Health care fails everyone, not just seniors

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Health care fails everyone, not just seniors

 

This study concludes that seniors only receive needed medical care

half of the time. So if ten seniors need treatment, only five get it.

That's interesting, but it needs to be expanded to all age groups.

Because in reality, I'd say that 90% of all patients don't get quality

medical care at all. What do they get instead? Drugs. Real medical

care would involve communicating with patients. Few doctors even go

that far, spending as little as 60 seconds actually talking with a

patient before making a diagnosis, prescribing pills, and booting them

out the door. I once visited a knee specialist who spent no more than

twenty seconds with me, asked one question, touched one place on my

knee and then went on to misdiagnose the obvious symptoms. By and

large, our Western medical system offers terrible health care. An

improvement would involve working to educate the patient about what

they can do to reverse serious problems with their diet, exercise,

levels of stress, exposure to toxins and so on. Yet when was the last

time a doctor ever consulted you on your diet? Have you ever visited a

doctor who told you to stop eating hydrogenated oils, known to cause

heart disease? Has a single doctor ever told you to stop eating

refined sugar? Probably not. See, modern medicine isn't modern, and

it's not even really medicine. It's a drug racket. See a patient, pop

a pill. Send 'em to the pharmacy where another round of mistakes will

be made. And even if they manage to read the doctor's handwriting

correctly (which is fouled up nearly 10% of the time, according to

studies), and the pharmacist manages to fill your prescription

correctly (many prescriptions have errors), you're faced with the fact

that the drug itself might damage your liver, harm your nervous

system, cause gastrointenstinal bleeding, or create other serious side

effects. There are 2.2 million people harmed each year by side effects

from perscription drugs, according to research published by JAMA. Our

medical system is broken. Big Medicine doesn't work for people, and

it's not just the elderly. What we need is a return to basics: doctors

who communicate, a focus on prevention, nutrition education, and a

national program of fitness and exercise to get people on their feet

and off their couches. If your doctor helps you in these areas, you're

very, very fortunate. Spread the word and bring your doctor more business!

 

Overview:

 

* Older Americans with health problems get the recommended medical

care only half of the time, and the problem is worse when looking only

at the treatment they get for age-related illnesses, a new study says.

* Seniors who don't get the right health care for disorders such

as Alzheimer's run the risk of losing their independence.

* This study's findings suggest that doctors and other health-care

providers may overlook some common problems of old age - lapses that

can lead to multiple health issues.

 

Source:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/1110senio

rhealth.html

 

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