It is very fascinating to see Heart beating Surgery.
I have a close fiend , who is a Doctor, who believes in God more(mind you , he is top-notch specialist in his field and recognized as such in the World used to say,’We Doctors prescribe medicines, do Surgery, And in almost all cases, I have felt that the data for my Diagnosis or the Science behind the treatment is questionable, the patient gets cured.I Trust in God, He takes care of us’
People when they do a Master Health Check up, are often stumped when trying to understand the results.
Though the Doctor is the competent person to interpret the Data, it is in our interest to understand what the Health Check Results say.
The reason is many Doctors often willingly misinterpret or distort facts , taking advantage of our ignorance and put you on medication, for which they are being compensated by the the Pharmaceutical Companies(Please read my post on Hoe Doctors have been paid by these companies, filed under ‘Health/Consumer information)
This understanding of the Data gives you a chance to discuss your health issues with the Doctor, and as I have seen’ the Doctors are wary of people who seem to know, not necessarily know,some thing about the subject.
Now to Health Check up Preparation.
1,Fix an appointment for the Health Check Up, preferably in the morning, say around 8 pm.
2.Take your last food (the day before the test) around 8 pm(12 hours should be allowed to test Fasting Sugar after taking Food)
3.Do not take anything after the last food, save water.
4.Have a sterilized bottle/container from the Hospital one day earlier to collect your Stools.
5.In the morning, collect your first Stool.
6.At the Hospital, test the Blood first. Pre- prandial for sugar
7.Take a lot of water, not less than one liter.
8.Ensure that your bladder is full and have the ECG and Ultra sound scan done.
9.Have your eyes checked.
10.Take normal breakfast and not the time.
11 Between one and a half hour and two hours from the time of taking breakfast have your Sugar level tested,post -prandial.
If your doctor ran a test called Total T4 or Total Thyroxine, normal range is approximately 4.5 to 12.5. If you had a low reading, and a high TSH, your doctor might consider that indicative of hypothyroidism.
If your doctor ran a test called Total T4 or Total Thyroxine, normal range is approximately 4.5 to 12.5. If you had a low reading, and a low TSH, your doctor might look into a pituitary problem.
If your doctor ran a test called Free T4, or Free Thyroxine, normal range is approximately 0.7 to 2.0. If your result was less than 0.7, your doctor might consider that indicative of hypothyroidism.
If your doctor ran a test called Total T3, normal range is approximately 80 to 220. If your result was less than 80, your doctor might consider that indicative of hypothyroidism.
If your doctor ran a test called Free T3, normal range is approximately 2.3 to 4.2. If your result was less than 2.3, your doctor might consider that indicative of hypothyroidism.
If your test results are ‘normal’ but you have many symptoms or risk factors for thyroid disease, ask for an antibodies test. Some doctors treatg thyroid symptoms in the presence of elevated antibodies and normal TSH levels.
Alkaline Phosphate. 120(IU/L.
Cholesterol- Bio Chemistry.
Parameters.
Total Cholesterol. 140-200mg/dl.
Triglycerides . 35-165 mg/dl.
High Density Lipoprotein. HDL. 30-63mg/dl.
Low Density Lipoprotein LDL. 15-30mg/dl.
Total Cholesterol. ‘According to the American Heart Association (AHA), you should keep your cholesterol ratio at or below 5:1. The ideal cholesterol ratio is about 3.5:1.”
Stools Test check out the Link web MD .
Ultra Sound, Heart,Lung X ray results have to be analysed by the Doctor.
Liver Function Test.
ALT. 7 to 55 units per liter (U/L)
AST. 8 to 48 U/L
ALP. 45 to 115 U/L
Albumin. 3.5 to 5.0 grams per deciliter (g/dL)
Total protein. 6.3 to 7.9 g/dL
Bilirubin. 0.1 to 1.0 mg/dL
GGT. 9 to 48 U/L
LD. 122 to 222 U/L
PT. 9.5 to 13.8 second.
Urine Analysis.
Urine Test Analysis. Click on the individual urinalysis parameters (except for volume) in the image for information on the performance and meaning of the test..
Yet to find out if it is related to the Genes or the Environment, Diet habits.
Corporate and Doctors have found this a good opening.
They scare people, who are foolish enough to go to them for Advice.
Doctors scare you with vague statements you are overweight for your Age,Height……
Then they ask you the Diet you have been taking.
Depending on the what you say, they suggest changes.
If you want to check how they lie, tell the Doctor, not the actual Diet you are taking, but what you have read or heard of the Foods that reduce weight as the ones you are taking.
You will be surprised at this answers.
Next they tell you that it is likely to be a problem with Thyroid, ask you to run costly tests.
Majority of the results will be negative.
Then a suggestion , to be on the safer side, take some mild Thyroid Tablets, some for Hypothyroid, some for Hyperthyroid.
They put you on a regimen of Diet, which , if a normal healthy individual takes continuously for a month, will develop weakness, loss of appetite,bloating.
In some cases, people become emaciated and I have seen cases where people start falling unconscious.
The Doctor then tells you that there are complications and starts further treatment, for complications that arose out of this crazy medication and suggestion.
By this time you would have forgotten your complaint about Obesity or overweight problem.
I am yet to see a dietician who is not either overweight or look as if they are about to fall sick.
Most of these people are employed by Health Care Industries, Corporate Hospitals.
They serve as His Master’s Voice, parrot what they have been trained to tell you.
Now we have an ex employee of a weight loss company has sent an open Apology Letter.
Read On.
I’m sorry because I put you on a 1,200 calorie diet and told you that was healthy. I’m sorry because when you were running 5x a week, I encouraged you to switch from a 1,200 calorie diet to a 1,500 calorie diet, instead of telling you that you should be eating a hell of a lot more than that. I’m sorry because you were breastfeeding and there’s no way eating those 1,700 calories a day could have been enough for both you and your baby. I’m sorry because you were gluten intolerant and so desperate to lose weight that you didn’t put that on your intake form. But you mentioned it to me later, and I had no idea the damage you were doing to your body. I’m sorry because I think I should have known. I think I should have been educated better before I began to tell all of you what was right or wrong for your body.
I’m sorry because I made you feel like a failure and so you deliberately left a message after the center had closed, telling me you were quitting. I thought you were awesome and gorgeous, and I’m sorry because I never told you that. I’m sorry because you came in telling me you liked to eat organic and weren’t sure about all the chemicals in the food, and I made up some BS about how it was a “stepping stone.” I’m sorry because many of you had thyroid issues and the LAST thing you should have been doing was eating a gluten-filled, chemically-laden starvation diet. I’m sorry because by the time I stopped working there, I wouldn’t touch that food, yet I still sold it to you.
I posted a blog yesterday defending Doctors in a case where the Doctor was accused of negligence when a boy died of Anesthesia overdose during Cosmetic Surgery in Bangalore,India.
It is not that I am always on the side of Doctors.
Useless Medicines prescribed.
I have posted a couple of blogs on Doctor’ unethical practices including administering useless medicine to patients.
Now Doctors, in a study conducted on Doctors selected at random, for medical practice, have admitted to giving useless medicine like
like low-dose drugs, vitamins, nutritional supplements or an unnecessary exam.
Story:
The surveyed doctors said they prescribed them to induce a “placebo effect,” to reassure patients or because patients pushed for a treatment.
“For authorities to put their heads in the sand and pretend (placebo treatments) are not being given out is not helpful,” said Jeremy Howick of Oxford University, one of the authors of the study, which was published online Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. “We need to think of ways to maximize the benefits of using placebos,” he said.
Howick and colleagues used a Web-based survey and got 783 responses. The sample was drawn from a list that included 71 percent of all doctors registered with the General Medical Council, the governing body for doctors in the U.K.
The survey asked doctors if they had ever used a true placebo, like a sugar pill or another kind of dummy treatment such as a drug not meant for the patient’s condition or a non-essential examination including blood tests and X-rays. Nearly all of the doctors — 97 percent — reported having used some kind of placebo treatment at least once, while 12 percent reported having used a fake pill.
About 77 percent of doctors said they used some kind of placebo treatment every week; more than 80 percent of them said their use in some circumstances was ethical.
The “placebo effect” treatments included unnecessary physical exams, joint injections, physical therapy, peppermint pills for a sore throat and antibiotics for infections where they would not be effective.
Dr. Tony Calland, chairman of the British Medical Association’s Ethics Committee, said he was disappointed by the findings. “Prescribing something that you know is of no value is not ethical,” he said.
A previous study found about half of U.S. doctors regularly give their patients treatments that probably won’t work without telling them, and the practice has been reported elsewhere, including Canada, Denmark and Switzerland. The American Medical Association says physicians may only use placebos if the patient is aware.
In 2011, the German Medical Association recommended doctors use fake pills and other placebo treatments more often and said patients didn’t necessarily need to be told.
Some small studies have found dummy pills work even when patients are explicitly told what they’re getting and others have documented the fake treatments can spark a biological effect in the body.
“For illnesses where there is no truly effective treatment, a placebo or alternative therapy is a fine thing to do,” said Dr. Walter Brown, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown University and author of a recent book on placebos. He was not connected to the new study”
Same test is repeated for the same patient in a gap of a day!
Useless Drugs, and at times Procedures .
Physicians recommend against many procedures patients have come to expect, including imaging for low back pain (unless it has lasted more than six weeks) and any cardiac screening, including EKGs, in patients without heart symptoms.
The widely used “DEXA” X-ray screening for osteoporosis landed in rheumatologists’ crosshairs. It should not be done more than once every two years, they advise, because changes in bone density over shorter periods are typically less than the machines’ measurement error, which can cause women to think they’re losing bone mass when they’re not.(life,national post)
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If you’re having surgery, you may wonder if you need an imaging test of your heart to make sure it is safe for you to have the surgery. But if you are not having heart surgery—and you haven’t had a stroke and don’t have a severe heart condition, diabetes, or kidney disease—the imaging tests usually aren’t helpful. Here’s why:
The tests usually aren’t necessary before low-risk surgery.
Some imaging tests use sound waves to take pictures of the heart. This is called echocardiography. Other tests use a small amount of radioactive material. These can be called either a nuclear or CT scan.
Doing a heart imaging test can show whether you’re at risk of having a heart attack or another serious complication when you have surgery. The test results may lead to special care during or after surgery, delaying surgery until the problem is treated, or changing the kind of surgery.
But the risk of heart complications from minor surgeries, such as a breast biopsy, eye or skin surgery, or any “same-day” surgery, is very low. There really isn’t anything doctors can do to lower the risk further. In other words, heart-imaging tests are not likely to change anything. In fact, even major surgery is safe for most healthy people who feel well and are physically active.
Unless you have heart disease or other risk factors, usually all you need before surgery is a careful medical history and physical exam.
Heart imaging tests can pose risks.
The tests are usually very safe, and some can be done with little or no radiation. But if your risk of having a heart problem is low, the tests can produce a false-positive result that could cause anxiety and lead to more tests and an unneeded delay of surgery.
For example, you might have a follow-up coronary angiography (cardiac catheterization). During this test, a catheter is inserted into the heart through a vein, dye is injected, and x-rays are taken. The risks are low, but exposure to radiation adds up over your lifetime, so it’s best to avoid x-rays whenever you can.
Imaging tests can cost a lot.
An imaging stress test costs between $500 and $2,000, and a cardiac CT scan costs $500 to $600. If abnormal results lead to coronary angiography, that can add about $5,000 to the cost. So the tests should only be used when the results would change the way your surgery is done.
Check this site for more before you take any decision on Tests for you and discuss with your Doctor.
What the Doctor has done is not only Professionally wrong but ethically as well.He should not have made children as guinea pigs and he can not complain if he is debarred.
In this case , facts have come to light because of investigative reporting;but there are Doctors who have not touched medical Books/Journals since their qualifying examination about 15/20 years back and treat patients based on out dated or discarded practices.There are Doctors who prescribe unnecessarily and over drug patients;recommend and perform surgery when not warranted;
What of them?
As for MMR being 100% safe no body can assert it as such.hence caution is needed.
Story:
The doctor at the centre of the MMR controversy has said allegations that he failed in his duties as a responsible consultant are “unfounded and unjust”
Speaking outside the General Medical Council (GMC) offices in London and surrounded by supporters, Dr Andrew Wakefield also pledged that “science will continue in earnest”.
The GMC’s disciplinary panel of experts ruled Dr Wakefield showed a “callous disregard” for children’s suffering and abused his position of trust.
His conduct brought the medical profession “into disrepute” after he took blood samples from youngsters at his son’s birthday party in return for payments of £5.
He also acted dishonestly and was misleading and irresponsible in the way he described research later published in The Lancet medical journal, the panel ruled at a hearing.
Dr Wakefield faces being struck off the medical register after the panel decided the allegations against him could amount to serious professional misconduct, which will be decided at a later date.
Parents who believe their children were damaged by the MMR jab heckled the GMC panel as its members delivered their findings.
Dr Wakefield had argued that he had been acting in the children’s best interests
His research on 12 children with bowel disorders and autism was published in The Lancet in 1998.
Although it did not make a proven link with the MMR vaccine, Dr Wakefield subsequently warned parents to have single jabs against measles, mumps and rubella. The claim has been widely discredited.
Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer, whose investigations sparked the inquiry, told Sky News that the GMC had to act.
But Rochelle Poulter, whose son Matthew was involved in the study, said Andrew Wakefield was a compassionate doctor.
Matthew had been soiling himself up to seven times a day, but his symptoms improved after being diagnosed and treated by Dr Wakefield.
“If I did not feel they were acting in his best interests I would not have let them investigate him in the first place,” she said.
“Sometimes you have to be a bit self-sacrificing to improve things, not just your own child, but for other children too.”
The MMR scare led to a sharp drop in the number of children having the jab. Although uptake has risen as safety fears recede, more than 1200 children last year developed measles.
Dr Helen Bedford, lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, said: “Parents should be reassured that there is a large body of good scientific evidence which shows MMR is not linked to autism and bowel disease.” http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Doctor-At-Centre-Of-MMR-Controversy-Failed-In-His-Duties-GMC-Rules/Article/201001415537552?DCMP=EMC-news_OBU
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