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Jumat, 04 Februari 2011

Patients Do Not Take Medications Correctly

With probably one of the best prescription medicine schemes in the world which is heavily subsidized it is surprising that many people do not take their medications when they should. A third of patients just forget to take them.

An odd finding is that 67 per cent do not usually miss a dose but 71 per cent take less than the prescribed amount.

New schemes where pharmacists give advice will probably not help because listening now does not affect behavior later. Hospital admissions due to taking more and less than the prescribed medication amount will continue. With the pressures of daily life people seem to have more important concerns than their health.

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Rabu, 03 November 2010

Reducing Obesity Should Not Mean an Attack on the Elderly

Doctors call for a new attack on obesity. They are calling for more lap band surgery. Of course that will put more money in their pockets. New funding in maternal health is an objective. How can this impact on obesity? Getting new mothers to eat better does not really affect the diet of children. Funding for more beds is another "wishy-washy" idea which has no direct link to reducing obesity.

Banning take away food would mean that hospital cafes would not be able to sell fried chips. Can you imagine only sandwiches on offer? The eateries would not be in business for long. How is this going to be policed? Are they going to check on people all around the building at lunchtime to check on what they are eating? For example, what if a nurse brings a hamburger to work and reheats it in a microwave?

Look around and see what is the "norm" in society. half of women and there quarters if men are overweight. A government that bans take away food faces losing office at the next election. Treating obesity in other ways is also doomed to failure: dietitians are deemed to be in the category of psychologists (get a real job). Even offering free lap band surgery does not mean success. The majority would not choose to have such a dangerous operation.

Freeing up hospital beds for obese people by sending the elderly home makes one wonder if doctors putting forward such ridiculous ideas actually live in a dog kennel. They are surely not in the real world. There is a shortage of aged care places because there is not enough profit in the industry to draw investment. Unless government, thus taxpayers, pay more the aged and infirm will have to stay in hospitals.

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Rabu, 10 Februari 2010

Don't Hire Clowns to Entertain Children

If you are planning to hire clowns to entertain children in a hospital, think again. Children do not like clowns and older children are afraid of them. All 250 patients aged from 4 to 16 years surveyed in a hospital disliked clowns. Adults may find clowns amusing but it appears that older children see them as scary, irrational beings.

So if you are a child and recovering from illness, the last thing you want to see is an odd adult dressed in colorful rags acting strangely. Maybe it would be better to hire a lady who presents children's television shows to cheer young patients up. Though a well known star once met a children's television presenter on a beach in Tasmania, When he introduced himself she promptly told him to !#?* off.

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