Pursuing Holiness

Shocking! It’s a travesty! Poor people don’t get medical care!!

Poor people don’t get care.

Those words resonated through my ears.

Here was her husband.

In my hospital.

Being seen by me.

Being seen by a urologist for man related stuff

A pulmonologist for his newly diagnosed sleep apnea

A cardiologist for his newly diagnosed biventricular heart failure and rapid afib

A nephrologist for his newly diagnosed severe hypertension and renal insufficiency.

Read the rest at The Happy Hospitalist: Poor People Don’t Get Care. The real shocker is that this woman could evidently say it with a straight face. No. The real shocker is that she wasn’t hustled up to the psych unit, STAT. Surely there’s a diagnosis in the DSM IV for this. Was her failure to recognize the fact that he was, in fact, receiving loads of care indicative of some dissociative ailment, or a sign of delirium? Is a belief in “Unlimited Universal Health Care, Free” a subtype of Shared Psychotic Disorder? Is the evident desire to enslave our country’s medical personnel a sign of Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Dropping out of nursing school right before clinicals was one of the best things I ever did.

written by Laura