Initech General Hospital

After a week of the EMR (electronic medical record) this is how the medical staff feels about it.
What used to take thirty seconds now takes 15 minutes. Work has slowed down to a snail's pace and staff morale beyond the help of Prozac.















Sign-Click, Sign Again- Click, Initiate-Click, Cancel out six windows of ridiculous warnings, Initiate-click, refresh-click, assign doctor-click, written order-click, Sign-click, Sign again-click, Initiate-click, Finalize-click.

If this wasn't Sharia Health Care I believe you would get your ass kicked telling people they had to practice medicine like that man.

Have you driven a Ford lately?

"The trouble with the assembly line is that you don't control the work, the work controls you." After three months with Obama's Sharia Health Care EMR (electronic medical record) I'm starting to see the reason behind Washington's mandate. It's not about safety, efficiency or innovation, it's about control.

The plan is to take all the decision making away from the clinician. It's the usual one size fits all big government approach to any situation. However, like the Snugli it doesn't fit anyone well. It is supposed to be evidenced based, which implies that prior to Obama's takeover doctors were still tossing bat wings and eye of newt into cauldrons to determine how to treat illness. The program does allow for customization, but the amount of clicking, dragging, editing and pop-up warnings will eventually wear you down. At the bottom of your pre-programmed orders is the disclaimer, "this preferred treatment plan is not meant to replace clinical judgment". Isn't that the biggest eraser-phrase that a group of lawyers ever came up with, bless their hearts.

Health care professionals are now data entry automatons that are being second-guessed by academics, accountants, administrators and bureaucrats. Probably 98% of what goes on in medicine is cut and dry; the other 2% is beyond any programmer's wildest imagination. I can't believe that doctors are putting up with this crap. There is a lot that will be lost when Sharia Health Care firmly takes hold. The great unspoken factor in health care for the last twenty years has been "production pressure". Now at least we can put a face on it.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the making of a Ford.
It is made under conditions that would offend even the Lord.
In a most ungodly hurry, and amidst a wild uproar.
Production rushes on.

Hurry...........Hurry-Hurry-Hurry

Honey, have you seen the the plunger?

I thought you might be interested in this article from the UK. You can view it here.

I thought the article about the vicar who fell on a potato while hanging curtains in the nude was odd but this is really strange. In the E.R. no matter how much trouble it was you had to turn a patient over and look at their whole naked body. A trauma surgeon told me once "you never know when some guy will have a knife in his ass". Glass and plastic and wood don't show up on x-ray. Someone could at a minimum have stuck a finger in her wound to see if a Swiffer was up there. I see this a lot; doctors and nurses don't want to get their hands dirty.

This is socialized medicine in action. The doctor probably spent about two minutes with her and had no incentive to pursue her complaints; she was just another drunk that fell in the bathroom. Now "I'm not a doctor" but it seems to me that anyone in the U.S. who complains about pelvic pain for months will get an exploratory surgery. I wonder if this couple ever wondered what happened to their toilet brush? National Health Service, the standard of medical excellence, and it's coming to a hospital near you.

My name is Babba Gi and I'm a profiler.

Profiling: it's as American as apple pie. When I was a child the stores would close between three and four in the afternoon because the lovely school children would rob them blind on their way to their buses. Was this profiling or just smart business? Probably only half the students were filling their pockets with snacks, candy, magazines and drinks; the other half were just a diversion. So some had to suffer the lack of a Snickers Bar because of those many rotten apples that would just stuff their pockets full of loot.

I learned early that to avoid profiling condemned you to be one of the endless rabble of victims. In my neighborhood if you if you didn't keep your eyes wide open you had the life expectancy of a gnat. I also recognized the benefit of not being the profilee. My friends could have been some of the finalists in the Darwin Awards. They would dress up in full hippie costume (tie-dyed shirt, four inch platform shoes, six foot scarfs and a Cat in the Hat hat adorning their Indian braids) and drive cars with no muffler, a marijuana emblem on the trunk, a peace sign on the hood one headlight and twelve people in the car, and then act shocked when the the police pulled them over. They always got caught, they couldn't run fast in those platform shoes. I preferred to wear black sneakers, a suit and a yamaka.

It seems that all these people who call for an end to profiling live in Gated Communities.

Keep an eye out for CP's latest article on profiling.

Best Film of 2009

In this time of rising fascism this is one great movie. I really didn't know much about Mussolini except I heard he "made the trains run on time". All I know about Italy is that they change governments like I change underwear; monthly. I always wondered how the Roman Empire could default into such an insignificant country, then I found out that Italians are not descendants of Rome. I sort of remember from reading Shire's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" that Mussolini was like the funny-uncle of the Axis Powers. I'm going to try and find a book about fascist Italy. It would be interesting to find out if old Bonito was illegitimate, abandoned as a child or sexually confused like most tyrants.

Good Morning Lab Rats

Corporate headquarters in Washington D.C. has decided that we are going to use an electronic medical record. In order to enforce their mandate they offer the company a whole lot of TARP money. We have been picked to be a trial institution for a new program. Now all our medical decisions will be made 3000 miles away in the Silicon Valley. You can make changes but it is so difficult that eventually you will concede and become Robo-Doc and do what corporate wants or what was formally known as "go along to get along". There will be less time spent with the patient and more with the lap-top. Efficiency, safety and morale will suffer but if we all hang in there somewhere down the line corporate will get a big pot of Obama money. As far as the lab rats go, some are ready to jump ship.

Tee Time on the Gulf Coast

BP hopes to plug the gulf oil
spill with golf balls and tires.

Hey Jon! You need to grab your

clubs and get down to Louisiana

and hit some balls!

President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing

We don't have a President; we have a malevolent clown running things. He's not one of us, and he's not all right.

King Leonidas Where Are You?

At Thermopylae 300 Spartans held off a million Persians for three days

Today in Greece thirty thousand protesters killed three bank employees. They were protesting government cuts in social programs, wages and student aid. It's amazing what a little socialism can do for a culture.

Instead of the million soldiers Xerxes sent against King Leonidas he should have sent a handful of community organizers. Having your country conquered doesn't compare to having your pension cut five per cent. Why get involved in that mess in the Valley of Thermopylae when you can throw a few rocks then go back to your villa and sip ouzo and watch the sun set on the Aegean Sea?

Romeo Must Die

This is Sammy the Bull. Sammy is about 8 inches long. He is an Oscar. He is not a nice guy. He killed his mate. He lives with two Pleco's that he can't eat because the are the armadillos of scavengers. Sammy also rearranges the rocks and the gravel in the tank like a back-hoe. That little white bruise on his back is from when he tried to jump out of the tank and eat me (luckily I don't have a pony tail).




Over in the other tank are these guys, two of my three Silver Dollars. They are the opposite of Sammy. They are more like three Jewish Rabbis. However, these guys are almost two inches long and in their own way intimidate all the little tetras and cause them to hide in the plants.




I think Sammy has to go. Hopefully I can find a pet shop to take him. Then I'll move the three Rabbis into his tank. I just have to get up my nerve and put on my slicker and catch Sammy. If you're going to have a tank with one big fish, he should be a fish you like, and not one that is terminally pissed-off.

A quart of wheat for a day wages

I get my financial information where I get my groceries, at Wal-Mart. I have watched the price of Great Value pretzel rods go from 88 cents a year ago to $1.88 today. In the last two weeks I've seen a 1O% price increase in my leading economic indicators, which includes coffee, tea, bananas, dog food and Metamucil.

Now that we have an oil spill in the gulf the size of Texas, they have stopped all gulf oil production. I'm watching the price of a gallon of gasoline go up 5 cents a week. It will be $3 for the Memorial Day weekend and $4 dollars per gallon by Independence Day. I'm seeing inflation everywhere I look, even if the state run media denies it. Inflation is just another tax and at this rate my 401K and five dollars will get me a cup of coffee.

Falling Prices; Don't fall for it. Go to Wal-Mart.

Obama; the father you wish you never had

I'm thinking about what makes President Obama so different than previous chief executives. I know our presidents are not father figures per-se like Abraham or Moses or Hitler, but they do have some paternal qualities. Imagine a father with obamanesque qualities:
He doesn't really identify with his children
He doesn't think they are too intelligent
He doesn't think they are special
He constantly apologizes for them
He doesn't keep them safe
He doesn't have their best interests at heart
He uses them for social experiments
He has no regard for their opinions
He wants to control every facet of their life
He thinks they exist to worship him

Now you see a fatherless president who lacks any paternal instincts. He never learned or had anyone to show him what a father is. I'm not saying that every great leader came from a perfect family. The chaotic fatherless early years of President Obama have left us with an angry adolescent who is devoid of paternal instincts. Are you surprised that this father is spawning a nation of rebellious children?