I remember a long time ago in 2018 6ix9ine was jumped and ended up in the hospital and there was the famous picture of him laying unconscious in what looked like a hospital gown.
I didn't think anything of it at the time but after working healthcare for a year I realized that that had to be a violation of HIPAA right?
Did they ever fire the healthcare worker that took that picture? That picture was all over social media
Will I lose the weight
Went to the emergency room because my feet was numb an tingling for 3 days straight went there waited bout an hr to be seen they literally took me to a isolated chair no room a chair in the hallway doc talked to me for literally five minutes an then waited 30 mins to discharge me an didn’t even make a definitive diagnosis on my feet an sent me home with nothing an I just got the bill today an I kid you not it was 875$…
So I recently made sleeping pods that induce hyper sleep and a various kinds of dreams. Though I’ve gotten with two ppl in the past recent few weeks my 25th and 27th partners both have new borns and I was wondering how could I make the sleeping pods or a new version help them sleep? I had a few ideas like recreating the mothers heart beat inside the machine and their smell to calm the child is there any other ideas that can be given?
I (63y) and spouse (62), are going to be rolling off a employeer provided PPO open access plan in 2 months and are looking at ACA plans. We are concerned about what were to happen if we needed emergency care while traveling out of our out area. We know ER care is covered per plan. But what if the ER visit turns into hospital admission, surgery, etc. Ie., heart attack, stroke, broken hip. Is all that out of pocket or how does that work?.
The current climate when it comes to doctor/patient relationships has definitely gone downhill as of late, for many reasons, I think. But, the most prevalent, at least in my observation, is the widespread lack of trust patients these days have in their doctors.
It seems as though many doctors have forgotten why they may have gotten into medicine in the first place, and may have their priorities a little bit backwards. A majority of doctors admit to not being completely honest with their patients, whether it be regarding risks and/or complications of procedures, mistakes that may have been made during procedures or surgeries, or doctors choosing to withhold information about a patients condition for one reason or another. It seems that while (at least most of) these doctors may have good intentions going in, they seem to be forgetting that, ultimately, it’s t he patients body, and they ALWAYS deserve to be able to make an informed decision about their health and medical treatment. No matter what. This is never something that should be left to the doctors discretion, as it is really not their decision to make. When doctors do this, and decide to withhold information about the risks of the treatments they are offering, then the patient isn’t able to weigh the risks vs. benefits for themselves, and that really should always be their right. When a doctor tells you that nothing serious can happen, and then, say you end up with a serious injury or illness, then they’ve completely eradicated any kind of trust they had in them, and most likely all other doctors as well.
When it comes to mistakes, I know that I would greatly appreciate more transparency, accountability, and willingness to help you get better. I was hurt by a doctor when I was only 16 years old, during an unnecessary ESI, after she told me the injection would help with my extreme inflexibility, and the minor pain I was having from compensating for that. She told me that the most serious risk was developing a “2 day headache” (what she called the post dural puncture headache), and 25 years of constant, severe pain from Adhesive Arachnoiditis later, I definitely beg to differ. Had she been more transparent about the possible risks, no matter how rare she thought they were, I think I would have made a different decision when weighing the risks vs. benefits of having the procedure.
Afterwards, she completely lied about what happened… the lightning hold of pain, how I screamed like I was dying for 10+ minutes, and the whole office was very concerned. How it was like she’d turned on a light switch of pain that never went off. She even later created a false document to back up her story that all had gone according to plan… even though I had a witness in the room, and one in the waiting room! I was so traumatized and in so much pain, she ended up getting away with it. No doctors would take me seriously for a long time, and I ended up not getting a diagnosis for 20 years.. well after my condition had become incurable. Had she been honest, and actually tried to help instead of just doing everything possible to avoid accountability, I may have been able to get treatment in time so that this wouldn’t have completely stolen my life, and all the dreams and goals I had. I still don’t understand how someone could do that to a literal child, especially one who’d taken an oath to do no harm.
It’s been extremely difficult for me to trust doctors since, which is unfortunate, since I have needed and will continue to need consistent pain management, probably until I die. It’s sad, because before I got hurt, I actually wanted to be a doctor myself. So, having everything happen the way it did was heartbreaking.
How are patients supposed to trust doctors when the standard of care and trustworthiness of doctors has all gone downhill so much? How do we fix it?