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Posted on 06/07/2010 5:55:02 AM PDT by GailA
More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier -- it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.
Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the tests and treatments we get are unnecessary, and avoidable care is costly in more ways than the bill: It may lead to dangerous side effects.
It can start during birth, as some of the nation's increasing cesarean sections are triggered by controversial fetal monitors that signal a baby is in trouble when really everything's fine. It extends to often-futile intensive care at the end of the life.
In between:
Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, much of it from repeated CT scans. Too many scans increase the risk of cancer.
Thousands who get stents for blocked heart arteries should have tried medication first.
(Excerpt) Read more at commercialappeal.com ...
Never mind that a lot of these 'extra' test are done to prevent doctors from getting SUED by the likes of john edwards.
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To little. To late.
To, too and two. Learn it, love it, live it.
” the nation’s increasing cesarean sections are triggered by controversial fetal monitors “
Oh really? What controversy? And by who? With what agenda?
May we start be removing those controversial fetal monitors from MEDICAID patients please? Just to protect them from unnecessary surgery, of course.
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying “Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!
3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren’t always necessary and shouldn’t be used to excess so don’t.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous and can be excessive
14. All generalizations are bad.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don’t use no double negatives.
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19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake (Unless they are as good as gold).
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21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words, however, should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Don’t overuse exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas
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27. Don’t use too many quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations.. Tell me what you know.”
28. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a billion times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly. Besides, hyperbole is always overdone, anyway.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
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32. Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. Avoid “buzz-words”; such integrated transitional scenarios complicate simplistic matters
35. People don’t spell “a lot” correctly alot of the time.
36. Each person should use their possessive pronouns correctly
37. All grammar and spelling rules have exceptions (with a few exceptions)....Morgan’s Law.
38. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
39. The dash – a sometimes useful punctuation mark – can often be overused – even though it’s a helpful tool some of the time.
40. Proofread carefully to make sure you don’t repeat repeat any words.
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42. It is important to use italics for emphasis sparingly.
43. In good writing, for good reasons, under normal circumstances, whenever you can, use prepositional phrases in limited numbers and with great caution.
44. Avoid going out on tangents unrelated to your subject — not the subject of a sentence — that’s another story (like the stories written by Ernest Hemingway, who by the way wrote the great fisherman story The Old Man and the Sea).
45. Complete sentences. Like rule 10.
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51. Note: People just can’t stomach too much use of the colon.
52. Between good grammar and bad grammar, good grammar is the best.
53. There are so many great grammar rules that I can’t decide between them.
54. In English, unlike German, the verb early in the sentence, not later, should be placed.
55. When you write sentences, shifting verb tense is bad.
Love it! One point, however: Rule #51 seems to call for a colonoscopy...
“May we start be removing those controversial fetal monitors from MEDICAID patients please? Just to protect them from unnecessary surgery, of course”
I and my doctor will decide what and how much medical treatment I need, thank you very much. I don’t need a third-party interloper. If this deathcare fiasco is fully implemented with predicted rationing, then for the first time in my life, I will circumvent the law and do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make sure my family and I receive whatever we NEED.
These are college educated reporters and they can’t even construct a proper sentence. They use the improper GOT TO instead of have to.
Doctors run many extra test just to protect themselves from the SUE HAPPY John Edward of this world.
Yes there needs to be redress when there is true medical malpractice, but not for every nit picking thing that the likes of John Edwards what to get rich off of.
What about all those pap smears for those of us who have under gone complete hysterectomies? Are they necessary? Some OB/GYN’s say yes, some say no. Which is it?
“This is not, I repeat not, rationing,” said Dr. Steven Weinberger of the American College of Physicians, which this summer begins publishing recommendations on overused tests, starting with low back pain.”
The plan here is to have a turf war between specialists and generalists. zero and his minions seek to use generalists as government rationing proxies. To accomplish this end, generalists will receive somewhat higher reimbursement for office visits and specialists will be required to go through an increasingly time consuming and elaborate bureaucratic authorization process for coverage of a procedure or treatment. Instead of the specialist as the expert, the generalists and their societies will issue standards that will result in reduced quality and access to specialty care. The standards will be based on a nihilistic approach that claims that less treatment is actually better.
We are more dependent on specialty care than ever before. The critical advances in medical care have some through specialists in cancer, heart disease, and the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. As it becomes more difficult to practice specialty medicine, more specialists will drop out and access to advanced medical care will collapse. And don’t think that this brave new world in medicine will be a picnic for primary care providers. Who will be there to bail them and their patients out when the situation demands a specialist?
A sympathetic trial attorney? 0bama?
You hit the nail on the head.
VFW Victorious in Protecting DOD, VA Healthcare Programs: The president’s signature last week on H.R. 5014 ended a two-month battle that only the VFW waged to ensure all DOD and VA healthcare programs for all beneficiaries were recognized as meeting minimum essential coverage standards under the new national healthcare law. H.R. 5014 recognizes all VA healthcare programs provided to more than 8 million beneficiaries. H.R. 4887, signed into law April 26, recognizes all military Tricare and nonappropriated-fund healthcare programs for more than 9 million beneficiaries. The battle began when House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) revealed just days before a full House vote that national healthcare legislation only recognized Tricare for Life as meeting standards, and excluded a half dozen other Tricare programs, as well as the NAF healthcare plan. A closer review of the 2,400-page document revealed that not all VA healthcare programs were recognized either, to include those provided to widows and dependent children. Whereas many in Washington chose to believe that the intent of the new law would not impact DOD or VA programs, the VFW knew differently, because bill language becomes the law of the land, and because the intent of the 111th Congress will carry little weight in the 125th Congress, when the nation’s focus has moved on to other priorities. The new national healthcare law had to be fixed, not for what it provided, but for what it omitted, and “The VFW is proud to have taken the lead on this issue on behalf of all of America’s veterans, servicemembers and their families,” said VFW National Commander Thomas J. Tradewell Sr. “It’s a prime example of what we do as advocates here in the Nation’s Capitol.” To read the VFW press release, go to http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=5498.
HR 5014 does not answer the question of IF the HUGE NEW FEES for Tricare for Life that go into effect in 2011 have been repealed or scaled back. Nearly $7,000 per couple is not small potatoes for old people on fixed incomes to have to come up with.
#2 Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying “Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!
Love it!
Thanks,
Grandma in Michigan
Without an observant doctor and multiple PSA tests I’m convinced that I would be dead already. The fact is the early detection of prostate cancer and a good surgeon saved my life.
When Lauran Neergaard’s mother has a heart blockage I hope they try pain pills first. After all, what are the odds the doctors only use stents to make money and avoid being sued.
When her unborn baby’s heartbeat slows and the baby stops moving, Lauran will advise the docs to wait and see, don’t use those pesky controversial fetal monitors. Some doctor might decide to do a profitmaking “safe” c-section instead of waiting it out. Mother nature used to decide who lived and died- put her back in charge.
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Of course it’s obvious that the MSM is paving the way for their heroe’s plan here.
But that said, there is a lot of truth to “over treatment” concept.
The correct solution is to minimize health coverage and let eveyone’s wallet be their guide.
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