diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2bfafce..bb8f050 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ I’m going to update this section above the horizontal line. Before I wrote “ That section is more relevant (at least from an "ability to work" perspective) than what I previously wrote in this section about social issues. As such, the contents of this section (below the horizontal line below) can be largely ignored, at least from an "ability to work" perspective. -Do I have friends in my life who I love and care about emotionally? Absolutely not. I barely have acquaintances. But again, that’s not super relevant from a work perspective. +Do I have friends in my life who I love and care about emotionally? Absolutely not. I barely have acquaintances. Also, I have never had a girlfriend despite my best efforts. But again, those things aren't super relevant from a work perspective. Now I will admit there is A LITTLE relevancy. Happily married men tend to make more money than men who are single and can’t get a partner, but that alone doesn’t preclude someone from working. Other stuff is more relevant. Please hit the link to jump to the next section: @@ -215,4 +215,24 @@ But yeah, I mean when I see my parrot I think he's cute and pet him. I have that John Michael Reed -Date of writing completed: Sept 9th, 2024 +Date of writing above completed: Sept 9th, 2024 + +Bonus Paragraph 3: + +I want to talk about the tendency of hospitals and some doctors to shift blame. For example, take this quote from my medical records: + +... + +I can't find it, but basically I'm going to paraphrase and say I recall it said something like "The patient [John Michael Reed] failed to show progress in IOP [Intensive Outpatient Program]. He only went for 1 month despite it being a 3 month program". + +Now here is a quote by me from this essay showing my side of the story: + +> "... in the past I did outpatient behavioral health at Larkin Hospital and the longer I did it the worse my depression got, and then it gradually got better after I didn't do it anymore. In practice I don't think the outpatient behavioral health caused my depression to get worse, I think it naturally just so happens to get worse and better on its own and the timing just so happened to coincide with when I went to outpatient behavioral health, but I also don't think outpatient behavioral health made it any better either (this is the case with a lot of treatments I have tried)." + +Notice how when the hospital talks about it, they use the phrase "the patient failed" wheras when I talk about it, I explain why it didn't work. Also the hospital is the one who discharged me after the surveys they gave me showed my depression getting worse the longer I was on the program, but they made it look like I just walked out prematurely. I think hospitals try to shift blame for legal liability reasons, and also they pad the medical records with huge amounts of irrelevant fluff, which may make it harder to find mistakes that they made. For example, at the psychiatric hospital of Memorial Regional hospital in Hollywood, Florida, they thought I had depression because I was sleeping during the day, so they gave me an antidepressant. In actuality I had the opposite of depression [mania, which can be made worse by the antidepressant], and I had been sleeping during the day and awake most of the night for years, see the section on sleep issues: + +* Sleep Issues + +But yeah, the psychiatric hospital prescribed the wrong drug. Stuff like that has happened multiple times before, but you almost never see "We messed up" in the hospital electronic medical records for legal liability reasons (ex. hospital doctor malpractice, etc.). I personally find this frustrating. + +Bonus Paragraph 3 completed: Oct 26th, 2024