tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024461.post8595952336961810288..comments2023-07-02T10:27:44.090-04:00Comments on "Had a Dad" Alzheimer's Blog: 172 Medicare no longer paying for hospital mistakesGBP })i({http://www.blogger.com/profile/09275995534174189926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024461.post-19402707199391825462008-03-06T20:41:00.000-05:002008-03-06T20:41:00.000-05:00I'm ambivalent about this, too. Part of what I've...I'm ambivalent about this, too. Part of what I've been doing these last few weeks while my mother's been ill is making sure I don't have to take her to the hospital for ANYTHING. My mother has been the victim of hospital catherization; she's been the victim of hospital caused skin tears; she's been the victim of in-hospital verbal abuse by floor nurses; she's been the victim of ER doctor misdiagnosis (actually, covert refusal to diagnose); all of which I've written about, all of which I've reported to the hospitals in question. So far as I know, she's never contracted a staph infection at a hospital, but lately I went to great lengths to prevent this possibility by seeking out and quitting all medications she was taking for her horrible cold that may have affected her anemia. Luckily, her hemoglobin seems to be recovering on its own. I doubt that we're completely out of the woods, but my understanding is that even the hospital, here, is, at the moment, loaded with ER visitors who don't have family doctors and are seeking treatment for the flu that's hit here pretty hard (and which may be what I had and from what my mother is recovering). No way was I interested in taking her into ER to receive a blood transfusion in an environment that would be rife with intra- and extra-environmental infection, at the moment.<BR/>And, I know what you mean about ambivalence about the proposed "cure" for this deplorable condition. I agree that this country's current health care industry is ripe to pass on the costs rather than fix the problems.<BR/>I can't help but wonder if these problems are peculiar to our health care system or if they are world wide, regardless of whether a country has a single payer/all inclusive/government run health care system or a corporation dominated system like ours.Gail Raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429291136763615708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024461.post-26304882648523669432008-02-22T01:41:00.000-05:002008-02-22T01:41:00.000-05:00I think the idea is that if Medicare doesn't pay f...I think the idea is that if Medicare doesn't pay for the mistakes, the hospital will have to absorb the costs and perhaps it will encourage them to take better care.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of UTIs, my mother-in-law is in the hospital with one. Not from being catheterized, but I wonder whether it was from sitting around too much at the nursing home. I believe she has been wearing diapers so it could have been an irritation that caused it. She was pretty sick but is responding to the antibiotics so I'm hoping it's not a healthcare related, resistant germ.Mauigirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529827915262851910noreply@blogger.com