Monday, March 10, 2014

Blue Bolt Medical assistant: Biggie forever!!

Blue Bolt Medical assistant: Biggie forever!!: Ask any rapper who their biggest influences are and you’ll probably hear the same answers across the board: Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and Kool G...

Biggie forever!!


Ask any rapper who their biggest influences are and you’ll probably hear the same answers across the board: Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and Kool G Rap on the East Coast, Scarface, Pimp C, and Eightball & MJG in the South, and Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg out West. But why doesn’t anyone mention the most influential rapper of all time, The Notorious B.I.G.?

He’s always name checked as one of the greats, along with Tupac Shakur. They’re both referenced ad nauseam to the point of sounding cliché by now. Pac didn’t have the same kind of snazzy style that Bigge Smalls did, though.  Pac had a signature flow and his delivery was all about conveying passion and pain. Biggie’s voice glossed over a lot of that. When it came to subject matter he was decidedly apolitical and dispassionate — concerned with his own well-being and that of his immediate circle instead of the ills of society. When it came to flows, however, he was godlike His magic was perceived through the lens of grammatical luxury – it was the phrasing, the way he painted pictures of the high life (and the low life) in his verses, the way he wove words into stories like threads in Versace linen. Biggie made listeners feel like they were sitting next to him in the lap of luxury and these qualities made his music unequivocally popular. The way he delivered his lines radiated an air of superiority. Pac, the man of the people, was the polar opposite. He stayed eye level to preach the Thug Life gospel while Big was an innovator in aspirational rap.

REST IN PEACE!!! 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Medical assistant was a Killer!!!

On Tuesday, medical assistant Adrienne Moton (pictured below) seemed to drive nails in to Dr. Kermit Gosnell‘s (pictured above) coffin as she described facilitating the deaths of at least 10 babies, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.

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Moton is the first employee to testify in the capital murder case against Dr. Gosnell who is accused of selling highly addictive prescription drugs during the day and performing illegal late-term abortions at night.

Due to the alleged ages of the fetuses, Dr. Gosnell reportedly induced labor for the desperate, low-income women who came to hisWomen’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia.

Between the hours of 8 and 10 p.m. at night, Gosnell and his unskilled, uneducated employees would allegedly kill the babies by cutting their necks and snipping their spines.

Moton reportedly told the court:

“I learned it [cutting spines] from Dr. Gosnell,” said Moton in response to a question from Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron. “I never asked why.”

“Can you say how many you did?” Cameron asked.

“I could remember a good 10 times that I did it,” Moton replied.

The now-35-year-old Moton reportedly moved in with Dr. Gosnell and his wife as a high school student due to a tumultuous home life, after being introduced by Dr. Gosnell’s niece.
Eventually, Moton would need two abortions herself, and Dr. Gosnell would allegedly terminate those pregnancies. In 2005, she began working for the doctor sterilizing instruments. Unfortunately, her duties would expand to “administering drugs, performing sonograms, helping with abortions, and disposing of fetal remains.”

For his part, Dr. Gosnell is on trial for the death of 41-year-old patient Karnamaya Mongar and seven viable babies.
Prosecutors allege that Dr. Gosnell and his “staff” stored the remains of babies throughout the clinic. As NewsOne previously reported:
The clinic, after three decades in business, was shut down within three months of Mongar’s death, after federal drug agents investigating the high-volume painkiller business made gruesome discoveries in the abortion rooms. They found fetal remains mixed among staff lunches (pictured below) in the office refrigerator, jars containing the feet of aborted fetuses and other unsanitary or disturbing practices.
Still, according to his defense attorney, Dr. Gosnell provided care to his low-income community for nearly 30 years instead of opting to live the rich life in the ‘burbs.
The New York Times reports:

His lawyer, Jack J. McMahon, described Dr. Gosnell as dedicated to treating the poor and accused prosecutors of racism — “a prosecutorial lynching” of his client, who is Black.

“It’s an elitist, racist prosecution,” Mr. McMahon said. “This Black man is being taken because of who he is and where he works.

In fact, when Dr. Gosnell faced a judge back in 2011 for his charges, he went on record to say that he was too poor to afford legal representation, according to the Mail.

But Dr. Gosnell is reported to actually own at least 17 properties, and up until he was arrested, the good doctor made $1.8 million annually, according to a grand jury report:

Gosnell catered to the women who couldn’t get abortions elsewhere – because they were too pregnant.

For Dr. Gosnell, they were an opportunity. The bigger the baby, the more he charged.

Watch news coverage of Dr. Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” here:
In addition to Dr. Gosnell and Moton being charged, there are also seven others who are facing charges: wife Pearl Gosnell, employee Elizabeth Hampton, assistant Lynda Williams, accompliceEileen O’NeilSherry WestMaddline Joe, and receptionist Tina Baldwin.

LAS VEGAS HATES MEDICAL ASSISTANT!!

Betty Guerra won't be in court today.

And it's possible the medical assistant won't even be mentioned this morning when District Judge Kathleen Delaney holds a hearing on a temporary restraining order on emergency rules for medical assistants.

"I'm glad I don't have to be there," said Guerra, weeping Friday evening as she sat in her town home.

Yet Louis Ling, executive director of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, admits that it was Guerra's July arrest on 10 felony counts on allegations of "unlawful practice of medicine" that served as a catalyst for today's court hearing.

"It would be fair to say that everything has stemmed from that," he said.

What medical assistants can and cannot do might be clarified in District Court today as Delaney reviews the process that led to the medical board's emergency decision to allow assistants to give flu shots.

The decision was blocked with a court order that the medical board seeks to have lifted.

But the outcome of today's hearing will do little to alleviate the woes now faced by Guerra, which include criminal prosecution and possible deportation. She is accused of administering cosmetic injections, an act commonly performed by medical assistants throughout Nevada, including those who work for at least one state medical board member.

Current Nevada law prohibits medical assistants from giving shots, but the restriction has largely gone unenforced.

"Her arrest kind of forced an issue," Ling said. "So many medical personnel were calling the governor and the medical boards about what they (medical assistants) could do. There was a lot of confusion, and we wanted to clear it up."

Guerra, a physician in her native country of Peru, said she never felt confused over the rules until she was arrested.

"I wasn't doing anything different than other medical assistants," Guerra, 45, said in halting English. "I always asked the doctor if it was OK, and he said, 'Yes.' Then I got arrested for doing what everyone else was doing."

By mid-September, Ling let the public know about the 30-year-old law authorities had used to arrest Guerra. The news roused the entire medical community. The law not only barred medical assistants from giving the kind of Botox or cosmetic injections for wrinkles that Guerra was accused of, it prohibited assistants from giving flu shots and other vaccinations.

Ling thought an emergency board meeting -- where new rules would permit medical assistants to give flu shots while prohibiting cosmetic injections -- would ensure that medical assistants could give vaccinations during the flu season, which is expected to be harsh.

The new rules were blocked after attorney Jacob Hafter -- who represents medical spa owners who want medical assistants to be permitted to inject Botox -- argued recently that the board violated the state's open meeting law by cutting off public comment at the meeting.

Delaney ruled that the regulations could not go into effect immediately and ordered today's hearing on the temporary restraining order.

Guerra, the mother of three children, seems stunned that so much has happened.

"I can't sleep at night," said Guerra, who is just a couple of college courses shy of becoming a registered nurse. "I may go to the prison, and now the immigration authorities are suddenly denying my request for legal residency."

It is fair to say, said Sandra Bledsoe, who runs the Focus Medical Weight Loss & Spa where Guerra once worked, that the Peruvian immigrant is not a typical medical assistant.

"How many medical assistants do you know who graduated from medical school and can speak four languages?" Bledsoe said. "But she never held herself out as a doctor. Dr. Robert Feingold supervised her and signed off on all her work."

Peruvian authorities said Monday that Guerra had a physician's license.

Feingold told the Review-Journal recently that he allowed Guerra and other medical assistants to give injections under his license. He was at the spa about four hours a day to supervise their work.

As she sat in her living room, Guerra told of how she left her native Peru in 1983 after she won a scholarship to a Russian medical school. She learned Russian, she said, and spent seven years in a university there. She showed a diploma from the school that she used to get her medical license in the Palestinian territories. She said she had to learn English there to get her medical license.

"I met my husband, an Arab who was studying to be a dentist, in Russia," Guerra said. "I stayed (in the Palestinian territories) for 12 years, but it got so dangerous. I was always afraid that my children might get shot. You know the Arabs and the Israelis are not friends."

Her husband did not want to leave, so Guerra divorced him and returned to Peru. But the pay was so low that she followed the advice of a cousin living in Las Vegas and came to Nevada in 2003.

"At first, I thought I would become a doctor or nurse here," she said. "But it cost $10,000 just to take the tests for a doctor's license, and I also needed to study. But I needed to support my children, so I became a medical assistant."

She worked at clinics in the Hispanic community, taking blood pressures, temperatures and weights. She then got a better job working as an assistant for Dr. Stephen Seldon in 2005. There, for the first time, she was taught by Seldon to give cosmetic injections, what she thought was Botox.

One day, she said, the office manager said Seldon was out sick. But Guerra found out he had been arrested, accused of giving illegal Botox.

"I quit right away," she said. "I did not want to get in trouble."

It wasn't long, she said, before she was visited by Todd Grosz, an investigator with the state attorney general.

"He got mad at me because I couldn't tell him a lot of bad things about Dr. Seldon," she said. "But I really didn't know anything."

Guerra said Grosz got even angrier at their second meeting.

"I think that's why he ended up charging me, in retaliation, but I didn't know what Dr. Seldon was doing," she said.

Edie Cartwright, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, said Grosz acted on a complaint from the medical board.

Earlier this year, Seldon was sentenced to 46 months in prison for a fake Botox scheme.

Four of the 10 counts against Guerra took place while she was employed by Seldon. Two involved injecting Botox, two involved suturing.

"I did simple sutures with the doctor right there, just as he told me," she said. "I never said I was a doctor, but Dr. Seldon would brag to the patients that I was a doctor in Peru."

The six other counts took place at Focus.

"I never had one complaint against Betty," Bledsoe said. "Todd Grosz subpoenaed records from my spa and started calling people and telling them that Betty wasn't supposed to be doing Botox. That's how he got complaints."

Cartwright said the attorney general's office doesn't generate complaints.

Guerra's arrest outraged medical spa personnel, including Bledsoe and Tracy Hurst. They called government authorities and pointed out that plastic surgeon Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez, vice president of the medical board, let his medical assistant, Monica de la Cruz, do the same thing.

Rodriguez's spokeswoman and daughter, Noelle Rodriguez, admits de la Cruz had long done injections of Botox on patients and suturing.

In an e-mail to the Review-Journal, she said de la Cruz was trained as a surgical technician and worked under the direct supervision of Dr. Rodriguez.

"I can only pray justice is done," Guerra said.

Contact reporter Paul Harasim atpharasim@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2908.

Medical assistant one of the top jobs!!

A routine visit to the doctor is really a visit with an entire team – including a growing number of medical assistants. Medical assistants are likely the first and last faces you’ll see during any medical appointment, either in your doctor’s office or at a larger medical organization. The job is a mix of traditional office work, including manning the front desk, answering phones and filing insurance forms, as well as hands-on tasks such as drawing blood and preparing it for lab tests, administering injections and making sure medical histories are accurately recorded. More specialized roles include assisting ophthalmologists or optometrists with basic vision tests or helping patients learn to insert, remove and care for contact lenses.

The aging baby boomer population will help drive demand for more medical assistants, who will be needed to support doctors and nurses as they diagnose and treat patients. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects medical assistant employment growth of 29 percent between 2012 and 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations. The field is expected to gain 162,900 new jobs during that period. This sizeable employment growth puts medical assistants among the top health care jobs in our list of The Best Jobs of 2014.