Truly excellent writing — and reading

This is a profoundly insightful and important blog post.

Could This Be The Reason Traumatic Brain Injury Is Misdiagnosed and Untreated?

What is the real reason traumatic brain injury is misdiagnosed, untreated or under treated?  Do we have enough rehabilitation centers in America to accommodate 1.7 million people every year?  Is this a national problem or local issue? I cannot believe they missed the most obvious of all … brain injury. I was the patient with all the issues…but the healthcare professionals still expect you have it all together to let them know what’s going on.  What one does know is most head injuries, strokes, and many diseases of the brain are not classic in any way.  The emergency room personnel look for only the classic obvious symptoms: one sided weakness, dropping of the facial muscles, slurred speech, and others.  These are not necessarily symptoms that appear with the 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries every year.

Really great stuff. Should be a must-read for all medical folks.

It’s a wake-up clarion call about the treatment of people with brain injuries, and it’s the kind of message you really have to read several times to fully digest. At least, I have to read it a few times 😉

Read the whole piece here >>