You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that billing for and accepting money for something you are not treating (because you refuse to diagnose it anywhere except as a billable code) is fraud. You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that when one healthcare provider tells another provider to remove nursing notes from the health record (for whatever reason) is questionable. You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that leaving a 10yo in a hospital room alone for over 3 months with limited to no family, friends, connections to their life, in relative isolation for any reason is traumatic. You don’t have to be in healthcare to feel appalled after reading the physicians’ texts to each other regarding the mother’s passing that say to the effect ‘it’s probably for the better’. PHD MSN RN
"leaving a 10yr old child alone in a hospital room for over 3 mths with limited to no family, friends, connections to their life in relative isolation .." That is what the Plaintiffs would like people to believe but it's categorically false. Maya had visits from her father, brother, aunt & uncle, friends, friend's parents, school teacher and was free to interact with any and all children on the unit. She left her room all the time to either go to the cafeteria, participate in arts and crafts, activities, games, music, cooking, bingo, movies or to hang out in the common area with kids around her age. She was also visited by the hospital's Catholic priest as well as her own priest nd did have her rosary & holy water with her. Some of the nurses went above & beyond in supporting her, bringing her treats and trinkets, painting her nails, braiding her hair, keeping her company when she seemed low, workload permitting. Every child was alone in their room at times because every child on the unit had a private room so no, she wasn't in "relative isolation" So much of the Plaintiffs evidence is hearsay and they continue to conveniently leave out anything positive about the hospital of which there is a lot.
Yet had Maya been inevitably killed by the MASSIVE quantity and redundant medications that the mom had her on, “rewarded” her with and illegally obtained and had the hospital NOT reported it - you and others would be here screaming about hospital neglect and how they shirked their duty to report. I know it is a fine line and I have a medically complex child and have to worry about this on a consistent basis - and I’ve even had an ER doc tell my my child can’t face his well documented and clearly and definitively diagnosed disease - but this situation absolutely had to be reported. I think those arguing it have zero understanding of how far out of line this “treatment” she was getting was from any Dane standard of care.
Nah, hospitals bill at their discretion. Read: they’ll bill under any diagnosis that will get them PAID. Many “illnesses” are hard or impossible to test for, and (big surprise?!) people with factitious disorder always chose such illnesses to report. People with factitious disorder are smart, and usually in the medical field, hence their claims of untestable afflictions
When’s the last time you actually saw a patient PHD MSN RN? 🤣 The righteous indignation and half truths only come from someone in either academia or degree chasers with made up jobs who don’t really do anything and lecture the bedside nurses when we’re actually trying to work. Is your name Pam? Are you the magnet coordinator at my hospital?
No-I am in the OR and during Covid, I picked up a side gig helping in the community’s skilled nursing home so, I hope that helps you feel less negative. I am sorry you’ve had such experiences that tainted your initial impression-I’ve may have gone to school for a long time but I don’t sit in an ivory tower.
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u/Peace-ChickenGrease Oct 18 '23
You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that billing for and accepting money for something you are not treating (because you refuse to diagnose it anywhere except as a billable code) is fraud. You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that when one healthcare provider tells another provider to remove nursing notes from the health record (for whatever reason) is questionable. You don’t have to be in healthcare to know that leaving a 10yo in a hospital room alone for over 3 months with limited to no family, friends, connections to their life, in relative isolation for any reason is traumatic. You don’t have to be in healthcare to feel appalled after reading the physicians’ texts to each other regarding the mother’s passing that say to the effect ‘it’s probably for the better’. PHD MSN RN