Hospitals would rather have a patient straight catheterized 8 times per day than simply place a foley.

Patient in the cardiac ICU (reason enough for a catheter), fully anti-coagulated, bleeding badly from the prostatebecause they would rather bleed him out than do the right thing and put a foley in.

*Medicare dings hospitals if patients get a CAUTI. So they have went to the extreme and hardly ever place catheters.

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I’ll continue avoiding.

I don't miss working bedside for dumb shit like this.

Really, I'm tired of healthcare. Would be nice to find a clinic like yours.

Hmmm…sorta sounds like the Medicare bureaucrats and hospital admin are trying to practice medicine without a medical license.