"Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient." This is the motto of Dr. Bernard Lown, the activist and clinician who practiced and continues to promote a model of medicine based on the deep bond between doctor and patient.
We envision a more just and compassionate world where health and health care are rights; where physicians serve as healers and as advocates for those who are vulnerable and most in need of care; where patients receive the medical services they need and are safe from unnecessary treatment and harm; and where health care exists for the benefit of patients, communities and nations.
In defense of music therapy: an open letter to Amy Holden Jones I was disheartened to hear Amy Holden Jones’ characterization during Lown Institute’s Shkreli Awards of the experience she had with hospice when her mother was at her end of life, particularly because episode 19, from the fifth season of her show The Resident, so fully illuminates the mission and core values of hospice care (although it misses the important aspect of the interdisciplinary nature of hospice care by only portraying a hospice nurse, no other disciplines are represented). Jones said she thought that extraneous, unneeded services were brought in for her mother at the last minute - including “music therapy” (her air quotes) - solely in order to bill at a higher rate. The holistic, interdisciplinary nature of hospice care is what makes it unique and exemplary, and is actually a requirement of any hospice entity. In addition to the condition that hospices provide basic services including nursing, medical social work, and home health care, they are mandated to offer and provide complementary services of chaplaincy, volunteer (companionship, massage, pet therapy, etc) and bereavement support (grief counseling and grief support groups, e.g.). Some hospices even go above and beyond these required complementary services by offering and providing other kinds of services, including music therapy - a professional discipline with national board certification wherein practitioners provide interventions as part of a therapeutic process to address the physical, emotional, spiritual, developmental, behavioral, and social needs of hospice patients. What is important to note is that while complementary services arguably provide a real added value to total hospice care, none of these services, whether required or discretionary, are billable. There is much to decry with individual players (including hospices, particularly for-profit hospices) in our health care system from over treatment to outright fraud. The more pressing issue, in my judgment, is the odious and woefully mistaken notion that health care could flourish as and within a capitalistic system where profit is the bottom line (in terms of for-profit hospices, to quote the attorney for the whistleblower nurses of AseraCare Hospice, James Barger, “a system with a capitalist payee and a socialist payer”, “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle”, The New Yorker, 12/5/22). But a hospice (whether for-profit or not-for-profit) providing music therapy is not something to be denounced, in fact it is something to be lauded. And the music therapists I have had the honor of working with in my twenty plus years of hospice care deserve to be championed, not denigrated. Susan A. Toleos, MA, LMHC
Black women are the least likely to be paid enough in healthcare. Is this a surprise? I am sure if we were to run a research acorss ALL sectors, this will be true. Black woman, although one of the most educated group in the U.S, get paid the least. duhhhhhhh
34:00 _some states didnt need the lockdown..._ (that is how it appears to me too. tho we were a lil panicked up to ~APL/May. everything past then is a crime.) & everything we "learned" was follow the 2019 infection protocols. & stop letting high school drop outs collect billions of dollars (which then keeps thieving on it's own) -JC *whoever is the Lown B$aire excluded, of course.
*fire. lota fun. gotta stay on us, we're all crooks.* except when it comes to compulsory testing, masking & vaccine products forced sales: that is the one part of the company we keep above board. ask the regulator, they work here! or will. gr8 lect. -JC
Reminds me of my old job reading stats to program directors. It’s tough to make it interesting. I recommend more story telling and leaving some analysis and hypothesis to generate more discussions.
Summary: They were shady corporates, they took over the publishing, funding, and the reasearch, and now they are full-blown genocidal crooks. Remember the photo of billygoat Iidentifyasadoctor with that book 'how to lie with statistics'?
Thumbs down in the end. He had me until he started using the word "denialism." The same old crap where you think you can totally dismiss somebody because "we've heard it all." Easier than a debate. Works every time.
The God of the heaven and the earth created all people. He loves all his creation. God has no favorite or favoritism. God is not racist or hateful.,be not deceived. God will judge us all the same on the day of judgement. His judgement is not base on your skin color, or lifestyle, nor education or any temporary thing or achievements. Where will you spend eternity? Come Lord Jesus Christ.
Just today NIH announced all grant applicants have to provide their “equity” plans to include under represented groups even though minorities receive only 2% of STEM doctorates. Those few are going to get rich.
I have Lupus and fibromyalgia. I suffer from pain daily and push through it all. However there are times when the pain becomes unbearable 💔 I sometimes work 12 hour shifts on my feet as a cna and it catches up to me. I am very independent and work through most of my pains with no medicine to help me. Sometimes I'll take a Tylenol to help me through my day. I'm so afraid to go the hospital here in my town for help because they're so racist 😔 I've only been there 2 times. Once for a pulmonary embolism and the other time for a Lupus flare up. I went to this hospital by choice during my flare up in horrible pain, only to be treated like a dog! The staff was clearly pissed at me for even being there. The nurses never looked me in the eyes or even touched me. The doctor came into the room and stated " What do you want for us to do for you? " Why did you come here? I was like wow! Okay. First off I was in pain, my heart was beating fast! I had fever and thought that I was dying 😭 I had no answer for them except for that I was in need of professional help. They only made matters worse by scolding me and accusing me of misusing the E.R for my problems. They threw a pill at me and sent me home with no follow-up or anything else. It has been a year since I've been back. I'm tired of working through this pain alone and don't know what to do. Can anyone please help me with any suggestions 🙏🏾 Thank you. God bless 🙌🏽
You need to see a pain specialist, I did, and they did tests to determine cause of pain even though I knew the cause, and they said I two choices, 1 have surgery and no guarantee the pain will go away, or 2 take pain pills, I chose to take pain pills and I function much better without pain. The thing you need to be careful about is becoming addicted to pain pills, so you should do what I did and start at the bottom and only take half of the pill to see how well it works, and every other day depending on how you feel, take the whole pill. The trick is to be able to work pain free without getting addicted to the pain pills, I've been doing it for a year I'll admit sometimes I just deal with the pain, but I know that I can take a pill if I need to.
@@1brotherlove829 Thanks for your help and may God Bless you for this. I am going to try a pain doctor soon. I also have a rheumatologist appointment coming up next month. I'm going to have her refer me to any specialist that I may need. I will have a better chance with her. Hopefully my experience will be a smooth one. 🙏🏾 Prayers for you and your condition as well.
How many people in places of influence will actually listen to this man. We need science to return to fundamentals and distance it from vested interests. There is far too much influence from the wrong type of organisations. Maybe we need a research tax ring fenced and distributed to researchers by a body out with the influence of governments and big pharma etc. Dream on!!
Aapsonline.com wanttoknow.info/corruptioninsciencenewsarticles and healthimpactnews.com are some of the best resources. The Atlantic- Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science 2010-11-01, Posted: 2019-11-04 20:20:40 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/ Can any medical-research studies be trusted? That question has been central to [Dr. John] Loannidis’s career. He’s what’s known as a meta-researcher, and he’s become one of the world’s foremost experts on the credibility of medical research. He zoomed in on 49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years, as judged by the science community’s two standard measures: the papers had appeared in the journals most widely cited in research articles, and the 49 articles themselves were the most widely cited articles in these journals. Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated. If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable. “Even when the evidence shows that a particular research idea is wrong, if you have thousands of scientists who have invested their careers in it, they’ll continue to publish papers on it,” he says. “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” Of those 45 super-cited studies that Ioannidis focused on, 11 had never been retested. Perhaps worse, Ioannidis found that even when a research error is outed, it typically persists for years or even decades. (far fewer articles like this have been allowed to be published over the last the last 10 years) Former NEJM Editor-in-Chief: 'The pharmaceutical industry is stunningly, staggeringly profitable. 6 TIMES higher than the median of the fortune 500.' “It is no longer possible to believe much of clinical research published” According to Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell, author of "The Truth About Drug Companies" She is a physician and author of of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. “ I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine” [12]. "By such means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the definition of what constitutes a disease.” www.google.com/amp/s/ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/amp/ www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/other/interviews/angell.html Many more medical journal editors and researchers can be found in those links saying similar. For decades until recently. Media has been more and more bribed. In cjr.org look for 8.23.20 article from Tim Scwab about the favor software mogul influencing medicine and media far more than most realize.
Thank you for posting all these links. I haven't opened them yet, but the parts you quoted were already very interesting. Wish I could copy paste your comment with my smartphone, instead I'll just make some screendhots.
Good day to all viewer online am so happy sharing this great testimony on how i was checking for solution in the internet then miraculously i came Across @dr_oba18 the powerful herbalist that Cure Numerous individuals Herpes Simplex Virus,so I contacted him base on the testimonies I?m seeing about him on the internet, I was cured too by him, kindly contact him actoday throug h his email he can help you email ; drobaspellhome902@gmail.com OR WHATSAPP +2348088337602 and so he can cure types of diseases like,HEPATITIS B,DIABETICS,CANCER,HPV,LOW SPERM CAM HIV/STDS FIBROSIS LOST OF WEIGHT .. all thank to you Dr Oba for your kindly help in my life
Ya think? How can any fat person (for instance...) have a "bond" with someone who ignores a hundred years of research, is still recommending counterproductive, and sometimes dangerous, behaviors, drugs and procedures, and who dismisses patients' decades of data and direct personal experience through a compulsive, fucked up, hate-saturated belief/wish that we're all just "uncooperative" gluttonous lazy doomed liars? Bond? Are you fucking kidding? I'm just trying to find a doctor who won't try to cut up my guts for no reason other than fucking greed. "Bond?" LOLOLOLOL...
Ioannidis said the same thing as Dr Knut Wittkowski and many other doctors and scientists. They all follow the rules of epidemics and pandemics. If we had done that, this would have been over by now.
