Pain Advocacy - Hope 411 https://hope411.org Pursuing Health Equity Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:35:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://hope411.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hope-411-pheonix-logo-512-x-512-px-75x75.png Pain Advocacy - Hope 411 https://hope411.org 32 32 Patients Forced to Play Medical Roulette https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/pain-advocacy/patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/pain-advocacy/patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:17:58 +0000 https://hope411.org/?p=1215 For patients with rare disease, complex chronic illnesses and disabilities navigating the health care system has become a fight for survival. Patients experience systemic disability discrimination and bias when attempting to obtain or retain access to treatments and medications vital to managing their health.

Due to interference with the practice of medicine patients are being forced to play a game of medical roulette.

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]]> https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/pain-advocacy/patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette/feed/ 4 Discrimination As A Standard Practice https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/discrimination-as-a-standard-practice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discrimination-as-a-standard-practice Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:50:55 +0000 https://hope411.org/?p=937 Many people believe that Opioid Sparing is becoming the standard practice in medicine. They are sadly mistaken. Instead, the standard practice is now to discriminate against patients with disabilities with severe pain as a component. Many facilities have instituted No-Opioid Policies.

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]]> A Letter to Health Care Providers https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/a-letter-to-health-care-providers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-letter-to-health-care-providers Sat, 10 Apr 2021 03:00:11 +0000 https://hope411.org/?p=900 Too often I hear of instances of times when patients attend an appointment with a healthcare provider and attempt to discuss an issue with them and come out feeling worse than the did when they went in. It’s sad, truly disappointing. In some cases when the patient has a rare medical condition like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) the medical …

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