Comments on: Frightening Incompetence http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: la petite chou chou http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html/comment-page-1#comment-10393 la petite chou chou Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:42:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/frightening-inc.html#comment-10393 <p>My dad was just in the hospital about 2 weeks ago. The one he was in has what many consider to be a regular restaurant. He said the food was good.</p> <p>I don't understand why a hospital would purchase food, presumably for patients, and then either not feed them and chuck the food or torture them with it....It actually is boggling my mind.</p> My dad was just in the hospital about 2 weeks ago. The one he was in has what many consider to be a regular restaurant. He said the food was good.

I don’t understand why a hospital would purchase food, presumably for patients, and then either not feed them and chuck the food or torture them with it….It actually is boggling my mind.

]]> By: shunha7878 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html/comment-page-1#comment-10392 shunha7878 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:59:14 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/frightening-inc.html#comment-10392 <p>I know this is an old post but I wanted to put in my 2 cents. 4 years ago I had cancer and was in the hospital for about half a year, and believe me, you don't want their food.</p> I know this is an old post but I wanted to put in my 2 cents. 4 years ago I had cancer and was in the hospital for about half a year, and believe me, you don’t want their food.

]]> By: John Costello http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html/comment-page-1#comment-10391 John Costello Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:03:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/frightening-inc.html#comment-10391 <p>I haven't been in the hospital here in the US for two years now, thank God, but I remember the meals as the high point of the day (Lynn Union in Lynn, MA, does a very good poached salmon.)I did see meals that were uneaten -- some people were very, very sick.<br /> This has been going on for quite some time in Britain from the reports I've been seeing. Part of the problem is the 'upgrading' of nurses and at the same time a lack of the old style professionalism you can see on display in the weeper Atonement. The same nurses who plop a food tray down just out of reach of a weak and elderly patient are unwilling to change soiled linen and put filled bedpans under beds. People have complained their elderly parents were given no food and told to get back into their soiled beds. Thatcher is blamed for outsourcing hospital cleaning, although the purposes of that was to enable them to get rid of incompetent cleaners (something not possible in Canada either.) The result is that Clstridum d and superbug is running wild. Don't get sick on a vacation to the UK (although the private hospitals are said to be very good.)</p> I haven’t been in the hospital here in the US for two years now, thank God, but I remember the meals as the high point of the day (Lynn Union in Lynn, MA, does a very good poached salmon.)I did see meals that were uneaten — some people were very, very sick.
This has been going on for quite some time in Britain from the reports I’ve been seeing. Part of the problem is the ‘upgrading’ of nurses and at the same time a lack of the old style professionalism you can see on display in the weeper Atonement. The same nurses who plop a food tray down just out of reach of a weak and elderly patient are unwilling to change soiled linen and put filled bedpans under beds. People have complained their elderly parents were given no food and told to get back into their soiled beds. Thatcher is blamed for outsourcing hospital cleaning, although the purposes of that was to enable them to get rid of incompetent cleaners (something not possible in Canada either.) The result is that Clstridum d and superbug is running wild. Don’t get sick on a vacation to the UK (although the private hospitals are said to be very good.)

]]> By: dearieme http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html/comment-page-1#comment-10390 dearieme Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:17:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/frightening-inc.html#comment-10390 <p>Early in the morning you tick a form saying what you'd like for dinner. Then the doc sees you, declares you cured and sends you home. Some other patient gets your bed and, poor blighter, your choice of dinner. Two days later, he ticks a form.....</p> Early in the morning you tick a form saying what you’d like for dinner. Then the doc sees you, declares you cured and sends you home. Some other patient gets your bed and, poor blighter, your choice of dinner. Two days later, he ticks a form…..

]]> By: Bearster http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/frightening-inc.html/comment-page-1#comment-10389 Bearster Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:03:53 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/frightening-inc.html#comment-10389 <p>Or maybe this is like the situation in Florida, where people are born Hispanic and die Jewish. The problem, of course, is in how to interpret the statistic.</p> Or maybe this is like the situation in Florida, where people are born Hispanic and die Jewish. The problem, of course, is in how to interpret the statistic.

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