Our conversation yesterday left off with a mention about what is happening in medicine the outside person might not know.
We are also at countdown 220...
It is generally known through some investigative reporting that many 'recovery homes' for drug addicts are an insurance scam and not based on the best-interest of the 'clients' who are being treated in the recovery home.
The reason being is that when the insurance runs out, the patient is kicked to the curb and 'released' from the treatment.
What is not known is that there is evidence of a similar practice happening too, both in the not-for-profit and the for-profit hospital systems in the states.
I have first-hand information from a provider that patients are being shown vouchers for transportation home and told it is time for them to leave.
This happens even while they are still bleeding and it hasn't been treated yet.
The provider tells the hospital administrators, 'why not give this person an extra day in the hospital for observation to make sure they are truly better?'
This provider was told that 'we are losing money on this patient'.
It came to the point where this provider has transferred the care of this patient to a different provider who is able with their own conscience to do this to the patients--because the one I was speaking with can't condone the horribly unkind and unethical behavior himself.
The situation is that because of insurance dictates, the patients are being sent home without completion of their medical treatment, and naturally, they 'bounce back' to the emergency room (which the insurance WILL pay for, most of the time, although some have been denying payment if the appendix doesn't need to be taken out--after the patient went to the ER for abdominal pain--after the fact denial of payment for the medical care.)
There are patient advocates and ombudsman in every hospital. And if you need a lawyer, don't be afraid to seek one if a hospital isn't treating you right. It's epidemic.
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When I was in conference in Hawaii, we had a lecture called, 'Waking the Patient Up Happy'. It's not about the kind of stuff like Reiki lol. It was for the treatment of patients who have chronic pain who are on medications for pain--after they undergo surgery.
We learned of many things, opioids, blocks with local anesthetics, how much baseline and rescue medication...but there was one obvious gap, the elephant in the room, that was missing: cannabis.
So in the questions portion, I asked, anonymously, 'what about cannabis? many of my patients are on it. In your opinion, is it effective?'
The answer was that since there is federal law against it, federal research money to study it isn't available, so the researcher only presents what they have been given funding to research.
Wow.
Since when did science and medicine become the bitch of politicians and big pharma to the point where even basic anesthesia research is compromised?
Two Passenger trucks driving eastbound on interstate 10 near exit 220, south to Boutte and Houma, Louisiana.
The last one is to let you know a little bit more about the marketing deception of one pharmaceutical company.
Bupivicaine is a local anesthetic which has been around for my entire career and probably longer than that. It's used for epidurals, spinals, and the anesthesia blocks. It comes with epinephrine, or plain. The action is about four to six hours in epidurals, a little less for spinals, and a little longer for blocks.
It's dirt cheap and available generic for two dollars and fifty cents for a thirty milliliter bottle when it's not in some drug shortage. We've had many such shortages, but that's a different story.
The molecule itself is a chemical structure of rings which has a little 'tail' which can be sticking out or folded in, kind of like a jackknife.
This ability lets it be soluble in either water or oil depending on the direction of that little tail.
And the human body has water and fat in it.
A company decided to create a longer-lasting form of this drug in a lipid carrier of tiny drops of fat.
It has been marketed for special use in hemorrhoids and now for long-acting shoulder blocks. It costs one hundred times more a dose than the original drug. Our pharmacies restrict it. And the surgeons, thinking this is the 'ultimate', use it for their hemorrhoid patients.
I've always thought it was the ultimate too.
Well, I saw the data in a lecture at my conference.
It doesn't last. Actually, the original drug is more effective because it absorbs itself into the fatty tissue in the area.
So the drug studies which are available if you know where to look, and our lecturer did, proved this. The curves of how long the drug is active were very clear.
What did the drug company do?
They ran studies of 'new drug' versus 'placebo'.
And even there it was only a little bit better. It was better for one thing--hemorrhoid surgery!
The deception and the greed is appalling.
And if you link it to the practices of insurance companies and hospitals who are 'losing money' treating patients with such drugs and supplies, it's criminal.
BTW there's a new Gaia Portal if you're interested. https://gaiaportal.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/galactic-confluences-guide-the-light-minded/
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