sicko

• Anybody see the movie Sicko yet? Important movie! - nm
  • Health care is important, but.. - Michael Moore is an IDI@T
    • pot/kettle/black.....Moore is FAR from idiocy!! - Check out your own mirror!!.....SM
  • No, but can't wait to see it! - sm
    • He ought to add the MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION companies - to the mix, as well. nmsg
  • not to me!! - nm
    • Me neither - PAMT~MDM
    • sicko - nana
      • hah! thats funny!! - sm
        • *time wasting* ?? Not fair statement - it's educational and consciousness raising!!

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   So has anyone seen the movie "Sicko" yet?  Did you like it?  Hate it?  Find out anything new you didn't know about the health care industry?  Do you think it'll open the public's eyes a little bit?  Any particular part youy considered really shocking, etc.?

Interesting video on YouTube - this guy says it simply & eloquently.  He wants people to send him videos on the subject - anyone out there in MT with a PC-cam could certainly get the word out on the offshoring-of-medical-records to a HUGE audience in this way.  Here's a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8NDs4YuLXE

very very eye-opening and it's truly laugh-out-loud funny, not terribly *political* in the sense that 911 movie was.....but REALLY really funny, interesting, and eye opening to say the least - best 2 hours I've had of late......

oh, it was 4:30 in the afternoon and the theater was full - I was surprised actually...and full of people of all ages, denominations, cultures, red state-blue state, et al.....all having an interest in what is going on here regarding healthcare. 

TRULY not to be missed by all except children (who would get bored)!! 

Leave your politics at home and go see Moore's best yet.....this is a human issue.......this particular movie.....

I have NO desire to see this movie, and I believe that it is just perpetuating and promoting what is going on in this county  -- I recently suffered a broken leg and went to THE "county hospital, i.e., Jackson Memorial, in Miami/Dade County  -- the ONLY reason that I even went there was because of the fact that my significant other did not understand that with my insurance through CHAMPUS that I could be seen at any or all hospitals in the Miami area  -- as a side note, the ONLY time that I have been "turned down" is at a Kaiser facility as far as being seen as a CHAMPUS patient.

CHAMPUS is the major insurance carrier that serves our military and their familes once the service member is honorably discharged, retires from active duty or dies in active combat or retired. 

What I endured at Jackson was little short of HORRENDOUS and I believe that if any of us were to be seen at a major medical facility, we would soon find this out.

Jackson Memorial is 1500 beds  -- I was initially seen in their "Extreme Care" section  -- I got there at 11:30 a.m. and was finally out of there at 11:30 p.m.  In the meantime, I walked down to their radiology department because the ignoramous P.A. did not put me in a wheelchair or crutches after I told him that the ankle area had been bruised for a week  even after I wrapped it, Epsom salts, ice packs etc  -- guess their attitude was "oh well"  -- sure enough, it was a fracture  -- they lost my records and with my second appointment it was from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to be seen in their "Trauma Clinic"  -- no docs, just residents,but tell you what, if you are of Hispanic descent, or poor  -- BOY do you get preferential treatment  -- needless to say, I am still in pain, with swelling, can't wear a shoe after the cast being off a week, and cannot get results  -- I called the ER a bit ago and told them that I was going to be seen at a real hospital and that they could take their treatment and stick it

Bottom line is that patient care has TRULY gone down the toilet, whether it be a nurse, doctor or ANY kind of healthcare professional.