Doctors And Nurses Are Confessing “Dark Secrets” About Their Jobs That The Public Has No Clue About

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“Administrative staff can seriously ruin staffing. Profits are paramount. All manner of corruption, bad research, bad medicine, bad policies, etc., have been perpetrated because money rules all, including falsifying charting to cover their administrative butts. People have NO IDEA how bad the charting issues have been and how much worse they’ve gotten for about 70 years, I’m aware of. Folks don’t understand that ‘consumer/social engineering’ affects everything.”

“Also, VA chronically markedly underpays staff nurses compared with their peers in a region. And, screwy stuff has gotten away with in those facilities, like a patient getting ‘disappeared,’ or a female patient who should have lived but was malpracticed and died miserably, while admins bragged how they helped her comfort by renting a costly special bed for the few months she kept breathing. And patients who are ‘inconvenient’ are juggled from pillar to post, moved from facility to facility, with wrong orders, etc. If it weren’t for a family member or a staff member being astute, many more would die faster. Frail elders, those who are mentally/emotionally unstable, and children are especially highly vulnerable to big industry pressures.

I’ve experienced, witnessed, and finally given up renewing my license (at 72), because of the astonishingly immoral stuff that passed as ‘healthcare,’ or just about anything else. I’ve become sardonic/jaded. However, as a freelance volunteer nurse advocate for the last 25 years, people have restored my faith that compassion is important; they still need help and can be very happy to have realistic help they can manage. I’ve still been able to save lives, guide — and perhaps even better — get to see improving long-term outcomes. It’s been very fulfilling. And it rarely needs commercial medicine tactics. It bypasses insurance and billing. It has kept on a human-helping-human basis. It has helped empower those who feel helpless. Kinda like the old-time providers who did human house-calls. Real.”

—Anonymous, Washington