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Steve? I typed something here and changed my mind...Let me just say this.....your story is incorrect about the nurse. Check your own posts on here and youll see what Im talking about. YOuve got 2 people mixed up.

[ This Message was edited by: SHH on 2006-05-30 17:55 ]

Assuming some staff dont have all their credentials listed on the website, how do we REALLY know she isnt qualified? I think the only staff with credentials listed on the website are counselors and teachers and upper management. Maybe she has CPR training...maybe she was a nurse's assistant at a previous employer. Does anybody REALLY know? I know Robert THINKS he knows based on what the website says. But does anybody know for sure?

I dont know which doctor they would call on unless they use the ones they had on campus before...but since I used to live there I will tell you that town is 9 miles away and the hospital in town is 10 miles away. They do have lifeflight available, but it would be quicker to dispatch an ambulance in a true emergency. Also, the Army Ranger camp is less than 2 miles the other direction, and they have medics and a medivac helicopter too. The school is out in the country, but, not THAT remotely located that medical help cant be obtained in a relatively short period of time.

If we were comparing this situation to my child's elementary school, then it would seem that his school is the same. In our school system, they cannot afford a nurse for every school every day. They have traveling nurses. The nurse visits my child's school once a week. However, on the days that she is not there, someone has to give out meds. In this case, it IS the receptionist, IE, the front desk lady who greets people and answers the phone. She is not a nurse, however, this appears to be fine to the school board. So, if Georgia has the same regulations as North Carolina, maybe its possible that in the event of a temporary absence of a nurse, that someone "designated" can dole out meds. Just a thought. But I do think the ACTUAL regulation should be determined for Georgia before conclusions are made as to whether this is illegal or not.

Pam wasnt a nurse. She was an office manager.

To put alot of the blame on doctors for the way the system works is unfair and I will tell you why I say this. My cousin, who is my age, (41), is an ob/gyn in Florida. He co-owns his practice along with 2 other doctors in the town where he lives, (small town of about 20,000). Their ob/gyn practice is the only one for about 70 miles. They work round the clock almost, delivering babies and seeing patients in the office and in the hospital. He doesnt ever get home to his family until after 9pm or sometimes later if he is the one on call that week. He also doesnt make a ton of money. His malpractice insurance premium is over 100,000 dollars a year. He has been going to hearings and petitioning the insurance commissioner in Florida to change how things are being done there because so many doctors in rural areas are having to either move to bigger cities or go out of business totally due to the high cost of insurance. They are so overworked because all the other ob/gyn's have moved away or quit in their area. To say that all doctors make a ton of money on their patients is a generalization and maybe true in los angeles or new york, but in small town america....doctors are moving away and leaving their patients to drive 40,50, even 60 miles for basic care. Its far from glamorous to be a doctor in small town america, and far from making the doctors wealthy.

P.S. I am not sure what cities you all live in, but in my particular city, they have some of the best medical care in the state, and I have never had to wait more than 30 min for my appt. Maybe Im just lucky? I do think it depends on where youre living as to what kinds of services and their quality.

I never said I was asking someone to "pay my way". I want people to pay their share, equally. Not pay my share, pay their own share. Since when is that unfair? Youre being obtuse on purpose Greg, and then telling me that I am. Sorry, its not me this time Greg. Its you. You will never understand my point of view on this because you dont live in the real world like I do, struggling to make ends meet, buying hundreds of dollars of medicine a month, paying a mortgage payment of 1,060 a month just so my son and I wont have to live in a ghetto and in a decent school district, paying ridiculous premiums for crappy medical insurance, paying 200 a month for electricity, and scraping by on 33,000 a year while STILL paying my fair share of income tax, property tax, ad valorem tax, and SS tax. dont tell me I dont know what FAIR is Greg. Try living in a regular American worker's world again. Youll find its not all peaches and cream.

Im caught up Greg, I typed that last post while you were typing your last post. I know exactly what this argument is about, and yes, it is fair to tax the wealthy more than the poor. It is fair to pay higher taxes on a more expensive house. It is fair to charge more for a better car, it is fair for those of us "privedged" folk to take care of the poor and elderly.