yes it is harder than that to get in most programs, but if you look hard enough you will become something. Most jobs at a hospital start out at near $17 an hour in this state. Most can just be a warm body at said job, do the minimum, don't screw up and get that honest wage. To me this is wrong. Just another example of how America is broken. Working at any allied health job should be a privilege not just a pay check. How do we fix the American work force? I do not know but I know that a job at a hospital should not be the only job in town that pays you well(unless you work in Winston Salem at the trauma center). This may or may not make any sense to anyone, I just had to spill it all out. I have been pondering this for awhile and needed to say it. If you get it, good. If you don't, then its just the ramblings of a disabled former healthcare worker.
Hello readers. I have 2 posts i am currently writing in my wandering mind. One is about the evil empire on hawthorne hill here in Winston Salem and the other is on faith. However, I am flaring right now and don't feel like doing anything other than breathing. I am in immense pain and its not getting better. This may take awhile to work its course. I have 12 days until Easter and hope to be better by then, we will see.
Sorry folks! I've been in no mood for blogging. The end of winter has me in the dumps. I am ready to move onto summer. I am also trying to overcome phase 1 of disability acceptance. I am stuck in denial/isolation. I so try and move past it but it just drags me back down each cold day. I have had a few interesting social media debates these past weeks. One was on medical spending and its place in economy downfall. It was had between myself, a ECMO attending, and another Respiratory therapist. The doctor sided with big business but offered a great debate. We RRT's sided with the regular joe. The hospital bills are just one great atrocity, the pay of certain staff and underpay of others is part two. I feel that PharmD , Pharmacists, are way over paid and CNA's , nurse aides, are under paid. The education between these 2 jobs is great but $8 an hour for the hardest job in a hospital is too low. over 100k a year is too high, some make up to $100 an hour at your local CVS, to count pills most of the day. Yes they do more than that but you will never see one lay hands on a patient, provide any life saving service, or generally leave the pharmacy of the hospital. France has a great medical system in place. Cuba does too, oh no I sided with the reds and the frogs!!!!! In the mid to late 2000's an anesthesia doctor made about 90k a year in France and lived as well as anyone would ever need. In USA they get at least 20k more a year. Why? Ask the government. Medical overhaul is a good thing. Getting peoples salaries under control is just a small part. Am I saying pay doctors like a person with just 4 years of education? NO! We have eliminated the middle class by allowing doctors and VP's of banks,hospitals, and big business to get raises while we the average American maintain on the same amount we had in 2008. It was great debate and we each made points that made the other kinda say thats right. It ended in a stalemate. The other was about the great evil. ABORTION!!!!! This was a twitter war. Fanatical Christians ruin the Christian name. People slam Planned Parenthood like its a Nazi death camp. They do abortions, yes. Would I want my wife to have one? No. Would I tell her what to do with her body ever? No. Would I as a man try and ever tell any woman what to do with their bodies? No. I am secure enough in my religion and masculinity to admit those things. PP* does many things and abortion is just 3% of those things. Cancer screens, STD treatments, and basic health care for poor all rank higher on the pie chart than the the A word. People don't care! They see one thing and focus all the hate on it. I debated with a progressive tone and my enemy surrendered. I hope to to get my ideas out more via this blog. I stated 2 posts ago that I was now going for quality and quantity. This will maintain but I hope to blog more than every 3 weeks. Until next time....
