My last post was about the ways our healthcare system fails patients with chronic disease. A registered nurse that I worked with is a good friend. She saw the post and sent me this story about her husband. He is 79, and up until about a year ago he was very healthy. My friend said he was very active up until that point. He had never been tired before and worked hard all his life. Then he started feeling exhausted. Not tired. Exhausted. He saw his primary care doctor who referred him to cardiology and urology. He had some symptoms of an enlarged prostate. He went for an entire year without a diagnosis. “Nobody really did much…. My husband will be 80 in October. I feel people blew him off for months because he said at 79, he was exhausted.”
Don’t Ignore Patients Over 75
Don’t Ignore Patients Over 75
Don’t Ignore Patients Over 75
My last post was about the ways our healthcare system fails patients with chronic disease. A registered nurse that I worked with is a good friend. She saw the post and sent me this story about her husband. He is 79, and up until about a year ago he was very healthy. My friend said he was very active up until that point. He had never been tired before and worked hard all his life. Then he started feeling exhausted. Not tired. Exhausted. He saw his primary care doctor who referred him to cardiology and urology. He had some symptoms of an enlarged prostate. He went for an entire year without a diagnosis. “Nobody really did much…. My husband will be 80 in October. I feel people blew him off for months because he said at 79, he was exhausted.”