Health Care End Product?

"The operation was a success! But the patient died." A look behind this widely known statement and current health care.

Ever wonder about the priorities in health care toward the human patient?

And how much the ethics are prioritized, e.g. "do no harm",  Hippocratic Oath, and what has become of those? The older days, the patient was the focus and center. Not part of an end product or automated process. Of which the health care orientation and processing is now focused on the product e.g. what is dispensed, or what feeds money back into the multi billion dollar system. Here, the actual patient may be ranked near the bottom, perhaps as incidental or tangential in the establishment. The end products are the measure of success instead. Are all health places sanitary? Not all.

It also appears to be fast tracked. (If you can get past the front desk) How many intake personnel cannot pronounce medical terminology? Can distinguish left from right? Do they address and focus on the current reason one has come for attention, or just impersonally ask series of unrelated questions which may not figure in on being seen or treatment at all, in fact are not mentioned or seen again but waste the patient's (valuable?) time.

One places theirself before their processes (and they expect one to know them) and for all of what one goes through, is there ever offered a comprehensive patient satisfaction survey? Do they give you a choice or even offer one? Are they "authorized" to call 9 1 1? Do you know?

Does the medical personnel even know they are practicing Allopathy? Are they trained in Nutritional health?

Will they look for/treat underlying causes? Or just treat one issue and release you to continue living with it? Case: one girl was treated for sore throat and released. Died days later from a severe strep throat. Underlying medical cause was not initiated. Prioritized protocol treatment must be used over the incidental patient, because staff are trained to treat as "minor" concern, people suffocate and even bleed out in hospitals due to the coding and training prioritization supplied by people who don't see patients who nevertheless collect big pay checks. Wellness checks and appointments are being discouraged in many establishments.

Recently, there has been a shift of emphasis from treating adults to treating children. Sounds good? It could be so because children have no legal voice by themselves as minors to submit complaints. Easier on the administrators.

There used to be supplied "patient advocates" but it turns out most of them advocated for the establishment who pays them, and not for the patient's well being. The establishment should not retaliate on claims.

Humans are left in the hallways. Wrong medicine is administered or guessed at despite all the many charts, tables, training and they will get paid. Are staff only trained or are they actually educated through schools? So patients and their welfare in the end become mere statistics for someone to impersonally collect data. Oh, but are the systems working?

So, a glance at the ranks of prioritization, other than paper structure.

Some situations: a woman who gave birth is allowed to bleed to death in the hospital hallway. Excuse: bleeding is a low priority response code. A well known retiree residence allows a woman to die of a heartattack while not giving aid but describing the demise over the phone. Went viral. Excuse: we take care of our patients but we are not allowed to do life saving on our property.

Oh, but isolated incidents? No! Isolated REPORTS, that can be multiplied by thousands. [It was one hundred years ago and more when it was perceived that going to a hospital meant it was the last stop in life. Have your final affairs in order.]

 Person/patient not always first:

Be very wary of institutions that put themselves above humanness.

If you read from a site that they claim to suspend patient options that normally are accessible to patients, e.g. HIPPA, etc. and yet which are supported by public law but it favors the institution to make decisions or exemptions soley. including not providing information to the patient. Then it is time for clarity and caution. If they are doing procedures that are guided by public law, then perhaps there should be a suspension of support and funding to such institutions even nonmedical institutions that transgress, even if their action is supported by their Boards, bodies, etc.

                                                         (work in progress)