Patient
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You know, you would ask patients questions and some people would tell you, "Don't listen to what the
patient
said."
We have to reconcile the
patient'
s knowledge of their body with physicians' measurements.
Not only did it transform my ability to problem-solve, but I also felt I became more pragmatic, less sensitive to hindrances, in some cases, more patient, and magically transformed people's abilities to offer me their seats on public transport.
My
patient
Sally is a good example.
They presented to them a case study of a
patient.
They said, "Here is a
patient.
And then, they said to the physicians, "You decided a few weeks ago that nothing is working for this
patient.
So you refer the
patient
for hip replacement therapy.
So the
patient
is on a path to have his hip replaced.
Then they said to half of the physicians, "Yesterday, you reviewed the
patient'
s case, and you realized that you forgot to try one medication.
Do you pull the
patient
back and try ibuprofen?
Well, the good news is that most physicians in this case decided to pull the
patient
and try ibuprofen.
Now, think of it: This decision makes it as easy to let the
patient
continue with hip replacement, but pulling him back, all of the sudden it becomes more complex.
The majority of the physicians now choose to let the
patient
go for a hip replacement.
At the present time, it takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that
patient
arrives at an emergency room.
Symptoms are often denied by the patient, particularly us men, because we are very brave.
So we developed the AngelMed Guardian System and we have a device inside this patient, called the Implanted AngelMed Guardian.
Then it goes to a network operations center, where they get your data from your
patient
database that's been put in at some central location, say, in the United States.
We have a mission statement for our company doing migraine, which is, "Prevent or ameliorate migraine headaches by the application of a safe, controlled magnetic pulse applied, as needed, by the patient."
Lawyers take cases on contingency with the hope of a big share of a big settlement by a sympathetic jury, because this
patient
really ended up badly.
As a starting point for discussion with the TED group, a major part of the problem is the nature of the written extent of informed consent that the
patient
or spouse must read and sign.
Would you believe, 12 pages, single space, the
patient
has to read before they're in our trial to cure their epilepsy?
Everybody knows that we can do better with a visual thing that can be interactive with the patient, where they see the video and they're being videoed and they press, do you understand this?
Now, also a video is done of the
patient
or spouse and medical presenter, with the
patient
agreeing that he understands the procedure to be done, including all the possible failure modes.
The
patient
or spouse agrees not to file a lawsuit if one of the known procedure failures occurs.
If a medical error occurs, the
patient
or spouse agrees to a settlement for fair compensation by arbitration instead of going to court.
And while I've tried to make my images not too graphic, keep in mind that surgeons have a different relationship with blood than normal people do, because, after all, what a surgeon does to a patient, if it were done without consent, would be a felony.
Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the
patient
is really as much of the public spectacle as the surgery itself.
With the
patient
insensitive to pain, and a sterile operating field all bets were off, the sky was the limit.
And how would that change the experience for the
patient?
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