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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Desta Anthony’s of the World
The American medical industry is insane. I know this because a psychiatrist just told me so. One day in early August, when I was safely embedded in one of St. Joseph’s Hospital’s brand new hospital beds, Liza Ebert, a very … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Medical care, physician
Tagged American Medical Industry, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, Desta Anthony, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Foley catheter, Health, health care, hospital, Hospital medicine, hospitalist, Liza Ebert, Medicine, MobileMed, Nurse, nurse practitioner, occupational therapist, OT, patients, Physician, Primary care physician, St. Joseph's Hospital, Visiting Nurse Association
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What’s wrong with the Medical System (Part 12,473)
It takes a physician’s prescription to get a shower chair on my insurance (Medicare/Medicaid). That’s where the problem starts. It ends with me having multiple contusions and aggravations, a black eye, and possibly a broken face bone, pending professional evaluation. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, physician
Tagged Conditions and Diseases, disability, doctors, drugs, Health, health care, Home care, Home Health, hospital, Hospital medicine, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient, patients, Physician, Primary care physician, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Ruth Hope Woodlen
People are searching my blogs for Ruth Woodlen, so it is necessary that I make clear the relationship between Ruth and me. She is my youngest sister, and the executive director of the Mental Health Association of the Capital Region … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Death, Depression, Fraud, God, Inpatient psychiatry, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged antidepressants, Capital Region, death, depression, drugs, end-of-life, God, Health Care Proxy, homosexual, hospitalization, lesbian, mental disorder, mental health, Mental Health Association, mental illness, Methodism, Methodist minister, National Institute of Mental Health, ordained minister, Pastor, psychiatric disorders, relationships, Ruth Hope Woodlen, United Church of Christ
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Foley Catheters: A Personal Journey (Part I)
Frederic Foley was a Boston surgeon who invented the catheter around 1930. It is a narrow piece of plastic tubing that is inserted through the urethra and into the bladder. After it is positioned in the bladder then a balloon filled with … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, physician
Tagged bladder, catheter, diabetes insipidus, end-of-life, God, kidney disease, lithium, mental health, patients, pee, Physician, Psychiatrist, sleep, St. Joseph's Hospital, urethra, urine
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Knowing
The night is soft and lovely as it settles over “The Hill”—Syracuse University. The freshmen started moving in yesterday. I wheel the Hill and wonder. These kids—our children—come to the university with long, tan legs and eager faces. Their parents accompany … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, God, Health Care, Medical care, Spirituality, Values
Tagged American Medical Industry, blogs, Cleveland Clinic, death, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Esselstyn, drugs, Education, end-of-life, Foley catheter, Forks over Knives, God, Health, health care, Medicine, mental health, patients, plant diet, Sanjay Gupta, sleep, Syracuse University, The Hill, values, whole food
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St. Joe’s Discharges Me Without A Beating Heart
Last Monday I was discharged from St. Joseph’s Hospital to home. Medical transportation was scheduled to pick me up at 11:30 a.m. The admitting nurse from the Visiting Nurse Association was to see me at home at noon. My home health aide, … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Medical care
Tagged Alexander Pope, catheter, Conditions and Diseases, discharge, errors, Foley catheter, Health, health care, Home care, Home Health, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing home, patients, St. Joe's, St. Joseph's Hospital, VNA. Visiting Nurses Association
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Sitting Down
The story, as told by my grandmother, was that her younger brother Dick drove home from the swimming hole at dusk in an open buggy, wearing a wet wool bathing suit. He caught a cold that turned into pneumonia, and died … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, drugs, God, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Spirituality
Tagged allergies, antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, Dale Avers, death, depression, diagnosis, diet, Diet (nutrition), doctors, Drug, drugs, end-of-life, Faith, Ghaly, God, Health, hypersensitivity, immune system, insulin, Medicine, modern medicine, patients, penecillin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, pneumonia, sleep, stress
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Bad Hospitalists and Good Kids
August 14 Sometimes I am given the chance to help. A nurse comes to my bedside. She knows I have gotten rid of a bad hospitalist and wants to know how I did it. It takes a lot of careful … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Values
Tagged Amy Rhone, bad doctors, cold turkey, diagnosis, doctors, Dr. Peter Breggin, drug withdrawl, drugs, empathic therapy, freedom of speech, health care, Hodgens, hospital, Hospital medicine, hospitalist, MaryKate Hodgens, Medicine, Nurse, Onondaga County New York, Patient, patients, Physician, physician assistant, St. Joseph's Hospital
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Two Days in August
August 16 If you are a nurse and your patient calls you in first thing in the morning and says, “Something’s wrong. I feel really bad,” and then starts yelling at you and you start crying and run away, it … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, God, Health Care, Medical care, Poverty, Spirituality, Values
Tagged african american, black people, death, depression, diabetes, God, insulin, Nurse, patients, pharmaceuticals, white people, white-bread
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