Glenn Beck Botched Surgery Points to State of Healthcare in America (video)
Posted on January 4th, 2008 in glenn beck, health, health care facilities, health insurance, hospitals | 7 Comments »
Glenn Beck, host of the Glenn Beck Show on CNN and radio personality, has released a video where he shares his recent planned surgery experience that “went horribly awry”. Unfortunately it appears there were problems and Glenn seemed to indicate they were in regards to the way the hospital treated him (“phenomenally bad”), how this affects anyone looking to receive healthcare in America (“…this is a hospital where the president of GE goes. If they don’t care about the president of GE well, will they care about the shlubs, average working stiffs?”), the effects of the drugs and how he would chose a ‘handgun to his head over taking more medicine’. Not sure where this is going to go, but he mentioned that he will talk more about it on his radio and television shows this upcoming Monday. We wish Glenn a speedy recovery. Stay tuned, could be interesting.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all faked, a cheap ploy to just get ratings trying to save his crappy CNNHN show.
i tuned in a little too late tonight-can somebody tell me what was wrong with glenn in the first place that he even required surgery? thank you
YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE WORSE. I AM THE POSTER CHILD (GE 59 FEMALE FOR SLIPSHOD HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, LANCASTER, CA. I HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO DEATH 4 TIMES IN THE PAST 6 WEEKS DUE TO BAD HEALTH CARE. I HAD MORPHINE, I WAS ALLERIGIC TO IT, THEY HAD TO ADMINISTER BENADRYL TO REVERSE IT. I WAS HOSPITALIZED 2 DAYS AND NEVER SAW A DOCTOR. I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HEART ATTACK AND TREATED FOR ONE WHILE HOSPITALIZED AND WAS TOLD BY UCLA MEDICAL CENTER THERE WAS NO HISTORY OF ME HAVING A HEART ATTACK. I WAS BRUTALIZED AND HOUSED FOR MONEY FOR 2 DAYS AT A HOSPITAL AND NEVER SAW A PHYSICIAN. I WAS TOLD THAT MY DOCTOR WAS CONSULTING BY PHONE AND HAD ORDERED TESTS AND MEDS FOR ME. I HAD TO TAKE CARE OF AN OLD PATIENT IN THE ROOM WITH ME THAT NO ONE RESPONDED TO WHEN HER BELLS WENT OUT, I HAD TO CALL THE OPERATOR TO Call the nurses station for someone to come to our room and help this patient. In the 2 days i was admitted din lancaster community hospital i never saw a doctor. when i requested one by sunday, he showed up after my calls and said he would come back monday, he had other patients to see this evening and had ordered tests for me for monday. problem with this was ( i could not take a treadmill or stress test because i couldnt walk or stand, so i checked out of the hospital while i was still alive. they gave me aftercare instructions and that was it. in the meanwhile i find out from ucla med center that my test results show no history of heart problems. they treated me for 2 days with shots in my stomach, nitroglycerine patches which gave me migraine headaches, morphine for pain which i was allergic to and they had to give me benadryl to reverse the morphine, there was a shortage of nursing staff, i was told by a nurse who was trying to do her job that she had four other patients to deal with and couldnt answer all of my calls. this is only the tip of the iceburg, the rest is worse than what i am writing about. they almost killed me at this hospital.
raven
GOD Bless you Glenn. Thank you for sharing!
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee statement about the death of Nataline Sarkisyan:
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today blasted insurance giant CIGNA for failing to approve a liver transplant one week earlier for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who tragically died last night just hours after CIGNA relented and agreed to the procedure following a massive national outcry.
On Dec. 11, four leading physicians, including the surgical director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at UCLA, wrote to CIGNA urging the company to reverse its denial. The physicians said that Nataline “currently meets criteria to be listed as Status 1A” for a transplant. They also challenged CIGNA’s denial which the company said occurred because their benefit plan “does not cover experimental, investigational and unproven services,” to which the doctors replied, “Nataline’s case is in fact none of the above.”
“So what happened between December 11, when CIGNA denied the transplant, and December 20 when they approved? A huge outpouring of protest and CIGNA’s public humiliation. Why didn’t they just listen to the medical professionals at the bedside in the first place?” asked Geri Jenkins, RN, a member of the CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents who works in a transplant unit at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.
“On Thursday, CIGNA was bombarded with phone calls to its offices across the country while a rally sponsored by CNA/NNOC, with the substantial help of the local Armenian community, drew 150 people to the Glendale offices of CIGNA – all of which produced the turnaround by CIGNA to finally reverse its prior denial of care.”
CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro called the final outcome “a horrific tragedy that demonstrates what is so fundamentally wrong with our health care system today. Insurance companies have a stranglehold on our health. Their first priority is to make profits for their shareholders – and the way they do that is by denying care.”
“It is simply not possible to organize major protests every time a multi-billion corporation like CIGNA denies care that has been recommended by a physician,” DeMoro said. “Having insurance is not the same as receiving needed care. We need a fundamental change in our healthcare system that takes control away from the insurance giants and places it where it belongs – in the hands of the medical professionals, the patients, and their families.”
Also see:
The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
and the Struggle to Achieve It
by STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php
Judy, he was having a planned outpatient hemorrhoid surgery when complications arose and he had to check himself into the hospital. He was treated poorly in the hospital and the reason why he talked about it.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.