Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Quality

These issues need attention now. I think that the health care system needs to first address that there is a problem with the quality. I think that quality is that very subjective to the person and to the status that you hold in their eyes. When you walk into a health care clinic you are summed up by the employees and it determines the quality that you will receive. The quality is based on underlined prejudices that all health care providers have. Earlier this week I had to take an older family friend from church to the county hospital. The way that I was treated as a patient was very different then when I went as a USC student. I felt that I was constantly discriminated and spoken to as if I was dumb. I feel that the quality that I received was very different when I was just a Latino girl that was coming in to county for care as opposed to a USC student that may one work here.
I think that for “good” quality of care people need to be treated equally as humans and be given the same care and treatment regardless of other external factors. This is difficult because whether we would like to admit it or not we all have some sort of bias that we can not get rid of.

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