Rest in Peace Marlaina

To remember Marlaina Lieberg:

1. RantWoman wants everyone who needs audible prescription labels to be able to get them automatically upon request, without turnaround any longer than it takes to fill anyone. else's prescriptions.

2. RantWoman does not care one whit whether people would benefit from audible prescription labels because they are blind or because there are a million other reasons that printed prescription labels are useless: people often understand spoken language better than they read. This can especially be true for people working in their second language, a phrase which describes a large percentage of the people working as caregivers in the US..

3. Bottom line: even though the American Council of the Blind and heroic leaders like Sue Ammeter and Marlaina Lieberg have tirelessly advocated on behalf of blind people, medication errors cause the healthcare system billions of dollars every year and RantWoman thinks audible labeling could significantly reduce one reason for such errors. Probably RantWoman should find a team of graduate students or health care data jockeys to help test this view, but today's task is memorial, not data!

Yes, okay but why does this post read like Dial-A-Tirade instead of like either well-reasoned policy analysis or gentle remembrance?

Another one bites the dust.

And pulmonary fibrosis is AWFUL

And much as RantWoman admires Marlaina and is perpetually in awe of the life she has lived, RantWoman is also really glad Marlaina is not suffering anymore. RantWoman sends condolences many directions, and that is enough for today.

A previous post about Marlaina, based on a speech she gave at the 2013 WA Council of the Blind Leadership seminar.
https://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2013/08/transportation-for-handicrapped.html