A Collection of Problems with the US Health Care System

Performing Artist. New Jersey. Statement 10202.

Categories: Patient Statements

State:: NJ

Occupation:: Performing Artist

My mother was admitted into the hospital on Jan 1, 2009, for cellulitus in her left foot, had a foot ulcer, and to undergo IV antibiotics. Her foot doctor who diagnosed the cellulitus, …

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Volunteer. New Jersey. Statement 10176.

Categories: Interested Observer Statements

State:: New Jersey

Occupation:: Volunteer

A big problem that I am seeing in the healthcare system us the use of antipsychotics as a mere replacement for straight jackets. Lazy individuals with lack of medical insight are merely using …

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Unit Representative. New Jersey. Statement 10164.

Categories: Health Care Professional Statements

State:: NJ

Occupation:: Unit Representative

With the advent of advanced computer systems in a hospital setting, not enough departments within any given hospital have an easy way to SHARE health care information about a given patient, and even …

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Customer Service. New Jersey. Statement 10160.

Categories: Patient Statements

State:: New Jersey

Occupation:: Customer Service

I feel so ripped off by the entire medical industry and the health process. Doctors don’t care about people or about what happens to their patients, as my grandmothers say they used …

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Bookkeeper. New Jersey. Statement 10144.

Categories: Patient Statements

State:: New Jersey

Occupation:: Bookkeeper

I am in desperate need of health insurance. Every where I turn it is not affordable to me. In February I was in the hospital for 3 days for inflamed intestines, they released …

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Nursing professor/wife caregiver. New Jersey. Statement 10082

Categories: Interested Observer Statements, Patient Statements

I am a retired nursing professor and wife caregiver. My husband has been ill with a variety of problems for quite a few years now. We have encountered many problems with the system in health care. The latest one was …

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Human Being Who Is Disabled. New Jersey. Statement 10062.

Categories: Patient Statements

who has the right?

..to choose if I should live and suffer or maybe die?

…what is “no longer fiscally feasible?”

…How can people who have never met me decided that I can live without life-saving treatment.

….What does LIFE, …

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RN. New Jersey. Statement 10044.

Categories: Health Care Professional Statements

I just don’t think that there are enough doctors anymore. I work in an ER and when the patients leave I know it could take months for them to see a specialist, not because they are waiting for approval from …

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