It's Halloween...It's scarey....It's............American Healthcare!

So, is there anything more scarey than calling a report to an RN, that is REGISTERED NURSE, who has a minimum of two years post highschool education, and may have up to a bacheleor's degree, or MS, or even a PHD, and they ask you to spell medical terms? Now I can understand them asking you to spell alveolar infiltrates, or TriMaleaollar, but when they ask you to spell "CHF", it makes you question the credibility of those that tend to our sick loved ones.

When you call a report that says "bilateral pneumonia" and the RN asks you....what about the right lung? That is the one we are concerned about. There is something wrong with the system that lets these brain surgeons practice their science. Most people know bilateral means both sides. Are RNs trained to forget the common and practical things that most people know?

It's just scarey.