…ation of the prescribing physician patient relationship was only 5 weeks in 2021 and 2022. Over all the years, a supposed lack of coercion is not usually determined by a physician with a longstanding relationship with the patient. This is significant in light of well-documented elder abuse-identification and reporting problems among professionals in a society where an estimated one in ten elders is abused, mostly by family and caregivers. (Lachs,…
…ve a lower quality of life, therefore leading them to devalue our lives. In 2021, Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, conducted a survey of 714 doctors around the country as part of a study. She found “82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to…
…eating disorders kill themselves with “MAiD,” (https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2022.11.9.4 , https://www.compassionandchoices.org/news/colorado-response ), but then it’s representatives say that these laws have never been abused. So, has the law been abused or not? As someone with an eating disorder who may have no choice but to seek treatment from people like the opportunist who wrote that case study in the future,…
Suicide is devastating. Take it from someone who has lost dear friends to it. It’s an especially difficult death for families to deal with. Loved ones often feel guilt, wondering was there anything they could have done to prevent it. I, too, felt that horror and guilt after learning that a close friend had died by suicide hours after visiting me. September is National Suicide Prevention Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report…
…vers and unpaid family caregivers of people receiving HCBS in the summer of 2021. Here are a few direct quotes from caregivers that highlight the day-to-day struggles on the job caused by low pay, long hours, lack of appropriate training, and lack of equipment: “Some Tuesday mornings when I think I’m going home at six, the owner would call and say, two of them had to go to the doctor, so I would never come home until Wednesday night.” – 51-year-ol…
