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	Newsletter  Feb. 2009 "As Your health knowledge increases, your level of medical care increases dramatically ..... you'll recognize better treatment when you get it."    Dr. Graham www.healthcare-toolbox.com  Newsletter Feb. 2009   Issue 106 You're receiving this newsletter because you signed up to learn new strategies and tactics you can use to obtain top health care anywhere, anytime, from any physician or provider. ************************************************** Dr. Graham here to open your thoughts up to medical and health care factors which I hope you'll take serious enough to implement them into your future medical care. You may have noticed continued media coverage of deadly hospital infections, killer contamination issues in the food industry, and other risks to your health.  That's my topic for today. My agenda today: 1. Comments about risk of infection. 2. Article about hospital risks for patients. 3. What's coming. 4. Medical tips and bits. 5. Medical Information Resources. 6. Feedback comments. 1. Comments: Your risk of infection is everywhere, whether you breath in air someone coughed out in a store or grab the door handle on the public toilet.  If you're healthy, your immune system attacks the "bugs" and destroys them before they cause you symptoms or harm. However, patients in a hospitals are already in varying stages of compromises of their health, thus making them reportedly more susceptible to infection.  Then, if the health providers in the hospital are failing to do the appropriate things to stem risks of infection, it's another matter----which I will discussed below. 2. Article: "How to protect yourself from infection in a world of hyper-speed." You're already doing it. You just have to improve your methods, knowledge and tactics of prevention without having to live in a bubble.  There are several primary factors which raise your risk of infection you need to understand and implement whether you are on the street, in your home, or in a hospital: Forgetfulness Exposure Vigilance Reaction-time Forgetfulness includes forgetting to bathe often enough, not brushing your teeth regularly, not caring for simple cuts and injuries that seem trivial. What you're doing is inviting bacteria, viruses, and fungi into your body and hoping your immune system isn't having a bad hair day. Billions of potentially harmful bacteria are living inside your body as well as on your outside skin just waiting for you to open up a door for them to cause trouble.  The body immune system seems to hold all those trouble makers at bay as long as you are vigilant. When you go overboard exposing yourself intentionally or unintentionally to injury, you will increase the risk of infection.  By tramping through a briar patch you will get scratches unless you go around.  Working on an assembly line you might forget to wear gloves.  Don't go ahead and eat contaminated food thinking it won't affect you.  Common sense teaches you to be aware of what can harm you, and then avoid the circumstance.  Distractions cause a vigilant person to lose their focus on preventing injury.  The curb might be higher than you thought, and trip.  The potato salad has been sitting on the open picnic table all day in the hot sun, but you paid no attention to that. Reaction time to any injury should be as fast as possible.  The gash on your arm should be washed and cleaned as soon as you can.  The length of time between the injury and the treatment, if prolonged, is the perfect opportunity for bacteria to crawl into the deep wound and be more than the immune system can handle.  Infection is the result. Hospital infections--a whole different story! Most hospitalized patients expect to be taken care-of and assume little responsibility for their own care.  And that's a problem.  The big problem hospitals face is making ends meet financially.  You may be aware that well over a hundred hospitals have closed their doors permanently in the past 10 years in the USA.  All because of not having the funds to make it work.  The borderline bankrupt hospitals are pushed into hiring less qualified nurses and employees at less salaries to keep in business. Less qualified employees are not trained as well, lack motivation to do all that needs to be done, and patients are neglected.  To save money even the large hospitals, even university hospitals, do the same thing.  Pay less, stretch job tasks, cut benefits, and expect more from employees are a few of the issues which reflect directly on good patient care.  Years ago a nurse was assigned to care for 3 or 4 patients on a shift.  Now nurses are expected to care for 8 to 10 patients on an 8 hour shift--and often a 12 hour shift recently.  If the nurse has to move faster to attend to the 10 patients, oversight and neglect will happen.  This possibility becomes real when you notice it takes 45 minutes before someone responds to your pushing the "call button." With all this counterproductive rumbling in the background, isn't it logical that there are more hospital infections occurring?  And doesn't it tell you it's necessary to power up your own defensive actions?  Start being very attentive to what is being done for your care.  Are you surgical dressings left on too long before changing them?  When was the last time your bed sheets were changed?        Did you get the correct medication an hour ago?  Has your doctor neglected to examine or see you today--doctor's forget too.  Since the younger generation doesn't know what a work ethic means, you are left to manage a lot of your care yourself. It gets down to this healthcare strategy: Keep questioning everything done for you in a hospital. When something seems wrong to you, summon the nurse immediately--no pampering them. If a strange doctor shows up, make him explain who he/she is and why they are here before you let them touch your treatment or care. Insist on explanations for everything being done to you.  X-ray.....why? You have the right to refuse treatment if you believe its wrong or inappropriate. You have the right to ask for a second opinion and consultation from another doctor. Don't be intimidated by anyone.  Who cares what they think? Be as congenial as you can to the nurses and your time in the hospital will be safer and much more pleasant.  Being nasty to nurses is a bad mistake. A responsible nurse will apologize to you for her/his mistakes. If you can hold to these rules which protect you from infection risks, you will go home a happier person. Also remember, infections occur in spite of all the above protective actions which happen from unknown causes.  Such things as prolonged surgical cases, personal low immunity status, complications of medication or procedures, and body reactions to treatments are a few examples of unexpected causes of infections which can occur as a result. Infection is not considered a result of an allergy. Hospital infections are almost all bacterial in nature, and so can respond to antibiotics--the right kind, the right dose, and the right length of time used. **************************** 3. Coming Up: Medical articles about: * Best ways to get more time with the doctor. * Office extras you need to ask for. * How to handle your consultation. * How to judge the quality of your physician. * A patient's obligations. * A doctor's obligations. * Why medications don't work. * How to decide about having surgery done. * Resolving Infertility.   Notice: My two new cutting-edge ebooks now available: 1. Hushed-Up Weight Loss Secrets--after struggling with obesity all my life it seems critical to let patients know the real truth about weight loss, diet books, weight loss programs, and much more---direct from the horses mouth. Click Here NOW. 2. Healthcare Secrets Revealed--Finally!---Dealing with healthcare system problems and resolutions, how and why physicians do what they do, strategies for getting your doctor to do what you want, how to communicate with your doctor in an effective way, and much more. Click Here NOW. ***************************** 4. Medical Tips and Interesting Bits: Tired of wearing earphones that hurt your ears?  On www.gearlog.com you will find Audio Bone Headphones.  They pass sound to the inside by vibrating your skull. $189. What has long been suspected by pregnant mothers has now been proven. Study shows that even 2 and 3 day old babies recognize music patterns and can keep beat with music.  Brain scan patterns are the same as an adult listening to the same music.  National Academy of Sciences Proceedings.   New theory--Cancer metastasis occurs because cancer cells attach to white blood cells and travel the body over.  If true then making a drug which breaks off this attachment would prevent cancer spreading.  Scientific American, Jan.2009 ***************************** 5. Healthcare and Medical Resources: MedInfo Healthfinder Med Help International Health Education Library All Health AllAboutBlackHealth Be MedWise eMedTV Enhancement,Inc. Health-Medical Info. HealthScout NetHealth Online PreOp.com Seek Wellness Think Like a Doctor Wired For Health   6. Feedback: OK everyone, let's hear it! May your abundance increase, Curt Graham, M.D. Physician, author, speaker, copywriter, marketer. 2404 Mason Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89102 http://www.healthcare-toolbox.com http://www.hushed-upweightlosssecrets.com  http://www.healthcaresecretsrevealed-finally.com  http://www.marketingamedicalpractice.com http://www.online-homebasedbusiness.com Email = drcurt71(at)gmail.com   Curt Graham, M.D., L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc. 2404 Mason Ave.  Las Vegas, NV 89102 E-mail = drcurt71(at)gmail.com       © 2008 Copyright Curtis Graham, M.D., L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc.   All Rights Reserved. Policies-Disclaimers  / Links Page
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