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Blog Health |
 "Health care,
or healthcare,
is the improvement or maintenance of health via
the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury,
and other physical
and mental impairments in
people. Health care is delivered by health
professionals and allied
health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational
therapy, physical
therapy, athletic
training,
and other health
professions all
constitute health care. The term includes work done
in providing primary
care, secondary
care, tertiary
care, mental
health care
and public
health."
Source
Wikipedia |
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Updated 5/24/26 |
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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 used 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 technologies, larger hospitals, general
practitioners, specialized doctors as well as
nurses. |
| 1.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. AI
should never, ever replace the human interaction
and decision making in medicine |
| 2. Doctors need to spend more time
(if you can get an appointment) with the patient
and listen to their concerns and not just give
them a pill and send them on their way.
Meanwhile corporate doctors are now being paid
by how many patients they see and the amount of
time they spend with each of them. Thus they
have delegated their duties to nurses and
technicians. The practice has become more and
more industrialized with a great deal of work
being done, not by humans, but by technology. |
| 3. 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. Hospitals in most urban areas
are now like small cities, while non urban rural
areas, lack adequate services. They alson need
to be more patient orientated and less reliant
on technology and the bottom line. |
| 4. 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 patient
financial difficulties, pain, suffering and
confusion. We need to balance the technological
advancement, corporate greed, insurance
confusion, governmental oversight and return to
a patient centered system. Government needs to
stop interfering in the patient doctor
relationship and be more interested in
protecting the patients and halting the rapid
industrialization of the health care industry
and the spread of disease. Government also needs
to provide more research, financing and personal
to provide the public with the best possible
experience for a patient. Lives and the health
of the patient demand it! |
| 5. Drug companies need to lower prices
and to stop incentivizing doctors to sell more
drugs so as to increase their bottom line,
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| 6. Insurance providers need to be
more cautious about denying coverage! They also
need to be less bottom line and techno centered
and have more humans making decisions. They need
to stop limiting coverage to only certain areas
of the body, for example the mouth!
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| 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 is too old or to young or did
not have the right insurance, proper policy or
law, income, class, ethnic or religion. Proper
health care is a human right! Personally I
admire the type medicine depicted in Star Trek.
The patient walks in, a doctor or nurse
discusses his or her issue, test him or her and
then treats the issue. No money paperwork or
other interference will come into play. This is
a form of
Universal Health which is practiced
in most of the world but not the United States!
On a personal note NEVER NEVER allow a doctor,
pharmacists, tech or nurse give you a shot or
vaccine in your shoulder! It can and will cause
pain, soreness and numbness!!!! |
“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is
happiness.”
― Amit
Kalantri, Wealth
of Words |
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