Urgent – death panels here, doctors plea for help

[longknife]

by Debbie @ Right Truth: URGENT

By Sharon Sebastian Website: Welcome to Darwin's Racists!

Doctors across America are sick. A new and desperate plight has surfaced in emergency rooms across the nation for both patients and doctors alike. The following blog by one valiant doctor speaks for thousands of.doctors being forced to go against their natural instincts and abilities to allow further hospital care and re-admit patients.


Effective October 2012, doctors at hospitals across the land are being forced by the Obama administration to break their Hippocratic Oath. Obama’s revamped Medicare has now begun forcing doctors at hospitals to turn their backs on patients no matter how critical their need for re-admittance. Obamacare has activated a mandate through Medicare that will cost thousands of lives and serves as the precursor to Obama’s inhumane and authoritarian Death Panels.

The following excerpts are used with permission from the blog of Dr. Thomas Hamilton (LINK/LINK), an American doctor who speaks truth to power. Dr. Hamilton describes how he was torn between providing medical help to a very sick senior or turning her away to face a certain and tragic fate without treatment.

“It was my plan to admit this woman to the hospital. I found out a little later that this same woman had been a patient here just slightly more than 2 weeks ago with a DIFFERENT DIAGNOSIS. I was told that if this woman was admitted, the hospital would not be paid.

The new Medicare rule now is that if the same Medicare patient is re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days, the hospital will not be paid. When they first started this nonsense they said this only applied to patients with the same diagnosis. Now they have "expanded" the rule to include re-admissions for any reason. So if you're in the hospital for pneumonia, and 3 weeks later, you break your leg.......too bad. Medicare will not pay the hospital to fix your leg.

A little later a man was brought in by ambulance, very sick, in pain, and near death. I did my usual evaluation and treatment, doing my best to ease pain and stabilize this man's illness. He needed to be admitted. To my chagrin I found out that he had been treated for the SAME problem at a DIFFERENT HOSPITAL about 10 days prior. If I admitted this man, our hospital would be paid nothing. I admitted the man.

My friends I am caught in a terrible position. I could have given treatment to both of these people and sent them out. There is no doubt that both of them would have died. Oh, I could also be sued for malpractice, but nobody cares about that.

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[Greenbeard]

The new Medicare rule now is that if the same Medicare patient is re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days, the hospital will not be paid.

No, it isn't. See the dangers of distorting what's actually going on? Some folks, doctors included, are gullible enough to believe it.

 

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[rdean]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/12/09/20101209Montini1209.html

Yes, Gov. Brewer, Arizona does have a death panel

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGG5ui_yrY]Medicaid: The Real 'Death Panels' Are in Governor Jan Brewer's 'Apartheid' Arizona - YouTube[/ame]

Two More Arizonians Join Jan Brewer

two more citizens have joined the state GOP’s death panel, bring the total to an even 100 people that Republicans in Arizona have or will have killed

Republicans have already started death panels. They scream about voter fraud, but it's them who are charged with felonies. They scream about death panels, but it's them who started death panels in Arizona. They scream about freedom, but it's them who want to take away people's rights. They scream about China taking jobs, but want to elect the nations first pioneer in outsourcing. They scream about war, but it's them who started the wars. They scream about the deficit, but it's them who created the deficit.

And still Americans believes them. Go figure.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Easy way to remedy this terrible problem is to stop reading radical right wing propaganda sites.

PRESTO! Your patients get well and you immediately gain 80 IQ points as well.

 

[Ernie S.]

Easy way to remedy this terrible problem is to stop reading radical right wing propaganda sites.

PRESTO! Your patients get well and you immediately gain 80 IQ points as well.

It is a shame that your peers at USMB can no longer recognize your superior intellect with the reputation system.