The magic of the world’s rarest blood type
Jasmin Fox-Skelly
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Only one in every six million people have the Rh null blood type. Now researchers are trying to grow it in the laboratory in the hope it could save lives.
Blood transfusions have transformed modern medicine. If we are ever unlucky enough to be injured or need serious surgery, blood that has been donated by others can be life-saving.
But not everyone is able to benefit from this remarkable procedure. People with rare blood types struggle to find donated blood that will match their own.
One of the rarest – the Rh null blood type – is found in just 50 known people in the world. Should they ever be in an accident that needs a transfusion, their chances of getting one are slim. Those with Rh null are instead encouraged to freeze their own blood for long-term storage.
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Thanks to the USAF, “APOS” might as well be tattooed on my fore head. Laugh!
Seriously, due to my now sainted wife’s terminal illness, I have donated a lot of blood and platelets.
In ingineering skrule, Brother Austin Barry would always give us time off from lab work to donate blood. His rationale was that we were too dumb to do anything useful in the lab and he would not have to worry that we were killing our selves of others in the lab. (He accidentally electrocuted himself in the lab one year, but it didn’t shock him back to sanity.)
The tin foil hat brigade has (imho rightly) pointed out that the RNA covid “vaccine” (that revised the definition of vaccine) has many side effects. They urge the unvaxed to store their own blood and the rest of us should insist on unvaxed blood for transfusions. (IMHO if I need a transfusion, I think the RNA fragments are the least of my worries!)
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First, there are currently 47 known blood groups and 366 different antigens, as of October 2024. That means that a person receiving an O negative donation could still have an immune reaction to any of the other antigens present – although some antigens provoke more of an immune response than others.
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Learning that there are so many blood groups and antigens has alerted me to inquire what my loved one’s blood characteristics are. The article warns that you may not find out that you are one of the “unlucky winners” of an “immune response”. It would seem that everyone should get this information!
This story has a very happy ending. It appears that several groups of companies and scientists are hot on the quest for a universal donor “golden” Rh null blood type artificial blood. That would obviate the need for blood which always seems to be in short or near short supply.
Until that day comes, I urge everyone to donate. I’m too old now and they don’t want “old” blood, but I would if I could. Argh!
Media clash over acetaminophen and autism: NJ families deserve answers Bill Spadea Published: September 24, 2025
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According to one of the sharpest and most respected minds in medicine, Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins, now serving as the FDA chief, there are 27 studies that in fact do show a link between the commonly used pain drug and autism rates.
Even the company itself posted on X (then Twitter) saying they do not recommend their product for pregnant women.
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Anyone questioning the elites behind big medicine and big pharma are painted as “conspiracy theorists” and dismissed. This is a real disservice to families with children with autism.
We should be questioning every vaccine, every drug, every poison in our water and food supply. We should welcome the scientific studies being promoted despite the millions that the big guys have to suppress real information that threatens their profits.
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Spadea reiterates what I first heard from Sharyl Attkisson
“Do Your Own Research. Make Up Your Own Mind. Think For Yourself.” — Sharyl Attkisson
It’s not that you have a tin foil hat; it’s because you can’t trust anything you been told!
The celebrities, politicians and bureaucrats are all speaking like “authorities” on a topic. And the inet just amplifies their ignorant propaganda.
A famous line from the inet is that “all the folks that were vaccine experts last week are now experts in ballistics”. Wish I could create a pity encapsulation of that. Best I can come up with is:
“Well, I’m not a <<<insert profession that requires a lot of study>>>, I have never played one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but here are some simple thoughts.”
I don’t pretend to be an expert in anything, but as fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income I think I have common sense.
For example:
The Amish don’t have obesity or autism. Therefore, I suspect that we don’t know <synonym for excrement> about why that is.
No office tower has ever collapsed from a fire. Therefore, I suspect that there maybe other explanations.
An intact terrorist passport is presented as evidence; how could that have survived in perfect condition. Therefore, I suspect that there is more to the story than we know.
I don’t believe in the JFK “magic bullet” theory. Therefore, I suspect a conspiracy.
The size of the Pentgon damage and the size of a plane don’t match up; the missing money evidence was destroyed and no videos? Therefore, I suspect that this is not the truth.
7 WTC had financial records evidence that was destroyed in the collapse. Therefore, I suspect that this was too convenient.
The OKC bombing destroyed all the HRC WhiteWater evidence. Therefore, I suspect that also this was too convenient.
The East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, a chemical disaster covered up by Governor Mike DeWine’s Ohio EPA and the media has “memory holed” it. Therefore, I suspect that this was a conspiracy.
The Government’s Decades-Long Cover-Up of TWA Flight 800 was eventually uncovered but no one was punished. Therefore, I suspect that this is not unique.
SSN# 042-68-4425 is used by BHO44. Therefore, I suspect he was born in Kenya.
DJT47 assassination attempt in Butler PA needs an impartial investigation; what did CNN know and when did they know it. Therefore, I suspect that this was either propaganda or a conspiracy.
Was Epstein CIA or Mossad and who killed him. Therefore, I suspect this whole story id one big conspiracy.
The “ballot dumps” in the same key states at the same time elected Biden. Therefore, I suspect a conspiracy.
And on and on and on and on.
If I had the power, I’d pick out the “little people” at the root of the event and offer them a plea deal. Just like how they roll up drug gangs, the Mafia, or bribery scandals. Keep working up the “food chain” until you get to “the truth”.
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson
EXCLUSIVE: The Greatest Lie Ever Told About Cancer | Daily Pulse
If they told the truth about cancer, Big Pharma would collapse overnight.
The Vigilant Fox Sep 26, 2025
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Richardson didn’t stop there. He drew a straight line from the opioid crisis to cancer, arguing both come from the same corrupt system—one that buries natural solutions because, as he put it, “there’s no money in the big pharma world, in this big medicine world.” Instead, drug companies push petrochemical products, many of them patented and even co-owned by Pfizer and government entities.
Then came his boldest claim: “Cancer is 100% an immune deficiency disease. Nobody has to die of cancer.” To drive the point home, he compared it to scurvy, which once killed millions of sailors until they discovered the power of citrus. “All they had to do was suck on a lemon or a lime and they would never die of scurvy.”
If scurvy existed today, he argued, regulators would deny the obvious. “The FDA would be telling us no vitamin C… we’re going to give you drugs to straighten out your bones or to tighten your teeth. And how do I know that, Maria? Because that’s what they’ve been doing with cancer, to the detriment of millions of Americans.”
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Now, I don’t know if this an “inconvenient truth” that’s only now leaking out or is he a “stopped clock” (right twice a day).
I thought his comment about scurvy and regulators was probably very spot on.
He does highlight the conflict of interest between Big Pharma (if we cure it, we don’t get a revenue stream) and the supposed “Gooferment Regulators” (who are getting “royalties” on taxpayer funded research).
To quote an old comic strip “There oughta be a law” aka (TOBAL!)
FROM A REPLY TO ONE OF MY FORWARDED MEME-FILLED EMAILS
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FJohn, do you actually believe that vaccines are a hoax?
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Well, … … … …
… … … … Just off the top of my head:
“Covid vaccines” are not what we knew as “vaccines”. Certainly not studied for “safety”.
Older “true” vaccines have a track record. But again never studied for “safety”.
Flu “vaccines” are of dubious value; I never took them. Many times I’ve heard people bitch that they took it and then got the flu. To me that’s was an “interesting factoid”, but not real “evidence”. But enough to make me skeptical.
Hep B vaxes are given to ALL babies even if their mother is NOT carrting the Hep B infection? That is at least unnecessary and maybe worse.
As far as the autism vaccine link, it’s reported that the Amish don’t get vaxed and they have zero cases of autism.
Japan doesn’t vax children until 4.
My middle age niece remarked, when discussing this, that when her boys were young vaxes were spread out over time; not bunched up at once.
Throw in that Big Pharma is legally immune from vax injury damages.
And that hospitals are incentivized to give them.
And, doctors are paid based on the percentage of their practice that are vaxed.
Recently, the Gooferment under RFKjr reported that there was linkage between autism and young black males.
The “advisory panel” for vaxes were merely a rubber stamp for Big Pharma. “Regulatory capture revolving door. They were replaced with respected people with no ties to Big Pharma. Now they are being more circumspect in their recommendation. This maybe be better, but not assured.
Again to repeat my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb) — “factoids” but not “evidence”.
I remember thalidomide when a “harmless” drug cause birth defects in mother’s GRANDCHILDREN!
So I don’t think they are a “hoax”, but they are not “innocuous”.
Hope that helps understand my thoughts about them.
Law graduate Leticia Paul dies at 22 after routine CT scan By Richard Pollina — Published Aug. 25, 2025, 3:05 a.m. ET
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A young, thriving Brazilian lawyer tragically died after suffering a severe allergic reaction during a routine CT scan.
Leticia Paul, 22, suffered an anaphylactic shock on Wednesday while undergoing a contrast-enhanced CT scan at Alto Vale Regional Hospital in Rio do Sul, according to G1.
The fatal reaction was triggered by the contrast dye injected before the scan.
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Anaphylactic shock is a sudden and life-threatening allergic reaction that can cause airway constriction, throat swelling, a sharp drop in blood pressure, and other severe symptoms, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Urgent medical care is needed to avoid fatal outcomes.
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This is so sad. No indication that anyone did anything wrong.
I guess that the treatment guidelines will need to be revised for (I assume) first time dye recipients?
LPT: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites
A relative of mine was at CVS picking up Treligy and paid a $150 copay. The lady clerk advised her to go home an check the Galaxo website for a coupon for a year’s free copay. If ok, come back with the coupon and receipt and she get a refund. When she did, she found it and the Rx was for someone not on Medicare or Medicaid, she got the coupon and got a refund.
Lesson learned: When taking a brand name med, always check the maker’s website for coupons. Only takes a few minutes and may pay off big time.
Big Insurance Uses AI to Quickly Deny Claims, One Man Fights Back with AI App That Quickly Appeals By Andy Corbley – Aug 5, 2025
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The idea that American health insurance companies are using AI to analyze and adjudicate claims for approval or denial sounds terrifying, but one North Carolinian is using AI to fight back.
When Raleigh resident Neal Shah had a claim denied for his wife’s chemotherapy drugs, he thought it was rare, that he was the only one, that it was just bad luck.
Litigating his case on phone calls that lasted for hours changed the husband and father, and he set about creating a sophisticated app that uses artificial intelligence to compare claims denial forms against health insurance contracts, before automatically drafting an appeal letter.
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they’ve built Counterforce to the point where it boasts a 70% success rate in appealing claims.
Completely free? Astonishing. Wish I had a claim to arbitrate!
(Surprised that Big Insurance hasn’t bought them out or engaged in “lawfare” against them.)
To me, “health” and “healthcare” is not just about “the care you get or don’t get for your health”, but also all the “systems” adjacent to it.
Wonder if this will inspire other efforts to enlist AI against other “insurance” abuses (i.e., raising premiums; denial of coverage; use alf drones and AI against ordinary folks; credit card appeals)?
One could apply the concept to all sorts of adversarial interactions like “eminent domain”, intrusive Gooferment actions like regulations, or “cash confiscations”.
What a great time to be a programmer with today’s opportunities.
How about AI to lobby politicians and bureaucrats to “do the right thing”?
Will Boytim’s son drowned several years ago, and his experience with the medical establishment was harrowing yet revealing and instructive — they knew nothing about the kind of treatment that would eventually save him (outside the hospital), and “organ donation” ghouls kept implying that they should just let the boy go — think of all the lives they could save!
Listening to this podcast episode was mind blowing.
Especially listen to the Czech doctor, who went along with the treatment plan, to humor the parents and figuring it couldn’t do any harm. He rewrote “the book” (i.e., the standard plan for drowning victims) based on what he saw with his own eyes.
Points that I took away:
Never EVER leave your child alone in a hospital;
You MUST be prepared to be a VOCAL “patient advocate”;
Have an organized way to keep a record of EVERYTHING that impacts you or your patient;
Be familiar with, and keep your own, SOAP <<Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan>> notes (a highly structured format for documenting the progress of a patient during treatment)
Have pre-set up an effective communications tool to keep my family and friends informed about conditions with the minimum of effort. (I recommend Caring Bridge. It’s free and puts readers in control of how they receive information. I have one for myself with two co-contributors for when I’m not able to update either.)
With the Patient, it is important to stay optimistic and positive. To a certain extent, I agree that the Universe does supply what you focus on; so NEVER let patient see anything but your “happy face”.
With everyone else, it is important to stay realistic and objective. Facts only; not opinions since you as PA are not an “expert”.
But with the Medical People (i.e., doctors; specialists; nurses; bureaucrats), you ARE the “expert” in your patient (i.e. complete history with lots of data).
As her PiA (I call it being the “patient advocate”; been called PIA), I keep all the notes, do the RXes, nd generally fuss over her like a mother hen.
Clearly in my mind, the medical establishment is NOT your benevolent friend with your or your patient s best interest at heart.
I should write up my experiences with my sainted wife’s medical struggles as I tried to be her patient advocate.
Maybe it might help all future patient advocates get ready for their mission!
US Maternal Mortality Surged More Than 27% Over 5 Years, NIH Study Reveals Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola June 10, 2025
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What Does the Latest Data Reveal About Postpartum Deaths?
The featured study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed pregnancy-related deaths in the United States from 2018 to 2022 using national birth and death certificate data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unlike many previous studies, it also examined “late maternal deaths,” which are deaths from pregnancy-related causes that occur more than 42 days and up to one year after delivery.3
• Maternal deaths increased sharply in just five years — {Extraneous Deleted}.
• Where a woman lives made a major difference — {Extraneous Deleted}
• Disparities by race and ethnicity were equally striking — {Extraneous Deleted}
• One-third of all pregnancy-related deaths occurred after six weeks — {Extraneous Deleted}
• Postpartum care often ends too early — {Extraneous Deleted}
The researchers emphasized that identifying and addressing the causes of late maternal death is essential to lowering pregnancy-related mortality in the U.S. “We cannot take our eyes off of maternal health right now,” said Dr. Rose Molina, an OB-GYN at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study. “If anything, we need to not just maintain focus, but actually increase investment in maternal health.”4
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Seems like the Medical Establishment has taken their collective eyes “off the ball”!
Moms need a longer recovery period?
I like the advice to track your own symptoms or data. Sounds like a good job for Dad’s or Grandparents to be the “Patient Advocate” in this case for the new mom and the offspring.
Individual responsibility is a little L libertarian “value”. Don’t depend on the doctors, physician assistants, nurses, or their staffs to be the only ones watching out for you and yours.
When I read the sad stories of bad things happening resulting from postpartum depression and wonder where was all of mom’s “help”?
Cancer research Brain tumour diagnosis could be made within hours, say researchers New testing method means treatments could start sooner, possibly before patient leaves the operating table Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tue 20 May 2025 19.01 EDT
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A new method for diagnosing brain tumours could cut the time patients wait for treatments by weeks to hours and raise the possibility of novel types of therapy, researchers have said.
According to the Brain Tumour Charity, about 740,000 people around the world are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year, around half of which are non-cancerous. Once a brain tumour is found, a sample is taken during surgery and cells are immediately studied under a microscope by pathologists, who can often identify the type of tumour. However, genetic testing helps to make or confirm the diagnosis.
“Almost all of the samples will go for further testing anyway. But for some of them it will be absolutely crucial, because you won’t know what you’re looking at,” said Prof Matthew Loose, a co-author of the research from the University of Nottingham.
Loose noted that in the UK there could be a lag of eight weeks or longer between surgery and the full results of genetic tests, delaying the confirmation of a diagnosis and hence treatment such as chemotherapy.
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And there are other possibilities. “If you could identify, as we think we might be able to, the specific tumour type fast enough, and drugs were available that could be administered during surgery directly to the tumour area, then you have opened up a whole new class of potential treatment options,” he said.
In addition, he said, rapid diagnoses could help ensure patients are recruited into relevant clinical trials for new treatments as quickly as possible.
Dr Matt Williams, a consultant oncologist at Imperial College healthcare NHS trust, who was not involved in the work, said while faster diagnoses were welcome and reduced the period of uncertainty for patients, the main question was how the new technology could be used to change care.
“At the moment [intra-operative treatments] don’t really exist, although several groups are working on it ,” he said. “But if [we] want to unlock these approaches, we need to be able to make those diagnoses in the operating theatre to then be able to deploy these treatments.”
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Now that’s impressive. And, it can completely change treatment and outcomes. At the very least, it can reassure the patients with slow tumors to be reassured and those with fast ones to be expedited.
And, intra-operative treatments will surely soon follow.
What’s the Real Story Behind Vaccines? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola — May 04, 2025
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The 1986 Act shields vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits, which may reduce their incentive to conduct thorough safety testing. This could influence your health decisions, encouraging you to research vaccine safety independently to protect your well-being.
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“MAY”?
Are you kidding me?
It’s apparent that “ACT” alone is responsible for BIG PHARMA’s failure to do ANY safety testing.
And the number of childhood vaccinations “required” has exploded from a few to almost 100.
Sorry, but RFK jr, for all his wild ideas, is NOT automatically wrong to point out that AUTISM rates are skyrocketing and COVID vaxes are killing us.
Time to repeal ’86 SHIELD ACT.
Let the vaccine injured have their day in court. Where’s an “Erin Brockovitch” bitching about the fate of all those harmed?
For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss
Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section
Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues
C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues
This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them
Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.
Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).
Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.
As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.
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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided. As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry. I thought it was a smack on the butt.
In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth. The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived. Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord. And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV. Laugh!
Came close twice, but no cigar. In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right. Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”. He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel. Dumb law. I was almost pooping MY pants that I might have to deliver. Labor pains were a minute intervals. But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.
Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.
I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.
How mom and dad’s quick-thinking actions helped save son’s life from rare disease By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 20:35 EST, 6 March 2025 | Updated: 20:42 EST, 6 March 2025
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The parents of a five-year-old boy from Pennsylvania are being praised for making the quick-thinking decision to return to hospital, despite being recently discharged.
Gunnar Woodring was known to be a bright and lively child until early January when his health suddenly took a terrifying turn for the worse.
Initially diagnosed with influenza, his condition rapidly deteriorated, alarming his mother, Katie Woodring.
‘I said, Gunnar, are you having a hard time breathing? And he nodded yes. And I said to my husband, I know we were just discharged, but we need to go back to the emergency room,’ Katie said.
Her maternal instincts proving to be lifesaving.
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Doctors credit Gunnar’s survival to his parents’ quick actions and their refusal to ignore their instincts.
‘Had they not recognized that this was more than just the flu, more than just a mild viral illness.
‘They knew very early on that this child was quite ill and they did what great parents do: they advocated, and they said there’s something not right, so they saved their child’s life,’ Dr. Frank Maffei, Chair of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, said.
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EVERYONE needs a Patient Advocate.
Not just a little child. The patient is not is a position to see and hear everything that’s going on.
As a PiA (Patient Advocate aka Giant Pain In The <synonym for donkey>) for my sainted wife, I keep my own chart and logs. I documented every interaction that happened in the hospital. And, I don’t take no <synonym for excrement> when the SHIF and she’s going into shock (low blood sugar) or coma (high blood sugar), I understand that the nursing staff can’t stand by 24/7, but I could. Once went 30 hours without a break during one tough interval.
I often thought I should have written a book about advocating for your patient. (Like the time I called the local Fire Department when there was an on-oxygen patient sneaking smokes in an overcrowded temporary ward in an old conference room. The Fire Chief personally thanked me after he shutdown the ER from accepting new patients. The head of the hospital wasn’t as happy when she visited my wife the day after. Like I cared. Frau asked me if I did it; I proudly said “sure did and I’d do it faster next time.” Never had the chance or need.) I found that the “head docs” never were upset or rude to me when I put in my “advice”. Their lesser team members were not as cordial. I’d seen a “head doc” have a heated hallway conversation with a “little doc” on more tha one occasion. Funny how much you can see when you are only focus on “your patient”.
I had all sorts of tricks to ingratiate myself to the staff (i.e., all ways thank and compliment the cleaning staff; box of donuts for the night nurses; never ask for a service I could do myself; never try to “help” the patient use the ladies room unless the nurse needed help). You have to strictly observe the boundaries. Remember you’re there to watch, record, and report. Not get in the way. The staff should barely know you are there. Remembering their names is easy when you write them all down.
Laugh! I could have take better notes if I had court reporter training. But I used some self-generated forms that helped a lot.
Bottom line: TL;DR. Always trust your instincts; docs and teams make mistakes.
An Australian man in his 40s lived for a record 105 days with a titanium heart before receiving a donor heart transplant March 6. Though five patients in the US had previously been implanted with BiVACOR’s Total Artificial Heart, he is the first to be discharged from the hospital with the device and has the longest survival period between implantation and transplantation.
The device uses magnetic levitation technology—like that used in high-speed trains—to suspend a single moving part, a rotor, which pumps blood through the body. An external system controls the device, adjusting blood flow based on the patient’s activity. Experts say it could be a solution for heart failure patients awaiting transplants and may become a permanent option for those ineligible for transplants due to age or other conditions, though further testing is required.
Approximately 6.7 million Americans over age 20 have heart failure, and around 4,600 heart transplants were performed in 2024. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the trial to include 15 more participants.
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Now that is a real boon to people whose heart is on its way to failure. And death.
Women with postpartum depression symptoms exhibited corresponding shifts in the size of certain brain regions, according to a study this week. The study provides the first neurological evidence of the condition’s impact, which affects as much as one in seven pregnant women worldwide.
Researchers analyzed a series of brain scans of 88 first-time mothers without a history of depression. They then compared the images to answers given in standard questionnaires used to diagnose postpartum depression. Nearly 30 women who showed moderate to severe symptoms of the condition saw enlargement of the amygdala and hippocampus, key regions of the brain that regulate emotion. Whether the enlarged anatomy causes the depression or vice versa remains unclear.
The condition has been studied for centuries, though data has stemmed from reported experiences rather than anatomical observations. Severe postpartum depression typically manifests as extreme mood swings, extended periods of sadness, and loss of sleep, and its severity distinguishes it from milder, more common “baby blues.”
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So this is another finding that it’s “not in your head” psychosomatic craziness. It’s a real demonstrable physical symptom.
Do we have to revisit all the baby killings by moms with baby blues?
Actually, that’s easy. This is how I paid a lot less.
By Joel Stein Feb. 20, 2025 10:25 am ET
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As you probably recall, I had a mole removed about a year ago. As fresh as this is in all of our memories, a year is a fair bit of time, so I was surprised to get a bill in the mail for $604.80 from a company called DermTech. Apparently, much like wedding gifts, you have a year to send someone a medical bill.
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A friend of mine, who is retired and better off than me, has a different strategy. He calls and asks for a payment plan. He offers 5$/month since that’s “all his budget allows”. Each month he mails 5$ paper checks by US mail. Sometimes people call and say don’t bother since processing the checks costs them more than 5$. I don’t understand that but it seems to work for him.
My only experience with “delayed billing” was with a hospital bill for my sainted wife’s last hospital stay that was about TWO YEARS prior. It was bill for about 1½ M dollars. That certainly made my eyes water. Talking to them yielded that someone forgot to send it to the insurance company and I should submit it to my insurance company.
Instead, I called my lawyer. His firm was conflicted out because they represent the hospital. He recommended any local lawyer could take care of this with one letter. Found one with an office near my home. One visit. TWO LETTERS required.
First one to the hospital asking for their agreement with the insurance company. After a two week delay, he sent a SECOND LETTER to the hospital that their agreement with the insurance company required all bills to be submitted within 180 days and, if not, were deemed “closed”. A month later he got a letter saying basically “You’re right. Have a nice day”. Cost me about $400. Slightly better than 1½ M$!
At no extra charge, the local lawyer pointed out that the hospital wouldn’t want to make an issue out of it since the contract with the hospital applied to all hospital bills even if the patient was not insured or insured with some other insurance company. I can understand why they don’t want that to become common knowledge. Wonder if the hospital’s lawyers cleaned up their contracts?
BREAKING–First-in-Man Oral Proteolytic and Thrombolytic Dissolution of Intra-Arterial COVID-19 Vaccine Thrombi
Complex Blend of Oral Enzymes and Natural Ingredients Clears Brain Fog and Removes Impending Stroke Risk in Heavily Vaccinated Patient
Feb 24, 2025 By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
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While McCullough Protocol Base Spike Protein Detoxification with Ultimate Spike Detox has quickly grown to a global standard for managing long-COVID and complications after COVID-19 vaccination, at the McCullough Foundation we continue to seek innovative solutions to more rapidly and completely manage the health problems brought on by the pandemic.
In this breaking interview, Dr. Takuji Shirasawa from the Ochanomizu Health and Longevity Clinic describes a 60-year old Japanese man who took 4 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and presented with a loss of mental clarity otherwise known as “brain fog.” Shirasawa used MR angiography to demonstrate sessile bilateral arterial thrombi in the carotid bulbs. His hypothesis was that mini-blood clots may be responsible for the neurological and cognitive symptoms.
Shirasawa performed a N-of-1 trial giving the patient a complex blend of oral proteolytic and thrombolytic enzymes featuring nattokinase, bromelain, serrapeptase, and papain adding over a dozen natural ingredients given in proprietary blends from Texas based Phytomedic Labs. The patient was also administered aspirin 100 mg per day.
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This certainly good news. It proves that “brain fog” really does exist by MR angiography. So anyone who says the symptoms are all in your head is correct but not in the way they mean it (i.e., psychosomatic).
I was also fascinated by the term of art “N-of-1 trial” that I never heard of.
An N of 1 trial (N=1) is a multiple crossover clinical trial, conducted in a single patient.[1] A trial in which random allocation is used to determine the order in which an experimental and a control intervention are given to a single patient is an N of 1 randomized controlled trial. Some N of 1 trials involve randomized assignment and blinding, but the order of experimental and control interventions can also be fixed by the researcher.[2]
This type of study has enabled practitioners to achieve experimental progress without the work of designing a group comparison study. This design, especially if including blinding and wash-out periods, can be effective in confirming causality. N-of-1 trials, if used in clinical practice to inform therapeutic decisions concerned with the patient participating in the trial, can be a source of evidence about individual treatment responses, fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine.[3][4]
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Never heard that before. Heard of “case reports” as anecdotal evidence. But those were always dismissed as “unscientific”.
As always, this is just hearsay until it happens to you or a loved one.
Nice to know such a treatment exists and appears to work.
Five Signs the COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign was Off the Rails from the Start Dr. McCullough with Dean Boffa on the Prometheus Project Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH Jan 18, 2025
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I appeared on the Prometheus Project with Professor Dean Boffa and gave some indicators that should have told us all, particularly doctors and nurses that the program was off the rails from the start:
Novel genetic mechanism of action (Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen, AstraZeneca) producing the dangerous and potentially lethal Wuhan Spike protein for an uncontrolled quantity and duration of time, meaning there was no understanding of the pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics of mRNA or Spike protein
Flawed short term trials in low-risk patients without hospitalization and death as the primary endpoint and no short term signal that vaccination reduced these important outcomes
Public administration to women of childbearing potential and pregnant mothers
Substantial encouragement and later mandates to administer over and over again to COVID-19 recovered patients with natural immunity—no matter when and how many times SARS-CoV-2 infection occurred
Failure to perform, frequent, regular, and independent data safety monitoring which should have led to very early termination of the COVID-19 vaccine campaign
Dean Boffa is a professor in the Political Science department at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, who has demonstrated great courage in the face of Canadian authoritarian censorship.
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I was skeptical when they did everything so quickly. Usually drug trials literally take years; this was weeks.
I was more skeptical when young men started dropping dead from “heart attacks”. Prior to this insanity, I could only remember one Maryland basketball player who had a hidden heart defect.
I became insane about it when I found that hospitals got big bucks for coding people as dying from Covid. Especially the poor soul who died in a motorcycle accident who was coded as “Covid” so the hospital could cash in.
After that, anything that was “reported”, I immediately categorized as “Barbara Streisand” aka Bull <synonym for excrement>.
“I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.
What Makes Hospitals So Deadly and How Can We Fix It? Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor
December 13, 2024
Throughout COVID-19, abysmal hospital care and the suppression of effective off-patent therapies killed approximately a million Americans. Much of this originated from Obamacare pressuring hospitals to aggressively treat patients so they could quickly leave the hospital and reduce health care costs
More frail patients respond poorly to aggressive protocols, resulting in them frequently being pushed into palliative care or hospice. Sadly doctors are no longer trained to gradually bring their patients back to health, and hence view many of those deaths as inevitable
During COVID-19, hospitals enforced rigid protocols centered around remdesivir and ventilators while denying alternative treatments, even in cases where patients were likely to die — in one striking example, patients who received court-ordered ivermectin had a 95% survival rate compared to just 5% for those denied it
Current medical training emphasizes following standardized protocols rather than practicing individualized medicine, with younger doctors being trained to execute procedures rather than critically examine cases and adjust treatment plans for each patient
In this article, we will review some of the forgotten medical therapies that dramatically improve hospital outcomes and highlight some of the key strategies patients and lawmakers can use to reduce hospital deaths
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During COVID-19, we witnessed something previously unimaginable. A national emergency hospitalized thousands of Americans, where they were cut off from their loved ones and inevitably died. It soon became clear that the hospital protocols did not work, but regardless of how futile conventional care was, patients in our hospitals could not get the alternative therapies they needed.
This led to a sobering realization throughout America — what many of us believed about our hospitals was utterly incorrect. Rather than help patients, hospitals effectively functioned like assembly lines that ran disastrous protocols (e.g., remdesivir), denied patients access to their loved ones and refused to use alternative therapies even when it was known the patients were otherwise expected to die.
This was best illustrated by a travel nurse who was assigned to the New York hospital with the highest death tolls in the nation and realized something very wrong was happening throughout the hospital so she covertly recorded it:
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It’s hard to imagine that a system that is based on “first do no harm” can deliver such an abominable result.
A plague on all their houses,
Clearly, the system needs to dismantled and reassembled.
And, some trials and tribunals to assess blame and punishment.
lewrockwell.com Clinicians Should Lead in Improving Healthcare, by Sharing Big Data By James Anthony January 3, 2025
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Clinicians’ future practice will use big data, instantly.
A clinician will start with a profile of what’s already known about his customer’s genetics, health history, and lifestyle. He will add his current observations. He will then query to find out, for customers who match his customer either closely or closely enough, what outcomes all other clinicians have seen using their own best practices, from as far back as has been recorded to as recently as has been added.
He will consider what interventions will be his best practice for his customer right now—maybe trying a lower dose that might lessen side effects, maybe trying a higher dose that might increase efficacy. He will add these interventions to his customer’s profile.
Later, if he learns anything more about this intervention’s safety or efficacy, he will add this information to that profile.
Unlike in current practice, in future practice all releasable information that’s known about all customers will be collected, shared, pooled, interpreted, and used to guide the next interventions by the next clinicians everywhere.
The resulting model of customers’ responses won’t be biased by only collecting information about unrepresentative groups of customers and adequate dosing regimens. Instead, the model of all the world’s customers will be all the world’s customers. Also, dosing regimens will be as closely tailored as producers make available to support.
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Ideally this should be happening now. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), will the current cast of “rent seekers”, grifters, monopolists, oligarchs,politicians and bureaucrats allow this to happen?
An effective and efficient model would squeeze the parasites out of their current “gravy train” cash flow. After all, if a healthcare professional can see what works best for their patient, then the cost of trial and error to find out is eliminated. Think of all the redundant and excessive testing that is done now to avoid and defend against malpractice suits. And where there is “malpractice”, then there would be a road map as to why it is demonstrable.
Again, I see the problem getting to this future is all the entrenched parasites.
The single biggest wasteful spending inside and outside governments is on healthcare. To make healthcare efficient and innovative, customers need usable healthcare-product descriptions.
By James Anthony December 11, 2024
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Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency plan is to cancel major regulations, reduce headcounts, and defund inadequately-authorized expenditures and waste, but not to shrink entitlement programs.
This plan would require legislators to stop using the executive power to allocate budgets, presidents and bureaucrats to stop using legislative power to pass rules, and judges to start opining quickly and broadly against presidents and bureaucrats.
Congressmen, presidents and bureaucrats, and judges have other plans.
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Also, the rules would need to make healthcare product descriptions sufficiently simple and clear that customers could use these descriptions to make their best choices when they shop:
A fee for office work could be like a lawyer’s rate for office work. A fee for surgery could be like a lawyer’s rate for courtroom work.
Test instructions could be transmissible to testing producers. Also, testing producers could list their pricing.
Therapy recommendations could be readable by customers. The recommendation on a drug, for instance, could provide all the information that would be needed to shop for the drug if it was available over-the-counter.
Procedures could have full packages of features built in, like auto models have. Foreseeable complications could be priced separately, and a worst-case total not exceeded.
Quality could be quantified. Procedure sellers could use their past rates of complications to calculate their customers’ average cost for complications.
Customers could then compare procedure sellers’ total price plus complications, like customers compare product sellers’ total price plus shipping.
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I especially like my fiancé’s pharmacy experience overseas. She walks into the Phamacia and says I want X. The pharmacist says here it is or “I don’t have it but I do have Y”. And for pocket change, she has all she needs. Of course, she knew what she needed. But she could have consulted a hotel doctor, or got a list from the Embassy.
But on a transaction basis, it was quick, easy, and cheap. Of course, “illegal drugs” would be clean, exact, and cheaper than the street deals.
All the money in “prohibition” could be put to “rehabilitation” for those that want it. Like Portugal.
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare By Sally Pipes Wednesday, 17 July 2024 02:43 PM EDT
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Last year, an average of 268 British patients died each week as a result of hospital admission delays in the nation’s emergency rooms, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
In England, the number of patients awaiting treatment referrals rose to 7.6 million as of the end of April.
That’s roughly 13% of its entire population.
There’s no shortage of lamentation from British officials about the rising death tolls and growing wait lists endemic to the NHS.
Britain’s new Health Secretary, the Labour Party’s Wes Streeting, even made headlines this week by declaring that “From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken.”
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All of this tumult in Britain should give Americans pause the next time leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., celebrate the virtues of government-dominated health care.
Just last year, Sanders implored Britons: “Do not look at the American model. Please do not. Build on what you have, improve what you have.”
Britain has tried that for decades, with only worsening results.
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American observers take note: Socialized medicine is no dream. It’s a nightmare — and one from which Britain has been unable to awake.
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Hard to imagine that people aren’t dying while waiting for treatment. Seems like “socialized medicine” always has this problem.
Not withstanding Senator Sanders advice, I’d suggest privatizing the whole mess. Real Privatization.
Not like Medicaid, not like Medicare, not like the Veterans Administration healthcare, or not like the Indian Healthcare system.
Go back to the early insurance model, where the recipient must pay and be reimbursed. If they are poor, then the Gooferment can “insure” them but they only pay a small percentage. Same for catastrophic health expenses, pay a percentage. No need for medical bill bankruptcy.
By everyone paying something, I bet enough fraud would be eliminated to pay for the whole thing. (I remember that ½ of all Medicare expense in South Florida was fraudulent. By having a percentage to pay, we can turn all the senior citizens into medical auditors. Ever seen old folks splitting a check at an early bird dinner?)
If you thing the US system is “bad”, then look into the UK’s NHS and its problems.
How Do We Navigate Uncertainty In These Perilous Times?
Investigating the Mysteries of the mRNA Vaccines
A Midwestern Doctor — Jan 5, 2024
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One of the great challenges in life is that many of the dilemmas we face have no clear cut answer, and frequently, diametrically opposed solutions to those dilemmas emerge which are both arguably correct but also arguably incorrect.
For instance, I know of more cases than I can count of someone “trusting” someone else they thought they had every reason to trust then get taken advantage of by that individual. Conversely, I know many people who have have been scammed in the past and are hence so distrustful they close the door to immensely beneficial opportunities that periodically come their way and greatly set themselves back in life by doing so.
Much of my life has revolved around a fascination over what constitutes “the truth,” and in this, I find a similar issue emerges. If you are too trusting of the sources you come across, you will inevitably come to believe falsehoods, whereas if you are too skeptical of the sources you encounter, you will inevitably fail to recognize critical truths.
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Ultimately, there is no correct solution to this dilemma, as no matter how hard you try to calibrate yourself, you will either be too skeptical or too trusting of some of the information you come across. This in turn has led many to adopt the wise words “trust, but verify.”
My own solution to all of this has essentially been to do both. A third of my mind entertains and considers a lot of ideas which are quite out there, another third of my mind sees reason after reason to doubt everything I come across (and effectively debates those ideas with the first third of my mind), while the final third acts like a “judge” and tries to weigh which side is more correct.
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I have grown more cynical over the last decade than ever before in my life. I remember hearing that “FDR knew about the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened” from my maternal uncles and again by several of the Christina Brothers that taught me in grammar school who were vets. I never thought much about that fact and how that assertion differed from the common “knowledge”. How stupid was I? Later when I read Robert Stinnett’s book Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. I re;ized that what teyhy told me was true. Decades later, I know wonder how much else I “learned” was not true either. Go down the list of Conspiracy Theories and be amazed at how many were really true. The Federal Reserve System enables the Gooferment spend on “guns and butter”. The Gulf of Tonkin attack on American ships. The Japanese American’s internment. The slaughter of the buffalos and the American Indians. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. The Covid pandemic. The Military Industrial Complex’s forever wars. Big Pharma and reulgatory capture. The FDA, CDC, and the Medical Establishment. And, on and on.
There’s a joke that goes around social media that “I Need New Conspiracy Theories All My Old Ones Came True”. Unfortunately, that is NOT a joke.
Long complicated read, BUT maybe the “smoking gun” as to how the Jab is killing and maining people. I found it “interesting”. I’m not a doctor but as fat old white guy injineer I found it completely plausible within my experience and whatever expertise I have collected over the years.
The Truth Regarding Health Care By Keith R. Jackson, M.D.
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There already exist many programs for the poor and uninsured. These could be streamlined and sensibly expanded. What would classify as a necessary addition to the equation would be possible assistance with deductibles and expansion of catastrophic insurance policies for the rest of us. Improving the portability of Health Savings Accounts, making them easier to understand and obtain, would address the former. A creative solution merging government assistance with HSAs and catastrophic insurance policies could go a long way toward appeasing both sides, even though they would scream that this “solution” is wrong. One avenue for saving is the cost of administration of the health care dollar. Private insurers’ administrative costs are surprisingly much higher than the government’s. There must be a “happy medium” there, with less bureaucracy in the former and more effective administration in the latter.
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I think you can look at ANY Gooferment program and see a disaster.
As a first step, the current deductibility problem (i.e., healthcare expense is deductible to employers but not employees) has to be SOLVED.
Then let that work itself out by removing the Gooferment from the “health care system”.
How Fully Private, No-Insurance Hospitals Help the Common Man 04/14/2022 Daniel Diefenbach
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How does one make an economic decision when the price of a good is not evident? To any adherent of the Austrian school, this of course is impossible. There is no way to decide whether to purchase something if the only way of knowing the price is after committing. For example, who would fill up their car only to see what the price was at the end? No one. In no aspect of life would this make sense, yet it is the standard in the American healthcare system.
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In June 2021, the Mises Institute held the Medical Freedom Summit in Salem, New Hampshire, and one of the speakers was Dr. G. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, an institution that is truly free market and receives no money from the federal government. He spoke of the successes of his business and of the simple model he and Dr. Steve Lantier established in 1997. Smith describes their first patient experience as follows:
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He later told the story of a Georgia man who was quoted $40,000 for his surgery at home. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma quoted him $4,000. Upset at having lost a patient to them already, the man’s hometown surgeon decided to match the price. The patient told Dr. Smith that the Surgery Center of Oklahoma “had saved him $36,000 and … hadn’t even performed his surgery.”
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Once again we learn that the Gooferment has really really messed up “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else like our lives.
Just separate “health insurance” from employment by making health insurance premiums deductible from the top line, just as it is for businesses, and level the playing field.
After all you don’t lose your car insurance when you change jobs. Why should health insurance be any different?
Sometimes it can take years for serious side-effects to be recognized, so rather than just covering up symptoms with drugs, we should treat the underlying cause with lifestyle changes whenever possible.
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A reason why the FDA should be an ADVISORY agency. That is, award the FDA “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval to those drug candidates that follow their regime.
Other drugs, not following their process, would be “Doctor and Buyer Beware”. But as we see from this example, and many others, ALL drugs are “Buyer Beware”.
Maybe the ability to sue should be differentiated by “FDA approved” and “non-FDA approved” in some way.
In any event, it’s time to have the separation of Gooferment and Medicine.
Maybe the AMA’s monopoly on Doctors should be eliminated also.
If we trust a “shade tree mechanic” with our cars, then maybe we can trust out lives to a “Nurse Practitioner”? Wait a minute, wait a minute, when I go to the “Doctor’s Office” sometimes the only people I see are the receptionist, the Nurse, and the Nurse Practitioner. Is the doctor even in the building or out playing golf?
Hmmm, seems like there’s a lot of streamlining needed. No wonder costs are out of control.
FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
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