Medical. Issues

[bbhero]

I've read on a recent post about medical issues being a third leading cause of death.
Here are my STRONGEST WORDS of advice and caution...
1. If after ANY surgery... If your surgical area has increased redness, swelling, drainage and you are running a temp greater than 101.
DEMAND wound cultures and blood cultures be performed IMMEDIATELY. Also you should have a infectious disease doctor consulted has well. And you should receive a broad spectrum antibiotic has well.
All I can say is this... A lack of responsiveness can kill you in regards to this.
With all these orthopedic surgeries being performed it would shock the general public how many otherwise healthy people prior to these surgeries end up with a very serious infection.
Also.... For you all who have older moms and dads.... UTIs kill many people has well. If your parent seems mentally off suddenly.... Have a urinalysis and culture done. This infection goes up from the bladder through the ureters to the kidneys and eventually into the bloodstream. Leading to sepsis. Which kills many older people.
Medications meant to treat clots can be dangerous too.... Pertinent questions are.. What is the ratio of heparin your giving??
What was the last PTT?? When was it last drawn??
Pain medications.. What is the strength of what you are giving?? What is the blood pressure been running?? Or what was the last BP taken?? What is the patients renal function or liver function?? Are you 100% sure that the PCA is truly in proper working order??
ASK QUESTIONS... IF something doesn't seem right... QUESTION further until it makes sense.

 

[userfriendly]

No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Yep, the UTI thing is an unreal manifestation of what appears to be mental decline/illness yet is a simple bacterial infection. I have witnessed it firsthand.

One of the reasons I work hard to maintain my knees is I am a prime candidate for knee replacement and the infection risk seems significant...

 

[Whitewolf]

Hospitals are very dangerous places. I try to stay away from them.

 

[edwardh1]

the experts advise us that we have enough money to rebuild ferrin countries, but not enough for medical care for Mericans.

 

[Ethan1]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


This is not an opportunity for you to be smug about living in America's Hat. The poster isn't talking about what happens to people without health insurance. People without health insurance don't have complications from their orthopedic surgery.

 

[CT8]

Originally Posted By: edwardh1
the experts advise us that we have enough money to rebuild ferrin countries, but not enough for medical care for Mericans.
++++++ 19

 

[CT8]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hph...amp;oe=55E8563D

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Don't just blindly take prescriptions that the professional pull-pushers push at you.

 

[BubbaFL]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


Healthcare in America is insanely expensive in part because we foot the bill for R&D For the rest of the world.

It'd be nice if y'all said "thanks" sometimes.

 

[Cadenza]

Originally Posted By: BubbaFL
Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


Healthcare in America is insanely expensive in part because we foot the bill for R&D For the rest of the world.

It'd be nice if y'all said "thanks" sometimes.


That is precisely true. Well said.

 

[Danno]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


That was unnecessary.

Ask your local doctor or politician if they get to the head of the line when their child is sick. You bet they do. Know it from 1st hand knowledge as my neighbour is a doctor.

I know my emergency care wait at my local hospital can easily be 8 hours.

Universal health care is not all roses, by a long shot.

 

[HerrStig]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.
So that's why we see so many Canadians at American clinics?

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: BubbaFL
Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


Healthcare in America is insanely expensive in part because we foot the bill for R&D For the rest of the world.

It'd be nice if y'all said "thanks" sometimes.


That's the same as the US being the "foodbowl of the world"...jingoistic rhetoric, that can be followed by yelling "touchdown"

Any of your family members ever needed penicillin ?
Thank an Aussie
Know a family with a deaf child who got a cochlear implant ?
Thank an Aussie
Your daughter getting the cervical cancer vaccine ?
Thank an Aussie
Having a baby and an obstetric ultrasound ?
Thank an Aussie
Taking folate while pregnant to reduce neural tube defects ?
Thank an Aussie
Relying on frozen embryo to start a family ?
Thank an Aussie.

 

[Mr Nice]

Originally Posted By: used_0il
No worries in Canada mate, rich or poor, we are all equal.
The best of care won't bankrupt.
A healthy population is the happiest and most productive.


What's the tax rate in Canada ???

 

[philipp10]

On a related note, did any of you see last Sunday's 60 minutes on cancer drugs. Seems your local Oncologist gets approximately a 6% kickback on each prescription he writes. So it's in their best interest to write the expensive ones. This just seems wrong. I feel if I am going to a doctor for advice, I would like advice based on my condition, not his pocketbook. I'll be asking lots of pointed questions of those sh*^ heads if I ever need theit advice.

 

[Alfred_B]

Originally Posted By: edwardh1
the experts advise us that we have enough money to rebuild ferrin countries, but not enough for medical care for Mericans.


You mean "invade, bomb, destroy and kill hundreds of thousands innocent people?"

 

[Alfred_B]

Originally Posted By: philipp10
On a related note, did any of you see last Sunday's 60 minutes on cancer drugs. Seems your local Oncologist gets approximately a 6% kickback on each prescription he writes. So it's in their best interest to write the expensive ones. This just seems wrong. I feel if I am going to a doctor for advice, I would like advice based on my condition, not his pocketbook. I'll be asking lots of pointed questions of those sh*^ heads if I ever need theit advice.


Look up STARK laws. Kickbacks, or appearance of kickbacks, are illegal.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: HerrStig
So that's why we see so many Canadians at American clinics?

Yes, because our clinics are so lined up, the rich are well advised to go south and get served.

 

[Shannow]

bbhero,
my Dad got a staph infection in his elbow joint from a red cross blood donation, and after it all turned to whoop, was treated by Professor Collignon our best infectious disease guy.

The medical profession hate him, as he's telling people to opt for day surgery wherever possible, as they are far less likely to get a dangerous infection at home than in a hospital.

He had the gall to pay university students to pose as janitors, and record which doctors didn't wash their hands between patients...then tracked their records re post-operative infection. (hundreds of years ago it was worked out that you don't carve cadavers then deliver a baby without washing your hands, but doctors still spread bacteria through carelessness).

He's called for carpet to be banned in hospitals...hospitals want people to feel like it's a motel. Linoleum on the floor, and 6 inches up the wall.

He's pro moving new mothers and their babies out of hospitals and INTO hotel rooms to keep them away from hospital germs (and as his detractors point out, into rooms cleaned by minimum wagers).

He's anti antibactierial sprays in the home (reasoning that if you don't clean the whole surface, just a wipe over, there are enviornments for resistance to grow), and against antibiotics in animal feeds.

(He's pro sulfa drugs, to be the first line of defence for minor issues, and save the antibiotics for serious stuff)

They (the establishment) really do dislike him.