DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 3, 2013
-- a hospital ignores deaf patient for 12 days!
A deaf patient, with appendix problems, was admitted
to a hospital. Yet, for 12 days, the hospital staff
ignored her, despite her repeated request for an
interpreter. Her appendix was removed - but there
was no follow up procedures after the operation.
This is terrible. Where is the hospital? Why cannot
ADA force the hospital to immediately hire an
interpreter, etc? The Ninewells Hospital is not
in USA but in Dundee, Scotland. The Scottish
public services agency is VERY angry about the
whole thing and has disciplined the hospital
and has implemented procedures for future deaf
patients.
-- fake demand for deaf pilots to fight in the war
USA was in war; and word got around that the American
military forces were asking for deaf men to sign up
as military pilots. Quickly, the US Department of
Defense put a stop to it, saying that the request
was a fake. The military people suspected that it was
the enemy who spread the fake request for deaf pilots.
What was this all about? The New York Times ran this
story in its September 15, 1918 edition, during the
World War I years. They blamed enemy Germans for
creating this fake request.
-- a big drop in deaf students enrolled at colleges
Five years ago in Northern Ireland, there were
about 250 deat students attending colleges. Now it is
under 100 deaf students. Why the big drop?
Lack of funding? Lack of support services? Lack of
deaf students' interest in pursuing higher education???
-- deaf pharmacist says interpreters don't help deaf patients!
Shibata Masahiko is a deaf pharmacist with the Osaka General
Medical Center in Japan. He said that many deaf patients
don't understand their medical needs even with interpreters
and notes! He said deaf patients understand better with
sign language deaf pharmacists than interpreting and notes.
-- deaf electronics company can't find employees
Deaf Alerter is a deaf devices company in Derby, England.
This company builds flashing devices for the deaf. This
company worked with a school to try to find job applicants.
Ten people applied for the job through the school. The
school screened the list for qualified applicants and
there was only one. And that person turned down the job
offer! The city of Derby has many unemployed people yet the
company couldn't find someone to hire!
03/31/13 Blue edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-blue-newsletter/
03/31/13 Gold edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
