{"id":16561,"date":"2020-07-31T08:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:23:52","slug":"avoiding-care-during-the-pandemic-could-mean-life-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16561","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Care During the Pandemic Could Mean Life or Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By John M. Glionna for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>These days, Los Angeles acting teacher Deryn Warren balances her pain with her fear. She\u2019s a bladder cancer patient who broke her wrist in November. She still needs physical therapy for her wrist, and she\u2019s months late for a cancer follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>But Warren won\u2019t go near a hospital, even though she says her wrist hurts every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I go back to the hospital, I\u2019ll get COVID. Hospitals are full of COVID people,\u201d says Warren, a former film director and author of the book \u201cHow to Make Your Audience Fall in Love With You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors say, \u2018Come back for therapy,\u2019 and my answer is, \u2018No, thank you.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/avoiding-care-during-the-pandemic-could-mean-life-or-death\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By John M. Glionna for Kaiser Health News) These days, Los Angeles acting teacher Deryn Warren balances her pain with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16562,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions\/16562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}