Medicine yesterday...today~guilty until proven innocent

How much pain ends up being physical

and how much of it psychological?

In a system that treats you

worse than the legal system does?

You are guilty until proven innocent....

You must prove that you are in pain...

The doctors; they are

working from Blackberries and iPhones,

and letting a cell phone app think for them.

If that is our health care, our emergency care, and our pain management

we are never going to be properly diagnosed, properly treated.

You really are another number;

if not in their cell phones~their computer.

 

The nurses are busy making sure

that the doctor hasn't made a mistake;

that "patient care" has gone out the window...

The loving touch, the kind hand...

The hugs I knew I used to dispense when appropriate...

they have become a thing of the past....

But pain?  Something rampant in hospitals and nursing homes;

A thing that doctors are so quick to say is subjective

that it cannot be proven one way or another...

that one cannot say for sure that someone is in pain..

Even with "textbook normal" vital signs

someone can be in agonizing pain....

When the doctor or nurse is the source of the pain?
When comes the apology? 
The "I'm sorry I humiliated you?"

I'll tell you when: never.
But when we spend our time there in hospitals
looking for an apology;
where to assign blame,
time becomes wasted.....
And today's day and age any time in a hospital is scant..
Don't waste it; use it to heal....
and anger and resentment does not bring healing
It opens wounds; and it infects them....
More pain

As long as our doctors are

barely out of braces,

working out of Blackberries and iPhones

to think for them so they don't have to do it themselves...

You will get a prescription for twenty Lortab,

a "pain contract" in that ER, and a "lollipop,"

aka, a pat on the head and a boot to the door.

I've been promised an examination

and never given one,

only a copy of the narcotics policy

when what I had in my bag would have worked way better

than anything in any syringe they'd have brought me.

Had they in fact, done so....

But no injectible aspirin, not even that night...

But I hadn't asked for anything for pain...

quite the opposite, in fact, I'd said,

"I'm good on pain meds~I took some before I'd arrived,

but guilty before proven innocent.

My surgeon had requested an x-ray,

otherwise I'd have been quietly watching TV

in my living room...not spending 3 hours

in a room where the call bell was ignored....

switched off by the receptionist at the desk.

I was about to wet myself when the game ended...

The doctor demanded I stop "bothering" the nurses...

I said they hadn't been bothered, in fact,

since I'd pushed my light four times

and no one had answered...so how that was "bothering" anyone,

I asked him, please, do pray tell,

since they'd hidden my call light,

placed my crutches out of reach

and I had to pee...would they rather clean up

a smelly, messy, wet and nasty bed?

This kind of behavior would have

gotten me flunked out of nursing school,

fired on the spot.

But it is running rampant in the hospitals today...

Doctors think with a cell phone,

nurses are overloaded

to the point that scheduled pain medication

has to be requested, begged, pleaded, and planned ahead for.

What's going on here???????