http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/stroke_victim_not_evacuated_fr.php
As a stroke survivor I can tell you that doctors can do nothing during the actual stroke except give tPA if indicated or surgery to stop bleeding. Once stabilized doctors do nothing, they just hand it off to therapists with the prescription of ET, evaluate and treat. Nothing will speed up the recovery. Telestroke can be used to get appropriate therapy. You could have the best neurologists in the world standing around a strokee in the ER room and they would be helpless. At this point if she is stable there is no point in risking everything
And Gregs response to my posting -
Dean, r, I'm removing your spammish link to your commercial stroke-related web site. Folks, what "dean r" says bout both immediate response to a stroke and long term is incorrect(Really? Greg, are you an expert?). I'm only leaving this misleading and inaccurate comment up to allow people to see that there is in fact stroke misinformation and woo out there.
Here's some basic info from Mayo: http://goo.gl/eNHJL
and here's the Skeptical Search Engine findings: http://goo.gl/SYo0h
Posted by: Greg Laden October 1, 2011 2:47 PM
A friend of mine send me this:
This was my letter to Raytheon and the National Science Foundation
To whom it may concern.I am writing on behalf of my mother, Renee-Nicole Douceur. I am trying to figure out by what standard you consider a stroke a non-emergency. Almost a month ago I received a phone call from my mother informing me that she had a stroke the week before. As I am sure you can imagine, my heart dropped and my emo...tions kicked in because I was unable to be by my mother's side during this scary time. I know that she has put in almost 3 years of dedication for Raytheon and National Science Foundation in Antarctica because she loves what she does, even though it meant being away from her family. I also understand how difficult it is to fly in Antarctica during the winter months so emergency evacuations should be kept at a minimum, but are still possible for emergencies.
Again, I am trying to figure out how a stroke victim, who is being told by doctors on site as well as in the US to be evacuated as soon as possible, is not considered an emergency. I am sure that if it were your family member, you would have great concern and frustration as I have at the total lack of humanity being shown by both your companies for a woman who put her service and faith into you. Think about it, if your mother, or daughter, or son or father were to have a stroke, and were refused the best medical care for over a month (and by the time she would get it, if she has to wait for your company to deem her important enough to fly home, it would be almost 2 months) how would you feel? Angry? Disgusted? Wouldn't you think that the company that your family member works for would place any concern on human life? How would you feel if by the time your family member returns home at the big corporation's say so months later, your family member had
permenant damage that could have been avoided if they were treated like any other normal human being would have been treated? Strokes are harmful, the brain is a delicate organ yet it controls who we are. Even the smallest of injuries are life changers. But as long as it doesn't happen to you or your families, it's ok right?Well this is not ok with me. My mother is a fighter and I hope that by the time she leaves Antarctica she will still be strong enough to overcome this stroke. I am getting married in a few months and if my mother is in any way debilitated because Raytheon and the National Science Foundation dragged their feet because they obviously don't care about human life as long as money is involved I will be utterly crushed. Money is not worth human life. It's not. Even in this economy without your family, without your health, without humanity, we have nothing. When you go home to your families tonight, please pray that they never work for a company who treats their life as meaningless. My mother means something to me. If you refuse to help then I pray to God your family will always be healthy because no one should ever have to deal with the total lack of empathy your companies show. Please look inside yourself and fly her out ASAP to give her the best possible
chance of full recovery with no lasting effects.The White House, my Senator and newstation WMUR will be hearing from me. I'm sure they would be interested in hearing a story about how yet again big business kills people and doesn't care.
Sincerely,
Sydney Raines
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