Are you planning on ever needing or using your health care insurance?

Do you think you’ll ever get sick, and need the services of a health care professional? A Doctor? A Nurse?

If you’ve answered yes to ANY of these questions … OR if you think you might.. then please watch this short video from Better Health.com.

http://www.liveleak.com/e/b9a_1250509776

LiveLeak.com – Healthcare Reform: Putting Patients First – Medblogger Event At National Press Club

Whether we like it or not Health Care Reform is an important topic than provokes and requires NO easy answer, NO easy solution. But ignoring the problem doesn’t mean the problem will go away.

I am just as guilty as the next person. I have chosen to ignore the obvious. What can you and I do to help make health care work with and for us, not have us work for them?

A large THANK YOU to Dr. Val over at Better Health and all that she is doing.

Lately the ‘economy’ and President Obama’s reform on healthcare is all the ‘buzz’. I wonder….

Obese Americans Spend Far More on Health Care – NYTimes.com

If the majority of Americans and those who are affected by the current healthcare reform cared as much about their own personal health (and obesity) as much as they care about this new ‘Obama-care’ plan…

Would the economy even be in this situation?

Things that make you go hmmm…

OK, OK.. this video has multiple versions swimming around the blogosphere. I had to post and share the laughs.

For ANYONE in healthcare, this is quite entertaining and nicely done.

Think… ‘Spit – Spot’.

We don’t get to close the Hospital for the holiday

We can’t tell our patients, “Can you be sick after the holiday?”

We each have made, and will continue to make those personal sacrifices. It’s not always voluntary, in fact if we had the choice, we’d choose not to work on the day of the holiday.

We have each made additional plans and arrangements to see and spend time with our loved ones. We can’t see them because we are working, so we attempt a gathering before or after the celebrated day.

I know how it feels. I know how frustrating it can be to miss out on all those lovely annual festivities. The loved ones you haven’t seen in so long. The stories. The laughing. The crying. The love-filled rooms of warmth and comfort.

And lets not forget about the FOOD. Oh.. Everything from the main dish to all the decadent desserts.

If you’re lucky, some of you will work with a group of fine individuals that will have their own ‘work-family festivities’ at work (I know I did/do). It’s not home, but it’s equally as significant.

We all have families. Some of us have children. Some of us live too far away to visit. Some of us are managers of a unit that is short staffed. We all have made the sacrifices.

I’m here to tell you it matters.

I’ve been in your shoes, I’ve walked in those trenches.

And I appreciate all your efforts.

Just remember..

When you reflect on how discontent you are about having to make those sacrifices.

Please keep in mind:

Today you’re not the patient.

Thank you again for all that you do.

Carpe Diem