European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers Tell your readers to slay Well. It s dangerous to be sick these Days. Dedicated doctors arc As rare As Hen s Teeth. Nurses get kicked around and Are leaving the profession in droves to get a Job that earns More respect. The insurance companies watch like Hawks to make sure nobody stays in the Hospital for More Days than they Are covered. Appendix two Days. A birth three Days. Hernia operation go Home the same Day. The countries with socialized Medicine do not have these problems. Perhaps it s time Tor to go in that direction. Kenneth u., los Angeles from new Orleans i m a radiology technologist in a 200-bcd facility. We Sec it All gunshot wounds Industrial accidents and car wrecks. I have a Rayed As Many As 40 patients in an eight hour shift. No nurse works half As hard As i do. My salary is $18,000 a year. Nurses Here make $30.000. Our health care delivery system is ridiculous. Wilmington Del if nurses Aren t respected As professionals it s with Good reason. No College degree is required. Two years training will do it. It s the same As going to a Trade school for a Blue Collar Job. They even Call it nurse s training As if we were monkeys. The education of nurses should be standardized. They should be required to have a Bachelor of science degree which takes four years. Chattanooga Tenn i Don t believe there is a shortage of nurses. The administrators Are so Busy trying to show a profit that they Cut the nursing staff to the Bone. I be been phoned at Home and told not to come in because i was t needed. This Means they work the Skeleton Crew to the breaking Point. The patients have to feed themselves and empty their own urinals. Today hospitals Don t care about patients. They care about $$$$$$$.toledo, Ohio i be had six surgeries in the last six years. The Only time i Ever saw a nurse was in the recovery room. The nurse s aides arc the ones who do All the work. I re member one aide telling me she had 19 patients to feed and Bathe. Meanwhile the nurses Are sitting at the station gossiping and drinking , Ohio i would never let a member of my family go to a Hospital and rely on the nurses to care for him or her. I feel sorry for patients who have no family and must depend on the staff. The Bible says the Meek shall inherit the Earth but you can be darned sure they la inherit bedsores first. Chicago i m sick and tired of the Way you glorify nurses. You will Pardon me if i have another Point of View. I was hospitalized last year for several weeks. My husband came to see me twice a Day. While i was recovering at Home one of the Hospital nurses came to Sec me regularly always in the evening when my husband was at Home. Two months ago he asked for a separation. You guessed it. He s in love with the nurse. She is 33 years younger than he is. I Hope Florence Nightingale enjoys taking care of old men because that s what s in store for her. Newark no so nurses want better pay. More humane hours re Spect and better treatment the Only Way they will get All this is by joining a local nursing organization or the american nurses association. We Are one million Strong and have a tremendous amount of Power if Only we knew How to use it. In Unity there is strength Wake and get smart letters Reader gets reprogrammed army Way i submit the following transcript of a conversation that occurred during a recent afternoon. In defense of the other party quoted i la admit i be worked for the government for a Long time and i May be a touch Cranky. He. However was not As old As some of my socks. I m with the new management information office. I m Here to Check out your of it s Well 1 have to look at your software and upgrade the machine to bring it on on line yes the army is installing a Quarter million Dollar mini computer system that will serve As a. Well data pile storage unit for your whole it should t be too mini for a Quarter look at these programs you have Here. This word processor program is i just use it for Short memos and Quick notes but it has a great spelling checker i be got All my words in it. The new policy is that every pc is to be configured the same. I la Load this new version 5 program. You la love it. It docs everything. Here thumb through the user s manual while i Load there s got to be a thousand pages actually i 167, but Don t let that scare you. There is a six week school at Munich that will teach you All you need to know. Now look at this spreadsheet. Ancient history. What is it 200 lines Long "1 think so. Actually i be never used the whole thing i just use it for Means and averages for my monthly report and there arc Only 12 of Kein probe co. The new spreadsheet that i la in stall has Over 8.000 lines. Here look at the user s Man another it has to be a thick Book this program docs so much. But again there is a six week course in Munich and you la be a . Now let s look at your database program. Of Cripps this must be pc a 982. Shercon Earth did you get this old program they All came with the old ill get to that All i Ever used the database for was address labels. I Send copies of my report to several different this new relational database program is designed to store an unlimited amount of data and allows you to manipulate it in almost any manner. That Means any kind of report your Boss could want you can Ash my report is per army Reg. I Don t think he would want it any no matter. The Point is it can be i suppose this Means another thousand Page instruction actually two. Volumes 1 and 2. This program is unlimited and Don t worry about learning it because there s a six week school in Munich no. It s in Frankfurt and i think you re not taking this very i m now i m going to install some hardware that will in effect turn your pc into a smart terminal. I la put in the Modem to connect you to the Lan and you la Needa color Monitor plus put in a request for the engineers to install Security bars on the window and a special Security lock on the door. By the Way what is this program that program is just a Little something i wrote to help me print out my report. It s nothing you re right. It s gone. New army rugs say no per Sonal programs in government i was kind of proud of that Little program it was my first one you know. But i la get Over it. Wait a minute what is this about lans Security monitors and All let me explain this. You need a color Monitor because some of these programs i be installed put Many instructions on the screen in colors that Don t show on your Green that s what 1 want a lot of please. As i was saying we re installing a $100.000 local area network Lan for Short and the Modem so that All the computers in this division can communicate with the new mini where All data files will be stored. That will allow file sharing with everyone in the i Don t want to share anything with that so and so on the third floor since that argument at the Christmas again please. The extra Security is necessary to prevent someone from gaining Access to All the files. By the Way there is an 18-Charactcr password that you will have to it took me a year to memorize my army serial no matter. Anyway since the improvement on this machine comes to Over $9,000, you la have to sign a receipt for them now let me fully understand this. There arc some so pcs in this division that Are being loaded with All the same programs tied together through some net work to a new computer that now occupies the pre Vious employee break room and with this my Boss will be Able to get reports that he May or May not need or want and i will be Able to Send computer files automatically Over this system rather than the old Way which was to make a copy on a 20-Ccnt disk and carry them Down the Hall for my needed exercise. Plus i la have available to me a series of Complex programs More than i la Ever need or use to do the work that i do that will require extensive time and travel to learn. In addition to the million Dollar Price tag for this Divi Sion i la have the pleasure of dealing with another division yours that i did t have before. Do 1 have a grasp of this situation i guess then sir the document that i will sign is an equip ment turn in document. You Sec a few years ago the army gave me a tool to help me do my Job a Little faster and better. Now this simple tool has become an army management asset. This change will not help increase my performance of tasks in Speed or efficiency. It will just create a new set of concerns and prob lems that will detract from my regular work. There fore i do not want you Don t you re probably right. But do come Back when you have a program that will allow me to turn in my quarterly reports every six months. I d like name and location withheld All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. We do not read unsigned letters but we will withhold your name on request and protect your privacy. All letters Are subject to editing. European edition col Jeffrey m. Cook Usa commander editor � owl it col Suzanne l. Phillips. Usan a Deputy commander editor in Chiel Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deanc b. 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