Glen Beck: "They wouldn't let me have the oxygen I asked for"

[cynatnite]

Well, no they didn't you, ignorant fuck! Oxygen is for patients who need it and your puckered up ass didn't need it! And you waited two hours for pain meds and whine that they weren't busy. :eyes: How do you know they weren't busy? Did you go to their trauma section? Did you check out all the other rooms to see if someone was coding? Did you know that in most hospitals when they triage patients they are separated according to illness and/or injury away from the more critical patients? They do that for a reason.

Yes, Mr. Beck you are the butt of the joke because you think this is all about you. You're not telling the world about the injustices of patients dying because health insurance companies deny payment which is equal to denying care. You're not screaming about patients who are maimed and even killed by lousy doctors, but repukes like you want to limit how much someone can sue them over. You're not yelling about the tragedy of folks who don't go to the doctor because they can't afford it and wind up getting even sicker.

In other words, Mr. Beck...shut the hell up! If you really want to know why are health care system sucks...come see me and I'll show you.

One thing I can say is this...nurses work their asses off and they don't have time to deal with a whiny celeb like you.

My reason for :rant:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_beck_s_pain

[gateley]

1. Good. nt

[Hydra]

2. Moron

my head hurts, thinking that slime is human.

[mitchum]

3. He's also not gonna get ice water in hell

[medeak]

4. physician order to administer oxygen

a nurse can't just dispense it because pt asks... sat level needs to be done to show he really required it. This is what hospital staff has to endure besides working ridiculously long schedules for little pay and corporate heads treating them like crap.

[sandnsea]

5. my cyn, he hit a nerve or somethin?

good rant!

[cynatnite]

8. Yep, former ER tech and medic

People like him who think they're entitled to special treatment piss me off. I can imagine it pissed off a few nurses, too.

[lpbk2713]

6. Beck is a typical RW dipshit

[Mojambo]

7. That's because you've been wasting it for years you fucking asshole, blowhard. n/t

[Rex]

9. Glenn Beck is a waste of health care.

A real argument for leaving something on the sidewalk to die in peace.

[southerncross48]

10. Beck and Oxygen

Why should Glen Beck have oxygen when he doesn't have a brain to use it.

[kikiek]

17. Problem was they only had oxygen. He needed hot air.

[whatdoyouthink]

11. Funny

"They say" we got the Best - then when they need it - "they complain"

Bet he had Insurance - with $0 copay!!! while most of us - (if we can afford it) pay huge amounts MONTHLY and Larger COPAY!

What a baby

[Warpy]

12. You tell him!

I let my license go last year because I just couldn't face going back, no matter if my back were miraculously cured and my transplant suddenly started to work the way it was advertised to. No fucking way.

I can tell he whined, wanted everything done for him, refused to participate in his own care, never wanted to learn about new medications, and was generally a demanding, manipulative blob. Fluff my pillow, bend my straw and kiss my dick to make it all feel better.

I'm sure he's written a letter of complaint and I'm equally sure he might get some fine caregivers fired because he's important and has a lousy attitude. I've seen things like that happen before because management will not stand up and defend their dwindling staff.

:rant:

[kikiek]

13. Well maybe he will now join the nurses unions in fighting for safe patient care standards.

Nurses are caring for too many patients creating an unsafe work environment, poor care, dissatisfaction, and high job burnout. They try to use less trained personal to make up the difference. It doesn't work.

[Richard Steele]

14. Proud to give this rec #5!

[progressoid]

15. Sorry Glen, oxygen is only for carbon-based life forms.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

16. HOPE BECK COMMITS SUICIDE AS A PUBLICITY STUNT

HE TRULY IS A CANCER
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I WAS REC SIX

[Hamlette]

18. I thought we had the best health care in the world? How can this be?

glad to see a wingnut complain about health care.

[Aviation Pro]

19. There is a simple reason why the hospital didn't dispense....

...O₂ to you, crybaby, and it's actually compassionate: they would have had to have called the cops and had you arrested for being an oxygen thief.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Wasting oxygen on someone already brain dead is against hospital policy.

[TNDemo]

21. What hospital was it?

Just curious.

[knitter4democracy]

28. All he says is it's the same one the CEO of GE goes to.

Of course, he hasn't realized that the CEO of GE has probably given millions to that hospital and such gets far different treatment.

[Ineedchange]

33. So Glenn Beck is going to complain to a CEO

that helped turn the legdary "hippocratic oath" into the "hypocritic Oath". Glenn should have asked before he went in if they would be more concerned with their private profits or their paying customers (non-paying customers or folks with questionable insurance need not apply). Based on his video he now knows what is more important to the CEOs in our medical world.

He needs to turn his tears to people who "care" for him!!!!

Rants like his about the health care industry is exactly why it's a for-profit industry which denies service to non-paying customers or folks with questionable insurance need not apply.

[dkf]

22. Am I the only one who feels bad for a person in pain?

Yikes.

[knitter4democracy]

27. His bad reaction is sad, but his capitalizing on it is sadder.

How many of us have been in pain like that? Lots of us have. We didn't scream for a letter from the CEO of the hospital, we didn't blame overstaffed nurses, and we didn't cry on YouTube about it.

This racist bigoted jerk (check his show if you think I exaggerate) is whining because of standard care. Do we need to fix the health system? Sure we do! Does he think we do now? Not really--check again what he says: No universal health care, he just wants an apology from the hospital CEO and to write up the nurses who didn't jump when he snapped his fingers. He still doesn't get it.

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Got the oxygen. He just didn't notice.

They stuck a tube up his ass instead of his mouth.

[knitter4democracy]

24. Now, I've been in the hospital for five days. It sucks. Still . . .

I was in for surgery, and I know how terrifying and dehumanizing it can feel. Still, he's whining about a bad reaction to pain meds. Everything he mentioned is fairly standard--ER nurses can be amazingly overworked and understaffed, and sometimes nurses get jaded and tired of whiny patients, and sometimes meds work wrong on a particular person, and sometimes infections and bad reactions happen. Nothing he talks about is new or crazy or even unusual.

Let's compare scars, Glenn. Mine's ten inches long, and I lost my right kidney, my right adrenal gland, a slice off my liver, and three inches of rib. How big is your scar? What did you lose? You actually got pain meds that worked for you--I woke up from my surgery with zero pain control. Yeah. Narcotics don't block my pain pathways, so I just get the nausea, puking, and other fun side effects with no help, no relief. Thank goodness I'd had appendicitis for ten years that had been misdiagnosed so I knew what I had to do to deal with the pain, though guided imagery and meditation don't work as well as morphine, from what I hear.

You want to talk mean nurses? Yeah, I've had some. They kept me alive, though, so I'm good. They got me coughing (which hurt like I can't even describe) so I wouldn't get pneumonia. They got me walking when all I wanted to do was curl up and moan and cry so I wouldn't lose muscle mass or get sicker. Wow, what horrible people. :eyes:

Cry me a river, Glenn. :nopity:

[OzarkDem]

43. The health care system Beck helped create

one that is stretched to the max trying to care for people w/ no health insurance.

If he wants better care, he can hire a private nurse. Isn't that the Republican way?

[knitter4democracy]

48. That is the Republican way, you're right. Private nurses, private care.

He got a taste of his own medicine, so to speak, and he's whining how bad it tastes. Whatever.

[medeak]

46. lighting a candle for you to heal!

and quick!

[knitter4democracy]

47. It's been a year, but I'm still dealing with fallout from the kidney surgery.

The current theory is that I have some autoimmune disease now. *sigh*

[burythehatchet]

25. hmm... maybe it wasn't an accident... maybe they saw your show

[loudsue]

26. So...he wants to talk about "hiring doctors & nurses who CARE?"

Doesn't he realize that the corporations that OWN the hospitals aren't paying their people to CARE? Sure, a lot of health care professionals DO care. But the hospitals' job is to make a PROFIT, and avoid malpractice.

They make a profit when they hire those who will take the least salary, and then have one person doing the work of six people. So, labor become slaves, and patients have to suffer pain and indignities. THAT is how CORPORATIONS run things.

When in the hell are the so called "conservatives" going to get it? But one thing conservatives do know, and that is how to WHINE about how every problem they have is because of liberals.

They're just friggin' clueless. They are not capable of putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with anything like a correct answer.

[Rex]

29. This is public exposure of a RW idiot to the Masses. Like O'Reilly

everytime he goes out into public and embarrasses the white race. Walking RWbots out of character and into their real personalities. Like Rush Nosack on an oxyrant.

[MiniMe]

37. They can't hire enough nurses period.

Hospitals are consistantly short of nursing staff. Personally, I have always been treated well by the nurses, and they do really seem to care. Perhaps that is because I talk to them nicely, like they were a real person, what a concept. It does take a while to get meds, mostly because the nurse has to call down to the pharmacy and have the drugs sent up. They don't stock a lot of drugs at the nurses station.

Glen, you are a major a##hole, and I'm sure that you were quite a pain in the a## to the nurses.

[knitter4democracy]

49. It depends. Most hospitals deliberately shortstaff.

Nurses cost money but don't bring in billing, so it's cheaper to pay higher malpractice insurance premiums than pay for enough nurses. Studies show that nurses save lives, that keeping a low patient to nurse ratio keeps people alive, but the bean counters in the hospital administrations just don't care. It's infuriating. Our local hospital is shortstaffing as much as they can and just shut down the children's ward entirely, blaming it on nurses when it was really the pediatricians who didn't want to cover it. Ugh.

[dkf]

30. This is awful. Everyone is like...I went through it and I had so much pain and so he should too.

Isn't this his point? Why should anyone be in pain when we have everything we need to make it better?

I haven't been through any of this but damn I want better!

[Rex]

32. People are making fun of his RW mentality.

No one really wants to see him in pain. His point is stupid egotistical nonsense. If the medical professionals (don't forget about them) deemed he needed oxygen for his surgery and recovery - he would have received some oxygen.

For him to presume he needed it, just because he is Glenn Beck...well I hope you see the point. People are being sarcastic assholes toward Beck. Nothing more.

[cynatnite]

35. He thinks he's entitled to special care over what other patients get...

he has no understanding of how the ER works or that the nurses can't give him anything unless the doctor orders it.

[dkf]

38. Maybe that is a problem then no?

All I can say is thank GOD I haven't been through this yet.

But if I am ever in enough pain to necessitate going to the hospital I am sure I would want special treatment too!

Maybe that makes me a right winger :)

[cynatnite]

40. I don't think you understand...

I've been a hospital patient and I've cared for patients in an ER setting. Most folks are fine. They will ask for pain meds or other things and if the doctor allows it they'll get it. Otherwise, no. They don't. Most patients are normal people unlike Glen Beck.

People want to be treated like they matter and that's fine. That's probably what you're saying. What Beck is implying by his one-sided story is that he should get what he wants. Period. That's not how hospitals work...hell, that's not even how life works. Nurses will not give pain medicine, oxygen, food or even water unless the doctor okays it.

Beck's one-sided story tells me that he's a pampered jerk who thought his butt should have priority over patients with life-threatening illnesses and injuries. It also tells me he does not have a clue.

[knitter4democracy]

53. There's special treatment, and then there's special treatment.

He wanted oxygen and complains that his nurse didn't give it to him. Well, that takes a doctor's order, and the doctor will only give it if the oxygen saturation level is below a certain number. It's not his nurse's fault he didn't get it. It was ridiculous for him to ask for it if he didn't need it anyway.

If you're ever in that much pain, and I hope you never are (it seriously sucks), you keep asking to speak to your doctor or to a doctor who can help you with the pain. Pain meds are tricky things: some work for some people and not others, others work for most people but not all, and almost all have side effects you have to balance with other meds.

He says he was hallucinating and suicidal on the pain meds. I've had bad reactions to medications, and it's just part of medicine. No one can know what reaction a patient will have before he has it. My doctor thought I could handle prednisone since most of my bad medicine reactions are pain meds, and after a long night of mania and feeling like I was losing my mind and going into the darkness, we called my doctor and told her to add prednisone to the "can't take that ever again" list in my chart. I'm making a video about how incompetent my doctor is--the pred had to wear off, and there was no way of knowing that I'd react that way. Sometimes they just have to let the medication wear off before giving you anything else, and it seriously sucks, but that's just how it is.

[loudsue]

55. About prednisone.....I just printed out your post for my doctor.

I've been round & round with him over this. When I first went to him when I moved here, I told him NOT to ever give me prednisone. I told him it made me crazy: suicidal, homicidal, and every other kind of crazy. It's written on the front of my chart, at my insistance, under medicines I'm "allergic" to.

So...last year I got caught in the Whooping Cough epidemic going on in the SE U.S. Whooping Cough REALLY sucks when you're in your 50's. I had already fractured 3 ribs coughing, and he kept telling me that the ONLY thing that would help it was prednisone.

That shit is DANGEROUS!! I refused to take it, so he said there was nothing he could do. Ever since then, whenever I see him we go through the whole predisone argument again.

I wonder how many people out there can't take that stuff. You and I couldn't possibly be the only ones.

[knitter4democracy]

57. Oh, no, Hubby tells me it's common.

He has several patients that can't tolerate prednisone at all, even though he's an internist and not a rheumatologist. No, I can never take that stuff again. I remember the mind racing thing and bagging up all my meds, preparing to walk to the closest psych hospital (half an hour away by car--have no idea how I was going to walk there), and I still don't know how David stopped me and got me to lie down. It was a long dark night, one of the worst I have ever had, and David told me never to take that stuff ever again, which sucks considering I have asthma and maybe some other autoimmune disease. Still, it's not worth going through that again.

Stay strong on the prednisone. There are many of us who can't tolerate it, not even a little. It's a strong medication that really messes with some of us.

[knitter4democracy]

50. I'd respect his opinion more if he weren't still saying we need to privatize it all.

He doesn't want national health care, he doesn't want costs to go up to get satisfactory nursing staffing levels, he just wants nicer nurses and doctors. Not good enough.

[MadMaddie]

31. The irony here is rich isn't it? Beck is one of the mouthpieces

that dehumanizes poor and middle class people for not having insurance but they are really sick and need medical attention. Beck and others like him say that the poor and the middle class are abusing the system.

To the Becks of the world....welcome to reality....this is what you get in a Rethuglican led country....closing hospitals, less than enough medical professionals....and a lot of sick people that aren't being treated as fast as they should be....(In one of the most advanced countries in the world....)

Hey Beck look in the mirror....YOU and your Rethuglican friends are the reson that Healthcare is in the state it is in......so enjoy it you deserve it. That's all....

[Orangepeel]

34. he thinks that if poor people get health care, he'll have to wait 2 1/2 hours for pain meds

that's his whole problem in a nutshell.

[bridgit]

36. It's a good thing he wasn't there for a C-Sec, dude's head would have exploded...

[fujiyama]

39. Beck can go suffocate for all I care

What a dick.

[MrMickeysMom]

41. Now THIS I find rather interesting...

He has outpatient surgery from years of having his head half way up his ass, and because his pain wasn't adequately controlled, he returned to the ER? Let's talk about what that cost, Glenn. Oh, it didn't matter? Why? Cause you have good insurance? Somehow, the fact that 47 million other Americans don't is is not news?

I'll join the nurse in this thread, but I'll say it as a Respiratory Therapist - we all ought to drag this outraged peckerhead by his surgically sculptured balls into the homes of people without healthcare so he could do a real story. We'll see how much empathy he has for end stage lung disease and mental health patients who may have to choose either to eat half way decently or have new medications due to their trip to the ER. The real story is not being discussed where it concerns health care reform.

I hope his constipated ass continues to bulge with each valsalva maneuver he does on the toilet.

[Kber]

42. Maybe the figured he'd already used up more than his fair share

assuming the hospital waiting room was turned to CNN

[gratuitous]

44. We did a cost/benefit analysis, Mr. Beck

We determined that you would only suck up a precious resource, oxygen, and return another gas, carbon dioxide, that has far less utility. Nothing personal, it just wasn't profitable to "give" you oxygen, and as you're a Free Market Uber Alles conservative, we're sure you understand the medical profession's position. If you would like oxygen in the future, you may wish to consider how you could increase the benefit for the folks with the oxygen tank. What's it worth to you?

[tabasco]

45. He thinks he's like Rush & can be his own doctor.

Oxyrush wrote his own prescriptions so why can't Dr. Beck order himself oxygen? :shrug:

[Stephanie]

51. "the butt of the joke" - for his hemorrhoid surgery!

What an asshat.

[Ganja Ninja]

52. "Waaaaaaaaaa!! My ass hurts! Waaaaaaaaa! I want oxygen!"

When is this asshole going to quit crying. Imagine if he didn't have health insurance.

[bunkerbuster1]

54. Who, among us, given the opportunity to deny Mr. Beck his oxygen

would pass this up?

[Hellenic_Pagan]

56. I just think it is karma

Prior to having this problem, he thought the health system in the US was great. He thought it worked for everyone, and people who werent insured or on Medicare and Medicaide were a bunch of lazy minorites.

Now he knows firsthand what it is like in american hospitals. Finally he knows what millions of americans have known for years.

And the fact that he had problems despite being a rich famous, white man really pissed him off. Welcome to the real american health system! Hope you enjoy your stay!

Karma. Simple.