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Physical Therapy at Home

I am getting physical therapy at home twice a week. The session is not what I expected. What should I except? If you have had therapy, what did you do during the session?

Maybe TVRH hospital should dock the wages of existing employees who smoke...that's what my daughter's employer, a major healthcare company, does. That would take some of the "$10,000,000 bonus" away.

[QUOTE=Lynn222;1006004]I am getting physical therapy at home twice a week. The session is not what I expected. What should I except? If you have had therapy, what did you do during the session?[/QUOTE
Lynn, I suggest you start a new thread with this title to get more response. Also, please state for what you are getting physical therapy, because the method of treatment could be quite different for different parts of the body.

GOOD... but I still would not go to that hospital !

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Originally Posted by jy22077 (Post 1003424)

I don't Smoke!

These policies are a SCAM. Smokers are being played the fool and they are the suckers. It has nothing to do with promoting a healthy lifestyle. All it is is just discrimination to make the company easier to hire people so Human Resources doesn't have to work. I can PROVE why there policies are a SCAM. It's very easy. The reason is - That CURRENT employees are allowed to smoke but NEW employees can't

WOW!! Are you kidding me! That's one hell of a privilege. Current employees get basically a 10 million dollar payout - THEY DON"T HAVE TO QUIT!

That's like saying - CURRENT employees DON'T have to pay TAXES but NEW employees Do!

That's like saying - CURRENT nursing interns don't require to have a license to be RNs but NEW nurses have to have RN licenses.

This policy will likely to incite a CIVIL WAR between current employees and new employees.

I got to tell you, if my coworker CAN smoke But I am NOT allowed to smoke, I would be screaming until the beams at city hall fell to be allowed to smoke. (Just assuming I was a smoker.)

In addition, this new policy is exceptionally brutal as it does not allow for smoking OF ANY KIND or OF ANY AMOUNT.

This policy is also HIGHLY INTRUSIVE to a person's right to privacy.

Consider this.

Suppose a wife and husband both smoke. The husband currently works at the Villages Regional Hospital. The wife wishes to get a job at the Villages Regional Hospital. The Wife CAN'T smoke but the husband can.

I am all for a hiring band on smokers but it has to apply to CURRENT employees as well.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...66/#post933800

Good move by the hospital. And fully understandable from an insurance cost standpoint. Any chance a non-smoker, who is far less likely to contract lung cancer and impact insurance premiums, can get in on this 10 million bonus too? Where can I apply? I certainly hope we can all mellow out before the aforementioned "CIVAL WAR" breaks out. That last one was a very sad affair. Anyway, the smokers wouldn't have an equal chance in battle and that would be one more injustice!
What young man, Gracie?