OT/Apollo, kudos to your work. My son is getting into
cardiovascular surgery and I know a little more about your work than you suspect.
The point is that regardless of the high motives of your work
you have totally disregarded who pays for it.
-you have just added to the national debt.
-you have put your hospital one step closer to closing your Intensive care unit
because they do not have money to pay for nurses.
That means that a more salvageable younger parson may die
for lack of care.It is coming, as more and more Emergency
Rooms and Trauma centers close.
-You have added to the National Debt that is to
be paid by your children and young children.They did not vote for it.
It is un-American and non-economic.
-when you see JDSU's price going down, it is because
a)Your old lady's high medical costs force Chrysler to raise prices, thus,
b)cars in Detroit are not selling,
c)your old lady has raised The National Debt, thus will
cause Greenie not to lower rates as much as he should.
Higher rates prevent cars from selling.
d)Your old lady makes Chrysler's costs higher as the old
lady uses up resources that makes everybody's care more
expensive.Her use of resources is significantly higher
than that of younger people working .Thus Chrysler does not sell cars.
b)Thus, increased Medical Cots are a significant part of the cost of a car.
Chrysler thus cannot pay for that extra bandwidth,
because of that which is why JDSU is down.
It is physicians like you, who have a complete disregard of the
ability of younger people to support the elderly
at huge expense to their family to the point of family break ups
that is responsible for much of the dire state the economy is in.
It has been estimated that 75 % of one's lifetime health care dollar get
spent the last 2 years of one's life.
Those two years are miserable.
Your old lady ,
-is only "better" , not yet " cured " as you yourself admit
-will be in the hospital another 2-4 weeks.
-will be getting catheter infections
-requiring multiple Quinton Catheter changes
-immobile and develop bed sores
-will get Foley catheter cystitis or line sepsis
predisposing her to sepsis again
-with emphysema she is thus will not be able to meet
oxygen delivery and she will end up on the ventilator
-she will then require intestinal tube feeding
-is risking hypoxic encephalopathy if she does go into septicshock
-require Swan Ganz catheter filling prssures monitoring etc
-she will then require PEG tube feedoing
-then she will be going to a nursing home
-transported back to outpatient dialysis 3 times a week
-her 2? 3? children will have to take time off to take her to dialysis.
The payments to a Nursing Home to the tune of 50K/Year will destroy
whatever little she had saved and force the family to pay for that.
The little old lady will remain in pain.
Her life expectancy is less that 6 months I bet you
at over $100,000 cost.
That somebody else pays.She will live in constant pain.
Her family will be in constant pain for all of this.
I am very sorry to have to tell you all this.
However nobody has given you the right to
indiscriminately spend other people's money.
The fact that you are on salary is immaterial.
You are still blowing away money that is not yours,
with total disregard of it's profound Economic and Societal implications,
back much later,
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