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Home Vault Misc Contact c2003-09 Thomas Barnard
[Disclaimer: I have found the information below largely on the internet. I make mistakes, so do your own research before changing your habits.]
[a book in progress]
Consumer Revolution - only
consumers/patients/citizens have the power to change healthcare in
Follow the Money – Unfortunately for patients, doctors have student loans to payoff, and after that they have second homes to buy. If Eisenhower were alive today, he would leave office warning us all not about the military-industrial complex, but the medical-industrial complex. There are a lot of doctors now being trained in fusion surgery for backs because there is a lot of money in it, not because it works.
Do Your Own Research - no one cares more about your health than you do.
Martini Therapy - basically, I am for whatever can get you through life for the maximum time in the best quality of health. The only thing I can remember my father regularly taking (probably for stress) was a martini before dinner. In his mid-point correction, he changed from gin to vodka. He is 86 and still having a martini around dinner time, sometimes a glass of wine instead. Stress reduction?
Balance - everyone's biology is different. Maybe I need more vitamin B6 than you. This was the principle that Dr. Roger Williams, who discovered a vitamin or two, sought to explain with his expression - biological individuality. At this point in medicine, this is very hard to determine from a scientific point of view. Know your own body.
Do No Harm - If you cannot do no harm, really think about how you can reduce the risk of harm in the practice of medicine. Somehow this principle has been jockeyed around in the past century. Probably less harm would be done if more doctors read the medical literature that has been appearing on the internet, and if they used less harmful therapies, using chemicals more in tune with our bodies. This latter idea is the notion behind Linus Pauling's theory of orthomolecular chemistry.
System Insanity - how can a hospital be contracted with a network and yet their emergency room physicians are not? Are we supposed to ask from the table, "Doc, are you in the network?"
Even Villanous Attorneys Have a Role - to sue
hospitals who do not conduct routine staph testing. Because staph testing
has been shown in
A Role for Bill Gates - a national website for finding out about doctors. They can describe their practices, and patients can affirm their good luck with a doctor, or their bad luck with a doctor. As it is now, some hospitals have their doctors on their referral list online, but there is no patient feedback to draw on. Which doctors have lawsuits out against them?
Ammunition - Specific Help on Certain Health
Conditions:
The idea
behind the chapters below is to provide you with some ammunition for meetings
with your health care professionals. If
they are not familiar with these findings, and they are receptive, ask them to
search the web. If they are not
receptive, maybe it is time to vote with your feet. The problem with voting with your feet is that
there is little information about doctors to go to. I am not necessarily against drugs or
surgery, but we want professionals with the whole bag of knowledge at their
fingertips – not just drugs or surgery.
An
integrative approach to cancer therapies, and suggested strategies.
Getting to the Heart of Heart Disease
Some Ideas for Dealing with Breast Cancer
Some Ideas for Dealing with Prostate Cancer
What Linus Pauling Didn’t Know About Vitamin C
Aix-Les-Pains (Aches and Pains)
National Health: Click here.
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