authorcaseywolfe.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Queer Author ♠️
🐕🦺 Disabled / AuDHD ♾️
🎮 Gamer / TTRPG Designer 🎲
📚 History Nerd / Film Buff 📽️
https://authorcaseywolfe.carrd.co/
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Yup. My spouse is a cis man. When he's with me? No issues. When he isn't? Issues. They have denied me access to him multiple times. Of course those were all times they denied me care or almost outright killed me. My queer, femme-presenting, disabled self isn't worth their time, apparently.
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Yikes. That's a dystopian poster right there.
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That's really the crux of it, huh? Disabled, women (especially WOC), queer folks...we are all regularly denied care that a cishet white guy will get without hassle. If you've never expierenced bias in healthcare then you're simply not going to understand the danger. And they won't believe us.
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Agreed.
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*continues to mark off companies*
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^I realize some of that may already be in place, but each country that has AD has different rules and I can't keep up with all of them. But, even if they're currently in place, the answer still stands as those are the things that would make me feel comfortable with the process existing.
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Potential safeguards could include not allowing them to offer it in the first place; patient has to bring it up. Having a second or even third doctor required to sign off on it. Requiring a psych eval to determine if the person is actually of sound mind and requesting of free will. It's a start.
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No. A patient should have to ask about the topic first. Only exception I can think would be ethical would be if you are talking palliative care options.
Yes. They are incapable of giving people unbiased and proper care. What makes anyone think that they would be unbiased about offering death?
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Some people don't have an option thanks to their insurance. I've had ones that literally would not allow me to get my regular meds from a local pharmacy. Only scripts for one off things like antibiotics or something. It was a nightmare.
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Yup, my pharmacists have saved my ass more than once. I'm often given meds that can kill me when the doc has the entire list right in front of them. They will literally look me in the eye and lie to me, rather than admit they don't know. They don't care.
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I would say they very much nailed it. 😊
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I need that as a bumper sticker now: SORRY YOU'RE ALSO IN OHIO!
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Yeah, that's been on my TBR list for far too long. 😅 In my defense, that list is also like 1.5k books long now? Umm, my bad. I'm scared to go in and try to thin that out at this point.
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Okay, but that cover is all the cuteness. 😍
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@sethanikeem.bsky.social isn't on the list.
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Now this is a real American Hero. The marines currently invading a U.S. city should be ashamed.
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The DREAM.
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📌
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Yup. Passing the ADA (and their counterparts in Canada and the UK) hasn't done all that much to change things or protect anyone cause they are never enforced. Noone is ever held to account for clearly violating the law and our rights. Then the ignorant go "Why don't you report?"
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My boys also got glowsticks in our party goodie bag. They are very pleased.
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Even WITH the laws, there are still accessibility issues everywhere. What do you think will happen without them?
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It's our one and only hospital system too. 🙃 Then people ask why I didn't just go to the hospital when x happened. 🫠
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Also, the only reason I knew about it was cause I'd been hearing from other disabled folks in 2020 about DNR's being added without consent and I checked my file then. In my case it was added before 2020, so I wasn't part of that. But could help explain why they gave me shit about removing it.
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My biggest peeve is they wouldn't tell me WHO put it there, cause it wasn't me or my spouse. So either some doc decided to add it and they were covering or it was my mother who I'm no contact with and has no legal right to do that, and they realized what shit they were in.
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"I saw several."
"Oh."
Always the same. 😮💨
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In the US. Had an unauthorized DNR added to my file that was far too difficult to get removed. And I have been seperated from my advocate multiple times at the hospital, for no reason. The ableds never believe the shit that happens to us all the damn time. They refuse to.