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Agents: Sanctioned for Safety & Cost.
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(When you surrender to the authority of others.)
With increasing population size and density, political organization must come in order to reduce anarchy, encourage group effort, and respect the freedoms of individuals while requiring self responsibility towards others. Avoiding and reducing these values results in confusion, frustration, conflict, waste (even more), and, selfishness. Yet, the downside of this imposed orderliness, restraint, predictability, and lawfulness is bureaucratization, sanctioned authority, and, subjugation. In the medical and healthcare fields we are taught to respect the principles chosen by our leaders who often organized by reaction to failings and losses. Principles and rules were mandated, sometimes as laws, regarding the activities and responsibilities of medical personnel such that the government officers setting the rules would pass on the responsibilities set out in those limitations to the provider healthcare workers. That is, doctors are not to physically or emotionally abuse their patients, are to assist those patients in maintaining or recovering their health ... within the financial restrictions set by political overlords who have no medical training or experience.
In Canada, and other countries and states where BASIC healthcare is provided as a universal citizen right, sometimes for a minimum membership fee, the provincial healthcare institution is totally funded by the provincial government budget. Politicians decide the amount of the budget. Politicians are focused on being re-elected. They believe that smaller budgets, more than effective healthcare, will get them re-elected easier than public harassment from their political rivals. Within the Canadian system, in the beginning of the confederacy there was a recognition that the political leaders were ignorant about what they were choosing to control. Many professional groups were organized into associations of members much like an extended brotherhood and apprenticeship. The associations encouraged member skill development and recognition and sought to restrict the participation of independent professionals in the field who wished to work without such restraints and socializing.
Politics: The Funding & Limits of Healthcare.
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(And you thought it was Free!)
Once a bureaucracy is established, little changes.
In over 150 years in Canada, the same basic political organization of the healthcare field exists as in the beginning.
Dentists can only treat and advise on matters of the oral cavity, and, physicians can only advise on and treat all the other parts of the body. The fact that we have known that these two physical areas work intently together and influence the overall health of the individual for over 100 years is excluded from consideration. The fact that many scientific findings have constantly indicated that other than medical treatment and diagnostic modalities are often MORE effective than a medical focus on health is constantly restrained and denied by and placed into inertia by a political system beholden to medical associations intent on providing career protection to their membership before service to their clients. Doctors are trained, imprinted, brainwashed into this belief that they are, and should be, the health gods of the society free of doubt and question by their patients, or anyone else. If health failure happens, the scapegoat must be the patient. After all, doctors don't make mistakes, or at least are not politically allowed to take that responsibility.
The cost of all of this unrestrained orderliness and authority, in North America, is that the patient receives what they deserve: the minimum. If you are only going to elect your political representatives on the basis of how LOW your taxes are going to be in covering the cost of your healthcare, you are only going to receive the minimum in terms of services that can be sustained without revolt. That translates into longer wait times for surgeries, shorter appointment times, more superstition than diagnostics because superstition is faster and cheaper, and, a greater reliance by doctors on bureaucracy and association supported pseudo-science. So, after interviewing the patient for less than 10 minutes on a significant and potentially longer-term health problem, the doctor is encouraged, by the system that employs and restricts them, to GUESS, on the basis of ONE symptom which prescription (DRUG) might be best to allay the concern, problem, symptom. If you have further concerns and proffer other ideas from alternative research, the doctor will have association sponsored pseudo science resources to refer to which will eloquently debunk any options unsupported by the pharmaceutical industry.
We have a confusing and difficult dynamic of which most patients have no understanding together with a mass media and socially imprinted image that we ARE receiving the Best healthcare possible for very little out-of-pocket expense. The reality is that almost 50% of our tax dollars often goes to fund the MEDICAL industry, which is supported by a pharmaceutical industry, which also financially restrains scientific publication and research in North America ... unlike science in the rest of the world. For many decades, possibly continuing, North American dental journals were prohibited, by way of the publishers and their editors, from printing any research critical of the use of dental amalgam (mercury-silver) fillings and their known health dangers. Publish and you lose your advertising. Lose your advertising and you go out of business. The dental college professors reference the journals to their students, and teach the scientific lies as facts .. while the European political structures pass LAWS against the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings. This is but one of many possible examples. The result: you receive authoritative healthcare solutions guaranteed to make you MORE ill.
When a system is governed by Power and Money, integrity and truth are lost.
Truth demands responsibility and when your job relies upon following orders and believing that you and your self-imprinting sacrifices are a GIFT to your patients ... responsibility is in the hands of Others. Your medical job garners Respect, Money, Career Security, and Calm Routine. Would you give that up and endanger your intimate and social lives for a likely unhappy, disenchanted patient population who have been brainwashed their entire lives to worship their leaders and doctors? So don't expect your doctor to work outside the system and risk occupational banishment and public ridicule from others who are jealous of their Freedom and Integrity.
Profile: Meditech EHR (Electronic Health Report).
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https://www.meditechonline.com/
(Big Parent is judging.)
Meditech was incorporated in 1999 with the vision of work in Health Care back office services that include Medical Transcription Services & Medical Record Sorting Services. MEDITECH entered the Canadian HIT market at a time when many hospitals were starting out with an electronic laboratory application. Thirty-five years later, MEDITECH has 41% of the acute care Canadian market share and is celebrating over three decades of providing fully-integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to hospitals and health authorities across the country. MEDITECH is Canada's leading EHR supplier for multi-site, regional solutions, which has united communities and fostered patient data sharing across vast expanses. MEDITECH has over 50 LIVE regional installations, comprised of over 500 inpatient facilities. This is how services promote their products to the public and the politicians. This may be the INTENT, but what is the REALITY.
Meditech is a USA company with head office in the state of Massachusetts.
Its Customer Service agents are very direct about their responsibilities to the patients whose medical and personal evaluations institutions add into their electronic records and share privately behind the scenes between doctors, across Canada's multiple provincial healthcare bureaucracies and across the many USA state organizations ... they have NO responsibility. It is the choices, principles and actions of the end users, the governments involved, as to how the data is recorded, confirmed, reviewed, updated, and kept secret from the patients, including YOU.
In late 2003, I suddenly acquired a debilitating illness which quickly stopped me from doing any work, earning any income, and making it difficult for me to stay alive. The doctor available to me was at a small local clinic in the town I had recently moved to in the southern part of the Province of British Columbia. With no tests and a passing glance at one or two symptoms of the many I was experiencing, the only options provided to me were the taking of over-the-counter medications, or, experimenting ("Let's try this") with prescription drugs. I was very good at assisting others resolve life and health issues through the Balancing Therapy I had founded. I had been through a number of earlier significant health difficulties (3 severe whiplashes, a severe lower back injury, multiple hypersensitivities, acute allergies) ALL of which the doctor experts available to me had offered that I would NEVER recover from and they had nothing but addictive palliative pharmaceuticals. I fully recovered from ALL of these. I was now confident that this would be understood, dealt with, and would pass also.
A year and a half later with much research done, many therapeutic options utilized on payment from personal savings, and the removal of leaking mercury dental amalgams, detoxing toxic metals, and taking 30 chelation treatments ... recovery was almost non-existent. Due to the dynamics of the provincial medical system, I was still without access to a Family Physician. Such had to be taking on new patients and be in the placement region I lived in, or, as I was doing now, one saw a doctor at the nearest hospital Emergency Department. The doctor I could see ex-hospital proved of little diagnostic help. General tests were run which all proved I was "healthy." Guesses he made were never followed up on to rule out. After more months of research, I finally found a possibility: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known then as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After aggressively demanding that I be referred to a specialist for some benefit, this doctor grudgingly opened the door to the (only) specialist in the province who worked on these cases. The office of the specialist was a 5-1/2 hour drive away in the city of Vancouver.
A few weeks later, an "emergency" appointment for each of myself and my wife (she had also contracted a similar debilitating illness about the same time) was attended. First, we completed an intensive questionnaire which appeared to be more focused on mental health and symptoms of depression. Secondly, I had a 20 minute maximum interview in which I detailed my symptoms and the research findings I had gathered. The quick and no test result findings was that the symptoms I had been coping with had been constant for over 1-1/2 years. His conclusion: I would almost certainly NEVER recover, I would be best to ACCEPT my disability, apply for government disability retirement, take herbals (the ones I had already found useless for me, and, "try" pharmaceutical drugs for which he had NO supporting research or rationale. By my studies, awareness, and therapies already taken (my Risks and money) I was obviously, to him, more open to Alternative Healthcare options than to Medical drugs. End of appointment.
Checking back with the office of the Specialist several weeks later, I learned that the doctor had NEVER reviewed my questionnaire results. A "Doctor's Report" was being forwarded to my Emergency Department doctor. A week or more later, I met with that doctor. His response was that the specialist had indicated that he had little new to offer and that was it for the medical approach. Early in my search for understanding of this complex illness I had come across an online response from an American patient. She noted that she had maintained a Personal copy of all the medical test results that had been run for her. She had the option of going to more than one doctor and obtaining more than one assessment about any health ills she experienced. Scientifically, to me, that sounded like an assertive and constructive approach. So, I began collecting and compiling my results. I asked for a copy of the test results from the receptionist at the ER doctor's practice. Amongst the papers was a copy of a letter of assessment from the Vancouver specialist, in detail.
According to the Vancouver and provincial specialist, I was a patient who NEVER took drugs, was adverse to trying-experimenting with drugs, was depressed, was unlikely to ever recover from my symptoms, was overly distracted with quack alternative therapies, and, was thankful for the referral (perhaps because it brought him more government income and raised his specialist status). I kept a copy of the letter, and with hope, wrote to the specialist. I requested that he CORRECT his assessment to note that I had, on record, the fact that I had taken pharmaceutical drugs previously, and even recently. It would have been unhealthy for me not to be a bit disappointed after 2 years of no income, no job, no medical benefit towards recovering my suddenly absent health. I reiterated that I had used the herbals he had mentioned BEFORE seeing him and found them of no benefit ... so why repeat the error. I recounted how the Chelation therapy, Dental extractions, and Energy Balancing sessions I had undertaken HAD provided significant benefits ... just not a wide IMPACT that removed or significantly lessened ALL of my many symptoms. NO REPLY ever.
Three years later, both my wife and I Fully Recovered.
By then, I had gained a full understanding of the 1000 variations which one might have of CFS-ME, the multiple significant illnesses that one could be suffering from, how to find out which combination you had, and, how and in which order to best address them and likely recover. After 5 years of savings draining to poverty and no professional or social and little intimate life, I focused on rebuilding those. Rebuilding myself physically by doing repairs to and renovating our house was a start. The possibility of a Disability Pension had been a disaster. In Canada, at that time, one had to apply for the pension within 2 years of becoming disabled. It had taken me just over 2 years of researching and doctor pushing to get an Assessment. But the trigger point was that I had not earned enough INCOME and paid enough taxes during those 2 years to qualify! It wasn't that I had not been disabled ... it was that I had not paid enough Income Tax during my disability.
I had not GIVEN UP soon enough on recovery and had made a PERSONAL effort and commitment to recover. Financially, I was forced to take an early Canada Pension retirement, reduced by 50% because it was being taken early. When I did Recover my health and could earn, I was LEGALLY prevented from employment because I was Retired! And, I could not reverse retirement, pay back the credits and build my pension and savings further. I brought these anomalies to the attention of my government representative. Some time later the regulations were revised, but NOT applicable to earlier cases.
I eventually, and suddenly, upgraded my health abilities to MORE than Full Recovery from CFS-ME and was working an average of 80 hours weekly doing volunteer work. I was happy, involved, assisting many others, saving lives and reducing conflicts with a potential for modifying the global human dynamic of armaments sales and civilian murders. In 2011, I had undergone a ("minor, simple") anal skin tag removal surgery. It turned out to be a DISASTER. Bureaucratically, patients must sign a release form before surgeries in Canada so that doctors are never responsible for any errors they make and never encouraged to learn from them and improve. Significant pain followed. Then, at least 6 months of minor, yet frustrating, fecal incontinence ... for which the medical industry was without options. It seemed straightforward that a nerve had been severed and there would be no attempt to correct it. Where was the safety?
I learned to cope with and minimize the problem.
Changes happened that significantly influenced both my physical and mental health.
I became able to work 12 hours without break or food without loss of focus, tiredness, or lack of awareness.
Much more was accomplished than I thought possible for anyone. Of course, I was following the directions received through prayer and meditation from God. Always the potential to do one's Best with what one had to work with. At the same time, and suddenly, my intestinal peristaltic activity ceased. I learned quickly that a DAILY flushing out of my colon was advised if I were not to become self-toxic and risk sliding into a coma. In 9 months, my belly ballooned to look like I was pregnant. I asked doctors about running tests and finding a diagnosis. CT scans were run as well as an ultrasound. As I found out later, in many or most provinces in Canada, getting imaging scans done is hampered by political funding; getting a professional assessment of such scans is almost impossible. A test misread is worse than a useless test. It is a lie believed.
A disturbing development arose when I heard feedback from an Emergency Department doctor in British Columbia and a General Practitioner in Alberta that mirrored the statements made in the assessment by the Vancouver specialist in early 2006. By another unintentional release of "internal" documents it was confirmed that they were reviewing the assessment notes of the insecure and judgemental specialist from their access to the "national" Meditech EHR (Electronic Health Report). With queries in 2018 to Meditech, the Alberta Health Ministry, and others ... I was variously informed that ---
1. such a data system did not exist;
2. the system was not open to patients for review and correction;
3. doctor's comments were NEVER questioned; and,
4. There was no chain of responsibility for data accuracy or relevancy.
So, while I had been periodically requesting assistance from the medical system in the diagnosis of and treatment of a significant medical problem for the previous 5 YEARS, the system had been abandoning me because of lies it believed, without question or acknowledgement.
What does Big Brother say about YOU?
If YOUR doctor believes any slander lodged against you by an incompetent or prejudiced doctor, how can you fault them?
They are taught, and highly rewarded, to BELIEVE anything anyone says or writes who have been politically sanctioned as a doctor or an academic laboratory scientist technician, and, YOU, regardless of training, interests, and a familiarity with your own health history ... are simply an ignorant patient who looks for them to rescue you from the health irresponsibility you bring on yourself. The past 150 years have seen us humans INCREASINGLY complicate our health issues and increasingly generate new forms of endemic and chronic illnesses. If you want a life with some constant trend of healthfulness you are best, in my opinion, to learn how to EVALUATE medical and health oriented literature, learn how to discern your own health risks, learn how to interact more assertively with the medical system available to you, and, learn how to communicate DIRECTLY with God to find the understanding and answers to maintain and improve your health.
Choices: How many Physicians is enough?
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(You may have to take whatever is available.)
How many physicians does it take to diagnose a medical problem? Too Many!
From my 70+ years of exposure to Canadian health services in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, I have only encountered TWO doctors who made any serious scientific styled attempt to diagnose any ailment I was requesting assistance with. With the time restraints for interviews imposed on all government and medical association sanctioned doctors together with the financial restraints placed on the acceptable level of sophistication of laboratory and other tests, in addition to the dynamics of image analysis (the faster you assess, the more you can complete, and the more you earn per assessment) ... SCIENCE, professionalism, sincerity, skill, and effectiveness are out the window. Since everyone in the system is rewarded for only working to the LOW problem solving practices of the system, why muddy the waters by doing more and suffering the disdain of your peers for increasing their workload, or, revealing their incompetence?
In Ontario, I had symptoms of intestinal worm parasites.
My General Practitioner knew nothing about parasites so he sent me to a big city specialist.
I collected a stool sample which betrayed moving organisms and took it with me to the appointment.
First, I was informed that the sample could not be tested because it was not in a regulation container.
Secondly, I was educated by this expert to the fact that Canadians didn't get parasites!
So, I could not have parasites, no tests would be done, and the specialist had no suggestions for the symptoms.
My option was to remain sick and become sicker, or, research the possibilities.
Before the Internet, I waded through all the library references available and soon knew more than the "experts".
With the feedback I received from God through Prayer-Meditation, I assembled beneficial ingredients and after 10 days of self-treatment ... no more symptoms. No more parasitic worms?
Toward the end of the 1990's, also in southern Ontario, I was experiencing a constant tiredness and fatigue.
I went to a nearby clinic and the young female doctor there ran some laboratory tests and defined that my thyroid was showing inadequate activity. There was no investigation further to determine WHY this might be so and if something could be done to alleviate the seeming added strain on the thyroid. No, the MEDICAL solution was to put me on a very low dosage of thyroxin, a thyroid boosting pharmaceutical. Within 48 hours I had laid down on the bed in the mid-afternoon for a few minutes rest ... and became paralyzed! A cousin of my wife was staying with us at the time. She knew that I had not planned to sleep and had come into the bedroom to ask me a question. This was awkward. I could not speak. I could not move. I was fully alert yet could neither move or blink my eyes. This state of paralysis had descended on me in seconds. I had no notice from the doctor that this might happen. 45 minutes later, I fully emerged from the state within seconds. I apologized to my cousin for the confusion and shared my startled concern. I went back to the doctor to find an explanation and alternative option. There was none of either. I stopped the medication and never had another incident.
In British Columbia, I suddenly acquired a scalp condition which became described as folliculitis.
The skin around the hair follicles appeared to raise up and a reflex action of scratching followed to leave a red rash.
In a southern central B.C. town, where I had moved near to, access to ANY physician meant searching for and applying to any doctor accepting new patients. When I arrived, there had not been an available doctor for a year. Going to a doctor in an adjacent town was not allowed. It was out of my service area according to the bureaucratic regulations. That left going to an Emergency Department doctor at a distant hospital, or, going to a nearby clinic. At the clinic, the available doctor took a glance at my scalp, projected that it must be a bacterial infection, as he had diagnosed often enough with local children, and, he would prescribe an antibiotic. I cautioned if that was a good idea as I had just recovered from a systemic outbreak of the fungal illness, Candida Albicans. No problem. No Consideration. Just take the drugs.
Within an hour after taking the FIRST dose, I had a thick white fungal coating forming on various skin areas, NOT the scalp.
The areas were both itchy and burning. I phoned the doctor's office a number of times to confirm if I would be best to stop the drugs and if I would be best to go to a hospital. No Reply. After a half day, I stopped taking any more drugs. After 2 DAYS, I was still receiving no response from the doctor to my urgent calls. Finally, the office assistant phoned to convey that the doctor wanted me to continue with the drugs for another two days and then go to see him. Anyone who has had a systemic Candida Albicans infection knows that untreated it can become fatal. They also likely know that recovery can be lengthy and challenging. Most people would be best to know, but may not, that antibiotics are fungal in nature. Take them when you have a fungal overgrowth and it will turn the overgrowth into a wildfire. So, no more taking drugs on the basis of doctor guesses and superstitions.
Six months later I was able to be taken on as a new patient by a doctor in a distant, yet in my service territory, town.
The "folliculitus" was going nowhere. Let's give it another medical try. This doctor sent a scalp biopsy to the provincial lab. A few weeks later ... the result. The sample had become "contaminated." It had not been used. A second biopsy was taken and sent. This one was "lost." Speaking to a technician I was given a possible explanation. Labs are only authorized to check for certain organisms. If something is found that is not expected, the sample is "lost" rather than presented as "It's something but we don't have the time or financial resources to test it." And, for the contaminated sample. "If we find an organism in a sample which is a pathogen, but, it is in the "wrong" place, we record it an "contaminated." I was fairly certain that the condition was not bacterial as there was never any puss. I was equally confident that it was not fungal, as I had become familiar with fungal illnesses always exuding an odor. This was odorless. Back to the research. YEARS later, I found a record to an individual in the USA who had experienced a similar skin problem.
After going from doctor to doctor for TEN years, he happened on a skin specialist in a state at some distance from his home who had a possible explanation. It could be a genetic modification of the skin, for unknown causes, which closed the follicle cell the hair grew out of and prevented the normal exuding of water and oils. These collected in pockets around the base of the hair, raising the skin, and resulting in irritation which forced scratching. There was no known cure. The health of the hair did not suffer. No bacterial or fungal infection would develop unless one kept a dirty scalp and/or scratched open the scalp with dirty fingernails and fingers. I found that shaving my scalp several times daily removed the irritation and minimized the problem. When the hair was longer than 1/16th of an inch, the problem erupted. I keep my scalp shaved to this day. The problem may have arisen from a mutation effected by a GMO food.
In the fantasy medical articles so common on the Internet, it is always a point of advice to just go to another doctor for an assessment if the diagnosis you receive is either not to your liking, or, does not seem believable, or, requires surgeries or drugs or therapies you cannot afford. Those options may be available in large cities and in densely populated states but are NOT common, in my experience in much of rural and smaller town Canada. As mentioned, NO doctor was available to me in some lower density areas because the doctors present had already met their quota of patients and chose not to add more, or, were prevented from adding more to their office load. Until someone dies or moved away, there would be no new openings. Additional doctors moving into the area were almost unheard of. Going to see a doctor in a neighboring area was not allowed. It wasn't your service area ... even if they had patient openings. Clinics might enable a catch as you can different doctor for each visit scenario. Emergency Department doctors in hospitals were often annoyed to see anyone who was either not bleeding, had a broken bone, was burned, thought they were having a heart attack or a stroke, or were dying. Don't waste THEIR time! Go and see your family physician, of which there are none available.
At some point, from my perspective, you either give up and become sicker until you die, move to another province or country, or hopefully have some excellent research and spiritual skills and the resources to find your own effective recovery options. I am sharing a lot of research work I have done and successes I have had on this site ... so a lot of the work that may be beneficial for your relevant discoveries has been done to save you a LOT of time and money.
Agenda: What concerns you today?
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(Make a LIST; forgetting & distraction means you lose possibilities. )
Particularly if you are experiencing a complex health distress with many symptoms including mental fogginess, distraction, anxiety, relationship and communication frustrations and economic challenges .. you may end up in a doctor's office without the conscious recall of all of the items you wanted answers to.
First, you are rushed to present whatever you have to the doctor in their 10 minute or less appointment time. If you are too slow or disoriented ... well, we'll make another appointment for you next week and see where we are at.
Secondly, if you are too intense, aggressive, or demanding ... YOUR credibility is going to be degraded and you are in danger of being assumed to have mental problems ... which automatically equals putting you on drugs for depresson or anxiety ... which may further aggravate your PHYSICAL symptoms.
Third, after you leave, all those things you forgot to mention will come flooding back into focus and that will be depressing,
Get A Strategy.
Yes, there was a time, not that long ago, when if you showed up at a doctor's office with a list of concerns, you would likely be consciously or unconsciously categorized as "hypochondriac." But health matters have increased in complexity, and, the lack of clearance of health problems has led to an inertia of healthcare resolution to result in larger and larger collections of dis-ease.
When I had CFS-ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was researching and following the Marshall Protocol, I was fortunate to see and hear a presentation by Dr. Greg Blaney, of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was addressing CFS-ME himself at the time so he could empathize with patients ... a novel benefit for doctor's. He suggested that patient's make a list of their concerns to present to their doctors. It might assist both the patient and the doctor. It could help them both focus and stay on track. A caution was for the patient NOT to expect or assume that everything on the list would be addressed in the current session. The list was a starting point: a flexible Agenda. It gives you a starting point. It allows you to consciously evaluate your health concerns BEFORE the appointment and set a priority as to in what order of priority you would best like them to be resolved.
If one has made a list and considered priorities, there is much less necessity to find oneself sliding into an area of paranoia, panic, desperation, and confusion ... as when the doctor asks "What are your concerns today? ... and you try to say all at once 3 different issues elevated into an atmosphere of urgency by a context of "How much can we cover in how little time?"
The doctor may not like the appearance of your list, but, if you resist flooding them with all of the points at once, or, of imposing on them the suggestion that all of the noted concerns must be addressed NOW, you will, with your CALM communication, acknowledge them as people with limits you respect. That means, and it helps to add, if it is relevant, that you have a few concerns and "We'll just work on what we have time for today." Sometimes, your doctor may have a few minutes extra that they can devote to you and if they are feeling that you are not abusing them ... they may volunteer that extra time. But equally possible, they may already have taken added time with someone else, or, they may want to go to the bathroom, or be looking forward to having their lunch or a snack, or wanting to make a personal phone call, or just ready for a CALM break apart from energy draining patients ... and you are best to leave and make another appointment to continue.
Sources: Theirs, not yours.
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(Likely pro-medical simplicity and critical of everything else.)
Sometimes you can TACTFULLY remind a physician or healthcare worker of scientific reports they may have forgotten about which may be RELEVANT to your health condition. I find it best to resist suggesting that you are revealing something new to them as the too often predictable response is one of defensiveness because who are you to suggest that you know something more than they do, or, that you are actually capable of the research which they might like to do, but almost never avail themselves of. Medical journals are, in my evaluation, often filled with theories (best guesses) projected from the most limited and compromised experimental design in which small groups of subjects are tested for anything that catches the fancy of the authors. Even so, if you follow the direction offered by God, or, are persistent in your exploration ... you can find some helpful data. If it is good enough to mention to your health assistant, it is good enough for you to make a paper copy of it to offer them. Don't expect a thanks or any effort to review and article or study that you have provided an Internet link to. If an effort is made to even call up the study, how much do you think they will gain and appreciate from a 10 second scan of it?
Since the mid-1990's, I have periodically requested and used a prescription for the drug Manerix (Moclobemide).
At first it was misprescribed to me by a psychiatrist who was projecting that I must have mental depression because the TEAM of hospital specialist reviewing my ailment symptoms could not reach any point of diagnostic benefit. The drug turned out to almost immediately turn a mercury toxicity PHYSICAL depression of my intestinal peristalsis and the consequential constipation and chronic tiredness into one of normal function and aliveness. Of course, it did not remove or assist in detoxing the mercury load so it became addictive-like until I figured out the toxicity angle and made the choices to remove the poisons. This pharmaceutical is now banned in the USA, and as my more recent doctor confessed, almost no one in Canada is prescribed it any longer. That is largely because the websites which medical doctors are encouraged to frequent typically worship any direction taken in the USA and discount anything with a prejudice against it as not worth any consideration.
This is one of many examples where a drug or herbal has been advocated for uses that it was never best for.
Thanks to resource skimming rather than study and discernment, a benefit for PHYSICAL depression can be quickly scanned and read as DEPRESSION ... which much too often is simply and culturally assumed to mean MENTAL or EMOTIONAL depression. It is a bit like having a sign on an expressway that dictates "NO Stock Cars" and the new arrival glancing at the sign and projecting that NO CARS are allowed on this expressway! I made an effort to report the personal benefits of the Manerix to the psychiatrist but he was having none of it. I was a patient. He was the expert. The drug worked the way the literature he referenced classified it. End of story. I looked deeper into the pharmacology and manufacturing. of the Manerix. In making the drug, genetically modified laboratory mice were grown to specifically produce supplies of the active ingredient. The mice were killed and the ingredient was harvested.
A reality, in this and some other situations, is that the laboratory mice are endemically exposed to viruses. If active at the harvesting time, the viruses are put into the pills with the neurological agents. No method was known at that time for excluding these viruses. The side effects of the drug were more often side effects of the inclusive viruses, not the neurological agents. Batches and manufacturing sources could result in different levels of viral contamination. Some years later I was best to make an effort to modify a tissue modification effected on me by a reaction to a specific lot of GMO food. Genetic modifications often require the presence of a virus which performs like a catalyst in the gene change. So, where could I get known viral loads to re-trigger the dynamic and hopefully do a second genetic mutation that would overlay or change the first one, and, be less harmful than the first one? Manerix. But I had to ensure that I got the OLD manufactured form of Manerix as it would be the one more assured of transporting viruses. It was a long shot. Some benefit was gained.
An article published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology in 2003 (52: 169 to 171) reported that research had identified the neurotransmitter serotonin had been confirmed 2 years previously as one of the few substances capable of effectively killing both Aspergillosis and Candida pathogenic fungi. Manerix increases serotonin levels in one's system, so, it would be effective against these pathogens ... which can create intestinal blockages and lock intestinal sphincters/valves shut. It is even considered by some researchers and doctors that Aspergillosis may be responsible for more deaths than cancer. I became aware of this report in 2006 and made note of it even though I was experiencing problems with neither of these at that time. In the 1980s I had battled multiple hypersensitivities which were further complicated with systemic Candida Albicans. During 2015, I began experiencing Aspergillosis blockages which made my colon flushes difficult on an infrequent basis. I again renewed a prescription for Manerix and only took dosages when needed and in the amounts my prayer-meditation feedback indicated. A 3 month prescription lasted me for a year.
By the beginning of 2019, my Aspergillosis experiences had intensified and increased in frequency.
A failure to clear the blockages meant an impossibility to flush my colon. If that were allowed to persist for 24 hours my retained stool would raise my internal toxicity to approach a life threatening point. There were times when it was Best for me to take a many times adult dosage to effect a blockage clearance within 1 to 3 hours ... with NO negative side effects of any kind. In June, 2019, I cleared ALL of my Aspergillosis at the same time as a long-term Giardia protozoa blockage and a likely longer-term biofilm ropeworm problem. The unthinkable happened. Normal bowel movements of healthy stool returned and became regular. When I had mentioned to my physician in February, 2019 that I was taking HIGH doses of Manerix, he was alarmed. Still, he had offered nothing as an option for diagnostic testing or treatment to my 4-years long intestinal lack of peristaltic activity and pharmaceutical cathartics had never provided any influence.
Checking his medical association recommended online sources, my doctor was VERY discouraging about taking the Manerix. Several years earlier when I had indicated that I was taking Minerals Analysis Urine Testing and effecting major detoxing of Heavy and other toxic metals, he had also been critical of the tests and ignorant of any possibility of health problems with toxic mineral loads or how to reduce them. In January, 2019, after a brief hospital stay and in follow up to a significant lower back injury and hospital stay in early November, 2018, I had been placed on a battery of HIGH impact drugs for pain, and then for a possible blood clotting problem. The pain killers soon proved pointless as my system took over the pain coping. I went off ALL of them before the end of January. My doctor advised me not to miss a day of the blood thinners or I would be sure to die. The fact that I was experiencing increasing episodes of limb numbness and tachycardia seemed to be of no concern. At the beginning of March, I quit ALL blood thinners and several other prescriptions on an immediate basis. Within 48 hours my episodes of numbness almost disappeared, and, my symptoms of lung infection ... which I couldn't seem to get tested for, also dropped off.
It may not be anything confusing that according to medical industry statistics 100,000 patients die from faulty prescriptions in the USA every year for the last decade, and, in Canada, with 1/10th the population, at least 10,000 die every year. If these deaths were from terrorist attacks, plane crashes or suicides ... there would be an outburst of paranoia. But no one is allowed to hold the politically sanctioned medical community responsible and medical examiners (coroners) are not permitted to report such in their statistics. You took the pills that killed you ... so that makes it a "normal" death. Doctors CAN be helpful but that does not make them fail proof gods and their employers (you and the government and their associations) do not encourage them to be more than prescribing technicians. This isn't an afternoon hospital or doctor soap opera whose design is to deceive with rosy fantasies. It's REALITY.
- Drugs : Get the Monograph.
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(The doctor is not living with your symptoms. )
While doctors and pharmacists have a responsibility of informing their patients and clients of the side effects, contraindications and dangers of the drugs they are prescribing and dispensing, most patients express NO interest in receiving same and physicians are not afforded the time, patience or communication skills to convey the information in a memorable yet undramatic manner. There are a number of databases which provide these outlines in addition to consumer online databases, and, some reference books. A challenge is that new drugs are being introduced daily to the market, and, newly reported side effects and cautions are being added to the outlines.
Symptoms reported as possible side effects of taking a drug present a kind of hypocrisy, at least in Canada.
Physicians only want to hear of ONE symptom you have, yet a drug monograph may list dozens of possible side effects with some being considered minor and others considered major.
Having a section detailing "What do I need to tell my doctor BEFORE I take this drug?" on a report that is restricted to an online medical database open only to registered medical staff seems a bit counterproductive. Drugs that have been given a long list of alternate names also adds confusion to communicating about such drugs. What name does your physician know it by? And what name are you familiar with it by?
Some drug monographs include addresses and phone numbers of government regulation agencies active in Canada and the USA who are expected to be able to advise the patient about the side effects, and, to be interested in reports from patients regarding any side effect experiences that have raised concerns or difficulties with the patient. In my 70 plus years in the medical systems of 3 provinces in Canada, I have NEVER, even once, being advised by a doctor or pharmacist that I could report any detail deficiencies in such reports to anyone. If there were problems, how would they ever be responded to for other patients in a "relevant and timely" manner?
1-866-234-2345 --- Health Canada
1-800-FDA-1088 --- USA Medwatch at the FDA --- http://www.fda.gov/medwatch
Memory problems or Loss is a side effect of some drugs.
I know because I was prescribed several such drugs in late 2018 during a hospital stay.
If I were advised of this potential problem, I had no memory of it. Receiving a written notice of same and signing a copy to acknowledge notification for the hospital and my later sanity would have been a plus. As it was, there were HOURS that disappeared from my memory. Indeed, there were doctors and nurses and specialists who I had no memory of ... they did not exist ... except that I had written down a brief note on a piece of paper that I had kept for some of them. One staff-member who had been quite helpful to me in getting me copies of drug monographs was noticeably upset later when I had no memory of ever meeting her. Several volunteer staff had also slid out of my memory and it seemed odd that I was meeting them for the first time when they knew me from a meeting a week previously. Apparently, I had also been given a CT scan or MRI but that was lost in the hospital air. And, I never received any assessment or report from these ghost tests.
Language and technical phrases spread across medical literature which is intended to serve a patient as well as a professional population can become deceptive. In just one instance, a side effect of rapid and possibly irregular heartbeat is often referenced as tachycardia. This can be a serious risk. Yet, it is also noted in other monographs with such phrases as irregular heartbeat, unusually fast/slow irregular heartbeat, fast or abnormal heartbeat, feeling very tired or weak, may increase risk of heart attack or stroke.
Technical details and marketing descriptions for some drugs appear in both consumer topic and medical specialty magazines and journals and are sometimes broadcast in the mass media. In the world of bureaucratic and authoritarian avoidance of responsibility some wordings betray a caution of self-protection with the intention of legalized aloofness. Consider the admonishment to tell your doctor if you are allergic to the medicine they have just prescribed for you, and, for you to not take it if you are. If you have never taken this drug, how would you know? Straightforwardly, if you do react to the drug with drastic symptoms and an apparent allergic reaction ... the error is YOUR fault. And if you die ....
For decades, in Canada, major pharmacy organizations have maintained drug databases and offered printouts of relevant and timely information profiles to customers who request them. If you know what may be a side effect of a drug you have been prescribed, and you begin to have it, you have some awareness of its possible connection to the drug and if it might be a good action to bring it to the attention of your doctor in case it could become health weakening. At the same time, having a strategy and taking an interest in your health maintenance and recovery can help you avoid needless fear, paranoia, and disability.
Updates: So just what has been happening.
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(Acknowledgements, disappointments, discernment.)
Your health stability depends upon and is an extension of your lifestyle and occupational and travel history.
One might hope that a service professional who is overseeing your health would benefit by knowing which changes have proven beneficial for you and which have gone nowhere or brought setbacks. In my experience, a consistent response is for the doctor to never ask if the drugs they have prescribed for you are working, to ask if you are experiencing any side effects, or, to ask if you are clear of the problem they have been treating you for. I find that this is much more a common approach from a non-medical therapist or modality practitioner. It may have something to do with how well prepared the doctor is in terms of attitude and belief based on their training, or lack thereof.
If your doctor is unfamiliar with the side effects of what has been prescribed for you, they are really resistant to hearing about them. Then they are going to be face-to-face with having to address those realities and they may not have any ready answers for that. Do they lessen the dosage? Is the symptom minor or life threatening, or .... ? What are other similar drugs which do not usually have such side effects? Is there a possible error in how the medication is being taken that could account for the side effects and could be changed? Has the doctor actually ever read the drug monograph? Have YOU obtained a copy of the drug monograph and read it?
As you may be beginning to appreciate, asking you about how you and your treatment and recovery are going is a potential ant's nest of possibilities. Once the nest is disturbed, endless questions appear on the doorstep. And questions demand answers. And answers demand knowledge and responsibility. And, no one wants to take responsibility for what may prove to be detrimental for you personally rather than for many people. Recognizing this atmosphere of caution and defensiveness, we can do our best to provide some details in as TACTFUL a manner as possible.
Tactful, from my point of view and experience ... means stating the obvious in as non-threatening a manner as possible.
State your results and concerns in as matter-of-fact emotionless tone possible. You may be suddenly experiencing short periods of significant numbness in your arm, hand, chest, leg, foot ... and these can be very personally troubling from the suggestion that you are close to having a stroke, heart attack, or other significant circulatory problem. I suggest that you rehearse what you are going to say as many times at home as it takes for you to de-stress and control your fear before opening up to the doctor. It is a problem. It seems to be medical. It may not be anything significant but you would be much more at ease if you understood it and were confident that YOU (not THEM) were doing all you could to minimize it.
There is no magic way to present information and requests TACTFULLY.
There is certainly an easy way to present such information crudely, in anger, imposing on the other person, attacking, or passively being quiet and expecting the doctor to Guess that you are in turmoil. You blaming them for not resolving a medical urgency that you have not communicated to them will not be helpful and may cost you dearly. If you have a concern, rehearse how you might present it, especially if it seems significant. If you have independently, by your own choices of supplements to take and therapies to avail yourself of, had a great improvement in your health ... offer the details BRIEFLY and independently. You are NOT looking for their acknowledgement, encouragement, or support ... and if they don't provide it, you have lost nothing. IF they have the least interest in these beneficial steps you are experiencing, they will ASK. If they don't ask for more detail, don't IMPOSE.
You may find this context of Self-Restraint and CALM in the face of GREAT fear, joy, or, concern a real challenge to your maturity or lack thereof. Often, and seemingly increasing in our (Canadian - American) culture, if one is NOT Dramatic, one is not understood to be presenting anything important. It was, at one time, that if you were doing this form of dramatic acting out, you were being hysterical and emotionally out-of-control ... suggesting that you had more psychological problems than physical ones. What and how you present your concerns today is all a matter of how old your doctor is, which peer group they frequent, which cultural group they have been imprinted by, what communication traumatic events they have experienced, whether they see you as more of a friend or more of an enemy, what the weather is like, and who their last 3 patients were. Just do your Best to be aware of the non-verbal communication clues of your doctor, your own level of confidence, and the reality that you can change your presentation style when and if it is best to do so.
If you never open the door, don't expect them to ever meet you half way.
Also, know that you may have to open the door MANY times to more constructive communication before there is any benefit.
You can be assured that if you don't make the effort and if you are not aware of the possibilities, nothing will improve.
- Labs - : So much possibility; so little delivery.
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(What happens when we make our environment ever more complex.)
Hospital laboratories, In Canada, are globally funded by provincial and territorial governments, based on a budgeting process. That is, political budgets determine which tests can be more easily selected by doctors to be run, how many becomes a target for choice, and which one's are to be used only rarely, or not at all. Medical laboratories across Canada take the form of private laboratories (to which tests are farmed out to from small hospitals, clinics and doctor's offices), hospital laboratories, and, academic science centre facilities. Reality is NOT the fantasy environments portrayed in mass media, even in documentaries, where any available medical test can be run at any time for any indication of a possible benefit.
Complicating the perception and reality is the fact that many FICTIONAL representations of institutionalized healthcare broadcast and viewed both across Canada and throughout the USA often reference tests that may cost hundreds or thousands of dollars each as if their use was regular, mundane, and easily sanctioned. Every state in the USA and every province and territory in Canada set their own healthcare budget, standards for selection of and sophistication of allowable tests, and the costs that are allowed to cover such services. According to laboratory staff I have spoken with, cost variables, budgets, and allowable test selections vary widely both from state to state but sometimes within a USA state. With a much smaller population and much lower territory density in Canada, there tends to be a more consistent rationalization and overall standardization of how many of which tests will be budgeted fr during any fiscal year.
What this can translate into is that YOU may be given a test to assist in or confirm a diagnosis which a doctor or specialist will project from whether a drug or treatment may be beneficial for you. Some laboratory tests are only assessed through a single private lab in the province the patient is in. There is no alternate or second choice options. Laboratory procedures, including the number of sub-tests, can be restricted to support budget realities. That is, you may have symptoms which strongly suggest the possibility of an intestinal parasite infestation. A tiny stool sample, or 3 may be sent to a lab for analysis. If the lab is only receiving a specific payment for the assessment, either the lab administration or the government oversight may set a limit as to how many and which human parasites can be tested for. If the manager or officer responsible for such limitations has specified 16 out os a possible 50 human pathogens as targets, and you have a pathogen that is NOT being screened for, your test is returned with a statement of NEGATIVE findings. The doctor confidently informs you that you are parasite free, and you live with the parasite, symptoms, decreasing health, and potential fatality.
In Canada, this scenario is even more complicated by the reality that the federal and provincial and territorial governments have a long-term practice of denying, and making it illegal for a Canadian citizen to access PRIVATE medical care within Canada. Each year, hundreds, and possibly thousands of Canadians, including some government bureaucrats and health department ministers, elect to travel outside of Canada to access private healthcare services, including highly specialized medical tests. Some persons, sometimes those who are elderly and desperate, choose to finance their health acquisition abroad with loans or credit card borrowing than may run as high as $100,000. Some of this cost will often involve travel and foreign accommodation costs. Legal challenges against government policies and in favor of more widespread healthcare services for individuals, and even on the basis of class action suits, often are mired into bureaucratic inertia. Keeping the public deceived about the quality of healthcare available often quiets the media when publishers value government advertising revenue before truth in reporting.
Tests are available which could make diagnostic efforts more accurate and timely.
If doctors are limited in their access to these tests, or, must rationalize when and how often they can freely request them, it is only us, the citizens who are responsible for electing political representatives who tie their hands, and, reinforce their training in knowing only about inexpensive, general tests ... which are capable of only determining if one has an organ failure medical problem ... for which they are primed to prescribe a pharmaceutically promoted drug as a corrective. Other health modalities, including naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, and independent physicians (usually stripped of hospital privileges and exposed to character assassination by the medical associations) can elect to order and run lab tests on receipt of your personal financial coverage of the costs.
The bottom Line:
Throughout North America, the highly experienced and well trained baby boomer lab technicians are retiring and the younger set have much less experience, come from a generation with values that are more ethically flexible, are much more financially dependent upon career stability, and, face a greater level of motivation to "just follow order." Just because your physician or hospital lab test indicates that you are free of a pathogen, may only mean that the pathogen wasn't tested for, or, was misread. That may result in you being treated for something you don't have and your health suffering, or, you NOT being treated for something when it was recoverable from until it becomes irreversible and fatal.
Access : Services needed, or, not.
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(When your NEW health status challenges your & their awareness.)
For defenders (or excusers) of medical incompetency there will always be the adult temper tantrum response of "Well, if it had really happened the way you describe it, there would be test results to prove it." This is all very convenient when THEY control all the access to the tests and THEY refuse to sanction them. It is all very convenient when the patient has repeatedly presented symptoms and requests to their medical physician or specialist who has ignored the statements and concerns and neglected to make note of them on the patient record because they either don't have a clue as to how they might be addressed, don't believe the patient (often the same as believing that the patient is being overly dramatic), or, don't want to be an institutional renegade and order tests which will challenge the healthcare budget administrators and endanger their career. Every bureaucracy seeks to protect itself first, and then effect whatever services are sanctioned by the policies set in clay by the managers, directors, or ministers.
So, yes, I am sure that the physicians and specialists involved in my care who made significant errors, refused to run tests, took a position of deafness, and are skeptical of some of my recoveries (because they cannot take credit for them) will happily discount some of the statements on these pages. Still, there are cracks in their stories which could bring doubt to their desire to avoid responsibility, learn from errors, and consider ways of improving their communication with and assisting patients. In some of my more recent challenges, I have kept laboratory specimens that could be tested. Here is a very short list of incriminations.
- Why is it that a 2005 personal judgement by a provincial specialist cannot be viewed or disputed by the patient whose government medical record it is attached to, and, why is it that physicians across North America are encouraged to accept its conclusions as undeniable when the patient in front of them can demonstrate that the statements are false or twisted as backed by DECADES of real behavior and actions?
- Why is it that when a knowledgeable patient with confirmable records submits a comprehensive report to the government and health bureaucracy of a province about their hospital stay, November, 2018, with clear descriptions and acknowledgements of both positive and destructive policies ... there is NO acknowledgement back to the patient that ANY attention has been given to the report by ANY of the department officers or by any of the administrators and policy makers responsible?
- Why is it that the healthcare system promotes itself with a marketing presentation touting how patient centred the service is yet, the patient has NO access to basic activity records of specialists, such as surgeons, to convey how long they have been active as a surgeon, which courses of training they have elected to expand their interests and expertise, how many surgeries they have participated in, and how many of their patients have died from their surgical activities? No, our patient centred services DEMAND that if you, the lowly patient want to take advantage of THEIR services, you MUST sign a legal document indicating that if ANY error, injury, or other mishap happens during the surgery or service THEY are performing on you, YOU will take full responsibility for the outcome. They will never take responsibility for anything, learn anything from any errors, and will likely repeat any errors suffered on you, on others, sanctioned by your politicians.
- Why is it that degrading, inefficient, ineffective, and dangerous ... sometimes life taking procedures, attitudes, and policies with the provincial and state healthcare infrastructures NEVER change over decades and decades? Just lots of talk, talk, talk ... and intentions to do something that never happens. When I had multiple and life-threatening hypersensitivities and became a member of a group of such patients, I learned that the Provincial Health Ministry had appointed a Commission to look into why such persons were not recovering, what treatment programs were being enacted in other states and countries, what budgetary support would best be put into place, and, why current medical attitudes were making such persons MORE ill. At the conclusion of each annual Commission, managed by the same politically nominated physician, the SAME identical 12 points were written into a Ministry Report of over 100 pages at a cost to the taxpayers of $175,000 ... and NONE of it was ever acted upon. Hypersensitive persons were just to be ignored and quietly die in their agony, even those had been nurses in the system for decades.
- Why is it that my family and spouse were told by the hospital administrators and the police officers involved that I had been admitted to the hospital under threat of suicide when I had been secluded in a dark, cold room, on a surgery floor, for over 60 hours in constant extreme pain without ANY painkillers or nursing attention after a botched surgical procedure before being quietly transferred down 3 floors to a psychiatric ward in a state of physical coma-like exhaustion. Decades before cellphones, I had been told by the internal medicine specialist who had interviewed me for a loss of memory concern that I would have a minor surgery and be out of the hospital within a few hours and home later that day. As it was, no relative was contacted for more than 50 hours and I was never offered access to a phone in the weeks I was in the hospital. These details are all on the record.
The truly RELEVANT choice for YOU is whether YOUR preservation of and improvement of YOUR health is worth the effort to consider the possibilities and options presented on these pages. No one is twisting your arm or holding job loss over your head to force you to accept anything suggested here, or, to deny it. No one has taken any money from you with bribery or promotional manipulation to drag you into the fold. No one has presented you with the authoritarian sanctions of doctors credentials and organizational power support to which you have been imprinted throughout your life to accept the word of and defer to as if they were your god. Ultimately, this is YOUR chance to take some responsibility for how beneficial or disastrous your present and future and that of those you care about will be. You have been encouraged to learn how to and chose to work with the Divine. You have been encouraged to understand the political and institutional systems which regulate your healthcare system. You have been given ways in which you can constructively communicate with and work with your healthcare representatives. Will you sit on the sidelines and complain because others are not effecting miracles for you, or, will you CHOOSE to participate with wisdom and experience miracles?
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