hipmama42
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Cadburry, this girl's blog, this "compassionate" E.R. nurse who has a superiority complex and is a legend in her own mind and most of the smug, clueless idiots who commented and supported her opinions made me so angry I had an asthma attack. I rarely have asthma attacks any more! But hey, when I was in junior high, asthma was one of those "emotional" "psychological" conditions students "made up" "pretended" or "faked" so I could be lazy and get out of gym class. It was a stigma just as a fibro diagnosis is now. Today if anyone told an asthma patient "this is all in your head, snap out of it, relax, and pull yourself together and quit whining and trying to get out of doing work!" this person would be under attack immediately by the entire medical community. Note that this "humorous" woman who enjoys "making fun of dumb people" has someone's comment on her her blog with the top 10 "money making non-existent diseases" and they include depression and bi-polar disorder and bypass open heart surgery. I know I should not get this worked up over ignorant, stubborn, self-important, uncaring medical "professionals" , but unfortunately their attitudes are common place in the E.R. Anyone NOT dying of a heart attack is "faking it" or, if they are elderly a "GOMER" -Get Out of My Emergency Room" who sould croak instead of waste their precious time because they are SO important and only want to deal with adrenalin pumping life and death situations....not common, ordinary everyday suffering like most ER patients have. Patients who are drug addicts, alcoholics, have any mental condition requiring meds, and anyone with an "invisible" disorder like fibro or asthma are said to be "drug seekers" or "drama junkies" just seeking attention. They shun the poor who are on Medicaid, the weak, the elderly, the mentally infirm, and judge anyone guilty of alcoholism and addictions of any kind....their attitudes are often "these people deserve to suffer." I know this through vast past personal experience, and incompetence in more than one area E.R., not being taken seriously and treated rudely, nearly resulted in my death from status asthmaticus....a severe asthma attack that is often fatal. Finally I found one ER doc to believe me and run the right tests to find out how serious my condition was. I am rambling, but it illustrates the callous, smug, arrogant thinking of many docs and nurses in the E.R., at least, those who have never been seriously ill themselves. This nurse who writes this blog takes the cake for cruel humor at other people's expense, however. No amount of scientific or medical "proof" that fibro is a "real" syndrome is going to change her mind. It would do no good to send her published medical studies from serious prestigious medical journals like The Journal of Rheumatology -- she would still have some excuse not to believe the conclusions of these studies and the hard evidence of the changes in our brains and the eleveated levels of Substance P in our spinal fluid. Her mind is closed to the truth. I pity any patient she comes in contact with...and I hope I never have to go to the E.R. again in my life! It is a horrible and often humiliating experience. Sorry about the novel. My blood is BOILING because I know that so many medical personel feel this way about fibro! Like that doctor who wrote the New York Times article... How did you find this woman's blog, by the way? Post edited by: hipmama42, at: 04/07/2008 02:21 |
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