Blogging to Save a Father’s LifeComments on: -- http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html because health professionals can't do it alone Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Overtreatment - sometimes against our will | e-Patients.net http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-667 Overtreatment - sometimes against our will | e-Patients.net Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:24:20 +0000 http://e-patients.net/?p=287#comment-667 [...] Grundy MD, chair of PCPCC, had this happen recently during his own father’s final illness. He commented about it today, on our post Blogging To Save a Father’s Life. He says this happens [...] [...] Grundy MD, chair of PCPCC, had this happen recently during his own father’s final illness. He commented about it today, on our post Blogging To Save a Father’s Life. He says this happens [...]

]]> By: Paul Grundy http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-652 Paul Grundy Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:15:35 +0000 http://e-patients.net/?p=287#comment-652 I too would agree with the comment – “That is the true power of e-patients — people learning and teaching others and everyone coming together to try and problem solve to save someone’s life.” I think this is a very interesting example of a drive for patient centeredness—My father died a few months ago and had the opposite happen to him which I think is even more common. He had services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him he did not want -- even had a directive against. I showed up in his hospital room after he had a fall with only 8% cardiac function with end stage congestive heart failure. They had place a pacemaker in him and his first question to me was “how did this thing get in”? and how do I turn it off? Will this go off and not let me die make me suffer more? He had a directive not do such a thing but no body contacted his primary care doctor – turns out this happen well over 50% of the time in the USA. Nobody bother to ask his wife sitting in the waiting room – nobody cared. Ask your self a basic question around the issue of the banking system melt down -- what was it all about??. Well the TV commentator I heard yesterday said it was greed. Bankers forgot who they worked for they failed to wake up every day and ask the question what can I do for my clients today to make them economical safe and secure -- instead they woke up and ask how can I make money for myself? Now ask yourself is this the core of the issue in healthcare as well?? Has it boiled down to that in our healing profession? Do we doctors really have a lack of professional ethics?? -- But why else would there be 30% excess care reported by hundreds of articles in the healthcare lit. I am very sad to have to tell you a truth - no longer can you count on the professionalism the pride of doing the right thing in healthcare to be the norm among physicians. Place like e-patients to blog are more important every day Paul Grundy MD Chair WWW.PCPCC.net I too would agree with the comment – “That is the true power of e-patients — people learning and teaching others and everyone coming together to try and problem solve to save someone’s life.” I think this is a very interesting example of a drive for patient centeredness—My father died a few months ago and had the opposite happen to him which I think is even more common. He had services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him he did not want — even had a directive against. I showed up in his hospital room after he had a fall with only 8% cardiac function with end stage congestive heart failure. They had place a pacemaker in him and his first question to me was “how did this thing get in”? and how do I turn it off? Will this go off and not let me die make me suffer more? He had a directive not do such a thing but no body contacted his primary care doctor – turns out this happen well over 50% of the time in the USA. Nobody bother to ask his wife sitting in the waiting room – nobody cared.

Ask your self a basic question around the issue of the banking system melt down — what was it all about??. Well the TV commentator I heard yesterday said it was greed. Bankers forgot who they worked for they failed to wake up every day and ask the question what can I do for my clients today to make them economical safe and secure — instead they woke up and ask how can I make money for myself? Now ask yourself is this the core of the issue in healthcare as well?? Has it boiled down to that in our healing profession? Do we doctors really have a lack of professional ethics?? — But why else would there be 30% excess care reported by hundreds of articles in the healthcare lit. I am very sad to have to tell you a truth – no longer can you count on the professionalism the pride of doing the right thing in healthcare to be the norm among physicians. Place like e-patients to blog are more important every day

Paul Grundy MD
Chair http://WWW.PCPCC.net

]]> By: John Grohol http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-648 John Grohol Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:10:30 +0000 http://e-patients.net/?p=287#comment-648 Not much was said in regards to what changed his mind. I suppose constant pressure from dozens (maybe even hundreds) of strangers may have finally changed his mind, as well as re-examining the legal liability of providing the drug. Not much was said in regards to what changed his mind. I suppose constant pressure from dozens (maybe even hundreds) of strangers may have finally changed his mind, as well as re-examining the legal liability of providing the drug.

]]> By: Gilles Frydman http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-597 Gilles Frydman Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:55:25 +0000 http://e-patients.net/?p=287#comment-597 John, Do you know how they succeeded in changing the CEO mindset? John,

Do you know how they succeeded in changing the CEO mindset?

]]> By: John Grohol http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/10/blogging-to-save-a-fathers-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-596 John Grohol Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:41:09 +0000 http://e-patients.net/?p=287#comment-596 The father received the drug. We only hope that others in equally desperate situations -- without friends in high places like Bill Clinton and Lance Armstrong to lobby on their behalf -- can also get access to these kinds of medications more easily in the future. The father received the drug. We only hope that others in equally desperate situations — without friends in high places like Bill Clinton and Lance Armstrong to lobby on their behalf — can also get access to these kinds of medications more easily in the future.

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