PTH, I am terribly sorry for what your mama and yourself went thru. This country treats the elderly horribly. I hope someday you will be able to move past your pain. You were a wonderful son to your Mama, she KNEW that!!!
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Yep, that's our health care system at work.I remember we were called into the oncologist. Philip's white blood count was super elevated. Well, he went through radiation and now the chemo is kicking his butt what do they expect? Not necessarily the chemo. Okay what do you want to do? They want to do a bone marrow tap. Wait, bone marrow tap exposes him to infection, his immune system is already compromised and it hurts like a muther muther. What would the tap show? If he developed secondary cancer-leukemia. WHAT? I looked at the doc and said, say that he does have leukemia what are you going to do about it, what can you do? Not much but we would know. What. To place a bet what's going to kill him first? Leukemia or the GBM? That was the goofiest thing I had heard.
I cannot even begin to imagine what that must have been like, you have more strength than me.I remember we were called into the oncologist. Philip's white blood count was super elevated. Well, he went through radiation and now the chemo is kicking his butt what do they expect? Not necessarily the chemo. Okay what do you want to do? They want to do a bone marrow tap. Wait, bone marrow tap exposes him to infection, his immune system is already compromised and it hurts like a muther muther. What would the tap show? If he developed secondary cancer-leukemia. WHAT? I looked at the doc and said, say that he does have leukemia what are you going to do about it, what can you do? Not much but we would know. What. To place a bet what's going to kill him first? Leukemia or the GBM? That was the goofiest thing I had heard.
I bet it becomes standard "protocol" that no recording devices are allowed during any procedures.This is super smart of this guy. I bet more people start doing this now.
WHAT?An anesthesiologist in Toronto got 10 years in jail for molesting women when they were sedated. Some were aware.
I thought maybe I shouldn't post a link because it does give some detail. Let's just say...it wasn't just what he did to them...but what he made them do to him. During surgery...with nurses and doctors in the room.
I am sorry Pat - I watched my Dad (who I loved dearly) gradually worsen when he was suffering from dementia and (probably) Alzheimer's. We did not ask for an autopsy to examine his brain but he had all the signs and symptoms. They just wanted to get rid of him when I took him in to the hospital for things like a bladder problem.Thanks DJ, but ya know the things they did to her, the things they put her through for no reason, the ever changing excuses for performing badly and making her worse than when she arrived, the poorer condition she was in when I got her home and what I had to do and fix it as best I could, are things I don't think I'm even close to writing down here, I'm still traumatized by it all.
And almost all of it because of "protocols", treating a woman in her 90's, with a myriad of problems, as if she were say, me or you.
They get payef regardless of any outcome because they supposidly practice that 'art of medicine', but that would imply each individual is its own 'canvas', but the near never ending use of 'protocol',that changes that dynamic, the very dynamic they base their livelyhood on...they should only get performance pay in this system they've deliberetly created is my opinion, then let's see how each individual gets treated, and treated.
Wow now ain't that just a whole nother kettle of bad fish, shows how human beings can be just be impersonalized slabs of raw meat in a profession that should require at least some level of empathy.An anesthesiologist in Toronto got 10 years in jail for molesting women when they were sedated. Some were aware.
I thought maybe I shouldn't post a link because it does give some detail. Let's just say...it wasn't just what he did to them...but what he made them do to him. During surgery...with nurses and doctors in the room.
Oh gee whiz it's like this ain't it.. ..well it ain't a wall but it'll do.What gets to me , about most physicians, is their lack of attention to what a patient or caregiver relates to them about the patients medical condition. I worked as a Medical Technologist for many years before teaching. I've seen the good, bad and ugly side of the medical profession. And there is meaning to the wording that it is a medical practice.
My mom had numerous medical conditions and while in NJ, she had several caring doctors. When she moved to FL to be with me after my dad passed, I requested every medical chart, test results,medications. physical therapy etc. of her care from each physician .. and they gladly gave them to me. I developed a file folder.
As she needed care in Fl- I would make available to that physician her "case file". I might as well have thrown it in the trash can- as none ever read it or listened to what I had to say. With each new hospital admission, the same expensive and often invasive tests were requested. Do physician not have the ability to look at/ read a patients medical history? They look at the care giver strangely when you refuse. How dare you not do everything possible.
Well, it's like this, you ran those same tests a month ago. Yes, she has cancer, yes it is spreading, no she doesn't want surgery. Never once did they listen to my mom. She was elderly and what does an elderly person know about their own health.
The nurses, for the most part were caring. They kept me informed as to changes made by the "practicing" physician, when he did not consult me or my mom.
Fl is a state of elderly people. Physicians need to be re educated in compassion, and not treating elderly as some sort of incompetent object. Listen and learn from the patient and especial the caregiver- the one who took care of them 24/7.
it is not all about "protocol". It's about quality of life. Enough said..................
In my job, I deal with physicians all the time. There are some (not all) who think that they got title of God after their name when they became a physician.
((((Mz. Sig))))I remember we were called into the oncologist. Philip's white blood count was super elevated. Well, he went through radiation and now the chemo is kicking his butt what do they expect? Not necessarily the chemo. Okay what do you want to do? They want to do a bone marrow tap. Wait, bone marrow tap exposes him to infection, his immune system is already compromised and it hurts like a muther muther. What would the tap show? If he developed secondary cancer-leukemia. WHAT? I looked at the doc and said, say that he does have leukemia what are you going to do about it, what can you do? Not much but we would know. What. To place a bet what's going to kill him first? Leukemia or the GBM? That was the goofiest thing I had heard.
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