Category: medical news

Ontario Death Panel? Hospital Bans Wife Who Doesn’t Want Husband’s Care Rationed | LifeNews.com

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Hospital Bans Wife Who Doesn’t Want Husband’s Care Rationed | LifeNews.com.

Arthur Hippe seems to be getting the Terri Schaivo treatment at Ajax Pickering Hospital (West Durham) of the Rouge Valley Health System.

Pharmer knows that there are two sides to every story, but it appears that Mr. Hippe’s wife, Marilyn Nelson, who has power of attorney over her husband’s medical care,  has been banned from the hospital because she disagrees with the palliative care given to her spouse.  He’s been losing weight precipitously since the “care” at the hospital given for his stroke.  He’s paralyzed on his left side, and has impaired speech, and has been put on Zyprexa and Haldol.  (Normally Zyprexa is  associated with weight gain, if the person is allowed to be awake enough to eat.)

For her contention that her husband should be in rehabilitative care, Marilyn Nelson has been totally banned from the hospital, and has recently been given two hour visitation periods, per day with no privacy.

Under the care of Dr. Carmen Price,  Arthur Hippe’s weight is said to have  dropped from 190 to  an 100 lb estimate attributed to statements from the hospital staff.

Sometimes there is a reason to ban relatives of patients  from the hospital, but it appears that the local police have found no reasons for banning Ms. Nelson.  Seniors at Risk has taken up her cause, and lawyers have been attempting to intervene on her behalf for the care of her husband.

-An attempt to fundraise for Ajax Pickering hospital appears to have ground to a halt.  See the facebook page.

-Check out the Rouge Valley Health system website!  😉  Yep… Toronto and West Durham,  Ontario, Canada.

-You have  to see the link at the health system website  about its first use of medical maggots 😀

The processing of Arthur Hippe  appears to be an example of the downsizing of health care that naturally occurs with socialism.

 

Mother-of-two Sarah Catt terminated baby within week of due date using medication | Mail Online

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Mother-of-two Sarah Catt terminated baby within week of due date using medication | Mail Online.

The above news story exemplifies the use of misoprostil alone in late term abortion.  Misoprostil (Cytotec) is a prostaglandin drug which causes uterine contractions and is used off label to induce labor.

The most common chemical abortion regimen utilizes mifepristone, a selective progestin receptor modulator, followed by misoprostil, to expel the embryo or fetus.

Planned Parenthood employs a regimen in which only a third of the recommended mifepristone is used, along with a large dose of misoprostil.    This is considered sufficiently effective, as the misoprostil will expel the unborn human dead or alive.

The woman in this Daily Mail story is said to have  killed her baby a week before full term, using misoprostil, which she bought online, to expel the baby.  At the time of writing, no one knows the location of the baby’s corpse.

FDA Approves Use of Antiretroviral, Truvada, for HIV Prevention

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US FDA approves first drug shown to reduce risk of HIV infection | Society | guardian.co.uk.

What happens with the anti-infectives which are used for PREVENTION, instead of treating infections?
Resistance abounds.

The FDA has approved the use of Truvada, an antiretroviral agent with two ingredients, emtricitabine (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor) and tenofovir, (nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor). This is now recommended for use in a non-infected partner who decides to have sexual contact with an HIV infected partner. The protection rate in the most favorable African study is 75%. Other studies done in the U.S. show results which are not nearly that good. Participants in the Truvada HIV prevention studies were encouraged to also use condoms.

Hope that extra special sex is worth $14,000 per year in the U.S., the still present risk of HIV, the risk of kidney damage, as well as the risk of making HIV strains more resistant to two more drugs, and the combo cocktails which contain them.

Pharmer chalks this FDA decision up with the scores of other irrational choices to misuse drugs without consideration of the present and long term drawbacks.

After Obama Busts Stericycle, Who Will Empty Abortion Clinic Dumpsters?

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A major Pro-life News Media Clearinghouse, Lifenews.com explains the Obama strategy to tie Romney to Stericycle, a company which disposes of medical waste, and carries away aborted humans from Planned Parenthood facilities. Stericycle services all sorts of health care institutions in addition to abortion clinics. They’ll dump anything.

It appears that Romney left Bain Capital before the controversial association with Stericycle’s abortion dumpstering, and Bain itself has subsequently dumped Stericycle.

Obama’s expose of Stericycle’s abortion association is likely to hurt that company far more than it hurts Romney. Who will take out Planned Parenthood’s “trash” now? Perhaps the Obama campaign should have thought of Planned Parenthood’s medical waste compliance issues before it decided to Bust Stericycle by driving off the legitimate portions of its business.

Obama 11th-Hour Attack on Romney May Involve False Abortion Story | LifeNews.com.

Oh LOOK! He’s Recycling NEEDLES and SYRINGES

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Creating and HIV and Hepatitis scare is Dr. Stephen Stein, a Colorado oral surgeon who is accused of re-using needles and syringes on different patients, for days at a stretch. The doc practiced at Stein Oral and Facial Surgery in Highlands Ranch, CO, and New Image Dental Implant Center.

Stein had agreed to stop practicing on 6/24/2011 for reasons unrelated to the recycling of needles and syringes.

Patients of Colo. dentist Dr. Stephen Stein urged to get tested for HIV, hepatitis amid reused needles probe – HealthPop – CBS News.

Canadian Researchers Conclude that Spanking American Kids Makes them Nutz

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Physical Punishment and Mental Disorders: Results From a Nationally Representative US Sample.

Yawn….

You don’t have to read another poorly designed study  of unreliable data  because Pharmer has saved you the time. 

This so called study was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, by Canadian Researchers, using U.S. data

Face to face interviews were conducted by “trained lay interviewers of the U.S. Census Bureau”  with an expectation of honest answers about mental illness, substance abuse, and physical and sexual abuse.

Patients do not reliably  relate this information to their health care providers (who are legally constrained to keep it private). Pharmer is therefore  100 percent certain that the census workers were not able to obtain a usable body of data using face to face interviews. Respondents are not likely to report stigmatized or socially unaccepted conditions and  experiences with the following in mind: The government wants to know if you are experiencing mental illness, or if you were abused as a child. Your ability to be licensed for certain professions, or own a means of self defense may be affected.

You may comfortably throw away any conclusions presented from this study, and  laugh at those who present it as a means to persuade parents to  never  spank their kids on the behind as a corrective measure.

Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation Survey: Docs despondent over Obamacare

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DPMA_SurveyResults.pdf (application/pdf Object).

The above linked survey is from May of 2012.  It shows 83 percent of survey respondents thinking about quitting due to Obamacare.  It also shows the highest ever numbers of docs opting out of Medicare and Medicaid.

Most significantly, 61 percent of docs are already finding it harder to adhere to the Hippocratic ethic of medicine.  (Bear in mind that some specialties would not run into as much conflict with this due to the nature of their practice.)

Results are from  a faxed survey of random doctors with a total of 699 respondents.

Specsavers’ Optometrist spots brain condition after doctor misses signs – Telegraph

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Specsavers' optician spots brain condition after doctor misses signs – Telegraph.

The UK Telegraph story linked above illustrates a couple of points: One is that the physicians are not able to spend enough time with patients to give thorough evaluations, and have lost physical examination skills. The other is that the media reporters and editors use the terms optometrist and optician, (the person who dispenses lenses for vision correction), interchangeably and apparently don’t understand the difference.

Katie Burns diagnosis was missed by her general practitioner, to the extent that she was given the generic “it must be a virus” diagnosis, and did not get a referral to a specialist. She had frequent and worsening headaches. A friend suggested that she visit an opTOMOtrist, (the guy who examines and diagnoses eye problems, and prescribes vision correction). Dr. Faheem Hassan spotted an abnormally bulging head of her optic nerve, and directed her to a hospital, where she received a lumbar puncture to relieve pressure on her brain.
Ms. Burns is said to have been suffering intracranial hypertension, and has since had procedures to install a stent to assist with “brain drainage” to relieve pressure.

Is it Time to Dump the Facebook Account?

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Facebook Bans Tennessee Mother Heather Walker for Posting Photos of Baby Born With Severe Birth Defect Anencephaly | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Grayson Walker was born with a neural tube defect at the top of his head. Consequently this left him with a bit of a froggie facial appearance and only about 8 hours of life after birth. He’s had a profound effect on other people, however, since his parents chose to share his short existence with friends and family, and on Facebook. Give it up for Grayson, who didn’t have time or capacity for self pity, and has left plenty of us feeling more grateful for our own life and health.
Message the Pharmer about your favorite social media alternatives. The Tweeter is to the right on the sidebar.
It might be time pick another venue if Facebook operators thinks little Grayson is unsuitable, while permitting countless gross and disgusting pages and profiles. Lets see whether they will rearrange their priorities.

Norovirus: Oh LOOK!!! They’re RECYCLING!!

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Case study: Norovirus spread among girls soccer team..

The Journal of Infectious Diseases carries a story about the 2010 Beaverton Bug Fest, in which a mini-epidemic of norovirus spread itself among an adolescent girls basketball team as they traveled to Seattle for a tournament. Norovirus causes gastrointestinal distress, cramping, vomiting, diarrhea and all sorts of things you want most on a road trip.

The virus was said to be spread by means of a REUSABLE grocery bag containing cookies which the girls were sharing.

No one really knows which came first: the sickness among all the girls or the ‘buggs’ on the RECYCLABLE grocery bag. But the fact that it made the news might be causing a reconsideration of the virtues of those reusable bags. The epidemiologists are suggesting bleach, which would make all bags white.

Pharmer says those plastic grocery bags from Walmart (the ones banned in San Francisco) are pretty good barf bags.