Medicine in the 21st century.
When I was young, there were things to fear of health. Cancer was a given. Rare to know someone, rarer for them to survive. A broken bone meant rods and casts that stayed on forever. Polio meant crippling. Lots of illnesses meant death.Then when my husband got cancers, treatment, a week in hospital for surgery and more treatments.
Now..drive through medicine!?
My tenant is having hip surgery. They will replace the ball and socket. I asked details to plan on my farm. How long, the rest.
He told me they moved it up a day so next Wednesday is it. OK..so going in Tues. Nope. They will call him with the time to be there Wednesday. So home when...Thursday. WT??
Yep, in one day and home and started to walk some. I said what is medicine now adays? Like In and Out Burgers? Drive through? He will heal and then they will do the other hip. I said how about we toss you in the back of your Suburban,your son can drive you down and you go through like car wash and home again!
I know the thinking is that people heal faster with less bed laying. But, doesnt there have to be a happy medium? Although the way my husband got care, he was better off at home with me to do his care. And now with turn overs of Docs and shortages of nurses, guess hospital care is a joke.
Rather like the care in Assisted and nursing facilities.
Still mind blowing tho.
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She was out of the hospital in a few days with a new hip, but it was rough at home for her. Glad to hear a lot of improvement has been made.
But isn't it interesting how this one way that life actually has got better still involves being tougher than before in a way? The attitude now one of don't spend all day in bed, push yourself through the pain, you'll be worse off if we make this too easy for you. It's grin and bear it which might be the right attitude but it's hardly the usual attitude this century
Me as long as not at deaths door will look for herbal med or go to pharmacist for advice.
Yep life is changing fast.
take care all i say
Docs have figured out the more time on back and not moving, the faster a body deteriorates. So some of the idea of movement is good. But, with someone like my tenant with other issues, like edema for the radiation he had to cure cancer and smokers issues...think they might want to observe a couple days at least. But, then..insurance companies and VA want a patient gone as fast as they can.
That is my laugh at how bad socialized medicine would be. Government telling you what and when. Yeah? We already have it via insurance companies. A Doc orders a test or procedure and it has to clear with insurance first. And their "docs" veto it.