02.05.09
Delicate matters
This is hard for me to write, I know it is really not my place to comment however seeing Barb at the hospital yesterday was really difficult to take. She has not been well for a long time, however seeing her unwell physically brought home the gravity of the situation. I guess I am just really frustrated with the medical profession here and their failure to solve, or in some cases adequately address, the issues that she has had. In dealing with physicians every day and knowing their overblown sense of self importance and their arrogant belief that they hold the answers to life in their hands it makes it even harder to take that they should all, without exception, have failed so completely. I am of the opinion that Barb’s condition currently is a direct result of that failure by her doctors. Their inability to address her condition and her family doctor’s inattentive attitude has placed her in harms way. I realize that the patient needs to take some responsibilty as do her support structure (that’s us) but in the end it is down to the health care practitioners to care for and to provide long term effective solutions for these conditions. It is even more frustrating knowing that we, as techology professionals, give these physicicans the ability to do incredible things with the systems and equipment that we provide and yet it seems that as far as the mental health aspects are concerned we are still in the dark ages. As sad as it is, and as angry and frustrated as it makes all of us, it seems as though the “wake-up call” factor for Barb herself may be the piece that does her the most good. I certainly hope so because at this point my faith in our health care system is itself on life support.
