After sitting in a healthcare professional's office today, I thought to myself how do other people get better if they had multi-incident items in our healthcare system. This sounds like an HDR (Heavy Deep and Real) topic however I found myself contemplating it today. Don't get me wrong, I am getting better but it starts to take it's toll. I was explaining that right now I am managing the following healthcare items.
Coumadin Management Center-Testing daily-Blood test once a week.
Healthcare focal point: RN PB
PCP: Healthcare focal point: Dr. ER
Cardiology: Healthcare focal point: Dr. SC
ICD: Healthcare focal point: Dr. EH
Brain damage: Healthcare focal point: Dr. HC
Other
Oupatient Therapy
PT= KL
OT=VD
SLP=JC
As you can see there are 10 different health care professionals (incl other) before you get to administration, case workers and insurance companies. All the above have their own staff also.
Since the cardiac arrest caused anoxia in my brain there were 2 issues hence the workforce above, which brings me back to my question. How do other people manage this kind of healthcare and still get better and stay sane? If you leave it all to the PCP or case worker I guarantee they cannot do it-it's too much for any person. I am constantly told you are doing a very good job of it, that I am doing better then most and they have not seen anyone with such drive and push. It was also suggested to me today that many healthcare people are not used to not only my drive but the pace at which I push to make progress and at the same time make progress. That sounded like a half compliment which I am sure it was meant to be, however it still left me the question of whether I was impatient (of course we know that could not be true) or is their an issue with the system( of course we know that could not be true).
The answer is of course there are not pat answers. My only 2 pieces of advice.
1)You must do more managing of the system then you did 5, 10 or 20 years ago so be prepared.
How do you be prepared-have all info at your fingertips and push back to the requestor ASAP.
2)Some tools are helpful-healthcare people will tell you which ones are, they are often the ones that are not used by most people.
3)You can drive yourself crazy with this. Take a break when you need to.
I know someone has this down to a science I just have don't know who it is yet.
Too bad it's not a buy a Scotch week,
Brian
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BTW, was the worst work day that day in Colorado when you worked for a bank and all the tickets blew away?
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to show you that some one needs to be your advocate in your stressed out condition. Insurance companies are the worst block to getting better and you have concoured that. Think of the enormous nunber of people who cant make that hurdle. The answer is when you are down pick yourself up and keep on plugging away at the system. veep
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