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“You can always live in an extended-stay hotel”Said the discharge coordinator of Kaiser Vallejo inpatient rehab facility when I pointed out that my wheelchair-bound, quadruple amputee husband could not be released, because: a) our current home was a tri-level townhouse, completely inaccessible to someone with mobility impairments; b) the accessible rental I had secured was going to be delivered in almost two weeks; and c) that they had done minimal rehabilitation on the man that their own medical negligence put in that position to begin with, and that as long as he showed measurable improvement he should remain in there, as Medicare guidelines mandate.Since one of the conditions for release from an acute rehabilitation hospital is for the patient to have a safe place to live, this moron of a nurse suggested the kind suggestion shown above. I don’t know how I managed to keep my cool and not lose my shit right there.At the end, let’s just say that revenge is a dish best served cold. I refused to sign the discharge paperwork, dared them to bill me for the stay (as they had threatened to do) and ensured that as a condition for release an additional three weeks of inpatient rehab at a different, non-Kaiser and better facility was approved for my husband when he was stronger. Since we were in litigation, they never did bill me, as my attorney had predicted — and we got the additional rehab that my husband desperately needed. Cost to Kaiser: close to $750,000.Lesson of the day: never underestimate the power of your words — because I took my damn gloves off and went for the jugular as soon as my concerns were so readily dismissed. Before that, I tried to be conciliatory and kept my card to my chest. One statement and I became a ruthless bitch of epic proportions.

I completely agree with Sam Harris.And here's why:There's a lot at stake.Mainly, the minds of future generations.Please devote 3 minutes for a short excerpt from the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind", depicting the Scopes Trial ("Scopes Monkey Trial") in which Tennessee school teacher John Scopes was accused of teaching human evolution in class (Illegal there at the time)Listen to the wonderful Spencer Tracy, depicting the defense attorney in this scene:Challenged to say if he considers anything holy, he answers:"Yes. The individual human mind.In a child's power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "amens" and "holy holies" and "hosannas."An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters."The place I position my line of defense is education and access to science.To explain why I'm concerned about both, here are some U.S Focused stats, but that apply globally:40 percent of Americans reject evolution.roughly 46 percent of Americans think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.about 20 percent believe it’s the sun that does the orbiting around earth... (Reminder: The Galileo trial took place almost 400 years ago).The american public is polarized on climate change and effectiveness and importance of vaccination.Less than 20 percent of Americans have ever met a scientist. Many more meet a priest on a weekly basis.(Look up Unscientific America for the above data and more)If the above hasn't convinced you that the creationists and religious preachers teaching folly are endangering progress, here's Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, discussing what happens to a scientific superpower, when it gives up on scientific progress for the sake of religion - There is no need to guess, it has happened before:There is reason for concern.There is a war over the mind of future generations, and science has to show up to the battlefield - That means leaving the lab every-now and then and filming an episode of Cosmos.Side note:I absolutely love COSMOS.It makes science cool, clear, accessible and relevant to those who otherwise would never have a way of catching up with its development.It brings science out of the lab and into the living room, Sagan and DeGrasse Tyson style.I argue it will eventually turn out to be more important than even its producers imagined - this is part of the struggle against ignorance.This is why Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku and Carl Sagan before them, decided to make an effort to make science accessible.Hack, part of my - redundant and insignificant as it may be - activity on Quora - is meant to harness Atheists to proliferate and become excited with scientific knowledge.We - Atheists & Scientists - need to win this one.(Know what - the RELIGIOUS need us to win this one, for the future of THEIR children!)Speking of DeGrasse Tyson, I added a few videos of him explaining why Creationism and "Intelligent Design" must be prevented from entering our schools - Noam Kaiser's answer to Creationism: Why are public schools allowed to teach Darwinism?THIS is my interpretation of Sam Harris's "conversational intolerance", and my main point: The future generations.There is a good reason to stay vigilant, and not let our guard down.The statistics above show a frightening picture of the present.What about our future?Look:​​These young minds have just been kidnapped by Ken Ham's monumentally idiotic "Answers in Genesis" Museum (And I use the term "Museum" VERY loosely....) into "learning" that humans and dinosaurs dwelled happily together, frolicking in the fields near the bayou...And it gets worst still:Listen to this "charming" and "innocent" lady, trying to shove back 3,000 year old lies and folly back into the classroom and young children minds, regardless of the centuries it took humanity to rid itself from their dark dominance, regardless of the rivers of blood spilled and people burnt on the stake fighting to be free from them - and does it "in the name of scientific openness"...no less...Here is another example of a smiling advocate of "Creationism", pointing out "Gaps" (which only exist in her knowledge) and "Controversy" (which doesn't exist...).Noam Kaiser's answer to What are the fallacies (if any) behind Wendy Wright's reasoning in her debate with Richard Dawkins?This ignorant kind smile is the new danger.The inquisition retired the scary red hood and torture room, and replaced them with a PR office.Sure - we need to try and follow in Carl Sagan's path of getting our children excited about research, science, knowledge, discovery.But alongside the positive approach, we have to be willing to meet ignorance in the dark alleys, and gear up for a street fight.The scriptures are NOT science book, they contain NO science, and here's is a guy from the Vatican to explain that:Trying to teach scripture as science - is NOT science.Leave it out of the science class.I'll end with another scene from "Inherit the Wind", again Spencer Tracy, this time warning us all, on what might happen if we let our guard down: (Well worth the 2 and a half minutes)"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"Not if we can help it.The forces that hope to pull us all backwards are serious (even when they're smiling).I chose to show scenes from a 1960 movie, depicting a 1925 trial, to demonstrate ITS LESSONS ARE STILL RELEVANT IN 2014.I hope I have.Every freedom loving, curious, open minded and knowledge thirsty person needs to get serious as well: About protecting our future.Sam Harris is spot on.Oh, and before you go "bible ballistic" (If you are a person inclined to to do so),read this:Noam Kaiser's answer to What do atheists wish theists knew?Or don't, all the same to me.Basically, if you are a religious/theist person who keeps his/her god out of the science class, we have no issue with each other.

No we usually believe that family have finally come to their senses and stop torturing their loved one for whatever reason. Relief from a horrid death that has been artificially prolonged because of modern Technology and the bizarre belief that somehow putting all these machines on a person is of God but taking them away is of the Devil. This is not true and I am a Christian Doctor involved many many times with these cases. I spent years studying Medical Ethics as well. We are going to die of some disease the doctors could not control. That is Of God and is Normal. What is not normal is to prolong suffering and pain and prolong the inevitable death of our loved ones because. We have A Mental Problem with Death. This is against God and Nature and is as Cruel as your could imagine. If you would not do this to your dog Why are you doing to your loved ones??? This cruelty almost never comes from the doctors. We know what futile is . We have seen cruel and needless pain and suffering with the same outcome. We do have Love and God in our hearts and we have family just like you. But some of you have strange ideas about what doctors can do or what God will do. Do amazing miracles happen ? Yes. I have seen them. But they don’t happen to 80 year olds dying bed ridden and septic and demented. They might happen to 44 year old husbands who are dearly loved by wife and family and wife knows God will pull a miracle. I have seen that one. But when you think I am not loving or an atheistic Doctor who would rather murder your grandma because we want to save money for the Health Plan. You are dead Wrong to accuse me of this. And I have to put up with your torture of your family and of me, This is how I feel. I have saved the life of many 80 year olds and worked hard doing it. Spent a fortune of Kaisers money( your money ) doing it. Not all of us are cruel and mean and stupid about God. Please pray and ask your loved ones what they would want done and write it down in a Durable Power of Attorney Forms. Please do this. Everyone. Please make your wishes known when you still can. Please don’t let some son not seen in 15 years dictate and bully your closest relatives that He knows what you would have wanted better than the ones you actually lived with the last 15 years.I have seen enough to make me vomitdon’t be dumbdon’t be cruelDo the right thing for grandma. What she would have wanted. Not kidding at all Been there a hundreds of times good and bad. Loving your loved one does not always mean prolonging death on machines. Doctors are valuable resources. We want to do what grandma would have wanted. Even if that means full machines if she knew what she was signing .