This isn't really a surprise in regards to Providence. During a six week stay a few years back, I was told by a nurse that they were going to give me Humilin R insulin (which I am allergic to); I was told "...it's hospital policy and it works for everyone else on this floor, it will work for you too." I had to physically restrain the nurse from giving me a shot of it; they didn't give me the insulin I required until my doctor threatened them later. At Providence you are not a patient, you are an experiment first, and a statistic after the fact. I was in the hospital for a staph infection in my leg. An infection that my physician says there was a 99 percent chance I contracted from Providence Hospital itself.
- Michael Joseph · Top CommenterDon't believe everything you read. The State can do what it wants, as can the hospitals, and make up any old "reason" it feels like making in order to accomplish their aims. They do it all the time with inmates sent to hospitals and yes, a hospital WILL lie to cover up it's malpractice. The combination of power between the hospital and the state is nearly impossible to resist if you're a lowly citizen with limited resources.
- Rick Stevens · Top Commenter · Poudre High SchoolA different perspective.
http://www.policestateusa.com/ 2014/bret-bohn/ - Stefanie ColbertLet's be completely honest. The State of Alaska MAKES MONEY off of these cases. They could care less about what is right.
- Dee Allenbrand · University of Alaska AnchorageLet Bret's parents and friends visit him.. he needs family and fresh air rather than drugs.. let him clean out his system he needs to experience FREEDOM again... The best for Bret would be to have his parents back in his life and help him get though this medical issue... a mother's love is better than any medicine. FREE BRET NOW!
- Frank Wait · Top Commenter · UAAAdam NDjinn Appel, really 100%. You are making things up! There is no way for you to be correct because the medical system does not produce 100% accurate results when matching appropriate procedures and medications to patients. Have you ever wondered why they call it a "medical practice?"
- Sam Jones · Top Commenter · Strategist at Trombley and EielsonSo, has Mr. Bohn become a state sanctioned medical experiment?
- Kathy Hoag · Works at Retired/Disabledmy wife had a lot of the same symptoms and after months at the Cleveland clinic her diagnosis was paraneoplastic. treatment is IVIG and steroids plus many other drugs. It has been 7 yrs. doing well.
- Frank Wait · Top Commenter · UAAHospitals are amongst a class of businesses whose market share is protected from competition with CON (Certificate of Need) laws. Do a little research on how CON laws are in reality Certificate of Monopoly laws for many classes of businesses. These types of laws limit competition, limit choices, create artificial high prices, and result in poor customer relations. Eliminate CON laws and you would find a more responsive and cost effective healthcare system in the USA.
