Comments on: Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/207?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stroke-of-insight-jill-bolte-taylor Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:10:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/207/comment-page-1#comment-12533 Dave Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:15:46 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/207#comment-12533 Your comment connects with something I was reading over the weekend about the gradual modernization of health information. One business owner said, "My secretary, my shipping clerk, and even the robots on the factory floor have email--how come I can't email my doctor?" It was a lead-in (in the New York Times Magazine) to a larger discussion of the profession. Many doctors operate in a we-know-best mode, especially in the U.S. They don't have time, and may not have interest, in involving the patient more directly in care, let alone allowing the patient to have control over records. (Of course, not all patients would do that good a job...) Your comment connects with something I was reading over the weekend about the gradual modernization of health information. One business owner said, “My secretary, my shipping clerk, and even the robots on the factory floor have email–how come I can’t email my doctor?” It was a lead-in (in the New York Times Magazine) to a larger discussion of the profession.

Many doctors operate in a we-know-best mode, especially in the U.S. They don’t have time, and may not have interest, in involving the patient more directly in care, let alone allowing the patient to have control over records. (Of course, not all patients would do that good a job…)

]]> By: wendy http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/207/comment-page-1#comment-12532 wendy Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:34:30 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/207#comment-12532 Until medical professionals move beyond the perception of a stroke or cva as the mother of all disasters, people who have had a stroke will continue to pick up the negative vibes from the very people who are supposedly there to help or assist them. Survivors and there are millions of such people worldwide, in my opinion, are often better equipped to offer hope to others recovering from a stroke. In my case I survived an infarct of the left occipital pole nearly 30 years ago and at that time and for several years into the recovery process experienced panic attacks ( an echo of the initial event as the brain continues to send signals to the damaged area), acute short term memory loss and much later noted a few minor gaps in long term memory. The permanent physical damage was an hemianopia or loss of half the visual field in each eye. Wishing Jill all the very best in finding her voice and being there as a role model for other survivors. Until medical professionals move beyond
the perception of a stroke or cva as
the mother of all disasters, people who have had a stroke will continue to pick up the negative vibes from the very people who are supposedly
there to help or assist them.

Survivors and there are millions of such people
worldwide, in my opinion, are often better equipped
to offer hope to others recovering from a stroke.

In my case I survived an infarct of the left occipital pole nearly 30 years ago and at that
time and for several years into the recovery process experienced panic attacks ( an echo of the initial event as the brain continues to send signals to the damaged area), acute short term memory loss and much later noted a few minor gaps
in long term memory. The permanent physical damage
was an hemianopia or loss of half the visual field in each eye.

Wishing Jill all the very best in finding her voice and being there as a role model for other survivors.

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