Victimizing the Elderly
French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning -- devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work."
To pursue those ends, the elderly seek to maintain good health.
The kind of health care we give our elderly, and the demands of that care, are a growing concern as the baby boomers begin to gray.
Dr. Richard Lefroy of Sir Gardiners Hospital in West Australia makes this comment about the field of psychiatry and its penchant for prescribing drugs:
"When all doctors are aware of the reactions of old people to drugs, specialists would [sic] be out of business."Reference
1. Psychiatry Victimizing the Elderly. Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 1995.
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
On Feb. 1, 2024, two more legislators – John R. Carter (R-Texas) and Robert “Bob” Good (R-Va.) – co-sponsored the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2023, bringing the co-sponsor total to 155, two more than the total achieved over the entire two-year congressional cycle in which identical legislation last appeared (2021-22).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
