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Blog Health
The
safeguarding and improving the wellbeing of a
society. Health involves scientist, doctors, nurses,
insurance companies, government agencies,
politicians and of course patients. For centuries
many civilizations developed explanations for
disease on superstition myths and religion. Recently
we rely on enlightened doctors and scientist to
explain disease through science and research.
Health is a vital segment of out society. We
rely on it to cure and prevent diseases, repair
injuries, provide valuable information on all levels of
our wellbeing. History of health maintenance goes back
to our foundations as a species. Ancient societies use
nature and religion to provide cures to what ailed them.
Holy men and women were the first doctors and nurses.
Life was short but hopefully safe. Through the ages it
has evolved to become more scientific and fact based, to
what it is today with techonolgies, larger
hospitals, general practitioners, specialized doctors as
well as nurses. Many techniques and procedures once
administered by humans are now is being replaced by
technology (including AI) and drugs. Recently health
maintenance has shifted from an independent doctor and
nurse who examined, investigated and administered cures
to corporate doctors, hospitals, care centers and major
insurance companies. Corporate doctors are now
being paid by how many patience they see and the amount
of time they spend on each them. Hospitals are more and
more under the control of major corporations,
nonprofits, LLCs, venture capitalist and insurance
companies as well as other profit seeking entities.
Patients are being seen as ways of increasing profit
margins instead of sick and injured individuals. The
practice has become more and more industrialized with a
great deal of work being done, not by humans, but by
technology. Hospitals in most urban areas are now like
small cities, while non urban rural areas, lack adequate
services. Government has has entered the arena with many
regulations, laws and policies that have come between
the doctor and the patient, the hospital and the
patient, as well as the insurance industry, thus
causing financial difficulties, pain and confusion in
the medical practice. We need to balance the
technological advancement, corporate greed, insurance
confusion, governmental oversight and return to a
patient centered system. Doctors need spend more time
with the patient and listen to their concerns and not
just give them a pill and send them on their way.
Hospitals need to be also more patient orientated and
less reliant on technology and the bottom line.
Insurance companies also need to be less bottom line and
techno centered and have more humans making decisions.
Government needs to stop interfering in the patient
doctor relationship and be more interested in halting
the rapid industrialization of the health care
industry and the spread of disease. Hipppocrates
once said "first do no harm" this applies today as it
did in his time! No person should ever suffer or die
because he or she did not have the right insurance,
proper policy or law, income, class, ethnic or religion.
Proper health care is a human right!
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