Medical Supply

Sienna’s mommy asked:


Directives

55. Catholic health care institutions offering care to persons in danger of death from illness, accident, advanced age, or similar condition should provide them with appropriate opportunities to prepare for death. Persons in danger of death should be provided with whatever information is necessary to help them understand their condition and have the opportunity to discuss their condition with their family members and care providers. They should also be offered the appropriate medical information that would make it possible to address the morally legitimate choices available to them. They should be provided the spiritual support as well as the opportunity to receive the sacraments in order to prepare well for death.

56. A person has a moral obligation to use ordinary or proportionate means of preserving his or her life. Proportionate means are those that in the judgment of the patient offer a reasonable hope of benefit and do not entail an excessive burden or impose excessive expense on the family or the community.40

57. A person may forgo extraordinary or disproportionate means of preserving life. Disproportionate means are those that in the patient’s judgment do not offer a reasonable hope of benefit or entail an excessive burden, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community.41

58. There should be a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration to all patients, including patients who require medically assisted nutrition and hydration, as long as this is of sufficient benefit to outweigh the burdens involved to the patient.

59. The free and informed judgment made by a competent adult patient concerning the use or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures should always be respected and normally complied with, unless it is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.

60. Euthanasia is an action or omission that of itself or by intention causes death in order to alleviate suffering. Catholic health care institutions may never condone or participate in euthanasia or assisted suicide in any way. Dying patients who request euthanasia should receive loving care, psychological and spiritual support, and appropriate remedies for pain and other symptoms so that they can live with dignity until the time of natural death.42

61. Patients should be kept as free of pain as possible so that they may die comfortably and with dignity, and in the place where they wish to die. Since a person has the right to prepare for his or her death while fully conscious, he or she should not be deprived of consciousness without a compelling reason. Medicines capable of alleviating or suppressing pain may be given to a dying person, even if this therapy may indirectly shorten the person’s life so long as the intent is not to hasten death. Patients experiencing suffering that cannot be alleviated should be helped to appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.

62. The determination of death should be made by the physician or competent medical authority in accordance with responsible and commonly accepted scientific criteria.

63. Catholic health care institutions should encourage and provide the means whereby those who wish to do so may arrange for the donation of their organs and bodily tissue, for ethically legitimate purposes, so that they may be used for donation and research after death.

64. Such organs should not be removed until it has been medically determined that the patient has died. In order to prevent any conflict of interest, the physician who determines death should not be a member of the transplant team.

65. use of tissue or organs from an infant may be permitted after death has been determined and with the informed consent of the parents or guardians.

66. Catholic health care institutions should not make use of human tissue obtained by direct abortions even for research and therapeutic purposes

LaKeia asked:


How will employees in the medical office have to be
trained regarding privacy (for example, who is responsible
for training and record keeping)? What is required if
an employee doesn’t follow the privacy policy? When
must employees be trained? In what manner?

anakinjade1 asked:


My friend is a medical supplies distributor. A former coworked posed as a nurse and called in complaining my friend gave her the wrong meds and was rude. There is a long story, but that is for a different time.
I know it is illegal to pose as a nurse in AZ, but what about in TX? Where can I get verification of this??

stephen asked:


I want the caregiver card, to supply it to Michigan Marijuana patients?

Heavy Fed asked:


My name is Charles Gilliam AKA Heavy Fed, the founder of Heavy’s HEART(Human Earth Animal Rescue Team) in La Porte, Texas.

After fighting a battle with the Port of Houston and winning my property back after they obtained a fraudulent title and bulldozed everything I had, I found myself under attack by the City of La Porte, and after defeating their attempt to get me off of my own property, I now have found myself under attack from the Post Office after someone from the City told them that I did not own the property I was living on, that I was just a squatter.

The Post Office had been delivering my mail to my mailbox until they were told that.

They stopped delivering… and after a week I missed my mail so I went down to ask why it was stopped.

They delivery supervisor there told me that they had been told the property did not belong to me by the City… and that I needed to prove it did before they would resume delivery.

I returned the next day with a tax bill in my deceased grandmothers name show that the property did in fact belong to her… and I also showed them documentation that I was the Executor of her estate and that I had not yet changed the property into my name as a tactic to keep the City from taking property that belonged to me away from me… that they could not take away what does not belong to me.

The delivery supervisor seemed satisfied with documentation and made copies and I left… thinking my mail would resume.

After another week of not receiving any mail… I again returned to the Post Office and again asked why my mail was not being delivered.

The delivery supervisor told me that because my mailbox was not in the ground that they would not deliver my mail.

I had purposely kept my mailbox move-able because of all of the construction and destruction going on around me… I wanted to be able to move it if I needed to do so.

I went home about poured about four sacks of concrete around my mailbox, securing it to the ground solidly and returned to the Post Office the very next day and told them I had done so.

After about another week of waiting for my mail and not seeing any… I returned once again to the Post Office and this time was told by the delivery supervisor that according to Postal Regulations they could not deliver mail to a residence that did not have any utilities going to it… that they needed to see something like an electric or water bill before they would resume delivery.

I was pissed… I had been jumping through hoops for the for several months by then… so I requested to see the Postmaster who reaffirmed what the delivery supervisor had said.

I left angry.

I returned about a week later and filed a change of address requesting that my mail be delivered to a friends address just a few blocks away from mine.

This I thought would solve the problem.

All of this time… the Post Office had been returning my mail marking it, EMPTY LOT.

I am a disabled activist with diabetes… they had been returning my mail from Social Security, my food stamps cards and most importantly my glucose meter and diabetic supplies.

I had no way of testing my blood sugar and as a result could not take my insulin.

I called the company that had been trying to get my supplies to me in vain for several months now and told them what was going on and that I THOUGHT I had it all straightened out now and asked them to resend it.

I figured it would take a while to get forwarded so I waited about a month… in the meantime I also called Health and Human Services and told them what had happened and asked them to resend my food stamp card they had been trying to get to me.

After about a month of not receiving either… called Health and Human Services to ask what had happened… they said the new card they sent out was returned because the Post Office would not forward a food stamp card.

The man at Health and Human services asked if I could cancel my forwarding and arrange to pick up my mail at the Post Office and I told him I thought I could. He said he would put another card in the mail for me right away.

So… once more I returned to the Post Office and told them I wanted to cancel my forwarding and just pick up mail addressed to my address over the counter.

The delivery supervisor told me that I could not pick up my mail that way… that they were not going to have the workers there wasting their time going back and looking for my mail.

So… now here I sit… after five months of jumping through hoops and fighting with the Post Office… I now have about six months worth of food stamps just sitting in my account with no way to access it!

I am also still without my glucose meter and diabetic supplies… and I am suffering for it.

My legs are covered in sores because my blood sugar is so out of whack… and I don’t have enough money to eat right.

I have been feeling so bad lately than I have not been doing my volunteer wo

Matt asked:


I have to carry around a plastic syringe and a catheter for medical reasons. For Irrigation of the bladder due to a mucus build up. If I were to get them taken away for any reason could I take it to court or anything?

Matt asked:


I have to carry around a plastic syringe and a catheter for medical reasons. For Irrigation of the bladder due to a mucus build up. If I were to get them taken away for any reason could I take it to court or anything?

Matt asked:


I have to carry around a plastic syringe and a catheter for medical reasons. For Irrigation of the bladder due to a mucus build up. If I were to get them taken away for any reason could I take it to court or anything?

Carlos H asked:


Is this just business or is it illegal? In the course I am taking, we are required to purchase certain supplies for the course, uniforms, medical supplies, etc. We are required to have these items.

The vendor, a medical supply store, is one mile from the campus. The medical supply store is open to the public and these exact same supplies or 40-50% cheaper in the store than on campus.

The college bookstore handles all financial aid transactions and also all cash transactions for the books, supplies, uniforms, etc for the campus. The bookstore officials sent out an email saying that if the medical supply store allowed cash paying students to purchase their supplies at the store, the medical supply store would be dropped as an approved vendor.

How can this be legal? No contract was signed between the store and the bookstore/college. All students are required to purchase these required items from the bookstore. This purchase is made at a 40-50% increase.

Does this not fall under some type of monopoly law or price discrimination law?

Next thing, they will say that I cannot go to Walmart to purchase my pen and paper.

Is this legal or just business?

takeo n asked:


I worked for a medical supply company for a very brief period of time earlier this year. I stopped working for them in early April and was told they would send shipping tags for the company property I had in my possession. I have yet to hear anything from them over 4 months later. I would like to sell or dump this stuff, but don’t want any legal recourse. I live in CA and the company is based in FL, there is no local representation for the company. Any advice?