Your Daily Prayer For Healing-06/08/2010-Your Prayer For Today.
Dear God/ess, I was in a quandary about where to start yet another blog, but this one is a video blog, called "Blue Heron Farm Retreat Video Blog." Joan4 suggested it last week, and I've been thinking about it ever since.
The first post reveals birdsong, Ulysses fetching a ball in the river and the river bank magic and the flow of the Conestoga River. Plus an invitation to come join us at our first event 8/13-15.
What is the point in having all of these blogs? Yes, I am a blog-a-holic. But combining online Blogs, lenses, hub pages and articles with the offline work of, as in our case, having a Spiritual Retreat Center, may do very well for engaging trust and credibility for those who are attracted to spiritual matters.
Many potential blog topics occur to me but are either too controversial or entirely too ridiculous for me to write about. When my buttons get pushed, I always consider writing about that exact button pushing idea, and either write about it or not.
But I have a real knee jerk reaction to what I have always called "The Medical Gestapo." I wish I could say that Medicine has become more of a healing environment. The Post 911 years seems to have unleashed a whole new era of punitive suffocation. People in the medical workplace seem to think they are in the law enforcement profession or the military instead of what could or should be healing and transformational, or at the least emotionally intelligent.
A startling example of this is a "Falls Protocol" that has recently come to haunt all the nurses at our hospital. Every patient has to sign a "Falls Safety Agreement" which amounts to a consent form asking the patient to call her nurse if she feels dizzy or if she needs help. If the patient falls, and if she did not sign the agreement, a Falls Investigation Team comes to the hospital and investigates the fall like it's a crime scene.
If the patient falls on your shift, you are written up, with a great punitive flourish. If anything else ever happens again to question your good standing as a nurse, you are automatically fired.
There. I feel better now. I just wrote the most ridiculous thing I ever heard in my entire professional career.
Om Peace Amen
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