#healthcare authority

[commiepinkofag]

Dr. Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

Her work uncovered how businesses selling blood led to the spread of HIV in the countryside.

She was at the forefront of AIDS activism in China and traveled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.

A gynecologist by training, she encountered her first AIDS patient in the central province of Henan in 1996.

While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and beyond.

She told the Associated Press in a previous interview that she withstood government pressure and persisted in her work because “everyone has the responsibility to help their own people. As a doctor, that’s my job. So it’s worth it.”

[sugawhaaa]

Hey sugababies 🤭 I've finally committed to the follower name thingy.

I just wanted to finally come out and say what my health issue was. Exactly a week ago my gynecologist said that there is a very very very high possibility that I have the chronic disease endometriosis. For those who don't know endometriosis is an incurable chronic disease that can occur to anyone. The cause of it is still unknown though they may have a few leads on it but that's another subject for another day.

Basically endometriosis is scar tissue building on certain organs in the body, most commonly the uterus. This results in extremely painful periods, dysuria, constipation/diarrhea, constant abdominal pain, and so on, you catch the drift. As I stated it is incurable but there are ways to slow down the growth and manage the pain which I have been working with. However to get a legal diagnosis for endometriosis you need to go through a major surgery known as a laparoscopy. During the surgery surgeons will remove the scar tissue but it is highly likely that it will regrow.

I personally decided that I do not want to go through that surgery, especially not at this point in my life. I may consider it in future years. Currently I increased my dose of birth control and do not take placebo pills meaning I do not experience menstruation anymore (THANK GOD 🙏)

Yeah so I'm mentally a train wreck right now and some of this could be incorrect information and you should go with whatever your doctor told you, this is just what my gynecologist said as far as I remember.

[thoughtportal]

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[fenrichaita]

Also, I do not know who needs to hear this, but no mental health label is this scientifically neutral thing. They have always been political tools by nature, both in the way that people have both voluntarily adopted and identified with them, and in the way that many at the same time have been coercively given them. Either way, they are used as additional justification for those in power to detain and control those who are labeled with them, which typically entails the sanctioned use of violence, stripping of rights from the designated patient, and coercion.

[lechusza]

This is not make-believe

A wonderful wizard of health? President-elect Trump's selection of Mehmet Oz, or Dr. Oz., to run CMS puts a celebrity physician with no prior experience in government in line to run the nation's biggest health insurance programs. Oz is a household name with a medical degree, a Wharton MBA and Trump's seal of approval. But he has a history of blending mainstream ideas for improving American health with misinformation. #droz #health #trump #politics #news

[edwardoutlaw]

[rannadylin]

Petition to abolish the prior authorization process. It's the epitome of what's wrong with the American health care system.

(The link is a gift article so you can access it without the paywall.)

[ophilosoraptoro]

Whistleblower Exposes Health Insurers' Most Evil Scheme

[vbsvartalf]

Laird Barron is my favorite living author, bar none. He is, in large part, why I decided to dip my toes into writing horror. He's in need of serious medical help and because of the glories of the American healthcare system, is in need of help. If you like creepy things, dark things, or things that feel just a little... weird, please donate to help him out, any small amount goes a very long way.

[papercranes07]

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[wereshrew-admirer]

the figure in bysmuth -> the demeaning and invasive process of treating ADHD

chine the cleaver -> the symptoms of ADHD, untreated

[settlercolonialismisbad]

due to recent legislation, i got kicked off the Washington state insurance plan i was on 6 months before recertification, and the only insurance i could even remotely afford doesn’t cover testosterone, which is over $350 a month after discounts according to my pharmacy. I can’t afford that. This is why trans people in the US are dying. We’re being forcibly medically detransitioned by state-run insurance, even in supposed blue states. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I don’t want to exist.

[confusedgoldenflower]

Commissions Open

I haven’t done this for myself, idky. I guess anxiety and shyness. But what spurred me to do this now is the Jasmine Sherman/Tanda Blubear (https://linktr.ee/fat_socialist) campaign NEEDS money to make it through the gatekeeping—I mean to pay the ballot fees because the Green Party couldn’t support actual action.

So I’m bluntly stating my writing requests are OPEN! Hell, I’ll even write you you’re smut. Just donate to this campaign, please.

(I will NOT do SA/pedo/zoo/gender slurs/or other topics that distress me.) If I don’t know the fandom/source, I can work with enough info to write.

[lechusza]

DUDE!

DUDE! Meet the Indigenous leader using psychedelic medicine to heal the traumas of colonization As an environmentalist, Rueben George fought oil pipelines in Canada. As a Sundance Chief and therapist, he’s working to bring the healing potential of psychedelic medicine to his people — and eventually everyone. #indigenous #health #activist

[theorgantrail]

Insurance: Healthcare Workers' Perspective (i.e why it sucks)

1. Why Doctors Don't Carry Your Insurance

This was one of the most surprising things to learn when I started working in a dr's office. Insurance sucks just as much for providers as it does for the patients. (The only upside is we have a separate hotline for calling).

Doctors have to pay (quite a lot of money $$$ btw) to register as providers with insurance. Each individual company (BCBS, USAA, Kaiser, etc) requires a fee, and often will have different processes for registration. This process is not instantaneous, either, but can take anywhere up to 2 years.

That is why many younger/newer providers will often only carry a couple insurances. So the more insurances a provider carries, the more they fought and paid for accessibility for their patients.

2. Prior Authorization

“Physicians spend an enormous amount of time fighting these prior authorization rejections to get patients the therapies that they need,”

-Jack Resneck Jr., MD

What doctors wish patients knew about prior authorization

One major problem in healthcare, which one of our admins talks about in the insurance section, is prior authorization.

I have personally worked in healthcare on and off for about 3 years. At one point, I was a receptionist for a busy ENT clinic, where I helped file medical and insurance paperwork and talked to just about e v e r y insurance company there is the US.

One of the most common (and incredibly frustrating) forms was prior auth, and everyone involved absolutely hates this form. The doctor, the MA's, the patient, the insurance workers you call, etc. Often, we have to call back and forth over a period of weeks to even months to get a patient a single medication that is very often necessary for living.

Mind you, this again takes a lot of precious time. Dr. Resneck went on to say that, "We physicians often find ourselves fighting over and over and over through a series of appeals to get the patient the medication or the test or the treatment that they need," which I can attest is absolutely true! Talk about incredibly dangerous for continuity for care and health of the patient!

On top of how busy the clinic and physicians are, these authorizations and appeals often go to the support healthcare workers, like receptionists or MA's, to handle.

Most often was a medication that was simply being refilled by a new doctor, or occasionally the exact same doctor (the patients window of insurance viability had just lapsed)! A patient could have been on a medication for YEARS and suddenly the insurance would be dragging their feet. And they won't talk to patients, the point-blank will only discuss and haggle with physicians and their representatives (ie. ME).

There is lot more to this subject, but unfortunately, I have other homework to get to.

Did either of these surprise you?

[lucysweatslove]

Today’s “US healthcare and insurance system sucks” rant is: prior authorizations!

New and expensive drug? I understand even if I don’t always agree. Experimental treatment where risks vs benefits really aren’t well established? Also understood. But standard of care that can be hugely lifesaving? Creating such a hassle that patients DIE during the PA process? Like wtf?

Not a new article (it’s like 7 months old), but always rage-inducing for me.