Getting another molar pulled on Wednesday. I'll need dentures this year & need #MutualAid help to pay for them - no medical coverage for dentures. I have only few molars left.
My #medical#fundraiser update -
$730 raised of $4,205 goal • 14 donations total.
There is literally only a single state in the USA where you still control autonomy over your own medical records (prescription drug list) and that is MO!
That means if you are in any other state and ever had a prescription doctors can find out what it was and who prescribed it. That means doctors can find your past doctors without your approval.
The scary part? You also have no control over your medical records. So your PCP can now legally look this up and contact all your past doctors for medical records and you cant do anything about it, you cant legally stop them, you cant purge your records, you cant purge your prescription list.
This is very scary for anyone who has been abused at the hand of a past doctor and moves.. If they have put any negative information about you that might make future doctors hostile towards you or not want you as a patient... there is nothing you can do... that is so scary...
I had more medical tests and bloodwork done yesterday and things are (shocker) still abnormal.
I’ve been struggling with all that comes with #LongCovid since last summer. Yet I’m not much closer to understand when or if I’ll ever get better. I’m in a flare up.
In 3 days I’ve gone from “I think I’ll be ok, this won’t last long?” to mostly bed bound —- again. Whiplash, over and over.
This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.
Woke up to a request from my long term disability company to fill out an incredibly invasive questionnaire and basically sign over my rights to personal privacy.
Canada needs to look at the overreach of these companies. They prey on the disabled.
I’ve been receiving benefits for 3+ years and I think this is my last straw. I’m not filling that out. I’ll lose half my monthly income.
I guess I’ll need help filling the gaps somehow… ugh.
Sometimes... I wonder... as an adult without children... what it's like for my mom every time I have to tell her I also have the same (negative) genetic condition she has... or her sister has... or her mom had, etc.
Like... I would feel SO bad passing any of my crappy medical issues down to a kid (one of the reasons I'm childless).
Have you ever had to go through this? Have you ever thought about this? Or is my Autism just going for a ride... lol
A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and a Facebook post from the child’s mother.
This is why #fat shaming can have tragic consequences.
If this sort of #weight-based #medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the #doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them #accountable.
Still zero new donations & my #Medical#fundraiser to be able to get #dentures is stuck at $280. Need close to $4,000 more. Please boost/share on your socials.
Need dentures asap for medical reasons related to my osteoporosis. Have only coverage & funds to cover all extractions I need. I need dentures to be able to eat. I'm now begging for financial help needed because BC govt won't help me get dentures. I'm disabled & unable to work FT now. I don't know what to do.
Our medical centre has just put up some of its fees ($63 a visit) and introduced "Note that appointments running over time will be charged at $20 per 5 minutes, including for community services card holders. A standard appointment only allows 10 minutes of consultation and 5 minutes for your clinician to make notes. Only one item can be addressed safely in a standard consultation." (NZ$)
What sort of charges do you experience where ever you are in the world?
If there’s one thing (there are many) that I hate to spend my time on, it’s fighting with doctors, insurance companies and pharmacies for more than the better part of a day.
I have a few and have left a some scars on that battlefield today.
Wanna confirm your worst fears? Here's a reddit thread of residents showing unbelievable contempt for patients w certain diagnoses: https://reddit.com/r/Residency/s/AbReVlD4FO
Hey allies:
This is what your loved ones have to deal with. Go w them to doc appts to help advocate!
Are there any #medical#scientists or #researchers or #neurologists doing any current studies on human #brain & #memory retention - specifically on maximum capacities of human brain memory storage & if there's a limit to how much we can store in our brains?
Like, if we build up many new memories, do we reach a point where some past memories are removed from our memory storage or is there no maximum limits to human memory storage?
These are things I wonder about & don't know enough about.
The American College of Emergency Physicians has withdrawn its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that describes a “potentially life-threatening” condition that results in unusual strength, pain tolerance and bizarre behavior. Critics say police have used the paper to justify excessive force in cases where a suspect dies in custody, and the American Medical Association has rejected it as a diagnosis.
A neurological take on how people end up believing #conspiracy theories -- and then get deeper into them.
Basically, "cognitive linguist" approaches (leaders using the right phrases/words) hack people's brains to get them to form opinions against political targets. Vulnerable people (those feeling uncertainty or fear) relate to what 's said, become less critical -- and real changes are made in the #brain. Those changes become stronger over time and can become more hardwired.
Much of it is about dehumanizing people -- using insults and negative words.
It can happen to people on any part of the political spectrum.
(I think one key is to be skeptical of speeches, articles etc. where insults and a lot of emotional words are used. Plus, watch for wobbly facts.)
I will unfortunately for the foreseeable future be using an #iPhone as my daily device due to the fact I recently had a heart health scare where I collapsed in March and now we’re thinking it was due to my heart. So I will be purchasing an Apple Watch Series 8 due to it passing FDA and having EKG and other heart sensors over my current series 3. If Samsung, Google or others manage to do this I may completely switch to #Android but for now I’m stuck. #health#medical#infosec
The American #medical system is so weird. On the face of it, it looks like insurance paid out over $90k, but over $86k of that was just the insurance company telling our providers "nah, we're not paying that".
Today I learned …
that you cannot ask for another specialist if you have one… even if that specialist is a complete asshole and you feel uncomfortable working with them.
A fun #medical story from my past week… I’m trying to share the positives.
I had a surgical procedure Monday and had 4 nurses involved during various steps. My 2 surgical nurses knew what POTS was and treated me so well - they gave me extra fluids. :)
My last nurse in recovery… her 16 year old daughter has #POTS. What did I do? Of course I talked to her and answered questions and was an advocate… on my surgical bed… because that’s what I do. 💜☺️
Sleep can be most restful for older adults when nighttime temperature range is between 68 to 77°F, study finds (medicalxpress.com)
New research finds that sleep can be most efficient and restful for older adults when nighttime bedroom ambient temperature ranges between 68 to 77°F.
2-year-old Nevada boy dies from brain-eating amoeba likely contracted at natural hot spring | CNN (www.cnn.com)
A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and a Facebook post from the child’s mother.
A new device can detect the coronavirus in the air in minutes (www.sciencenews.org)
The detector can sense as a few as seven to 35 coronavirus particles per liter of air — about as sensitive as a PCR test but much quicker.