Posts Tagged ‘nurses’


Physician, Heel Thyself

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

The NY Times ran the following Opinion piece by an oncology nurse during Nurses Week, 2011. WBI supports nurses and wants to see bullying of nurses by anyone — physicians, administrators, managers, other nurses — stopped. It need not be an accepted occupational hazard.

“Physician, Heel Thyself”

By Theresa Brown, Op-Ed Contributor, The New York Times, May 7, 2011,

It was morning rounds in the hospital and the entire medical team stood in the patient’s room. A test result was late, and the patient, a friendly, middle-aged man, jokingly asked his doctor whom he should yell at.

Turning and pointing at the patient’s nurse, the doctor replied, “If you want to scream at anyone, scream at her.”

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Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Health Care | 8 Comments »



NY Times: Time to review workplace reviews?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

by Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, May 17, 2010

After years of studying the ill effects of workplace stress, psychologists are turning their attention to its causes. Along with the usual suspects — long hours, bad bosses, office bullies — they have identified some surprising ones.

Read the article at the NY Times site.

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Health industry bullies proponents, nears "victory"

Monday, August 17th, 2009

On Sunday Aug. 16 Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) said in a live Fox News appearance that the public insurance option does not have the votes to pass in the Senate. Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus (D-MT) from the start of  consideration of health insurance reform refused to even consider a Medicare for all, single payer option as an alternative. At one meeting, he had 13 single payer advocates arrested. (more…)

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