{"id":18976,"date":"2021-10-20T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2021-10-20T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:17:49","slug":"they-treat-me-like-im-old-and-stupid-seniors-decry-health-providers-age-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18976","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Treat Me Like I\u2019m Old and Stupid\u2019: Seniors Decry Health Providers\u2019 Age Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers.<\/p>\n

There was the time several years ago when she told an emergency room doctor that the antibiotic he wanted to prescribe wouldn\u2019t counteract the kind of urinary tract infection she had.<\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t listen, even when she mentioned her professional credentials. She asked to see someone else, to no avail. \u201cI was ignored and finally I gave up,\u201d said Whitney, who has survived lung cancer and cancer of the urethra and depends on a special catheter to drain urine from her bladder. (An outpatient renal service later changed the prescription.)\u00a0 Continue reading the article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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