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CandleInTheWind -> RE: Plastic Surgery..would you? (4/5/2007 7:13:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
They don't do things like leave sponges in patients? Surgery is not something to be seriously considered in America?
From: http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/american%20health%20system2.htm
"It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.".
The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million."
I'd also like to direct people to the following article:
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/aug2006_report_death_01.htm
Medicine has made many advances and there are many wonderful things about medical science. However, to deny that surgey is serious and that complications and even death occur is wrong.
Im sorry but I was unable to access your first artical and i am familiar witht he second...i actually discussed this issue with my nutritionist....what it fails to mention is what a great deal of the medical errors are a medical error includes simple things by the average persons standards but we in the medical field concider to be issues..
the Patients RIGHTS
the right patient
the right medication
the right dose
the right site
the right time
so if 50mg of medication X is supposed to be given to mrs J. Jones every 6 hours in her right butt cheek
but she is given 55mg error
or god forbid mrs K Jones gets it error
or she gets medication Y error
or she gets it in her left butt cheek error
or her dose is give 4 hours or 8 hours apart (we usually allow a one hour window) error
also..the medication interactions a great deal of times happen due to incomplete patient information
I can tell you stories from my visiting nurse days of indivvidulas that would give me theree meds so i could see them...then i would do a ADL check on them see theier roo etc and notice they had a slew of others at the bed side or the infamoud medicine cabinet stash! oye the night mares are coming back!
Surgery of anykind is a risk...
you can have an allergic reaction to a tatoo dye and have major problems.
piercing can get infected
somethigs just cannot be helped...
it would be my hope and my innocent belief that individuals go into medicine becasue they want to help people..
certainly not for the extra excercise and the holiday hours...although if you are into scat that is the place for you! LOL
have a great day and I wish you all a healthy check up
red
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