Let the rant begin!

1. Alcohol is a bitch. Two patients are shaking and rattling their beds as I write with the DT's. Clueless to the tears, anger and fear that their spouses and families are enduring because of their legal drug use.

2. The American Medical system is more screwed up than Iraq. Thankfully, my family and I have good medical insurance; in fact, really good insurance, but the system is screwed. The underserved, poor, elderly and children and working poor don't have a rats chance of getting good care anywhere other than their local ER. I am starting to believe in socialized, read equalized medicine where the lady with 50 plastic surgeries is told to get a life and her Doctor is sent to Liberia if she does or even consents to do one more surgery on the nut.

3. On TV, 80% of patients recover after being intubated (respitory tubes) and in real life in America only 10% recover. Stop lying to people.

4. "Evidence based" medical practice that many medical blogs report to be doing is a bigger lie than Iraq. It's practicing medicine because somethings the Doc's have no F$#@^& clue what's happening. Yes, it is based on research and practice and tradition, but if Bextra and other research and fake research have shown anything. It's not all science, much of it is $$$. The inability of Doctors to live in the ambiguity of the real world, of life and death, of what is known and what is unknown and best guess is bullsh$##!

5. The patient is the most important person in the room.

Thus endith the rant!