It is all too easy to rant and rave about the wrongs, but I really believe the more we focus on what’s wrong, the more wrong there is, whether reality or mere perception.
I also believe that we Americans have become complacent. How many generations must die to protect our freedoms, before we remember to use [...]
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A Health Care Hero
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“….You don’t have that kind of pain!”
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care, the patient experience on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As a person dealing with chronic pain, the debate over pain medication drives me nuts.
Being a person who focuses more on logic than emotion, I know that pain medication has it’s dangers, is overused, addicts abuse it, it poses a risk to the general population, and so on.
As someone who uses pain medication on occasion, [...]
Where’s the beef?
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kaiser apologists of every flavor can not figure out how I can willfully display the unmitigated gall to decry their shoddy care. “Look how they’ve brought costs down!” they say. “Their quality scores are competitive!” they crow. “They’re not for profit!” (as if) they cheer.
There are a few (I can count them on one hand) [...]
I said there’s no swelling….
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, The Blame Game, health care, the patient experience on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one, shocking though it is, doesn’t begin to tell half the story.
As I mentioned in this post, my 10 inch incision sprang a leak. Unfortunately that wasn’t the end of the fluid accumulation. Not long after having my drains removed, my abdomen began to [...]
The devil you know
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, health care, research, the patient experience on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the latest trends I’m finding in trying to get Kaiser to do something, anything to deal with AD, is this tendency to scoff at the information that the current research is showing. Golden little nuggets like “oh, that’s just a bunch of research mumbo jumbo” or, “researchers like to think they know about [...]
Will Divorce for Health Insurance
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, Politics, health care on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My husband was a Kaiser employee, until their recent IT layoff. He still works there, but now he’s a contractor (read: no bennies).
For the last 8 years we’ve been with Kaiser, my health care has mostly been an endless game of no-care hide and go seek.
Except for a brief, shining period of about 18 months [...]
Ask Not
Posted in Kaiser Permanente, The Blame Game, health care on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some might wonder what drives a patient to think they have anything more to add to the health care discussion. Certainly the blogosphere is full of wannabe medi-bloggers. Why is what I have to say unique or edifying?
It’s a valid point. I may be just another voice in a vast ocean. However I present a [...]
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