Ethics
Aaron Laster
Description
Collection
Title:
Ethics
Creator:
Aaron Laster
Date:
3/26/2015
Text:
Hello,
I am curious if anyone has advice on the best way to handle issues like
this (which are becoming more common)....
Patient goes to his/her doctor and the doctor appt is fine except that they
have their team of PT, nurse/patient coordinator, and a prosthetist
present and one or more of this team decides it's their place to continue
to tell a patient that they should switch prosthetists and the prosthetist
the patient has chosen isn't able to do something's (which is a lie) that
the other can. And questioning the patients choices in providers. This
latest patient is very very cognitively alert and educated and met numerous
prosthetists prior to selecting one. She is doing wonderfully so it's not
even like there were issues at the time with her care! It's one thing to
meet a patient and discuss what you provide or give a patient options in
providers but to have people get told they shouldn't be going with who they
chose and that the provider (whom the team has never even met) the
patient chose is not able to do things like provide certain componentry is
a whole nother ball of wax.
This is a disgrace to healthcare and p and o. I'm sure things like this
are happening everywhere so id be interested in how people have handled it
and if it did anything. Our thoughts were to write the hospital where
this team is out of, discuss ACA and/or Medicare guidelines with
hospital, file complaint with the board over seeing the nurse, etc. who
has anyone had success with?
Aaron Laster, manager
I am curious if anyone has advice on the best way to handle issues like
this (which are becoming more common)....
Patient goes to his/her doctor and the doctor appt is fine except that they
have their team of PT, nurse/patient coordinator, and a prosthetist
present and one or more of this team decides it's their place to continue
to tell a patient that they should switch prosthetists and the prosthetist
the patient has chosen isn't able to do something's (which is a lie) that
the other can. And questioning the patients choices in providers. This
latest patient is very very cognitively alert and educated and met numerous
prosthetists prior to selecting one. She is doing wonderfully so it's not
even like there were issues at the time with her care! It's one thing to
meet a patient and discuss what you provide or give a patient options in
providers but to have people get told they shouldn't be going with who they
chose and that the provider (whom the team has never even met) the
patient chose is not able to do things like provide certain componentry is
a whole nother ball of wax.
This is a disgrace to healthcare and p and o. I'm sure things like this
are happening everywhere so id be interested in how people have handled it
and if it did anything. Our thoughts were to write the hospital where
this team is out of, discuss ACA and/or Medicare guidelines with
hospital, file complaint with the board over seeing the nurse, etc. who
has anyone had success with?
Aaron Laster, manager
Citation
Aaron Laster, “Ethics,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/237277.
