Before this administration, I volunteered with a group that provided community healthcare and patient advocacy to anyone in need. It was never easy, but it felt like we were actually helping people and making a difference. Between Jan 20th and the beginning of April, everything changed. Public services in the U.S. have become a joke, and it feels so impossible to actually help people anymore, most people have already just given up.
I recently talked to a case worker who was quitting and driving for Lyft in between jobs. She said she had one case where the person had just been in a continuous state of psychosis for 6 months, but nobody would help. She said she was quitting because it felt like the system was set up to be stacked against Americans.
If that’s the case all over America in most public services, I cannot image the kind of shit they are expecting healthcare workers to do in these detention centers. Be willing to ignore patients with clearly deteriorating health until it’s an absolute emergency, and don’t dare argue with fascist DHS agents to advocate for what the patient needs. Look the other way when patients are horrifically mistreated, and I’m guessing be willing to lie or take the blame when, surprise, people die because they were stuffed in a fucking concentration camp by a Nazi regime and denied humane treatment…
mental health services is almost next to non-existent in the usa, or at a very barebones level. plus there are less entering the psych field/ and medical field as it is.
It’s always been bare bones, now it’s just basically nothing. It’s the same for any healthcare.
Unless it’s an undeniable visible emergency, just don’t worry about. Once it’s an emergency, send them to the ER, most likely they’ll be sedated and held for a few days then released back onto the street with no further help. At best, they’ll be assigned a case worker who is told to figure it out. Then the cycle repeats again.
Contact other services nonstop for help that doesn’t exist anymore, be ignored until it’s an emergency, back to the ER, repeat. It’s so fucking frustrating.
And since you’re just sending emergencies to the ER for very expensive visits and further overwhelming the already overburdened healthcare system, the GOP uses the expensive Medicaid payouts as examples of why publicly funded healthcare is so unsustainable…
Not always. There used to be tons of asylums and such before Reagan fucked things up. He dismantled the systems in place on the grounds that they were shitty.
While he was right, he did nothing to replace them. That meant that people who needed help ended up on the streets with nowhere left to turn except self medication with drugs and alcohol.
Before this administration, I volunteered with a group that provided community healthcare and patient advocacy to anyone in need. It was never easy, but it felt like we were actually helping people and making a difference. Between Jan 20th and the beginning of April, everything changed. Public services in the U.S. have become a joke, and it feels so impossible to actually help people anymore, most people have already just given up.
I recently talked to a case worker who was quitting and driving for Lyft in between jobs. She said she had one case where the person had just been in a continuous state of psychosis for 6 months, but nobody would help. She said she was quitting because it felt like the system was set up to be stacked against Americans.
If that’s the case all over America in most public services, I cannot image the kind of shit they are expecting healthcare workers to do in these detention centers. Be willing to ignore patients with clearly deteriorating health until it’s an absolute emergency, and don’t dare argue with fascist DHS agents to advocate for what the patient needs. Look the other way when patients are horrifically mistreated, and I’m guessing be willing to lie or take the blame when, surprise, people die because they were stuffed in a fucking concentration camp by a Nazi regime and denied humane treatment…
mental health services is almost next to non-existent in the usa, or at a very barebones level. plus there are less entering the psych field/ and medical field as it is.
It’s always been bare bones, now it’s just basically nothing. It’s the same for any healthcare.
Unless it’s an undeniable visible emergency, just don’t worry about. Once it’s an emergency, send them to the ER, most likely they’ll be sedated and held for a few days then released back onto the street with no further help. At best, they’ll be assigned a case worker who is told to figure it out. Then the cycle repeats again.
Contact other services nonstop for help that doesn’t exist anymore, be ignored until it’s an emergency, back to the ER, repeat. It’s so fucking frustrating.
And since you’re just sending emergencies to the ER for very expensive visits and further overwhelming the already overburdened healthcare system, the GOP uses the expensive Medicaid payouts as examples of why publicly funded healthcare is so unsustainable…
Not always. There used to be tons of asylums and such before Reagan fucked things up. He dismantled the systems in place on the grounds that they were shitty.
While he was right, he did nothing to replace them. That meant that people who needed help ended up on the streets with nowhere left to turn except self medication with drugs and alcohol.