Category: health care

Oscar Still Predicting Patient Deaths

~ Pharmer

Oscar the Cat had become the subject of an entry in the New England Journal of Medicine for his unusual ability to predict which nursing home patient would die next. Since acquiring, fame in 2007, he has doubled his number of predictions, sometimes with better ability than the caregivers at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, which had adopted him 5 years earlier.

Oscar isn’t very sociable, under usual circumstances, but, if permitted, will curl up on the bed next to a patient who is about to get the final call home.

Dr. David Dosa, who has since chronicled this cat’s behavior in a book, suspects that the animal might be sensitive to the ketones given off by dying cells.

Nursing home employees have alerted family members based upon Oscars visits, and those involved mainly seem to take comfort in Oscar’s presence with the patients in their final hours.

Coakley obtains Obama aid

~ Pharmer

Martha Coakley, that Massachusetts Senate candidate who thinks Catholics shouldn’t be permitted to work in hospital emergency rooms, has obtained the full backing and support of Obama, immediately after her expression of this sentiment. Obama intends to travel to Coakley’s state on Sunday in order to bolster her effort against Republican Scott Brown.

Pharmer is happy to have assisted others in learning of Coakley’s religious intolerance via submissions of this Washington times story and Ken Pittman to a number of well known venues of news and commentary.

This story also appeared on the Drudge Report, Jill Stanek’s page, and was echoed by Rush Limbaugh on his Friday 1/15 radio show, among others. It is hoped that enough people heard of Coakley’s views that Obama might need to address a question about it when he travels to Massachusetts in her support.
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Sr. Carol Keehan Still Lost in the Weeds Regarding Abortive "Health" Care

~ Pharmer

Obama and Abortion have been so extremely attached for so long,  Pharmer expects Stedmans Medical Dictionary to rename the practice “OBORTION”.

This year,  Sr. Carol Keehan, of the Catholic Health Association,  managed the same kind of lost in the weeds public statement as last year when she praised the (later aborted) appointment of Tom Daschle as HHS secretary.   One can understand some administrative need to get along with the government, but these public statements cause her to appear a bit ridiculous to those who watch the political machinations.

Here’s what the Good Sister put out on December 17th, regarding the unfounded belief that Bob Casey ever shared any serious interests with prolifers, and that the Senate would be concerned with our respect for human life. 

More recently there is a too little, too late, statement that CHA agrees with the recent awakening of the U.S. Conference of Catholic  Bishops that public funding of abortion  and coercing the practice at the religiously run hospitals would be a bad idea.

Recent history has shown us that both the CHA and the USCCB have been willing to pass control of health care to people whom, as a group, are known to:
lie,
steal,
cheat on their taxes while demanding we pay,
accept bribes,
have association with the untimely deaths of ordinary citizens,
engage in personal practices which most of us find abhorrent,
favor health care rationing
abrogate the conscience rights of health care professionals who choose not to kill humans
favor, fund and obtain abortions
export the latter practice as population control for the “brown people” of the world.

Either the leaders of the CHA and USCCB are insane, or they have had  very short term economic issues in mind when attempting to get along with the slime of Washington DC.  It  is antithetical to good reason to hand over complete control of health care to a horribly corrupt institution, and expect for it to remain mostly  free from  the killing which the institution is known to favor.

Pharmer reminds the CHA and USCCB  that when their health care institutions no longer display any difference from the public institutions, the special social position and private funding which they have obtained will cease to exist.

National Health Care Power Grab

~ Pharmer

This one might cause Obama to fall on his face.

He declared an national emergency due to the swine flu. Now go down and reread the post below…..

And given the facts, realize that Obama is grabbing power in order to move against a thing which is unquantifiable, and over which his activity will have little to NO influence.

He’s going to waste billions and billions of money on this effort.

The H1N1 influenza is HERE, in unknown amount. The vaccine distribution is just beginning, and there is not much of it.

And remember, its JUST another Flu.

Will we be having national emergencies every year???