Also more typically a British term. You’d have to go _way_ back to find it in common use in the US. Definitely before your time. Even before mine, and that’s saying something!

ALERT! ALERT! Your co-workers has been brainwashed into a Nanny State of Mind.

I am sure they will be quite pleased with the care they’ll get under a NHS. No doubt Thorazine will be a cheap co-pay.

Your analysis of the situation is brief and perfect. You simply could not be more correct.

I was taught in nursing school that we are to refer to patients as “clients.” Frankly, I hate the term because in my mind, a patient is much more than a client but still, the point is well taken.

Unless, of course, your client, the one you work for, is actually the government and NOT the person who is actually ill.

It is hard enough to do everything we are supposed to for patients now when our focus IS the patient. Patients would be the very last thing on the minds of staff if the government becomes our client.

Deana

P.S. As an aside, I simply cannot express how shocked I am at reading the findings. All are horrible but I can’t fathom turning off a heart monitor or putting a patient where there is no staff. It’s simply unthinkable. Terrible things can happen to patients when staff IS present. I can’t even imagine the condition patients would be when staff isn’t present.

I’m practically freaking about this, but others at my workplace seem quite calm in the face of our quick-step towards handing the government our lives….they seem to think it will bring an improvement, and they’re ecstatic that “someone else” will be paying the bills! Bunch of sheep……

Can you just imagine what the chances of litigation against a government entity for mucking up are.

Customers

I tend to see this as one more step in the eugenics project that is Planned Parenthood. After all, abortion was billed as a compassionate objective. In reality, of course, it was designed to get rid of unwanted and inferior castes. Government healthcare was billed as compassionate, but in reality it was designed to get rid of society’s useless people in order for the government to replace them with more slavish subjects. If that just happens to be Islamic fanatics, hey, that’s all part of the plan. SOmebody’s plan at least.

It sounds like an FT is an effort to go back to private practice. It also sounds like they’re not going about it very sensibly! It should mean that not only are they making a profit, but are more responsive to their patients. It sounds like they’re _so_ unresponsive that they’d _never_ make a profit!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Trust

This is just as confusing as derivatives.