Comments by benhorse3
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Posted on May 7 at 5:59 p.m.
Hmmm... yes, I must concede that my comments were somewhat provocative and very much pro-hospital. For the former, I do apologize. I am not, in fact, anti-Barnett but am very pro-NRH. Physicians, like hospital administrators, come and go. We have seen good and bad examples of both, and the fact that these two camps seem forever locked in conflict and turmoil result in only one loser: the good people of Emporia and Lyon County. Since you are clearly a patient of the good doctor, and since, judging by the time of your post, a senior citizen, I will respectfully decline to cross swords with you. I hope this most recent faldarah can resolve itself without too much more rancor and divisiveness. I wish Jim hadn't taken this to the streets.
Posted on May 6 at 11:20 p.m.
Where to begin? I have been a patient at NRH numerous times, and I have yet to discover a serious cause for complaint with the quality of care I received there. On the other hand, I can say with some authority that doctors are akin to auto mechanics inasmuch as they are dealing with a highly complex system of moving, interactive parts that are subject to a plethora of misalignments and malfunctions; when faced with a particular situation, they apply their training and their experience and then they... guess. That is their vocation and that is their plight. But they augment their difficulties by trotting out their wildly over inflated egos and generally making themselves unavailable to a patient who is personally enduring some dozens of discomforts and diseases... dis-ease, indicating discomfort and the lack of the absence of pain... which is the ultimate definition of pleasure, by the way.
In a strangely convoluted way, I can understand Jim Barnett's desire to have one or more nurses holding his hand while he makes his untimely rounds. How can he know what transpired during the night or while he was away in government service? Well, he might read and digest the chart that is meticulously kept and then apply his very expensive skills to the problem. Or, he could cast irresponsible aspersions at the only health care facility that this community is awfully doggone fortunate to have. I come from a small town that sold bumper stickers pleading doctors to come there and practice their art (for apparently, it is not a skill)... those poor folks would've sacrificed a limb for the availability of professional health care that you fine examples of intellectual humanity are actively undermining. Hate the hospital? Keep behaving in this irrational fashion and you can kiss your local hospital good-bye and look forward to an $8,000 cab ride to Topeka, Kansas City or Wichita for every little thing that befalls you. NRH is self sustaining, provides quality, professional short-term care, employs hundreds at above average wage and. while not perfect, is worlds better than nothing in this county at all. Dr. Barnett, you are a fine, talented Christian man; Emporia is lucky to have you, as Kansas is to have you in the governmental process. But you are a grown man and a trained professional; you do not need a nurse to continually hold your hand, nor do you need to eviscerate the body that pays your BMW payment. This controversy needs to end now, with your genuine and gentle relinquishment of a stand wrongly taken. Let us move forward and abandon our petty egocentricities... for the betterment of the community.
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Posted on May 9 at 10:01 p.m.
Well, create, your demonstration of just how thin the human skin can be is a wonderful prediction of how this controversy is going to play out; full of rancor and divisiveness. I choose not to be argumentative with senior citizens out of respect. If you were out partying and just getting in to do a little casual computing at 5:30 AM, then I must grant you even more respect than the most senior of my senior citizen friends. Oh, and by the bye... I'm no spring chicken, myself!
And please, don't try and make this seem that my comments about Jim are somehow steeped in hatred by putting quotations around my term, good doctor. He is a good doctor! For gosh sakes, take a breath... and get some sleep: you've got to get up early.
This is good-bye, my young aquaintenance. My sharp tongue and your thin skin do not make for a fortuitous meeting. No doubt you will find someone else upon which to wage an internet flame-war. I wish you the best of luck. Meanwhile, back to the real issue... I hope this can be resolved without our much-valued and highly awarded local health care facility being further sullied or damaged...by anyone. Finis!
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