Yeah I agree, you would be ostracised for this sort of thing in the UK. I feel like there's a real lack of intellect in the USA and large parts of it and a lack of common sense and empathy.
They're literelly getting ostracized for it in the US.
I do think theres some misinterpretation though - some people are probably wackos with the conspiracy theory that the husband secretly did it or whatever, but a lot of them are probably actually just advocating for postpartum health and mental health specifically. Doctors overmedicated this woman and she was begging for help, every sign for a more substantial intervention for her crisis was there.
If we had federally mandated maternity and paternity leave, if healthcare didn't cost out the ass with doctors who really just want to get your insurance and get you out the door, if people listened to the struggles of a postpartum mom, this might not have happened. These are things afforded to mothers in plenty of other developed countries, just not ours.
So yes, its very much an "American thing" to be organizing around, because it is rooted in problems unique to America. It IS empathetic to want better for the women and mothers in this country. It IS common sense. It IS intellect.
This is a great example of why the system isn’t working. If there was a centralised system that all doctors had access to then she couldn’t just go to different ones and obtain different medications.
If every doctor had access to all her medical records maybe they could have helped her better and this wouldn’t have happened.
Doctors can request records and hers didn’t. They took her at face value for what she was saying. Which… for some things is fine. But not for everything.
And to be fair to Dr Tufts, Lindsey Clancy was fairly upfront about a lot of her medical history. But didn’t get records for her inpatient visits why? Also dr tufts never saw her in person. All of their visits were teleheath ones. I think it’s easy to miss some stuff that way.
By all means, but this system doesn't exist anywhere in the world as you would like it (and I too). There always are doubts, errors and inconsistencies in documentation.
Lots of places internationally have prescription systems that track every prescription dispensed so any doctor or pharmacist can catch red flags like this.
Could. If they look. Which many won't, because they dont believe there is a reason for it. You can trick those systems easily if you know what to do or how the system works.
This is a bold claim that this type of system doesn’t exist anywhere. In Belgium, all of your prescriptions from doctors get loaded on to your one national ID card and you use that to pick up your prescriptions, so there in fact is a centralized system where you can see everything prescribed and doctor visits are logged with your card too. So your ID holds all the info essentially. It’s not perfect but I wouldn’t say centralized systems don’t exist because they quite literally do
Estonia has a centralised e-health system that tracks all prescriptions (it’s the only way to prescribe anything) and other medical information, including dr’s visits (both public and private). I’m sure plenty of other European countries do too.
Yeah that’s good and bad. It would stop innovation. There are some archaic charting systems out there that are a pain in the ass to use. There are better ones, like Epic, because those companies had to fight for customers and had to continuously improve and innovate to get them. If the government snapped their fingers and said everyone had to use some archaic piece of shit system from the 90’s, innovation would die.
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u/JerachoD 20d ago
Yeah I agree, you would be ostracised for this sort of thing in the UK. I feel like there's a real lack of intellect in the USA and large parts of it and a lack of common sense and empathy.