The power of awarness

This blog started off as something for class now Its gonna be my personal account and journey from a day to day basis

Elderly Abuse

Last class’s discussion about elderly people being abused hit home greatly. About two years ago my great aunt the woman who helped raise me had a minor stroke. I flew up to New York to be with her and to see her, she was doing well still shaken up but just needed some physical therapy then she could continue on with life as normal. My aunt who was her care giver put her in a nursing home to go through physical therapy and a nice expensive one to be safe. In there care she “fell” on her way to the bathroom and another time on the way back when she was suppose to be on bed rest and someone was supposed to watch her. In her fall she bruised and injured herself severely and ultimately had a more sever stroke due to the fall. She was taken to a hospital and treated but was incoherent she could not talk she was on life support for about 3 weeks before she finally passed. We have been trying to investigate and hold the nursing home responsible and has been a hard task. I feel as though nothing will bring her back and that is WAS there fault 100% if they were doing there jobs my grandmother would still be alive today. She was no old and inactive person and to see her in that state broke my heart. During the video in class it brought back a lot of emotion and the scary realization that elderly people are being abused everywhere with no voice.

This is what abuse looks like

Free Healthcare?

Will universal or national health ever exist in the United states? I don’t know but I surely hope so. Other countries such as Europe Australia and Canada have executed it great but the U.S chooses not to make it happen because of peoples choices? I feel you can have free health care through jobs and if you choose to have cosmetic procedures of things not necessary done them by all means pay for it but everyone in American school not suffer and not have an option of health care.

Can i get a break?

So I did not realize how horrible the United states health care system was until I came to college and heard the horror stories and then finally got sick. Scary incident one, I thought my family had great health care my mom is a nurse practionaer and my father a owns a medical transport company. My parents live in Gainesville and I in Orlando, I got very sick one day and in so much pain that I needed to go to the urgent care the closest thing. Even with my I though great insurance I had to fill out a booklet worth of paper work in all of my pain and pay 150 that I DID not have even before I saw the dr. needless to say I left in all my pain and cried myself to sleep and ending up having to go the the emergency room in an ambulance anyways. With all the money my parents are already paying I feel if I am sick I and have insurance should go to the dr without hassle. Another insane incident. We have not always had dental insurance but finally when we did took the opportunity to finally get my wisdom teeth pulled that have been bothering me for over a YEAR pushing my teeth together and hurting my jar to the point of tears after the insurance and all the money coverage I would still have to pay 400 out of pocket to get my wisdom teeth pulled also that I did not have. At this point my mouth hurts so much I would have headaches and not Tylenol would help. I tried every program in Florida possible but NO ONE does pro bono teeth pulling or at reduced price to I had to take out a credit card to get my teeth pulled. NO WONDER people are going bankrupt even with insurance. If I am already paying 300 dollars a month for insurance I don’t use every day and still have to pay for each procedure does not seem fair to me! Where do people go who have insurance and still cant pay the difference NO WHERE we are just out of luck!

Negligent Sterilization

This whole chapter seemed to be all about the grimy and technical part of medicine. As we all know everyone make mistakes including dr. what I learned about this part of the medical field is who pays for the dr mistakes and how it is taken. If it was intentional and the dr could have avoided it or if the mistake was an act of nature and there was nothing the dr could have done. The scary part is now a days you can sue for either part and Dr are getting more cautious and more steps have to be taken to cover themselves? Is this constant fear of not getting sued hurting the dr and the patient in the long run. I feel strongly so. Now instead of focusing souly on the patient and what treatment needs to be done more is focused on making sure papers are signed and being afraid to give wrong advice. The legal aspect of the medical field has really turned me off. I understand that a lot of the rules are to protect people but feel that Dr should not have to be afraid and really focus on the patient

Really Listen!!!!!!