The only thing I guess if you're going to write about Developmental Disabilities in NJ to write about is this Star Ledger article which came out yesterday.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/caretaker_neglect_leads_to_dea.html
The whole thing just makes me depressed. You can do all the checks you want. Put all the systems in place you want, and they help, but the only thing that can hope to keep people safe is if there are people in your life who care about you. Even that might not be enough because you have to know the right questions to ask the right things to press about. I hope the newspaper continues to cover this, and I hope the case doesn't settle because it would be nice to know what happened? Right now it seems to be proceeding the way these horrible scandals of neglect usually do with people engaging in either aggressive postures or defensive ones and very little in between. As a professional caretaker I'm glad to be as far away from this as possible because everyone looks bad. So two very nice people die and do people care or is it just the spectacle, the political point scoring, the lawsuit.
As I sit here thinking what is nice is that two people with developmental disabilities can cause such an uproar. Wish they were alive to enjoy it like the rest of us voyeurs.
On another note sort of, this marketplace report talks about doctor morale and how low it is. All I can think is doctors are caretakers like the rest of us, and it can be wearying, but boy I wish I made their money. I wonder if its about their judgment being questioned? As a caretaker I wouldn't like to be sued, but I really don't like when I screw up and get questioned. We all need oversight and people to ask questions even doctors.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/19/pm-doctors-health-reform-questions-q/
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