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Originally Posted by Peachie
Welcome to The Villages, Karen, and you're right! My frustration is totally with the current administration of medical/hospital services in this nation, it is not with the dedicated staff doing so much with so little help. Safe trip!  |
Peachie & Karen.... I do so empathize with your frustrations re the medical profession and what's happening with the "top-heavy" powers-that-be robbing the profession blind.
As a patient with a terminal illness and living in TV, I found it imperative that I return to my medical providers here in Boston where I'd been treated for two years and treated as a person and not a number or dollar sign.
In Florida:
One dr said to me to just go home and wait it out and then go to hospice. Wow, I left her office feeling that I had been given a death sentence!!
Another dr told me if I didn't take his injection after chemo that he would not be responsible for my death!
My gp there had totally forgotten that I had a blood clot in my left lung. Told me, why didn't I tell her. I DID TELL HER....she forgot. Then immeidately sent me to a specialist almost a year AFTER my first appt with her.
Then, having spent three days in LRMC, (what a nightmare) I was totally disgusted with the dr's indifference to one's condition.
Upon returning to the Boston medics, I find these highly-professional providers to be pro-active in their profession. What a difference.
Nurses...."angels of mercy" I have much respect for their dedication and empathy for their frustations.
The problem is so obviously poor administration without regard for the well-being of humans, however, the resolution .....who knows???? As in every other scenario, the rich get richer, and richer, and richer....