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Reply: Should children be endurance athletes?

NO. It will mess with their hormonal development, they get injured easier also. Let them...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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Reply: Should sick co-workers stay home?

It would be nice to be able to stay home if one is really sick. It is not so simple...

Posted by Hootyowl2

It would be nice to be able to stay home if one is really sick. It is not so simple though. I only called in for severe vomitting, diahrea [where you dare not leave the throne for more than a minute..>, which was about 1 x per year at my last job.

I worked in a nursing home. Most of us had to work sick, unless we were incapacitated with vomiting or such. It would not be quite that bad, but some girls called in sick just to goof off, then one of us had to come in on our days off to cover for a lazy person [or a person who was really sick>. That did not make for good feelings. The workload in nursing homes and hospitals is very heavy, & making them shorthanded is not good.

Even if people do not come in sick in nursing homes, there are still so many germs going around, that we get sick easily. That is despite "normal handwashing" and other precautions. Since they passed that HIPPA law, the nursing home I used to work at quit putting people on isolation for things such as MRSA, hepatitis, and many other deadly infections. Allegedly, it "invades their privacy" !!!! What about other people's rights to be protected from those same deadly infections ? Granted that the financial cost of putting a person on isolation is enormous, but the cost of not doing it is even more. It could cost employees, visitors, and relatives a life.

The elderly are not always alert enough or educated enough or well enough to practice good hygiene. Few if any of them understand sterile procedures, much less practice them. They do all kinds of unsanitary things. Then when people come to visit their loved ones --which they definitely should do-- children and other family members are exposed to those same deadly germs just by touching surfaces or breathing. People with a known deadly infection roam the halls freely, touching everything, and other people. It is heartbreaking, but they need love and hugs the same as all of us.

Ideally, it is a good idea to stay home when sick. In practicality, it just doesnt work so easily.View Thread

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Reply: Should Employers Have Access to Your Facebook?

Absolutely not. I think employers are way too intrusive into our private lives nowadays...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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Reply: Breastfeeding in Public: Beautiful or Rude?

When my youngest was a few days old, I was sitting in the Pastor's Study at my church...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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Reply: Breastfeeding in Public: Beautiful or Rude?

I find it odd that a society that thinks it is okay for homosexuals to go at it hot and...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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Reply: Breastfeeding in Public: Beautiful or Rude?

I have done it in public, and no one was the wiser. It can be discreetly and no one need...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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Reply: Will your doctor fire you?

I do not think it is right at all. A patient has a right to refuse any oor all treatments...

Posted by Hootyowl2

I do not think it is right at all. A patient has a right to refuse any oor all treatments from their doctors. For instance, chemotherapy for cancer. A patient might have a lot of personal reasons not to accept chemo. But the doctor can RX meds to keep a terminal patient comfortable. It should not be forced on unwilling patients.

My late husband died of cancer. When it was diagnosed, his team of doctors told him IN FRONT OF ME that he could take chemo or not, it wouldnt make much difference. They insisted that he had a right to change his mind any time and take it or not. Well, when it had advanced and he needed strong pain meds, THEN THE DOCS INSISTED THAT HE COME TO THE HOSPITAL AND TAKE BOTH CHEMO AND RADIATION OR THEY WOULD NOT GIVE HIM ANY PAIN MEDS. That was a 3 hour drive each way. Then when I told our personal doctor about what they told us, THEY LIED to him and claimed they did not say any such thing. I am the one who talked to them on the phone, and that is what they told me. Our local doc could not RX him any pain meds because of a stupid inspector that suspended his license over some piddly dumb thing, so we had to sit in the ER for nearly 6 hours to get him pain meds. The ER docs & nurses were sitting on their rear ends eating and drinking coffee for over 4 of those hours, and doing nothing. There was a long line of patients waiting ahead of us who said they had been doing that the whole shift. The ONLY pain meds they gave him was Ibuprofen 800 mgs 3 x daily. Period. Their excuse was they did not want him to get "addicted" to pain meds. The cancer had spread into his vital organs and bones, and that was all they did. Well, there is a lot more, none of it any better. But a patient does have rights.

Sure, doctors would like more children to be vaccinated. However, there are many reasons that people do not want that. In Africa, the Bill and whats-her-name Gates foundation vaccinates children at GUNPOINT.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/131-african-children-vaccinated-at-gunpoint-do-bill-gates-and-paul-offit-approve/

There are many other websites that confirm this report. Look it up. It was against these families religious beliefs, but the Gate's do not care about that. I have no respect for them.

Many children are highly ALLERGIC to ingredients used to make vaccines. My baby brother could not have them because he was allergic to eggs. One bite nearly killed him.

I was "fired" by one doctor because he made up lies about me and then had the gall to kick me out when I confronted him. Well, I got much better doctors since then, so good riddance.

Thankfully, I now have some great doctors and they respect their patient's opinions on things.

HootyView Thread

Posted byHootyowl2

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Reply: Regulate Sugar Like Alcohol: Yes or No?

It wont work. Look at all the candy factories and what-not with people loosing their...

Posted by Hootyowl2

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