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TheWho:
Most hospitals in Wisconsin now have standardized color-coded alerts for patients.
Many hospitals use color-coded alerts as a way to quickly identify important information about a patient, including his identity, allergies, risk of falling, and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders.
Dana Richardson, with the Wisconsin Hospital Association, says the format varies, but the concept is the same.
http://http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:Dvt_eu6pEZUJ:www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm%3Fobjectid%3DDA3A1F8B-5056-B82A-37CB12A212CB0A72+color+coding+patients&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Sick and injured children come in all sizes, challenging their caregivers to provide them with appropriate doses of medication and other necessary therapies. Harborview Medical Center is offering a conference next week on a system that allows paramedics, physicians and nurses to assess a child's size in time to prepare the treatments he or she will need.
http://http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=10010
NOW SHOW US YOUR LINKS THAT PROVE COLOR CODING TO BE ABUSIVE. YOU ALREADY LIED TO US ABOUT THE KIDS HAVING TO STRIP NAKED AND PUT ON JUMPSUITS. LETS SEE IF YOU CAN REDEEM YOURSELF. JUST POST US ONE LINK.....
THOUGHT SO
Che Gookin:
I don't think anyone can argue that in a hospital setting color coding is detrimental to the health of the patients. I sure as hell won't as I'm the guy who used a felt tip marker to draw a big circle on my knee that needed surgery and a big "X" with a "NO" under it for the knee that didn't need surgery. I'd damn well hope that hospitals pull their heads out of their asses and come up with some sort of visual id system for patients given the surgeries and medical treatments involved.
However, going to a hospital for routine or emergency medical care and dealing with licensed medical authorities is an entirely spectrum than a young man or woman in a program.
To compare the to is at best a fallacious argument as a program is not a hospital and a hospital is not a program. The best interests of the residents in a program are not actively served by stigmatizing a young man or woman by singling them out for special attention based upon an orange jumpsuit. Personally, as being one of the fellows who worked at a program here I'll say that the need for orange jumpsuits and other identifying marks are absurd. Literally you live and work in an atmosphere of paranoia in the first place. The chances of a kid doing anything secretly are minor at best given that he is surrounded by peers 24 hours a day and is under continuous staff supervision.
A hospital being so busy at it is with all sorts of things going on are wise to use a color coding system for meds. Seriously, I want the big green pills that make my hair fall out and my teeth turn purple to be well known.
I want the doctors to know that I'm there for yet another bout of whatever weird South East Asian veneral disease I picked up rather than a bladder to mouth transplant.
Damn I definitely want them to be able to figure out that I'm in for a minor toe surgery and not a leg amputation.
Considering all of these things make sense the arguments for color coding in a program make absolutely no sense. I can understand a common group color, but I can't understand a special color for high risk kids. This merely serves to aggravate whatever social discomfort they are already suffering and increase the humiliation factor.
Other than playing mafia wars on facebook I don't have much use for it other than chatting with friends and kids I worked with at Three Springs.
One of them recently told me that being on link (forced to hold the end of a garbage bag) was so humiliating that frequently it increased his thoughts of suicide rather than made his environment safer. Makes me regret ever putting anyone on link, but I hated link so much I rarely ever kept anyone on it as long as I was supposed to put them on it anyway. On occasion I was forced, forced I say, to put a kid on link with himself.
Take it as you will, but the argument here about jumpsuits and hospitals are a side show deserving of their own thread. I strongly suggest conducting the discussion on www.4chans.org as well for sheer epic fail of attempting to blow smoke up our asses.
TheWho:
--- Quote from: "try another castle" ---
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---What does your daughter think about her experience in treatment and your parenting style, NeilW? And what does she think about your obsessive ranting on fornits? I'd be willing to bet that you don't even have a daughter, or any kids for that matter.
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That's not neil. Someone is spoofing him.
Time to get an account, neil! :seg:
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Thanks, It seems someone has already grabbed my name. I am not sure what I said to upset that person. I guess it is pretty funny, but it does show why you need to register if you want to protect what you say. I will post as a guest for awhile until I can come up with a different name.
NeilW
FemanonFatal2.0:
--- Quote from: "mcarter.fornits" ---If you choose to attack me - then reveal yourself, don't hide. In the US Courts - everyone has a right to confront their accuser. People
here are attacking me and hiding. No charges have been brought against me, nor will any be, because I have not broken any laws, and
while many people do not agree with the decisions I have made ( every person's right - but then these are anonymous beings out there, not
people - I acknowledge no rights to anyone without a name!) they are my decisions.
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Let me entertain this notion for a moment, lets say that charges were brought against you... Do you realize that it would be none of us that would do so, it would be your daughter who would have the case against you. I think you should rephrase your thinking on who is attacking who at this moment, we are simply advocating for her because she seems to blame herself for those mistakes you say you made because you didn't know how to be a good parent for her.
I have been reading your blog, or I was until I started talking to Katie, I reached out to her because what I heard of "your side of the story" made me sick to my stomach. I really have to ask you what kind of parent treats their daughter with such disdain, regardless of the mistakes she's made in the past she is still your daughter and is deserving of your love. Yes, Katie made some bad decisions, but constantly berating her about them and refusing to give her any respect really escalated her self esteem problems. Don't you realize that the cycle never ends if you keep blaming her and refuse make any changes. You and Dianne talk a lot about how Katie doesn't take any accountability, well what about you? Do you really think you hold no responsibility in how miserable Katie grew to be? Honestly, Dianne was not a good fit for your family, she is too harsh and hateful and that is not the kind of mother Katie needed. You know she really needed you after she lost her mother, and its not hard to realize that this all started when you chose your wife over your daughter. I know how Katie felt, I came from a household where my stepmother made my life miserable as well and I acted out too because as a child you don't have the proper tools to deal with those emotions. Its your parents who are supposed to teach kids how to deal with their but instead you chose to fuel the fire with more hate and anger. Do you know what would have made all the difference in Katie's teen years? If you and Dianne would have taken some parenting classes and learned how to work with a child with depression. She had, (and still has) special needs but you spent so much time judging and punishing her that you actually made her depression worse and that depression, her misery and loneliness is what caused her to cut herself act out and hang out with friends that had similar problems. Stop blaming your child and be a man, take some responsibility and try to show her the love and attention she has been crying out for, she needs it and she deserves it.
Another reason I have to bring your parenting (and logic) into question is because despite the fact that she has a serious and crippling depression, you sent her to a program. A program that promises to change you child for you so you don't have to deal with it anymore. It WAS incarceration, she was not allowed to leave or even speak to anyone outside the facility beside you for 3 years... thats what we call here on earth a private prison. The way the program operates, even in the seemingly "non-abusive" schools, is not conducive to treating mental disorders, that fact is even stated in their contracts. The "therapists" work for the program and follow an oppressive agenda that is not approved by any medical or psychological association. The staff is not qualified to be working with special needs kids, regardless of if some of them call themselves "therapists", If they are not following proper medical procedures then they obviously don't know what they are doing. The whole program is an improper procedure, They strip children of their basic human rights, they use physical (and violent) restraint and isolation quite often as a punishment for "not following rules" instead of in accordance with federal law. They verbally, mentally and emotionally abuse the students in order to create the "tough love" environment and they cut too many corners when it comes to your children's safety and well-being. I don't understand, regardless if you felt you had no other option, why this kind of program would have even been considered for a severely depressed little girl. My guess is that getting her out of your home was more important then actually helping Katie and that is why so many of us are upset with the way you justify your actions.
NeilW:
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Thanks, It seems someone has already grabbed my name. I am not sure what I said to upset that person. I guess it is pretty funny, but it does show why you need to register if you want to protect what you say. I will post as a guest for awhile until I can come up with a different name.
NeilW
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You don't give up do you, troll!! Ha,Ha,Ha... I'm flattered that you want to be me, but give it a rest.
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