In the US, hospitals are confident enough to print ‘39.95’ on the bill for holding your newborn
They are so sure about their system they don't mind explicitly spelling out that they charge $40 for literally handing over the baby and waiting for a few minutes
Because they don't even consider that absurd anymore
@stux It's near impossible to go to a US #hospital with as lawyer and an accountant by your side 24/7. I was charged 400.00 a day, for 4 days, for "hospitality". Ridiculous.
An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.
They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?
What a cruel world.
Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡
@timnitGebru#Hospital acquired #infections have always been fairly common. Poor hand washing is one reason. But masks are such a simple thing to include to help protect against -- not just #COVID but other airborne diseases like #measles that are making a come back.
In ICU, unvaccinated diabetic pt COVID+ (yes COVID still out there), w 4+ Staph Sepsis from infected dialysis catheter (now removed for source control). Retinal exam to look for Roth Spots (pic w arrows, fried egg appearance from bacterial endocarditis) & find fluffy white spots…
He’s resuscitated, on COVID therapies & anti-Staph ATBs, DKA resolved.
My interpretation of this article is that hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, etc. need to get links and repost icons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. OFF their websites. If you work for a big institution -- talk to your marketing team as they are used to doing this routinely. If you are a small provider, look at your website -- especially if you created it years ago back when no one thought of the problems and you just wanted some traffic.
TITLE: FTC, HHS warn health providers not to use tracking tech in websites, apps
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a joint letter to about 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers Thursday, warning of security risks posed by tracking technologies such as the Meta/Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics.
<https://therecord.media/apps-website-tracking-healthcare-ftc-hhs-warning>
#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords #infosec @infosec@a.gup.pe #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering #marketing #seo #therapy
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist@a.gup.pe @psychotherapists@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @socialwork@a.gup.pe @psychiatry@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare
Google Analytics is now a topic of conversation on the Baltimore Therapist listserv.
Your point about classism is well taken.
QUESTION: Am I correct in assuming that Google Analytics is likely to be harvesting client-side data and storing it? Asking for an educated guess as we might not know...
For the less-than-tech-saavy medical professionals and therapists in the room -- what log analyzers might they ask for when they speak to their marketing and IT teams about this issue?
Also, no website should be using Google Analytics if it intends to be accessible to the poor, a population which is often coterminous with the disabled and chronically ill: Google Analytics is computationally intensive enough of the user's browser, that for users with old hardware, it can bring any website it's used on to a crawl, or make it not load at all. Google Analytics makes your website covertly classist.
And for what? Are you actually checking your analytics data? You actually doing development work on your EHR? Running A/B tests on your web presence?
Use a log analyzer for analytics and leave your patients alone.
Eternally grateful for mentors who make time, space, and bandwidth for juniors.
Essentially I just had coffee with one and cried, but it was a good cry. It’s catharsis and gratitude and the fact that I am safe under their care that I can let myself feel what I naturally feel.
It’s lived experience and not conjecture that drives my research in mentoring dynamics and #professionalidentityformation .
Happy to announce that I’m back in my hotel after a bout of #Decompression#Sickness (#DCS) AKA the #Bends at the weekend. We think it was the culmination of six consecutive dives over three days between 38m and 41m on the MV #Zenobia in #Larnaca in #Cyprus. Was transferred to the #hyperbaric#chamber in #Paphos General #Hospital for three chamber sessions and two nights stay. Sincere #gratitude to all the hospital and chamber staff who made me welcome and took care of me.
"All pregnant women are in danger’: protests in Poland after expectant mother dies in hospital.
Ombudsman rules that #hospital in #NowyTarg failed to tell #DorotaLalik, 33, that..."
"...her life was in danger and could [have] be[en] saved by an #abortion"
“But not everyone realised that 👉if you’re #pregnant and you go to a #Polish#hospital you might not leave alive👈. That you have to go prepared; you need to 👉have a number to a lawyer and contacts with the media ready,👈 and you have to keep fighting and arguing and not believe a single word anyone says because you might not stay alive."
My partner checked the area and redness has gone down. It is swollen but not as red. No streaking. Took my 12th dose of Keflex (40 doses total is the full course). Basically, the point at which I was going to go to the hospital is if there was no positive change in the direction of healing or it got worse.
To go to the hospital, we are looking for signs of worsening such as :
Increased redness + increased swelling
Red streaks moving outward to new tissue
fever
disorientation
The reason why it's wait and see at home, has to do with the fact that my immune system has been put to sleep from the Prednisone (why healing from infection has been so slow), and so I can catch a plethora of things at the hospital including COVID.
This could be so so so much worse,
KNOCK ON WOOD.
Please still keep me in your thoughts, I'm not out of the hot water quite yet 🥺
Let's hope for reduced swelling by tomorrow morning 🤞
I see this thing going round with a US hospital bill, charging 40 dlrs to hold a baby.
It's not only in the US. Dutch doctors/hospitals/farmacies find their way with these things as well.
Like when your usual medicin is suddenly of another brand. The farmacie charges you some money for 'explaining how to take the medicin'. While the only thing they did was ask: do you know how to take this medicin (i was already using it for years, nothing changed).
Or this ear specialist. I had several severe issues, my GP had cleaned my ears and sent me to this specialist in hospital. An assistant asked me all kind of questions, a very long list.
Then the doctor himself: i had to sit in the chair, he cleaned my ears very quickly, then wheeled back on his chair to his desk: did not say a word.
So i asked: well, what now? He said: i'm done, you can go. When i told him i have all these issues he became very annoyed, and angrily asked what i wanted from him....
Later i found out, he had charged over 100 euros for the cleaning....
Morocco World News: In a surprise visit to the regional #Hospital of Driouch, Minister of #Health and Social Protection #KhalidAïtTaleb reprimanded hospital officials and inspected various departments while inquiring about the quality of healthcare services provided to patients.
The fact a neonatal nurse has become the UK's most prolific child murderer is depressing enough, but the facts emerging from the case about how poorly concerns from consultants were handled is quite shocking too.