Vicksburg medicine: An upside-down world

Published 12:00 am Sunday, April 10, 2011

In this upside-down world we now live in, one of the strangest things I keep hearing about are the number of medical personnel leaving our one and only hospital.

Highly trained and skilled, dedicated, hard-working medical people who have devoted their lives to service in our community, who care about the people they take are of and want to work in their hometown. It seems Jackson hospitals are waiting with open arms to take any and all whose services are no longer wanted here.

It is so strange to me that some of our best, highly skilled medical personnel have to leave home to work. And then, strangest of all, medical personnel from other cities are hired and drive to Vicksburg to work, guess they all meet each other going and coming.

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This backward method certainly does not leave much time for rest, home and family, and of course one must wonder what kind of medical care you can expect to receive when people are so tired from working 12-hour shifts with 2-to-4 hours added for driving time. And let’s not forget the price of gasoline, wear-and-tear on vehicles and bodies for the daily trips.

Like I said, in an upside down world there’s not much common sense applied by today’s corporate world, especially for medical care. Sad part about it all medical care comes down to life or death in many cases and just does not fit in a corporate world setting.

Sue Tolbert

Vicksburg