Healthcare Initiatives for a Better Portland

In order to address the mental health and physical health crisis in Portland, James Macdonald is focusing on expanding access to mental health services for all residents. By establishing avenues providing support, counseling, and resources, we aim to improve the mental well-being of our community. All of our leaders need to understand what patients are up against. We need to fund mental health state wide and fix physical health care shortcomings. In many cases those receiving physical healthcare receive the minimum or basic healthcare caused by the state, local Hospitals  Medical Centers medical board leaders, Physician. lack of people in the medical field, and new medical people in our systems. The young people in healthcare have a different mindset as only 20 years ago it was a little different. They tend to think of themselves not the patients or the patients difficulty in just being able to get care. There is so much more that needs address in this area. A person can tell if a medical professional is in their field to help people. We have a shortage of ambulance and the crews or staff in them. A lack of vehicles because of delays as Multnomah County is making changes to who rides in a ambulance and there conditions , I hope we finally solved this problem. Our people or patients get an A+ when it comes to availability of appointments and scheduling you can elect to have an in house doctor visit, you can schedule a tele=visit, you can text questions/answers and so on. I am sure most of you like your doctor it is the others I am speaking to that go into a medical facility or doctor appointment for example a beast of a growth on their back and leave with a band=aid a sucker and call me in 4 weeks. I personally have been seeing so called experts in their field of medicine some of them need to go back to school. some of them are excellent and their staff is even better. Let's say someone was in a car crash injuring their shoulder {slap tear| and further making their thumb problems and back problems hurt worse. The medical staff which in orthopedics has many different departments. One department won't fix the slap tear after months of physical therapy, someone outside the medical center said they would fix it drew a picture of how. On the next visit to schedule the surgery that doctor backed away from doing the surgery stating there is to many things going on at XXXXXXXXX.

The thumb doctor scheduled surgery and it is done. That person finally a week ago just got an MRI of the spine the accident was 9 months ago. The bureaucracy involved that this person is dealing with is less than disappointing. I have had a self imposed meeting with one director of a medical establishment letting him know I will be seeing him in the future. I have called the medical board of our state and was not able to get any appointment. I have called the government In Charge of controlling the rules around controlled medications they avoided me on the phone I was asking for an appointment for me and my attorney to meet with them they basically hung up. I even called around about our new deflection building looking to see how it is going to operate I will get back to that one because I reached no one in charge, all leaders in all department in our state and city need accountability. I will be setting up an e-mail right here to listen to your stories. The email address is as follows, medicaltransparencytoday@gmail.com. I will start approaching this topic after the election. Your stories will be held in confidence and not shared without your permission.