Insight to Healthcare Discrepancies

The Lost In PreMed Podcast
"Insight to Healthcare Discrepancies"
Episode 0004 

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MAIN TOPIC: Discrepancy in Healthcare
~ This term is thrown around a lot, but what does it mean?
~ How is socio-economic status linked to healthcare?
~ How does having medical insurance effect access to healthcare?
~ How does NOT having medical insurance effect access to healthcare?
            ~ What are the alternatives?
~ Lets look at a patient treatment plan for an insured person vs one without insurance
~ How do socio-economic areas effect physicians?

MEDICAL TERM OF THE PODCAST: Peripheral Neuropathy (Diabetic Neuropathy)
~ A degradation of peripheral nerves that causes one to lose feeling in extremities
~ If you can’t feel a wound, you don’t know that you may have a wound
            ~Wounds can turn into ulcers, leading to bad infections or even sepsis
~ Believe it or not, the patient didn’t feel this http://www.daviddarling.info/images/diabetic_neuropathy.jpg  ***GRAPHIC***

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