The Fall of Hospitals
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Our youngest two children took it to save their jobs. Pharmacist and Ultra Sound Tech.
The real problem is: there is little "healthcare" in the US. But there is a MASSIVE medical industry.
Here is the resolution:
Step 1: Deprecate the FDA to an advisory body only; no regulatory powers. All medical regulations are null and void. Many federal medical laws and regulations HINDER delivery of effective, low-cost healthcare. (Some states are complicit and assist also hinder healthcare, but there will be enough states that do not, or do so minimally, that US people will find healthcare once the feds are out of the way.)
Step 2: Deprecate the Dept of Agriculture so they have no powers in regards to peoples' diets whatsoever.
Step 3: Cease federal govt subsidizing any and all US crops. (Especially corn, and cease encouraging the addition of corn syrup into the US food chain.)
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Australian politicians tout that the large uptake in covid "vaccines" is because the public agrees with them. That is an absolute crock.
My discussions with those who are willing to talk about it indicates that THE VAST MAJORITY took it only because they are either afraid of losing their jobs or because they are afraid they can not or will not be able to see or visit their families.
My daughter was being pressured by a three women who were prospective housemates to get jabbed. (Amazing considering they are all trained medically in some way or another and should have known better. But that just speaks of the efficiency of Australian governments' brainwashing.)
After speaking to me about the subject, she decided not to get jabbed (as she wants to have children some day and there are a lot of unknowns in regards to their effects on female fertility), and resorted to renting a flat by herself.
As with all information, your awareness of truth depends on where you get your information. The so-called news media never really existed. There's no gain in anyone collecting up the truth and spoon-feeding it to the population. Besides, all humans are biased.
The very concept of the "news" industry is corrupt: they sell advertising. Accurate, truthful news has nothing to do with their revenue flow.
The more eyeballs, the higher the ad price. <<-- Corrupting force #1
Advertisers control what content they will be associated with. <<-- Corrupting force #2
Journalism majors want to "change the world", or get famous. <<-- Corrupting force #3
A "newspaper" is a great way to smear enemies, control politicians, sway the public, and get rich doing it.
Put another way -- the National Enquirer had the most expensive ad prices for decades. They led the way on how to increase ad revenue.
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Long ago, colleges lowered their standards in order to get filthy rich from tuitions.
Lowered standards means low and average IQ people are getting pieces of paper claiming they're qualified in some field.
Just as we all know that about half of our own respective industries are staffed with idiots and incompetents, so is the medical industry.
I'm totally pissed off now. There is no diplomacy with people on the left anymore. Remember, I live in Portland, where they can kill people on the right, burn your businesses, come to your homes and shoot fireworks, throw feces and urine balloons, stop your car on the road and smash it, stop traffic for hours for illegal street races, shoot at you and your home, and more, all because they are democrats, while the right has ZERO recourse. We ARE at war, some of you just don't know it yet.
Some people just call you names, like "rude", and ignore you when they have no rebuttal to your comments.
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Portland Washington? I thought Portland was in Oregon.
I agree and have always been aware that the media owners are much more powerful than most realize. They have been manipulating the public for generations now. That being said, with the internet and some time you can find out more truth now than you could ever before.
The left is doing away with borders. Portland is actually in what are presently Mexico and Canada.
I work in Portland, as do many in SW Washington. Two interstate bridges. We get to pay OR income taxes with no votes. All of my friends are in Portland.
We do need more rural doctors. The small rural hospital in our county was bought out by a foreign corporation and closed 6 years ago when Medicare would no longer do business with them. Before they closed they ripped off the local nurses and employees with bounced checks etc. Now to get medical care you have to go down the mountain and to the next county. Both of these about an hour away. Response time for emergency services takes longer now and many more airlifts required. Survival rates reflect that.
In our situation we use a local nurse practitioner whose elderly father is our neighbor and runs a small neighborhood clinic. I will say that he is probably one of the best medical professionals that I have ever seen. While a doctor does come in 3 days a week I have never seen him. Our nurse practitioner is thorough, local born and raised so knows many of his patients histories and is not afraid to admit when he doesn't know something and send you to another doctor for a second opinion. He seems extremely respected by his peers and spoken very highly of by the doctors in the area. I think that nurse practitioners can be a godsend to local communities that are underserved. While they have their limitations they are better than nothing.
We are very lucky here, our ham radio club has 5 retired doctors as members!!!
All this talk about student loan forgiveness is crap. All of those that took loans knew up front they would have to repay them so I have no sympathy. Now if anyone wanted to fund a school for doctors to go either free or at least with reduced rates in exchange for a term of low pay community service, then I would back it 100%. Even some of these deadbeats that got worthless degrees might be able to perform some kind of community payback to help repay their loans. But I never think giving free money is a good idea.
Lol! You unintentional satire is priceless!
Sorry I’m very tired of arguing about cause of death of Covid patients.
Not going to even go Into that, as I am on day 5 of 6 twelve hour ICU shifts and I’m on my 4th death summary from someone dying of hypoxemic respiratory failure due to Covid.
If I thought it would make a difference I would be happy to go into it and spend a bunch of time to post about it here, but it really won’t, will it?
Not going to even go Into that, as I am on day 5 of 6 twelve hour ICU shifts and I’m on my 4th death summary from someone dying of hypoxemic respiratory failure due to Covid.
If I thought it would make a difference I would be happy to go into it and spend a bunch of time to post about it here, but it really won’t, will it?
This is what I am talking about- difficulties that rural hospitals are facing.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2...NTN9QLCoM5l-h9b1xN23V37-81AmHZCTJLnU5JyrOMGjY
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2...NTN9QLCoM5l-h9b1xN23V37-81AmHZCTJLnU5JyrOMGjY
What do you plan on researching, if you don't mind me asking?
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We can get to a decent hospital in 15 minutes by car, so not too bad. Around here are mostly amish who are uninsured. The hospital and docs give cash discounts. I only have insurance that covers me if I am admitted to the hospital (One Share Christian Insurance), so when I go in, I ask for a discount. I did find out that my cousin that is Amish gets a better discount than I do for the same doc. No fair. I should put on the dress and Kapp and I can pay less. I did take the neighbor and her two kids to a "doctor" Friday. She went to the "fancy chiropractor". Beautiful office in the bigger town, 20 min drive. Fancy. I think he's a quack, but didn't say anything to her. Kids had a cough, so he cleared their lungs of phlem by using a machine that showed a red dot on their skin of their chest. Kids had to sit still for 10 minutes. Don't think he would take insurance even if they had it. Cash. Lots of it.
Sounds like a quack especially a lots of cash practice. I always warn people of allowing neck manipulation by chiropractors as well.
Google vertebral artery dissection. I’ve taken care of a few patients with that. Scary stuff.
Thinking about rural ICU mobile care(something along those lines)
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Sounds like a worth undertaking DrJenner, I wish you the best with that endeavor.
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That's a good idea, Dr Jenner. One of our daughters is an ultrasound tech. She does alot of travel ultrasound and has enjoyed it, but has toyed with the idea of mobile ultrasound. Nursing homes and housebound people can benefit. But at the moment she is working at a hospital in Albuquerque.
Sounds like an excellent idea, as it would seem very useful and relevant in the aftermath of a disaster . . . like a nasty hurricane.
Mobile ICU care would have been intensely useful after Katrina hit the Big Easy.
Do you plan on utilizing any of the ideas that are behind a military MASH unit?
. My wife tried Mobile ultrasound. It just convinced GPs to buy their own machine and try to handle cases above their heads. She is coauthoring a text book on ultrasound.
I worked part time with one of her bosses with their mobile CT running the computer with a tech. Most of the GPs wanted a DVM on the truck because it was “outside” their clinic. So that ended up leaving me out. This Dr sold her clinic and is running 2 trucks in 2 cities. At one point she was trying to figure out MRI.
Just trying to give some perspective from Vet med. Good luck.
I've always been uncomfortable about chiropractic neck manipulation.
In the normal ACLS standards (of many, many years ago), we used to use a technique called "carotid sinus massage" to convert a patient out of a sustained, supraventricular (ie: "narrow complex") tachycardia.
This procedure was discontinued when it was discovered that patients could have an embolic CVA if the massage process caused pieces of atherosclerotic plaque to break off from the lining of the carotid artery . . . and travel to the brain.
For a while, the ACLS protocols required us to listen for a bruit with a stethescope, but in this process, no one ever considered that auscultating a bruit while hauling ass with lights and sirens might be unrealistic . . . so the procedure was retired from our protocols.
I've always had concerns that chiropractic manipulation of the neck--especially if done in an aggressive manner with an older person--might create the same situation.
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I haven’t thought that far into it to be honest- just an idea I’ve been thinking about the last 18 months or so, hearing frustrations from rural docs.
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Risks
Chiropractic adjustment is safe when it's performed by someone trained and licensed to deliver chiropractic care. Serious complications associated with chiropractic adjustment are overall rare, but may include:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/chiropractic-adjustment/about/pac-20393513
Chiropractic adjustment is safe when it's performed by someone trained and licensed to deliver chiropractic care. Serious complications associated with chiropractic adjustment are overall rare, but may include:
- A herniated disk or a worsening of an existing disk herniation
- Compression of nerves in the lower spinal column
- A certain type of stroke after neck manipulation
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/chiropractic-adjustment/about/pac-20393513
I understand these points, and I'm (intensely) sympathetic toward anyone whom wishes to control pain without drugs . . . especially with this horrible opiate addiction and overdose epidemic.
Yet every medical procedure can have complications, and I wonder if the benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to chiropractic manipulation. Having a stroke from neck manipulation doesn't seem like a good trade-off, but I don't know what the numbers and statistics are.
