Case Study Insulin Shock

In the course of receiving treatment from health centers patients often encounter a Number of problems that will affect the quality of services that may they receive from health facility. The issues may be generated by the patients themselves or they might arise from healthcare facility. This essay will explain the issues that surround the treatment received by Mr. Doug Woljamiri after suffering head injuries as a result of insulin shock. He suffered from type 1 diabetes mellitus since he was 13 years old. He struggled in his life .However, he do not want to go back to his family. As a result of constant movement from one point to another, Doug does not see the same doctor consistently.
Several contextual factors can be identified from Doug
Doug depression is most likely to have been triggered by the stressful life he is leading (Palazidou, 2012). Stress has been identified to be a major trigger of depression for individuals. Doug is clearly in a stressful situation since he does not have a decent place, does not have a steady source of income and can not afford to adequately address his diabetes problem. The depression that Mr. Doug suffer from is a major contributor to his current predicament and it is origins can be trailed back to his misguided decision of leaving home when he had no proper place to go to.
Another factor that is relevant to this particular context is the apparent lack of attachment and proper communication between Doug and the people with who he share a house with. Even he thought he has only moved to the share house recently, the communication with his housemate was very weak since they do not even noticed that he was away during his treatment. This is not an ideal environment for a person suffering from diabetes to live with. Hinder & Greenhalag(2012) argued that people suffering from diabetes and selfs medicating like Doug always need constant help and support from the people that he live
During the care of patients, there is a constant need for patient information to be shared among the different hospital staff and among different health institutions that are handling the treatment of a patient. Communication occurs following a distinct procedure and may occur using various methods. Furthermore, advances in information technology today support a lot of the communication that is required for the treatment of patients such as Doug. Communication and communication technology is widely used to provide support to healthcare providers as they take care of their patients under their watch.
Elements of communication that can be identified in the healthcare set up include the following (Coiera, 2006): communication channel which is the link or the conveyor along which the message is sent. The Type of message is another element and includes formal or structured messages such as