Tag: Patient Advocacy
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Insurance Approvals And Neurosurgical Patients: A Call for Transparency
Introduction: A silent crisis in insurance approvals for neurosurgical patients In private medical practice, access to timely insurance approvals is not just a logistical hurdle—it can be a matter of life and death. As a consultant neurosurgeon with more than two decades of experience, I have watched insurance denials repeatedly undermine the care my patients…
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Insurance Approvals And Neurosurgical Patients: A Neurosurgeon’s Call for Accountability
Introduction: A Hidden Crisis in Neurosurgery and Insurance As a neurosurgeon with more than two decades in private practice, I have repeatedly confronted a paradox: lives hang in the balance while insurance approvals stall critical care. Neurosurgical pathologies are often hidden beneath the skull or spine, undetectable by palpation or auscultation, and only revealed through…
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Call for a National Strategy to Tackle SUDEP in Ireland
Overview: The Case for a National SUDEP Strategy Epilepsy Ireland has called for a comprehensive national strategy to reduce the incidence of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The push comes as research shows an estimated 33 people die each year in Ireland due to SUDEP, with many victims young and otherwise healthy. A coordinated…
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Local Sepsis Awareness Call: Trust Your Instincts to Save Lives
Sepsis Awareness Initiative Urges Public to Trust Their Instincts A regional push for sepsis awareness is highlighting the vital importance of early recognition and prompt medical action. A spokesperson from North East Sepsis Awareness recently shared a deeply personal account to illustrate how quickly sepsis can escalate from a routine illness to a life-threatening emergency.…
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Jess’s Rule could have helped this young woman with brain tumours
Overview: A life interrupted by a delayed diagnosis A Derby woman, Jessie Mae Lambert, 28, says a series of dismissed symptoms and a lack of timely investigation allowed an incurable brain tumour to go unchecked for months. Her case has become a focal point in the discussion around Jess’s Rule, a new NHS safety initiative…
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Delayed Diagnosis Led to Eye Loss: A Family’s Battle for Accountability
Overview: A Routine Injury That Took a Dangerous Turn A family in Victoria, Australia, is facing a harrowing medical ordeal after a cut above the eye was not treated as a potential infection. What began as an apparent trauma wound escalated into a life-threatening infection, culminating in the loss of an eye and a coma.…
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A Personal Reflection on Miscarriage, Care, and Hospital Realities During Covid
Introduction: bearing the weight of loss in a crowded hospital Three years have passed since my miscarriage, yet the shadow it cast still lingers in ordinary moments. My hospital memory is a blend of clinical routines, quiet loneliness, and small revelations about what care can be—and should be—during pregnancy loss. While the world contended with…
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Miscarriage, Care, and the Quiet Redesign of Hospital Spaces
Seeing the Unseen: Miscarriage in the Shadow of Covid-era Care The author’s memory stretches across a horizon marked by miscarriage, the isolation of a Covid pregnancy, and the constant tension between medical certainty and personal knowledge. Three years on, the lens has shifted from the shock of loss to the everyday realities that follow: the…
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Diaphragmatic Endometriosis: Woman’s Fight for Heart Health
A perplexing mystery unfolds Lisa-Claire Walsh’s journey began with what seemed like ordinary neck and shoulder pain in 2015. Over years, she endured countless scans, appointments with orthopaedic surgeons, and neurologists, only to be told that there was nothing seriously wrong. The pain persisted, intensifying with no clear explanation. “I went to a neurologist, pain…
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Finding Freedom Through a Stoma: One Young Man’s Journey with Crohn’s Disease
From Panic to Permission: A Young Man’s Crohn’s Journey By his late teens, Jonathan faced a difficult reality: chronic inflammatory bowel disease, like Crohn’s, could soon require an ostomy bag, or stoma. The decision is life-changing, but for him it marked the beginning of a new kind of freedom. This is a story of resilience,…