Knights Blood Clinic a success

Who is the biggest drug dealer in Canada?

It seems someone else’s prescription is pretty easy to buy, but it’s not a problem that’s limited to the Annapolis Valley. Chief Mander says that “across Canada the drug dealer of preference…is the health care system”.

A sad state of affairs

See CTV investigative report 

Is there is poop in your water ? Warning from Douglas report
  
And that’s not even the scary part. Ready for it? Are you sure?

The illnesses caused by those germs — all 1.1 million of them — are just a drop in the toilet. They represent only the immediate and obvious sicknesses caused by fecal filth other bacteria in the water.
The rest of the problems aren’t nearly as immediate or obvious.

Along with those stomach-churning poo bugs, your water contains sex-change hormones, legal and illegal drugs, pesticides, herbicides, chemicals such as rocket fuel, and more.

The amounts are small and might not hurt you right away. But drink it, cook with it, and bathe in it every day, and you’re bound to suffer in the long run.

The only way to protect yourself and your family is to buy a reverse osmosis water filter. You’ll find them in most hardware stores — just make sure you install yours where the water supply enters the home, so every tap and faucet is protected.

Hospital patient advocacy

Win win  strategies to reduce costs and improve the quality of service and recapturing good health care  ?

Why hospitals need patient advocates

August 9th, 2012

by Jacqueline O'Doherty
Discharge planning has been making headlines recently because of Medicare's hospital readmission and reduction program.
Hospital readmission rates are coming under scrutiny not only by Medicare but also commercial payers and consumers alike, in an effort to manage the high cost of readmission after patient discharge. Successful discharge planning keeps the rate of readmission low.
For patient advocates, successful discharge has always been part of our mission. Patient advocates strive to coordinate care and ensure a smooth transition from hospital to home.

do-we-care-for-our-vulnerable

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2012/07/19/do-we-care-for-our-vulnerable


Tired of seeing those that need help get shafted -while the administrators suck the money dry

You are what you eat -51 ways to improve your diet and save money

http://www.ivillage.com/51-healthy-foods-really-arent/4-b-472304?nlcid=dt|07-17-2012|#472454

 

Do not feed the greed cancer - you as customer can get better food

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What happens when you run out of money to support over priced under performing health care and their support monopolies?

If you hit the payment wall something has to give .Follow the money and never feed a cancer -is that the solution ?

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/July/13/maine-medicaid.aspx

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The truth can set you free -good food for thought

A wake up call to acton ? Important factual information for your consideration review and action if any . It is always  your choice to honour your oath ,right wrongs and protect the vulnerable and yourself .

 

Be informed - and pass this on please  ( US film leading by example )

 

 

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Is there a law which requires you to pay the Federal Income Tax? Is the Federal Reserve a part of the United States Government, or is it a private bank owned and operated by multinational corporate interests? Do they have our nation's best interests at heart? Unless something changes, what does the future of the United States look like?

The answer to all these questions and more in this incred

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8RtL3azDg&feature=player_detailpage

An excellent work wth live footage and director comments  - worth watching

The answer to all these questions and more in this incredible documentary by legendary filmmaker Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 - August 24, 2007).

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Big Pharma -made accountable by courageous whistje blowers- the legal drug cartel is tagged

We cannot allow that to continue . Merck gets caught

It's vitally important to know and exercise your legal rights and to understand your options when it comes to using vaccines and prescription drugs. For example, your doctor is legally obligated to provide you with the CDC Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) sheet and discuss the potential symptoms of side effects of the vaccination(s) you or your child receive BEFORE vaccination takes place. If someone giving a vaccine does not do this, it is a violation of federal law. Furthermore, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 also requires doctors and other vaccine providers to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, click the limk

 

Are you sure  why feed a cancer?

 

pharma greed and side effects can kill you

 

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You are what you eat -the veggan proponents

Why green is good for you -the veggan arguement . It is good to know that you can reverse many faults by having a proper diet. Your body is truly a magnificient automatic self healing device .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=KNCGkprGW_

This does not hold for GMO foods by definition and common sense . 

Re: Genetic modified food - another legal drug scam in the make ? You are what you eat

From Evernote:

Genetic modified food - another legal drug scam in the make ? You are what you eat Clipped from: http://www.relfe.com/2010/pigs_animals_won't_eat_gmo_corn_food.html

Pigs Won't Eat GMO Corn - Are they Smarter than Us?

The farmer grinned as he told the visitor, "Watch this!" He called his pigs, which ran frantically towards him to be fed. But when he scooped out corn and threw it on the ground, the pigs sniffed it and then looked up at the farmer with confused expectation.  The farmer then scooped corn from another bin and flung it near the pigs, which ran over and quickly devoured it.

The farmer said, "The first corn is genetically engineered. They won't touch it."

It's not just pigs that swear off genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In South Africa, Strilli Oppenheimer's chickens won't eat genetically modified (GM) corn.  Most buffalo in Haryana, India, refuse cottonseed cakes if made from GM cotton plants. Geese migrating through Illinois only munched sections of the soybean field that was non-GMO. When given a choice, elk, deer, raccoons, and rats all avoided GMOs.  And even during the coldest days of Iowa winter, squirrels, which regularly devour natural corn, refused to touch the GM variety.

One skeptical farmer who read about the squirrels wanted to see for himself if it was true.  He bought a bag full of GM corn ears, and another of non-GM, and left them in his garage till winter.  But by the time he fetched the bags, mice had done the experiment for him.  They broke into the natural corn bag and finished it; the GM cobs were untouched.

Doctors prescribe no GMOs

No one knows why the animals refuse GMOs, but according to a 2009 statement by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), when lab animals do eat GM feed, it's not pretty.  "Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food," says the AAEM policy paper, which specifically cited infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system, among the impacts of eating GMOs. "There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects," they wrote.  "There is causation…"

Although we humans don't have a natural sense to stay away from GM foods, AAEM's position indicates that we should take a lesson from the animals.  This renowned medical organization, which first recognized such dangers as food allergies, chemical sensitivity, and Gulf War Syndrome, called on all physicians to prescribe non-GMO diets to all patients.¹  They also called for a moratorium on GMOs, long-term independent studies, and labeling.

Former AAEM President Dr. Jennifer Armstrong says, "Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions."  Renowned biologist Dr. Pushpa M. Bhargava and many others believe that GMOs may be a major contributor to the deteriorating health in America since GM foods were introduced in 1996.

GMOs on your plate

There are eight GM food crops: 

• soy (including soy flour and soy oil)
• corn (including corn oil) (Popcorn and organic corn should be okay)
• cotton
• canola
• sugar beets
• Hawaiian papaya
• and a little bit of zucchini and yellow squash

The two primary reasons why plants are engineered are to allow them to either drink poison, or produce poison.

Poison drinkers are called herbicide tolerant.  Their DNA is outfitted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of toxic herbicide.  The first five crops on the list above have herbicide tolerant varieties.  The poison producers are called Bt crops.  Inserted genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus Thuringiensis produce an insect-killing pesticide called Bt-toxin in every cell of the plant.  That is found in corn and cotton.  The papaya and squashes have virus genes inserted, to fight off a plant virus.  All GM crops are linked to dangerous side effects.

Pregnant women and babies at great risk

GM foods are particularly dangerous for pregnant women and children.  After GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died—compared to a 10% deaths among controls fed natural soy.²b GM-fed babies were smaller, and possibly infertile.³

Testicles of rats fed GM soy changed from the normal pink to dark blue.3  Mice fed GM soy had altered young sperm.4  Embryos of GM soy-fed parent mice had changed DNA.5  And mice fed GM corn had fewer, and smaller, babies.7

In Haryana, India, most of those buffalo that did consume GM cottonseed ended up with reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, and infertility;  many calves died.  About two dozen US farmers said thousands of pigs became sterile from certain GM corn varieties.  Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water.  Cows and bulls also became infertile.

Eating poison in every bite

When insects take a bite out of the corn and cotton plants engineered to produce Bt-toxin, their stomach splits open and they die.  Because that same toxin is used in its natural bacterial state as a spray by farmers for insect control, biotech companies claim that it has a history of safe use and can be incorporated directly into every plant cell.

The Bt-toxin produced in GM plants, however, is thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray, is designed to be more toxic, has properties of an allergen, and cannot be washed off the plant.

Moreover, studies confirm that even the less toxic natural spray can be harmful.  When dispersed by plane to kill gypsy moths in Washington and Vancouver, about 500 people reported allergy or flu-like symptoms.¹, ¹¹  The same symptoms are now reported by thousands of farm workers from handling Bt cotton throughout India.¹²

GMOs provoke immune reactions

GMO safety expert Dr. Arpad Pusztai says changes in immune status are "a consistent feature of all the [animal] studies."¹³  From Monsanto's own research to government funded trials, rodents fed Bt corn had significant immune reactions.¹, ¹

Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50%.  Ohio allergist Dr. John Boyles says "I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it."

GM soy, corn, and papaya contain new proteins with allergenic properties.¹  In addition, GM soy has up to seven times more of a known soy allergen.¹  Perhaps the US epidemic of food allergies and asthma is a casualty of genetic manipulation.

Animals dying in large numbers

In India, animals graze on cotton plants after harvest.  But when shepherds let sheep graze on Bt cotton plants, thousands died.  Investigators said preliminary evidence "strongly suggests that the sheep mortality was due to a toxin…most probably Bt-toxin."¹  In one small study, all sheep fed Bt cotton plants died;  those fed natural plants remained healthy.

In an Andhra Pradesh village, buffalo grazed on cotton plants for eight years without incident.  On January 3rd, 2008, 13 buffalo grazed on Bt cotton plants for the first time.  All died within three days.¹  Bt corn is also implicated in the deaths of cows in Germany, and horses, water buffaloes, and chickens in The Philippines.²

In lab studies, twice the number of chickens fed Liberty Link corn died;  7 of 40 rats fed a GM tomato died within two weeks.²¹  Those rats had refused to eat the tomato and had to be force fed.

Worst finding of all—GMOs remain inside of us

The only published human feeding study revealed that even after we stop eating GMOs, harmful GM proteins may be produced continuously inside of us;  genes inserted into GM soy transfer into bacteria inside our intestines and continue to function.²²  If Bt genes also transfer, eating GM corn chips might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories.

Warnings by government scientists ignored and denied

According to documents released from a lawsuit, in 1991–92 scientists at the FDA repeatedly warned that GM foods might create allergies, poisons, new diseases, and nutritional problems.²³  But the White House ordered the agency to promote biotechnology, and Michael Taylor, Monsanto's former attorney, headed up the FDA's GMO policy.  That 1992 policy—still in effect today—declares that no safety studies on GMOs are required.  Monsanto and other producers determine if their foods are safe.  Taylor later became Monsanto's vice president, and was reinstalled at the FDA in 2009 by the Obama administration as the US Food Safety Czar.

Opting out as guinea pigs

Biologist Dr. David Schubert of the Salk Institute says, "If there are problems [with GMOs], we will probably never know because the cause will not be traceable and many diseases take a very long time to develop."  In the 9 years after GM crops were introduced in 1996, Americans with three or more chronic diseases jumped from 7% to 13%.²  Allergies doubled in less time.  And the incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.  But without any human clinical trials or post marketing surveillance, we may never know if these or other disorders like autism, obesity, and diabetes, are triggered or made worse by GMOs.

We don't need to wait for more research to learn our lesson from the animals and the doctors.  Consult the Non-GMO Shopping Guide ( http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/ ) to learn how to avoid GMOs.  Even a small percentage of people choosing non-GMO brands could force the food industry to remove all GM ingredients.  By doing so, you are not only being careful about your own health, you are being compassionate to the environment and future generations—since GMOs wreak long-term havoc in our ecosystem as well.

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References:

1 www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html

2 Irina Ermakova, "Genetically modified soy leads to the decrease of weight and high mortality of rat pups of the first generation. Preliminary studies," Ecosinform 1 (2006): 4–9.

3 Irina Ermakova, "Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards," Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007

4 Irina Ermakova, "Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards," Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007

5 L. Vecchio et al, "Ultrastructural Analysis of Testes from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean," European Journal of Histochemistry 48, no. 4 (Oct–Dec 2004):449–454.

6 Oliveri et al., "Temporary Depression of Transcription in Mouse Pre-implantion Embryos from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean," 48th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, Lake Maggiore (Italy), September 7–10, 2006.

7 Alberta Velimirov and Claudia Binter, "Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603xMON810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice," Forschungsberichte der Sektion IV, Band 3/2008

8 Jerry Rosman, personal communication, 2006

9 See for example, A. Dutton, H. Klein, J. Romeis, and F. Bigler, "Uptake of Bt-toxin by herbivores feeding on transgenic maize and consequences for the predator Chrysoperia carnea," Ecological Entomology 27 (2002): 441–7; and J. Romeis, A. Dutton, and F. Bigler, "Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Cry1Ab) has no direct effect on larvae of the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)," Journal of Insect Physiology 50, no. 2–3 (2004): 175–183.

10 Washington State Department of Health, "Report of health surveillance activities: Asian gypsy moth control program," (Olympia, WA: Washington State Dept. of Health, 1993).

11 M. Green, et al., "Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis: An epidemiological study, Oregon, 1985–86," Amer. J. Public Health 80, no. 7(1990): 848–852.

12 Ashish Gupta et. al., "Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers' Health (in Barwani and Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh)," Investigation Report, Oct–Dec 2005.

13 October 24, 2005 correspondence between Arpad Pusztai and Brian John

14 John M. Burns, "13-Week Dietary Subchronic Comparison Study with MON 863 Corn in Rats Preceded by a 1-Week Baseline Food Consumption Determination with PMI Certified Rodent Diet #5002," December 17, 2002

www.monsanto.com/monsanto/content/sci_tech/prod_safety/fullratstudy.pdf

15 Alberto Finamore, et al, "Intestinal and Peripheral Immune Response to MON810 Maize Ingestion in Weaning and Old Mice," J. Agric. Food Chem., 2008, 56 (23), pp 11533–11539, November 14, 2008

16 See L Zolla, et al, "Proteomics as a complementary tool for identifying unintended side effects occurring in transgenic maize seeds as a result of genetic modifications," J Proteome Res. 2008 May;7(5):1850–61; Hye-Yung Yum, Soo-Young Lee, Kyung-Eun Lee, Myung-Hyun Sohn, Kyu-Earn Kim, "Genetically Modified and Wild Soybeans: An immunologic comparison," Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 26, no. 3 (May–June 2005): 210-216(7); and Gendel, "The use of amino acid sequence alignments to assess potential allergenicity of proteins used in genetically modified foods," Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 42 (1998), 45–62.

17 A. Pusztai and S. Bardocz, "GMO in animal nutrition: potential benefits and risks," Chapter 17, Biology of Nutrition in Growing Animals, R. Mosenthin, J. Zentek and T. Zebrowska (Eds.) Elsevier, October 2005

18 "Mortality in Sheep Flocks after Grazing on Bt Cotton Fields—Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh" Report of the Preliminary Assessment, April 2006, www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp

19 Personal communication and visit, January 2009.

20 Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Yes! Books, Fairfield, IA USA 2007

21 Arpad Pusztai, "Can Science Give Us the Tools for Recognizing Possible Health Risks for GM Food?" Nutrition and Health 16 (2002): 73–84.

22 Netherwood et al, "Assessing the survival of transgenic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract," Nature Biotechnology 22 (2004): 2.

23 See memos at www.biointegrity.org

24 Kathryn Anne Paez, et al, "Rising Out-Of-Pocket Spending For Chronic Conditions: A Ten-Year Trend," Health Affairs, 28, no. 1 (2009): 15-25to be force fed

Source: http://hippocratesinst.org/avoid-genetically-modified-food

Invisible GM Ingredients

Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or labeled non-GMO).

The following ingredients may be made from GM crops or GM micro-organisms.

• Aspartame, also called NutraSweet®, Canderel®, Equal Spoonful®, E951, BeneVia®, AminoSweet®
• baking powder
• canola oil
• caramel color
• cellulose
• citric acid
• cobalamin (Vit. B12)
• colorose
• condensed milk
• confectioners sugar
• corn flour
• corn masa
• corn meal
• corn oil
• corn sugar
• corn syrup
• cornstarch
• cottonseed oil
• cyclodextrin
• cystein
• dextrin
• dextrose
• diacetyl
• diglyceride
• erythritol
• Equal
• food starch
• fructose (any form)
• glucose
• glutamate
• glutamic acid
• gluten
• glycerides
• glycerin
• glycerol
• glycerol
• monooleate
• glycine
• hemicellulose
• high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
• hydrogenated starch
• hydrolyzed vegetable protein
• inositol
• inverse syrup
• invert sugar
• inversol
• isoflavones
• lactic acid
• lecithin
• leucine
• lysine
• malitol
• malt
• malt syrup
• malt extract
• maltodextrin
• maltose
• mannitol
• methylcellulose
• milk powder
• milo starch
• modified food
• starch
• modified starch
• mono and diglyceride
• monosodium glutamate (MSG)
• Nutrasweet
• oleic acid
• Phenylalanine
• phytic acid
• protein isolate
• shoyu
• sorbitol
• soy flour
• soy isolates
• soy lecithin
• soy milk
• soy oil
• soy protein
• soy protein isolate
• soy sauce
• starch
• stearic acid
• sugar (unless cane)
• tamari
• tempeh
• teriyaki marinade
• textured vegetable
• protein
• threonine
• tocopherols (Vit E)
• tofu
• trehalose
• triglyceride
• vegetable fat
• vegetable oil
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin E
• whey
• whey powder
• xanthan gum
• Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North
• America.
• Popcorn is NOT GMO. (Thank goodness.)

by Jeffrey M. Smith – Hippocrates Health Institute
http://www.hippocratesinst.org/
http://www.hippocratesinst.org/avoid-genetically-modified-food
http://www.hippocratesinst.org/component/content/article/18-magazine/105-avoid-genetically-modified-food-2

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Interesting techniques to make a killing - the legal drug business

The legal drug addiction business - where is the wisdom in this?

 

Is this a crime against humanity as well as common sense ?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=UDlH9sV0lHU&NR=1

 

Big money -12 billion dollars a day -the money is in the disease not the cure -wow

Follow the money and why reform is  needed to stop this government condoned Ponzi scheme

 

Mental illness a profitable invented disease generator -and  why legal addictions are growing

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Interesting whisteleblower on the legal drug cartel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=7yonLy3BHrc
Some professionals speak out and come clean


So you want to get well?

Start by getting informed -it is your responsibility not someone who profits by it or can make a 500000% mark up because his associates and power friends has criminalized all other choices

Medical legal money and drug addiction

Much has been written about addiction by practitioners of the healing arts and those that administer the solutions through public funding  . What are the actual results and what beneficial healing has been accomplished ? Have   we ,as practitioners of the healing arts, become misery and health whores wallowing on and in  the public purse without really doing our jobs ?  The "official  war" on addiction and customer  health problems has been a spectacular failure of good intentions and mismanagement.

It seem perverse that those that heal are restricted from healing people they serve and face even more restrictions and limitations of those that administer a failed public support system that consumes resources away from those that truly could use and effectively deploy those resources for the public good and welfare. It is sad to see this happen and the continuing perversion of the hippocratic oath  .

The economics are clear . Greed and control limits healing options and is a very profitable if unethical option . There are more reasons given why proper help,cures and care cannot be given , why more restrictions  must be put in place ,why more money must be made available to those that have done such a good job sucking the health coffer dry

How many levels of nonsense does it take to screw in a medical solution that works for those in need?

Fountain of youth science

Removing 'zombie' cells could slow aging
ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) -- Purging the body of senescent cells, old"zombie" cells that are no longer functioning properly, may slow downthe human aging process, U.S. researchers say.
Cells in the body don't keep dividing forever but reach a state knownas cellular senescence in which they no longer divide but releasesubstances that damage adjacent cells, scientists at the Mayo Clinicsaid.
The immune system normally disposes of the zombie cells but with aginggradually loses its ability to do so, they said.
"By attacking these cells and what they produce, one day we may beable to break the link between aging mechanisms and predisposition todiseases like heart disease, stroke, cancers and dementia," Dr. JamesKirkland, a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Researchers say eliminating senescent cells could delay the onset ofcataracts, the gradual loss of muscle tissue and other aging-relatedproblems, CBS News reported Thursday.
"Therapeutic interventions to get rid of senescent cells or blocktheir effects may represent an avenue to make us feel more vital,healthier, and allow us to stay independent for a much longer time,"Dr. Jan van Deursen, a study co-author, said in the statement.
The research suggests it may be possible to develop drugs that wouldkill senescent cells in humans or improve an aging immune system'sability to dispose of them, the researchers

DNR   disturbing trend -keep your eyes open

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Seniors given secret 'do not resuscitate' orders

Old and in the way? Not for long if you're unlucky enough to land in a British hospital, where seniors are routinely left to die under secret "do not resuscitate" orders.

Those orders are among the most difficult, painful, and intimate decisions you and your family could ever make -- but it's being stolen from you by doctors, nurses, and even office clerks who think they can play God.

Now, it doesn't matter what YOU want: If THEY think you're too sick -- or, more likely, too expensive -- to get even the smallest life-saving measures, you're put on the DNR list… and no one will even bother to tell you or your family that your days are numbered.

There's no other way to put it, folks -- that's a secret death order, and they're being issued in hospitals across the U.K.

In one major facility, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, investigators found no evidence that ANY of the DNR orders on file were issued with the knowledge and consent of the patients or their families.

At another hospital, a patient was left to die because a clerk had slipped a BLANK do-not-resuscitate form into his file. It hadn't been signed by anyone -- not the patient, not his family and not his doctors.

As a one-time mistake, that alone ranks as "unforgivable."

But this one is much worse than that -- because it wasn't a one-time mistake. Maybe it wasn't even a mistake at all -- because investigators found that clerks at this hospital routinely put blank DNR orders into patients' files.

Life-or-death decisions, made by filing clerks -- this is straight out of Kafka.

Action on Elder Abuse, a British charity, has taken to calling these secret DNR orders "euthanasia by the backdoor," but it's so systematic that I don't think there's anything "backdoor" about it. It sounds more like "euthanasia by committee" to me -- and you don't get a seat on that committee.

The phrase "death panel" comes to mind as well, except there's not even a "panel" anymore -- just a clerk with a Xerox machine.

And if you think this can only happen in the U.K., think again -- because the authors of ObamaCare believe Britain's fatally flawed model of socialized medicine is something we should aspire to.

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Walk Your Way out of the Hospital

Being a hospital patient used to mean getting into a bed and basically staying there until the doctor said that you could go home. But in recent years, this approach has been changing dramatically as medical staffers have recognized that patients heal faster when they get out of bed and walk -- and new research is showing that the more you walk, and the sooner you walk, the better. If you have elderly relatives, however, you have probably discovered that the outdated idea of the "benefit of bed rest" has tremendous staying power. Convincing them otherwise can be more than challenging. Now, though, there is a new study that you can use to help them see the light. It clearly demonstrates that, condition permitting, elderly patients who are willing to get up and walk around outside their hospital rooms (especially those who start on day one) shorten the length of time that they must stay in the hospital -- which is another way of saying that active patients get better quicker.

BENEFITS OF GETTING ON YOUR FEET

Researchers from the department of nursing at Haifa University in Israel surveyed 485 patients, age 70 and older, who were hospitalized for at least two days (on average, about six). When I contacted study coauthor Efrat Shadmi, RN, PhD, she told me that these patients were in the hospital for common acute conditions, including pneumonia and exacerbations of chronic illnesses such as heart disease. Dr. Shadmi added that none of the patients’ conditions meant that they couldn’t or shouldn’t be somewhat active. In fact, the study eliminated any patients who had been hospitalized for a debilitating condition, such as stroke, that would significantly affect their ability to move around. The findings were published in the July 25, 2011, Archives of Internal Medicine.

While previous studies have found value when younger hospital patients got out of bed and walked, this one had equally good news for older patients. Study participants who walked around at least once a day outside their hospital rooms shortened their stays by 1.5 days, on average, compared with a group of patients who either refused (or were not encouraged) to walk around outside their hospital rooms. So the most active patients were released from the hospital the earliest.

Another interesting result: Those who started walking sooner also left the hospital faster. Patients who increased their walking by at least 600 steps from the first day to the second day of their stays were able to be discharged 1.7 days earlier than those who didn’t.

WELL WORTH THE EFFORT

Doctors stress that walking is important for hospital patients because it helps them maintain normal breathing function and promotes the flow of oxygen throughout the body. It also helps support normal gastrointestinal, bowel and urinary function. Dr. Shadmi adds that geriatric patients, in particular, have yet another reason to get moving -- muscle reserves decrease rapidly. If an older patient lingers in bed for even a few days without walking around, he/she can lose muscle mass so fast that his everyday functioning can become impaired.

It was encouraging to learn from Dr. Shadmi that when hospital staffers and family members explained to patients participating in the study how important walking was -- both for faster healing and maintaining strength -- the majority of patients were willing to give it a try, even if the extra effort made them extra tired. So if someone you love is in the hospital, go ahead and nudge him to walk around a little. Sure, he might groan at first, but he’ll thank you later -- when he’s at home.

Source(s):

Efrat Shadmi, RN, PhD, The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, faculty of social welfare and health sciences, Haifa University, Israel.

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How nursing homes exploit their sickest residents

Dementia patients are being used as pawns in a highly profitable game of musical beds -- helping nursing homes to triple their revenues in a scam that you're just not going to believe.

Here's how it works: A dementia patient on his own, laying in a bed in a nursing home, will bring in $175 a day in Medicare payments.

That may sound like plenty -- $1225 for a single week -- but it's not the kind of money that earns big bonuses for nursing home executives at the end of the year, even in a joint with hundreds of these patients.

So they devise a reason to send the patient off to the hospital -- because when he gets back to the nursing home after that little trip, his value skyrockets.

Now, at least on paper, he needs "skilled care" in that nursing home -- so Medicare will pay TRIPLE the fees... even if it turns out that "skilled care" is exactly what the patient would have received if he had never left the nursing home in the first place. 

It sounds like something the Enron boys would have schemed up, and the similarities don't end there. It's Medicare, after all, and that means you're the one ultimately footing the bill.

You'll find all the details of this massive hoodwink in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, which finds that 19 percent of advanced dementia patients in nursing homes are sent off for dubious hospitalizations near the end of their lives -- with some being moved back and forth multiple times in the space of just a few months.

These patients are sent to the hospital for conditions that are routinely and easily treated by nursing homes all the time: pneumonia, infections, swallowing problems, and dehydration, just to name a few.

They should be getting that care from the relative comfort of a familiar face in a familiar place.

Instead, they're being exploited in the name of cold, hard cash.   

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Hollecrest & Associates Inc  -"Turnaround Consultants"  .

Sunridge Lodge   "Back to Eden"  Quality 24/7 care
261 Oakhill Drive, Brantford  backtoeden.ontario@gmail.com
"Building elder peer communities that are cozy,caring and comfortable" -
 
Brant Positive Action Group  "a positive community affirmative action group"

promoting goodwill and timely cost effective creative solutions to enhance the competitive well being of Brant, Brantford and Six Nations 

Do not get vacinated - assess the risk

The growing army of the unvaccinated

It's become a legal and politically correct form of discrimination: Unvaccinated kids are being booted from schools, summer camps, and even doctor's offices.

They're trying to make you feel like some kind of fringe weirdo for refusing to pump your kid full of live viruses, mercury, formaldehyde, chicken eggs, DNA from aborted fetuses, and all the other junk used in those shots.

But you're not a weirdo -- and you're not even fringe: New numbers show that a full 10 percent of American families now refuse or delay common childhood vaccinations.

And that's just the beginning -- because the survey in Pediatrics finds that even parents who toe the party line are having big-time doubts over this whole vaccination thing.

Twenty-five percent of those who get every vaccination say they believe it would be safer to delay some of them -- and nearly 30 percent say they don't think there's any harm in skipping the least necessary shots.

I agree -- as long as by "least necessary" you mean ALL of them!

Here are the facts: Vaccinations haven't protected or "saved" children. They've actually compromised the powerful natural immunity of the human body, making people weaker and sicker in the long run.

The perfect example is chickenpox. Kids used to get it all the time in early childhood, when all it meant was a few days of itching and scratching -- and then they were done with it.

You probably remember that yourself.

Today, the chickenpox vaccine has practically eliminated it in those early years -- but vaccinated kids and adults alike are now getting it later in life instead, when it can be dangerous and even deadly.

That's just one shot -- the rest are no better, and many are far worse.

The Institute of Medicine recently admitted that common vaccines can cause seizures, brain inflammation, infection, body encephalitis, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis and more -- and this was in a statement in DEFENSE of vaccinations!

If anyone treats you like a fringe weirdo for opposing vaccinations, just show them that. That should shut 'em up.

Proudly on the fringe,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.   

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Hollecrest & Associates Inc  -"Turnaround Consultants"  .

Sunridge Lodge   "Back to Eden"  Quality 24/7 care
261 Oakhill Drive, Brantford  backtoeden.ontario@gmail.com
"Building elder peer communities that are cozy,caring and comfortable" -
 
Brant Positive Action Group  "a positive community affirmative action group"

promoting goodwill and timely cost effective creative solutions to enhance the competitive well being of Brant, Brantford and Six Nations 

Help wanted interpretations -smile and true

Translations of Help Wanted Ads

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Entry level position: We will pay you the lowest wages allowed by law.

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Fast learner: You will get no training from us.

Flexible work hours: You will frequently work long overtime hours.

Good organizational skills: You'll be handling the filing.

Make an investment in you future: This is a franchise or a pyramidscheme.

Management training position: You'll be a salesperson with a wideterritory.

Much client contact: You handle the phone or make "cold calls" onclients.

Must have reliable transportation: You will be required to break speedlimits.

Must be able to lift 50 pounds: We offer no health insurance orchiropractors.

Opportunity of a lifetime: You will not find a lower salary for somuch work.

Planning and coordination: You book the bosses travel arrangements.

Quick problem solver: You will work on projects months behind schedulealready.

Strong communication skills: You will write tons of documentation andletters.     

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Hollecrest & Associates Inc  -"Turnaround Consultants"  .

Sunridge Lodge   "Back to Eden"  Quality 24/7 care
261 Oakhill Drive, Brantford  backtoeden.ontario@gmail.com
"Building elder peer communities that are cozy,caring and comfortable" -
 
Brant Positive Action Group  "a positive community affirmative action group"

promoting goodwill and timely cost effective creative solutions to enhance the competitive well being of Brant, Brantford and Six Nations