Deans' stroke musings: Stroke, disability, and unconscious bias: Interrelationships and overdetermination in medical decisions

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Stroke, disability, and unconscious bias: Interrelationships and overdetermination in medical decisions

http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J61576&phrase=no&rec=116305

Author(s): Sandel, M. Elizabeth.
Publication Year: 2011.
Number of Pages: 4.
Abstract: Article reflects the author’s views of the current state of medical knowledge in stroke recovery and her own professional experience and biases after treating many patients with various degrees of recovery from stroke. Many factors influence what and how physicians communicate with patients after stroke. Physicians have a responsibility to examine their medical decisions and prognostication regarding each stroke patient. They must understand how many factors come into play in decisions regarding care, including perspectives that reflect the specific training of physicians in various specialties. How the physician responds to the patient with a stroke is highly individual. The more familiar the physician is with stroke recovery and the more time he or she has for individualized and less automatic approaches, the less likely decisions will be reflexive, based on bias.
Descriptor Terms: CHRONIC ILLNESS, HOLISM, PHILOSOPHY, REHABILITATION, STROKE.