As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, Ewa Beach, $3.9 million;...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Hospitals, Nursing, bankruptcy, Economics, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Transparancy, Layoffs, Debt consolidation, Overseas Investments, Vendors
I had a couple friends drag me away from the computer and the blog today to watch a taping of a new talk show series starting this fall. So why is this here on a medical blog, well Bonnie Hunt was an oncology nurse before moving in to the entertainment business. What she learned as a nurse...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Hospital, Oncology, Charity, Nursing, Talk Show, Celebrities, Nurse, Extra Extra, Chicago
One example cited in Hawaii stated there were 524 qualified applications who could not go to school, they did not have the facility to support it. Salaries are par of the problem too as nurse with a master’s degree can make 30k more in clinical practice rather than teaching. Last year...