Posted by stargazer2 on December 24, 2007, at 22:54:52
In reply to Re: Silly Doctors! » Phoenix1, posted by ace on December 23, 2007, at 22:30:19
I agree with you Ace about going to the ER. I have treated myself at home with Nifedipine and avoided going to the ER, although I advised my husband to call 911 if I went out or something bad happened.
Hospitals don't know alot about many things around here (Yale) unless you have a GSW (gunshot wound). They love the excitement of trauma and other more routine maladies get ignored or misdiagnosed in the ER. So avoid them at all costs. MAO treatment will not even register on their radar screens. I went to a highly recommended pdoc at Yale and when I mentioned Nardil his eyes glazed over. He had no clue about doses or anything, his focus was ketamine and research based psychiatry.
I do take offense to your comment about inept nurses, since I am one of the more ept ones, based on my background (med-surg, ortho, managed care, psych, homecare), education (BSN) and training (Boston). My father was almost killed by an inept MD, when they ordered Haldol for someone on Sinemet, so anyone in the ER can mess you up from the highly esteemed physician to the low paid and unskilled assistants, who made my life as a nurse a living hell. One aide told me she was trained to get a BP, using a cuff on the forearm and not the upper arm. Also, anytime I checked a BP after an aide took it, it was not even in the same ballpark. So the chain of events in the ER can be incorrectly managed by anyone involved in a patient's care.
God help us when all nurses are less educated and trained, as they are quickly moved through a system that is based on numbers of positions to fill not the education, intellignece and training of the candidate.
Many excellent nurses have left the profession for a variety of reasons. It is a thankless job, but the motivation for many today is money, which was never there years ago,when I started out.
Only recently has the pay increased to fill a demand for nurses but this is not the best reason to go into a field that has to have strong compassion and people skills, besides techinical knowledge.
My last job in nursing confirmed the continuing decline of a profession that has stooped to fill positions with individuals that are motivated by money. Many nurses didn't understand why I would talk to the psych patients. Figure that one out. By talking with them you just created more problems for yourself, or so that was the rationale behind that comment.
Like I said before, God help us...Merry Christmas and the best advice I can give all of you is "heal thyselves".
Still on Nardil 45 (down from 60 a week ago). All my doing, my pdoc is just an observer and advisor of sorts, but he is amazed with my ability to go beyond and figure things out for myself. Especially after my history with TRD, treated since 1985on every psych medication known to man.
Stargazer
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