Aaron Maloy

07/09/2023

They Do Not Truly Care About Our Sickest Patients

Cape Cod and Plymouth are communities where I have provided care to medically and psychiatrically complex patients. Now more than ever there is a severe shortage of primary care providers in the area. This has left patients at high risk for heart attacks, strokes, and deadly cancers without access to care.

Primary care practices have stopped accepting these patients due to frustration with public health insurances. I can understand their frustration, as I have also had a terrible experience with public insurances. But as a primary practice owner who has tried to help these patients, all I have experienced from public health insurances is unending barriers. I have contacted the appropriate resources to help these patients access care, but they fail to respond.

We have a very broken system that is not protective of our most vulnerable patients. Their health can easily deteriorate and they can die. Why are they not a priority? Because those who have the power to help them are not making them a priority.

I have been seeing patients on public insurance for free, and I would like to see more of these patients. Unfortunately I have a lot of expenses associated with operating a primary care practice, and have exhausted every effort to link their insurance to my practice.

I feel awful about being forced to only accept private health insurances. It truly conflicts with my value system and approach to patient care. It feels like I have been shackled and forced to watch patients needlessly suffer when I am very much capable of helping them. Capable of saving them.

Our healthcare system is beyond broken. Patients are being allowed to suffer and die from preventable diseases and deprived of access to care and it does not have to be this way. Trust me, I know for sure that there is awareness that our our sickest patients are going without access to care and that many will die as a result.

What is most gruesome is that those who have the power to change this are aware, but are knowingly allowing low-income patients to suffer and die. I state this with full conviction.

Justice for our most downtrodden patients who are left to become seriously ill and die!

03/04/2023

Picketing gay pride marches, spreading dehumanizing misinformation about LGBT people, and acting out graphic abortion scenes of women being punished in hell.

This was a major part of my religious indoctrination during childhood. I wish it never happened and I do not wish it on any child. Marginalized groups should be treated with dignity and respect. Click the link below to read the full story.

https://aaronmaloy.com/abortion-and-lgbt-indoctrination-in-elementary-schoolby-the-church/

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02/16/2023

Being beaten for not being evangelical enough made me distrustful of religion at an early age.

I never felt comfortable at our new church. For whatever reason many in the church did not go out of their way to connect with me like they did with other children, and I felt a sense of hostility and “otherness” from the church. It likely had to do with the stigma attached to being the child of...

01/21/2023

Medication works extremely well for weight loss.

More people should be aware of the new science-based obesity treatments, and who is being left out.

Read more below.

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01/02/2023

No heat or hot water in 20 degree weather.
No plumbing.
No food.
No transportation.

I really enjoyed my experience in kindergarten and the first half of first grade at Hyannis East Elementary School. Out of the 15 towns on Cape Cod, this school served the most marginalized families and was the most racially and ethnically diverse. Most of the students came from low-income families,...

12/09/2022

Witnessing domestic violence during my preschool years was traumatizing.

During this time I was told that a Devil existed, which created an ongoing sense of trepidation, especially at night.

12/04/2022

My story of growing up in abject poverty on Cape Cod.

In this piece I highlight the emergence of innate empathy and advocacy during my preschool years. I also discuss my mother's struggle to feed us.

My early years in Wellfleet were my most poignant. My mother and I spent a lot of time with her best friend, who was married to one of Wellfleet’s legendary fishermen. She lived on a very large parcel of land off Route 6 in Wellfleet with their son and daughter. Her son and I were close in age, an...

12/01/2022

He was the poorest member of his community on Cape Cod. Click below to read Aaron Maloy's new blog.

https://aaronmaloy.com/hands-bleeding-while-breast-feeding/