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Scarface · 02-28-2008, 10:44 PM

"Hospitalists" are now working in, ummm, hospitals. These doctors(specialists) take over when you get in the hospital. You will RARELY ever see your own physician in there when you are in the hospital, as these hospitalists take over and consult with your MD about your condition.
Cookie cutter therapy applies to pretty much every condition you can think of, short of a bullet in the brain or a damn stroke.
I've seen nurses wait 7 hours before their pussy swells up and they get bothered enought o call the pharmacy to find out why they haven't gotten their patient's medications.
HEIGHT, WEIGHT, ALLERGIES is all we fucking ask for when scanning down admitting orders so we can profile and send you the meds!!!
Goddamn nurses have to be in the top five All-TIme Dumbasses shit fuck

HUSH · 02-29-2008, 01:09 AM

There's a 99% chance that your money has cocaine on it.

lurch · 03-10-2008, 01:42 PM

This one would be of interest to anyone with school aged kids. My mom and girlfriend are both elementary school teachers. I know it's kinda long, but if you have kids in school, you should really read it..

The special ed lobby is very powerful, because what legislator wants to vote against special ed? They bring a few severely handicapped kids to the capitol, and get anything they want passed. The problem is that most kids that are under the "special ed" umbrella are not handicapped at all. They have been diagnosed "SED" (severely emotionally disturbed). Now, you are thinking, "well, ok, so the kids schizophrenic or something, he should get some help" but that's not what I'm talking about, either. Child psychs hand out that SED crap like they hand out ADD. Basically, we are talking about bad kids. Kids who are bullies, or who have anger problems, etc. There are TONS of them. Also, when a lot of us were in school (I'm 30) special ed kids were segregated, they had their own classroom, etc. One of the spec. ed lobby's biggest triumphs was "mainstreaming." This means that these crazy, badass kids are sitting right by YOUR kid. These kids take up half of the teachers time. While the teacher is correcting them, or trying to get them to focus, she's not teaching the OTHER kids.

"But wait"- you say. "That's what principals and discipline are for!" Wrong again. If a kid has been diagnosed SED, they have regulations that prohibit schools from discpilining them too much. There is actually a cap on how many days an SED kid can be suspended. There was a situation where an SED kid had gotten suspended his full allotment for the year, and he bullied another kid and beat him up. They couldn't suspend him anymore, so they just had to make him miss recesses. Parents of the bullied kid were (understandably) pissed- why wasn't this kid being punished? The school couldn't even tell them why- it's a privacy violation to tell them the kid's SED, so they just had to look completely ineffective. They also don't have to do as much work as normal kids, they have "modified work loads."

Parents expect schools to keep their kids safe and away from these type of kids, and the schools hands are completely tied. My mom once said that she believed that if the parents of "normal" kids knew what their kids saw and dealt with every day that they would freak.
The problem is that SED kids have lobbyists fighting for their rights. No one is fighting for the rights of the normal kids that have to deal with this stuff, and most parents don't even know it's a problem..

Couple other examples:

Remember how you always had those crappy plastic scissors, but the teacher had the long pointy, sharp ones? A teacher friend of my mom's had a kid in her class come up to her desk and ask that the teacher put the pointy scissors that were on her desk away. When the teacher asked why, the boy said "because there's a voice telling me to get those scissors and hurt people, so if they were locked in your desk, I couldn't get them."

My GF told me about a fight between 8-9 year olds the other day. The winner was a crazy kid. I don't know about you, but elementary school fights when I was in school were pretty tame. Shove, shove, punch, roll around on the ground, someone end up crying, done. This fight ended with the crazy kid stomping the face of the other kid repeatedly. When a teacher ran up to break it up, this 3rd grader started swinging at the teacher and calling her a motherfucker.

btw- teachers can't defend themselves, either. If a kid is punching you in the face, and you push him away and he is scraped, bruised, or injured- you just abused a child. You will definately get sued, maybe lose your job, possibly have criminal charges filed. If the kid is a "special ed" kid, it's even worse. They teach teachers to cover up, and they have one "approved" move that is basically a bear hug, it's called CAPE, and you just hug the kid to you where he can't do anymore damage to you, and hold him until he calms down, or until the police get there. But even if you do that move and there is no injury to the kid, you'll
probably still get sued. My GF knows a lady who is getting sued for holding a kid that was kicking/biting her. I guess she just should have let the kid beat the shit out of her. After all, it's not his fault... Poor kid is SED....

KneeOnBelly · 03-10-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Sportman

There is a loopole here which allows someone to access unregistered/illegal drugs directly from suppliers 'legally' without going through the regulatory body. The record keeping system is extremely poor and all a person would need to do is forge a doctors signature and they could get away with it every time.

who is that chick in your av?

gasguzzler · 03-10-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HUSH

There's a 99% chance that your money has cocaine on it.

And a 99.9% chance of fecal matter.

Art Vandelay · 03-10-2008, 01:55 PM

One of the upsides to the Honors and AP/DE classes in HS was that they removed problem children from classes.

I remember in middle school they had the genius idea to incorporate violent retards into normal and even advanced classes, accompanied by a specialist who would do their work. The previous post helps make sense of this situation, which led to several "extractions" of these special kids. Causes ranged from teasing, flickering fluorescent light, bug in the room, etc.

I agree that the degree of violence sometimes used is absurd. When I think of 6th graders fighting, a kid having his jaw broken and stomped/pounded with a desk definitely doesn't come to mind. All while the 60-year old teacher hid behind her desk hitting a panic button.

I can only imagine the future benefit to society that comes from these individuals.

gasguzzler · 03-10-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by lurch

This one would be of interest to anyone with school aged kids. My mom and girlfriend are both elementary school teachers. I know it's kinda long, but if you have kids in school, you should really read it..

Just another reason I'm glad I'm in a position that my kids don't have to go to public schools.

Art Vandelay · 03-10-2008, 01:59 PM

I am of the opinion that public school is essential for the development of a young adult capable of surviving, both socially and physically.

Obviously special cases can not handle the adverse conditions of public school, but the average kid is better for having experienced it.

At the same time, I have very unpopular beliefs of what should be done with those who willingly and repeatedly disturb a healthy learning environment.

greenpower · 03-10-2008, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

I am of the opinion that public school is essential for the development of a young adult capable of surviving, both socially and physically.

Obviously special cases can not handle the adverse conditions of public school, but the average kid is better for having experienced it.

At the same time, I have very unpopular beliefs of what should be done with those who willingly and repeatedly disturb a healthy learning environment.

Then you aren't really in favour of public schools. Thats like saying I love pork but I'm a muslim.

Art Vandelay · 03-10-2008, 02:29 PM

You can say that I am against some sort of Lord of the Flies environment. However, a school funded by taxpayer money that educates the community is a public school. Removing overly troubling or violent elements may alter the real-world experience slightly, but it will enhance the learning opportunity.

While you can play a hypocrisy card against me for minimizing one of the benefits of public school, what I suggested in no way changes the status of the school. It is merely an extension of a current means of dealing with problem students that are employed by public schools--removing them from the environment.