Yep. It’s scary to know that going to the hospital will not necessarily result in the treatment you need. Might want to have a lawyer on speed dial to get an emergency court order to try the Ivermectin/HCQ etc. SMH.
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The patient always has the right to refuse a treatment even if they don’t ask for or can’t get the treatment they want.
But, you are right. A legal document, or power of attorney with someone you trust can save your life,.
I have been intubated before and it saved my life. But if there had been an alternate, then intubation would have been an unnecessary medical procedure and I would have sued the shit out of them after I recovered. My husband knows to research alternate procedures before I ever get intubated again.
I say this because sometimes in a medical emergency, you can’t speak for yourself. If you only have yourself….the next best thing is a lawyer and a legal document and you Being honest with your GP.
I agreed to a tracheotomy before my cancer surgery “in case I need it”. Turns out I didn’t need it but I had nurses that apparently didn’t know how to keep it clean, had awfully come up a few times for blood pouring out, it was awful. I got PTSD when I think about it. The doctors didn’t care.
The thing is, I didn’t have swelling and did not need it. They could have taken out the second tube but they refused.
The day I left the hospital the nurses had to find instructions for me to take care of the opening as they told me all their other patients went home with them. They said the doctor told them to ask me if I wanted to keep it in, and as I couldn’t speak, I gave them the finger.