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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be
distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed
according to medical need."
— JAMA (2003), 290, 798
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Et tu, RNs?
November 8, 2014 --
Usually the level-headed ones, now it seems even we nurses are
infected by Ebola frenzy. Unlike the ignoramuses of fearmongering
Fox News and its ilk, we should know better. Kaiser nurses are
actually planning a strike! For four days from now. Are Sutter
nurses, too, planning anything like this?
If we really want to do what's right for our patients we wouldn't
waste nursing resources on a crisis that doesn't exist. We'd wash
our hands more. Things like MRSA and C-diff are real and they kill
lots of people. And tens of thousands die of the flu every year.
Let's urge our patients to get their shots. Half of America can't be
bothered. Yet they obsess about Ebola.