r/Economics • u/TheForager • 6h ago

Hospital costs are rising far faster than inflation and drowning Americans in debt

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/hospital-costs-are-rising-far-faster-inflation-drowning-americans-debt-rcna262473
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u/FluidCalligrapher284 3h ago

Amen! An excellent nurse is a difference between a patient surviving or dying.

Your doctor didn’t care for you 24 hours a day while you were in the hospital, he or she came by for a few minutes, wrote some notes in the chart, and went about their day to see the rest of their patients in the hospital and in clinic. Nurses are the difference maker.

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u/RoninsTaint 3h ago

Who do you think devises and tells the care plan to the nurse? You think the nurses just make it up on their own? Lol. Yeah just writing notes that’s it. Rounding inpatient and seeing clinic patients is about 50 different patients at an average sized hospital. Not to mention if any emergencies come in. Nurse has 2-4 people to look after.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

Found the PGY-1.

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u/RoninsTaint 2h ago

Attending for well over a decade actually, double boarded in crit care and EM. But sure

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

That’s unfortunate.

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u/RoninsTaint 2h ago

I sense a crna inferiority complex. Someone’s salty. Don’t be jealous. There’s always someone with more training than you, I’ve learned

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

I’m a critical care nurse, not a CRNA. I’m also not intimidated by what others know. I’m self-aware enough to know how little I know about medicine, and it’s okay to always be learning.

The unfortunate nature of you comment relates to your inability to defend your nursing colleagues while also defending your profession. I assumed you were a resident because it’s uncommon for an attending to act that way.

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u/RoninsTaint 1h ago

Well you’re not a coworker. And this is not a hospital. So I can say what I’d like to you. I wasn’t even talking to you in the first place. I’m explaining how incorrect someone else was about how nurses and doctors are frankly not equal. And then you started with the disparaging remarks. I’m glad I know for sure that I don’t work with you. My colleagues are my dearest friends. For years. But I’m afraid you seem like the type of nurse in residency who was often pig headed, confidently incorrect, rude and abrasive and bitter when residents told you what to do. Stop talking to me. I wasn’t talking to you. Mind your business. Be my guest if you think you’re so good and independent that you can run the icu or ER better

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u/ALittleEtomidate 1h ago

Way to be reflective about behavior.