The Pet Food Crisis: It's worse than you thought. UPDATE: Another diary posted over at Pam's House Blend. How long before this starts hitting human beings?
VRI: We're not the only ones dealing with the VRI issue in hospitals. This is becoming a national problem. To be honest, most Deaf people are not willing to speak out on this issue. Peggy Johnson is different. Reverend of a Deaf church:
Johnson watched a congregant suffer in the hospital with severe back pain, while staff members tried in vain to communicate through Deaf-Talk.“She had to lay flat,” she said. “You can’t see a TV that way,” she said.
What's been the response so far from DeafTalk?
Deaf-Talk operates in 350 hospitals nationwide, including 13 in the Baltimore area. The company that produces Deaf-Talk has had three complaints from Baltimore Hospitals, said Dave Stauffer, company vice president and co-owner.“There is one lawsuit in Maryland; everyone else loves our system,” he said.
He categorized Johnson’s church as troublemakers.
“I know which church [The Examiner is] talking about. It’s a deaf congregation and they’re talking about trouble that doesn’t exist.”
Unfortunately this has also been the problem here in New York. You know what the culprit is? DEAF NOD YES. Deaf people don't complain to the administration. Many Deaf people have gotten so used to accepting whatever services are provided that they don't think about or ask for their rights. People who fight back are rare. But Alma Andrews is an amazing fighter.
And in Japan: Deaf Japanese are swindled in yet another business:
The majority of the invested money was reportedly used to pay off her company's debts, which had grown to 4.4 billion yen following a failed campaign to sell "memo phones" to deaf people.Two of Kobayashi's employees -- Eiko Machida, 55, and her son, Norikyo, 28 -- were also indicted for their involvement in the alleged fraud. Eiko denied she defrauded the deaf people, but her son acknowledged doing so and admitted he tricked his clients into handing over their money.
With all of the pyramid schemes and business deals floating around the country lately... are Deaf people just gullible, or so greedy they have to try to make a buck - who knows! The Japanese scam was for spa memberships - maybe Deaf people just need to be pretty.
And how was the news in your week?
2 comments:
After reading your post, I decided to comment on this in my blog. I hope this will help the readers see the double talk of of DeafTalk administrators. They said DeafTalk is best used with other forms of interpretation. Dept of Justice decreed that VRI shouldn't be used if deaf patients don't want it.
http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2007/05/01/vri-best-used-with-other-interpretation-prez-said/
I hope this helps, Joseph.
The problem is getting Deaf patients to speak up - especially those who are mentally ill etc. and can't advocate for themselves.
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