Kirsten Mortensen's blog

Don’t count on it.

The story, if you’ve missed it, began in 2003 when a construction worker was admitted to the ER at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with a gash on his head.

He got stitches.

Then he was told he needed a rectal exam to determine if he had a spinal injury.

He didn’t want a rectal exam. A scuffle ensued. The “patient” ended up sedated & restrained.

Leave aside who’s lying and who isn’t (the hospital claimed he never got the exam; Brian Persaud says he did; the hospital says Persaud got violent, he says he slapped a doc by accident).

It seems to me it never should have gotten that far.

It seems to me that even if I, the patient, will die if I refuse a particular procedure, I should still be allowed to refuse it.

It’s my body.

Isn’t it?

Much better!

A couple of months back, Wordpress announced a critical new security upgrade.

I had mixed success the last time I tried to do an upgrade myself (I messed up my poor template, amateur that I am)–so this time I decided to ask for help.

BJ Novak of Kickass Web Design to the rescue!

She cleaned up the mess I made and upgraded both this and my golf blog.

I’ve been laying low but the hiatus is over, I can blog again!

And I’ve got lots to blog about too, plenty of stuff simmering on the back burner in recent weeks :-)

Be back soon!