Link – The Stigma in Our Health Care System

I had not realized this before. How many of you have struggled with healthcare because of these kinds of rules? I can see where it would get massively frustrating.

I mentioned that my stay had been in B-Med and he just nodded. Psychiatric hospital stays, he said, are never put in general patient records. B-Med records are separate from all other medical records, and he had no access. Further, he wasn’t allowed to add anything about it to his record, even though we were talking about it in our visit.

Let’s think about that for a moment: My general practitioner has no access to my psychiatric treatment records. During Mental Health Month, there’s always a lot of talk about breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness. Well, it seems like we’ve still got a long way to go. If doctors can’t even talk about mental illness to other doctors, how are we going to talk about it in public? How are we ever going to get integrated health care if my hospital visit essentially never happened?

https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/May-2017/The-Stigma-in-Our-Health-Care-System