Question

Escape Fire follows Yvonne Osborne, who has been in treatment for heart disease for over 15 years. What mistakes are noted in her care? What have these mistakes cost in terms of money, risk, and the emotional distress?

Answer 1

Step 1

the story raises a big question in the health care system whose main criteria us neither to not allow patient to die nor allow him to be perfectly fit. As in the latter case fit patients won't come to the health care settings.

Step 2

Mistakes were not just one it were many. The whole health care system in U. S. is intended to churn maximum benefits. Yvonne Osborne, was a young woman in her Thirty's when she was first diagnosed with chest pain and thus cardiovascular problems. Since then she has been fooled into the logic that she will be fine once she takes a surgical procedure for inserting stents. Since then her symptoms did not go away and she has been into trauma as she had many surgeries after that first one to insert many more stents just to dilate the arteries which had been clogged by the extra cholesterol she had in her body. No body was concerned about the root cause which were diabetes and high blood pressure.

No doctor focused to find about the real cause, instead to gain maximum benefit the focus had been just in treating symptoms temporarily. Each surgery has its shares of profit distributed among everyone involved like doctor, surgeons radiologist, person who performs biochemical tests, ward boys and nurses who take care after surgery etc. So it is all profit business.

For example insertion of a stent causes about 2000$ Similarly if a patient has been a regular one then this cost multiplies to no end as many costs are included like hospital ward costs, fooding, surgeries, tests and what not.

Apart from that the amount of stress a patient and her family members undergo is just immeasurable.

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