Chicagoist: More Bad News for the County

Ingrid

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:10:06 -0600

Spav, I agree with you. Not too many people have the guts to say things like that, but I've got to say that I know of SO many...TOO many,for sure, cases where doctors have totally screwed up peoples' lives. It didn't have to be that way, but their ginormous egos get in the way and there you go. My dad is in a nursing home now, and my mom has an impossible time trying to reach his doctors. They get to the nursing home, on their assigned days at the frikking crack ass of dawn and they do their rounds in like 20 minutes...so...yah...try and get there so you can actually talk to one in person. This is just ONE current example of how fucked up the system is and how fucked up the doctors are. If you can't get your own doctor to care about his patients...who are you going to get? And the whole reason he is in the stupid nursing home to begin with is because of a botched surgery years ago that left him practically unable to move and he just kept getting worse by the week after that. Pretty amazing...you are able to move before the surgery and unable to move and in pain 24/7 AFTER the surgery. Doctors...yep...I agree with you Spav. (I could go on with many more examples, but like I said..this is one that I'm dealing with currently).

Spav1

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:15:14 -0600

@Ward up: I don't understand why you have to be a Conservative to believe in like rugges individualism. I don't think I need Doctors or the Police. Me as an individual. I understand their, like, value to society. But I could certainly do without both; they normally do me more harm than good.

Ward Up

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:09:25 -0600

Let's see Spav, you hate doctors. That is lefty-style class envy that is typical among commenters on Chicagoist. You also hate cops. Doctors and cops. I don't even need to think of anything to type in order to show how dumb that is.

Mary_Sunshine

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:32:08 -0600

Repeat ophmarketing...."Read it again."

Spav1

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:28 -0600

Nurses and service workers deserve unions. Doctors don't. Get a new job. Stop wasting my time, DOCTORS. I hate doctors, almost as much as I hate the police.

ophmarketing

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:26:19 -0600

Read it again. It doesn't say that the doctors were FORMING a union. It says they were supporting a union-organizing drive at Provident Hospital. There are plenty of hosptial employees who aren't doctors, and who would benefit greatly from being unionized.

matty

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:47:12 -0600

Sue them for everything they have. Todd Stroger is a criminal for firing doctors and hiring his family members.

Ward Up

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:37:40 -0600

Spav, you are correct. Those doctors who want to form unions ARE whiners. Note, however, that most doctors, even those employed by the county, have no interest in forming unions.

Spav1

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:46:14 -0600

Why do DOCTORS need unions? Jesus, what whiners.