Advocates, Patients Push For Mental Health Resources In Mississippi
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2022
- As Mississippi tries to grow its mental health programs to satisfy the Department of Justice, mental health advocates are helping cultivate a peer-support program run by the state's National Alliance on Mental Illness to provide help to those in need.
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I'm Mississippi, My father was first diagnosed with high blood pressure because he was very dizzy, then diagnosed with Alzheimer's, then diagnosed with schizophrenia, then his gait was impacted ..,. I walked into a doctor's office and demanded his medical records and took it to two other friends that were physicians (one neurological doctor and one general practice doctor) ..... Both read the images and found that he had adult onset hydrocephalus that was treatable 3 years earlier. Literally his brain was getting smaller and smaller due to the water pressure squeezing his brain making it smaller and causing all these symptoms.. The brain damage was done. He did not have any of the earlier diagnoses as it was hydrocephalus the entire time.. All this was caused by a physician not passing along the image results and ensuring he was treated appropriately and timely. The damage was done and told all the meds he was given made his symptoms worse. A shunt could be installed and stop this at the point the brain damage was at that time but at this point and it could not revert the brain damage already done. A shunt was installed at a large named hospital in Jackson MS and stopped the damage from this point forward. A month later he experienced terrible suffering pain. The Neuro doctor that installed it could not be found for 3 days...so we took him to another physician and the shunt broke in pieces in his head travelling thru his brain....causing the worst pain anyone could imagine.. Finally the Neuro surgeon shows up at his office and replaces the shunt and again it works fine for a month. However the images I dropped off were accidentally lost (this was before saved images on disc) The pain starts again and since the Neuro put a passcode on the shunt, no other doctor could adjust the pump and told us to take him back to the neuro surgeon that installed it. Ha,if he could be found. No other doctor in the largest 3 hospitals in Jackson would do anything since the Neuro doctor did this due to liability. No one would touch my dad as they said they were not going to liable for another doctor's failed surgery. Then a couple years later, after my dad's death, in the wall street journal (interestingly reported in an out of state article) found out that the neurosurgeon was using his own shunt that he had manufactured with his own passcode so no other doctor could touch his work and he did all
this without FDA approval. A slap on the hand and he still works at the same hospital yet the hospital took him off brain surgery and he remained on back surgery. However there's a case where he paralyzed a woman in south Mississippi and unfortunately there are financial limits on lawsuits in MS. My dad died not long after the second installation. The MS medical board still reports him in good standing and the public does not have access to out of court settlements unfortunately and out of court settlements do not ding their standing with medical board I was told. Sad. But then again this doctor makes the hospital $$ millions in surgery. Sad that we experienced all of this and worse is that my sweet dad had to suffer this terribly. By the way try to find any doctor now anywhere that will say anything of another doctors failed treatment....most protect each other in their network of buddies. Patients need advocacy groups in Mississippi terribly.!!!!!!!
Always look for a doctor or medical entity that does not have "LLC" after their entity name for example "Dr. Dumbaxx, LLC" Never go to LLC entities or docs! "Limited Liability Corporation"
Is there a patient advocate group in Mississippi for all healthcare issues not just mental issues? It is impossible now for patients to receive proper diagnosis within a year much less appointments with doctors within 6 months causing more patient suffering while waiting. Doctors in Mississippi have become referral doctors due to accountability, liability, and the power now to release "or fire" patients. It has become ridiculous! Patients have no recourse and due to greed and incentives to doctors and medical facilities docs just want to get their incentive checks (due to Obama "Care") whereas docs are hesitant to follow a really sick patient and they keep passing patients from one doc to the next causing patients to never heal.....mentally, physically, and emotionally. What is the medical licensure board doing to ensure physicians are upholding their oath? Now I read on the rolling computer screensavers, due to the "wonderful" legislature that is a medical facility or doctors "even perceive" that a patient is becoming aggressive about their care, they can actually contact the police and have the patient arrested and it will be considered a felony. Now ....what politicians really care about patients? None. There is too much political money flowing in Mississippi and enriching folks. Greed has overtaken the healthcare in Mississippi. Politics need to stay out of healthcare. This is why "patient care" has fallen to the point of much suffering causing depression in patients that are not treated but just passed in a referral system enriching docs with referral fees and with their handout for their huge incentive checks worth tens of thousands of $$$$. No joke. Reality. Greed is ruling in MS. Poor healthcare is not determined by race, low income, etc. It is impacting all people in MS in my opinion.
Very Sad situation in Mississippi. If a doctor prescribes a depression med for someone that has migraines. Every doctor looks at the patient as a psych patient and treats them as such. It is such shallow minded healthcare whereas many dumbaxx docs don't actually understand that many meds have multiple uses. Every doctor in Mississippi that I have taken my relative to treat my relative terribly like they are looking for street meds and call them psych meds when speaking to patients that are suffering from nerve damage and demyelination of nerve tissues that are proven on images. Every Physician in Mississippi that we have visited do not know drug interactions, allergic med knowledge, and definitely are not aware of what they call "psych meds" humiliating the patient because they do not know that there are various uses for other meds. From what we have experienced there is no patient dignity and the doctors are nothing but a referral system. They don't want to treat .... But they want the financial incentives. We need patient advocacy in Mississippi bad for the errors and the way patients are treated. It's horrible, shallow mindedness, and no accountability! For over 10 years we have been in a massive referral system with no treatment. In the meantime, the health of patients is declining while waiting in this referral system. It is unacceptable.
Too much political money being made from healthcare. Greed.