[StBernard] Does Bobby Have Any Shame? but please allow him acallfor a ride home???

[Westley Annis]

John,

What about this scenario?

She does check on her brother every two or three days.

As fate would have it, she calls on Friday morning, everything is cool.
Friday afternoon her brother is released.  She doesn't call back until
Monday morning.  Brother is gone, no one knows where he is until eventually
he is found.

This to me is almost like the St. Rita's case.  Putting the blame on
government is missing the point.  The nursing home, in my view, has a duty
to ensure that their patients next of kin is notified, with at least two
hours notice, that the patient is to be discharged.  Even if they have to
clear out the bed for a new "paying" patient, they can at least allow the
former patient to waiting in the cafeteria/common room for their ride to
arrive.

Westley

-----Original Message-----
I might need to qualify my previous comment.  It is not intended to defend
Bobby Jindal nor be criticism to Walter.  I'm simply stating what
immediately struck me and my wife the very first time we saw the commercial.


I can't help but wonder if anyone with the production team Walter hired
caught it.  When she said about not knowing anything of her brother's status
or whereabouts for weeks, in my mind I spontaneously said "so where the hell
were you during those weeks?"  When the commercial ended my wife said aloud
"shame on you for not checking in on your brother" - and she's right.

That still does not justify what DHH policy did to the gentleman and I'm not
defending DHH's actions, I'm just pointing out what we noticed and thought
the moment she said it.  If I was the commercial's director, I would have
asked her to rephrase what she said so it wouldn't sound like she did not
speak with or did not go to visit her brother for weeks at a time.

John