Many might not be aware, but the world over, almost as many people die of medical negligence on part of medical attendants as would in road accidents. And this statistic is only a little different for developed and undeveloped countries. Medical negligence leads to deaths and even more injuries – permanent or temporary. Almost always, they lead to a lot of pain and suffering, trauma and additional costs – all of which could be avoided, had the medical staff been a bit more careful. In all such cases, victims can claim compensation.
Want to know the best new health idea lately? Making healthcare available to everyone.
Oh, wait! That is not a new idea. In fact, it is 100 years old. President Teddy Roosevelt, leader of the Rough Riders, outdoorsman, adventurer, Republican, was the first U.S. President to advocate healthcare for all.
While Canada and most countries of Europe have achieved that goal. the U.S. has been repeatedly prevented from protecting all its citizens from dying for lack of medical care. Nowadays 18,000 people a year die because they cannot afford health care. Some of them have jobs.
In other countries, like Canada and England, everyone gets free healthcare. A young American man I worked with had a sudden heart attack in his 30s while visiting his cousins in Canada. He said his care doctors and hospital care were top notch, and they cost him nothing.
As one British doctor told an American patient, “Call us selfish, but we don’t want you getting us sick.”
Yet Canadian and British doctors are well paid, have nice houses and cars and are happy with the system. When interviewed last year, one young doctor near London mentioned his $million dollar home and could not understand why anyone would think that English doctors are not well paid.
So here is a video of President Obama on Labor Day, explaining once again why we must have healthcare reform, and we cannot afford to wait while insurance costs, which have risen three times as fast as wages, continue to soar.
Notice as he says that while Americans are dying for lack of healthcare and being denied coverage or losing their insurance just when they need it most, some profitable insurance companies are being subsidized by the U.S. government.
Subsidizing the insurance companies? That alone is enough to make me sick. It has got to stop.
Hemorrhoids can be very painful and disturbing. This is the very reason you need to get rid of hemorrhoids and find a cure as early as possible. If you don’t, chances are you are just going to prolong your agony and you are risking the possibility of having a recurring hemorrhoid. Do not make this mistake or else, you are likely to end up in surgery just to fix the problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Quitting smoking is hard. According to scientists, nicotine is the most addictive substance known.
Despite what you see in TV commercials, people who successfully quit smoking have usually tried several times unsuccessfully before they finally manage to quit for good. Yes, there are a few who simply stop one day and never smoke again, but they are rare.
That means doctors shouldtreat smoking as a chronic health problem,not as simply a matter of willpower (or lack thereof). Smokers, especially those who have smoked heavily for many years, may need long-term support to successfully kick the habit that is killing them.
We often tend to dread the aging process and hope to remain young forever. It is interesting to note that these awful wrinkles and fine lines can be averted if we start a healthy routing right from our youth. The best way to avoid an uncomfortable aging is to adopt the principles of natural skin care.
Spinal cord injuries in lab animals can now be treated with nano (microscopic) technologies that can improve healing and even reverse paralysis, according to researchers. Paralyzed mice have had full movement restored in only six weeks.
The U.S. government has spent over a billion dollars on nanotechnology research. The research is controversial, because not enough is known about side effects and what can happen if the tiny molecules escape into the environment.
However, the research results look promising. If treatment with nanotechnology proves equally successful on humans, many people who are now paralyzed could soon be able to lead normal lives again.
Medical researchers in the United Kingdom have reportedly developed a way to create artificial nerves from fatty stem cells to replace the damaged nerves in injured limbs and organs.
That is great news for patients suffering from many kinds of nerve damage. Eventually it could lead to reversal of spinal cord damage, allowing paraplegics and quadraplegics full use of their limbs again. Meanwhile, it will be several years before the new procedures are approved for use on humans. It may be several more years before the treatments are available in most of the United States and other parts of the world.
