MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'dumping'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4438886&cid=t_311314_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fis-the-er-really-the-best-place-to-get-primary-care-quicker%2F2011.02.05 In 1986, when Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), hospitals and ambulance services were mandated by law to stabilize anyone needing emergency healthcare services regardless of citizenship, legal status, and/or insurance status. This was instituted at the time to prevent the prevalent practice of “dumping” — refusing to treat patients because of insufficient insurance or transferring or discharging patients on the basis of anticipating high diagnosis and treatment costs. While the implications of this law are indeed very noble in providing undifferentiated care to all patients based solely on healthcare needs and not financial status, it has unfortunately led to many patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) for primary care is... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4438886 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:00:34 +0100 4438886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3037105&cid=t_311314_180_f&fid=38608&url=%2F%3Fp%3D1007 Photo by zanzibar This is the first in a series of posts that showcase things I’ve learned during my recent honeymoon travels. My new wife and I decided to go on a Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon, and with the help of the most knowledgeable traveler I know, we booked an amazing week-long cruise. Lynn made me promise to leave my laptop at home, and we decided both of our phones were going to remain off for the entire trip. (Little did we know that it costs a ton to have wifi connection and even phone service on a cruise.) We wanted to spend time with each other, without worrying about the outside world. And then a funny thing happened. I had an absolute deluge of creativity. Aside from hanging out with the most beautiful woman in the world for a week, I managed to: write 5 posts ... LifeDev blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3037105 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:42:24 +0100 3037105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1160937&cid=t_311314_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F01%2Fpatient-dumping-case-illustrates.html If this allegation is true, it is beyond the pale: A mentally ill paraplegic man is suing a hospital for discharging him and dumping him in his hospital gown on a grate in skid row. From the story: Gabino Olvera, 42, sued the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center for negligence after it discharged him in February 2007, took him across town in a van and left him in a soiled hospital gown without a wheelchair in the heart of the city's homeless area. Witnesses who came to Olvera's aid said they saw him dragging himself on the ground with hospital papers and documents clenched in his teeth while the driver sat in her van and applied makeup before driving off.The incident was captured by security cameras at a nearby homeless shelter.Hernan Vera, a lawyer with Public Counsel, which helped bring... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1160937 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:19:00 +0100 1160937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=999649&cid=t_311314_111_f&fid=36538&url=http%3A%2F%2Fernursey.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fdo-they-think-they-are-first.html Mental health patients are going to be dumped on ER's in Austin. Hmmmm. That certainly sounds familiar. A few months ago our county legislature, in their infinite wisdom (not), decided that it would help balance the budget if they closed the psychiatric hospital. So now, all the patients in psychiatric crisis come to one of the local ER's while we try to locate a bed for them elsewhere in the state, often fruitlessly. It is nothing for a patient to spend their whole 72-hour hold in the ER. When the 72-hours is up we have to let them go. In the meantime they have received no treatment and are in no better condition than when they arrived. Sickening.Some of these patients are a danger to staff and other patients. They are disruptive and upsetting to the sick and dying patients who are also i... ERnursey - An emergency room nurse blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=999649 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:12:00 +0100 999649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=948823&cid=t_311314_111_f&fid=36538&url=http%3A%2F%2Fernursey.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Flocal-nursing-homes-alzheimers-unit.html The local nursing home's Alzheimer's unit sent in a patient on a 5150 hold for "threatening to harm others." (A 5150 is a 72-hour psych hold.)Ok, so first of all the patient has Alzheimer's and is on an Alzheimer's unit. And he s 94. And he weighs about 94 pounds. So, considering his advanced age and frail condition along with the fact that he is on an Alzheimer's unit where presumably there are not any unlocked, unloaded guns - how much of a threat can he be, really?So I call them. Put on my professional demeanor and ask, "what's the story here?" Although not in those exact terms. It seems that he has been increasingly agitated and striking out at the staff and threatening to "kill" them.Yeah? And? I'm confused, isn't this an Alzheimer's unit? Aren't you set up to take care of people with... ERnursey - An emergency room nurse blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=948823 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:14:00 +0100 948823