I love this video - and lets learn from our transatlantic cousins!!
Handwashing applies as much in the GPs surgery as in the hospital - Before your doctor examines you or your child, they should wash their hands!!
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Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Flu vaccination - GPs get £5.25 a shot
Help your local GP take her family on their second foreign holiday. Click here for more information Help keep his or her practice profitable and give them a hand, or rather your arm.
Depending on whether you just add a quick vaccination to all your consultations or set up a special clinic, (with a nurse at £15 an hour) it looks like a tidy profit. It is easy, as long as you don't worry about the ethics of vaccinating someone, with an untested vaccine, with unknown side effects, against a safe kind of flu they will likely never catch.
And the government are paying £5.25 a time for unquestioning, mindless obedience. What a way to earn a living!
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Squatting, saving your pelvic nerves!!
Good posture is important for a strong back healthy hips and good knees. Modern chairs, with soft seats and too much support may help an ailing body, but do little to prevent arthritis and a bad back.
Squatting is good not just for sitting and resting but also for effective bowel opening and natural childbirth. It protects the nerves of the pelvis and the pelvic nerves are critical for good pelvic function.
Squatting seems more natural and this excellent little film gives it to you straight from the studio of Asian American Film Click here for a link
Serious Health Warning! The Wrong Trousers
Please only do this exercise in Baggy Trousers. An important person with a highly respectable position did the Asian Squat for the first time in his office at work. The result was that in the ensuing battle between his trousers and his lower torso, the torso won and the trousers gave way to reveal what I believe can only be called a bottom.
Although in the film it shows grown men doing this exercise in a suit, these were actors and experienced squatters.
.... and errr.... yes I did laugh when he told me and I realise it was probably not that funny, cept I am still chuckling
Thank you Dr X for telling me and allowing me to tell everyone.
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Find out more - Buy the Book!
Squatting is good not just for sitting and resting but also for effective bowel opening and natural childbirth. It protects the nerves of the pelvis and the pelvic nerves are critical for good pelvic function.
Squatting seems more natural and this excellent little film gives it to you straight from the studio of Asian American Film Click here for a link
Serious Health Warning! The Wrong Trousers
Please only do this exercise in Baggy Trousers. An important person with a highly respectable position did the Asian Squat for the first time in his office at work. The result was that in the ensuing battle between his trousers and his lower torso, the torso won and the trousers gave way to reveal what I believe can only be called a bottom.
Although in the film it shows grown men doing this exercise in a suit, these were actors and experienced squatters.
.... and errr.... yes I did laugh when he told me and I realise it was probably not that funny, cept I am still chuckling
Thank you Dr X for telling me and allowing me to tell everyone.
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.lizmiller.info/
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Creation of 'GM' monkey heralds health revolution
Scientists again promise their gullible public a cure for modern life. An article in the Independent gives another outing to the wonders of Modern Medicine. No boys and girls, the solution to our degenerate lifestyles will not be found in the laboratories of the Medical Industrial Complex
Modern Western Disease such as Parkinsonism, Cancer, Heart disease diseases are preventable. Avoid Big Macs, eat a healthy diet, have one two or three large soft bowel motions a day, squat to give birth (and open your bowels), and exercise daily
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http://www.lizmiller.co.uk/Modern Western Disease such as Parkinsonism, Cancer, Heart disease diseases are preventable. Avoid Big Macs, eat a healthy diet, have one two or three large soft bowel motions a day, squat to give birth (and open your bowels), and exercise daily
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Saturday, December 06, 2008
In whose interest a Healthy Nation? The cult of "Research & Medicine"
Research is dominated by the pharmacological industry, which has decided that the only permissible "research" is testing one drug against another, abusing animals and unravelling DNA. This "research" can only treat, not prevent or cure, disease due to western lifestyle. In part, because there are almost no realistic animal models of human disease. Even a laboratory animal is rarely as stressed and constipated as the average westerner.
Ideas coming from outside the pharmaceutical industry are seen as heresy and lead to vilification by the medical specialists and from the popular press. A doctor thinking outside the box risks death by a thousand cuts, excommunication and permanent exile to the wilderness. Thus was it ever, Galileo, and Semelweiss included.
Research has become a cult worshipping DNA, instead of working to prevent disease.
Arab children do not get asthma, unless they eat western "food". Pain is the result of nerve damage - neuropathic pain. Modern childbirth causes 90% of women's gynaecological problems. Even twenty years ago, diabetes was rare. Modern diseases are not drug deficiency diseases, they are the direct consequences of a modern western lifestyle.
But this information does not make money, whereas Western disease does make money.
Big Pharma - the sicker the population, the more drugs they sell
Health insurance companies - the higher the premium, the more money they collect
Government - the healthcare industry grows regardless of recession or depression
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Repetitive Strain Injury RSI, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome CTS
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) became first Work Related Upper Limb Disorder (WRULD) and now Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). CTS is good news for private doctors, it comes with tests, and an operation. This offers a chance to generate waiting lists, consultation fees, investigations, second opinions, surgery and anaesthetists fees.
Carpal Tunnel syndrome is just the latest and most lucrative name for RSI. Other names include De Quervains synovitis when it is so bad the tendon "crackles", but don't forget, golfer's elbow, tennis elbow, sometimes frozen shoulder, dystonia (Awkward movements), writers' cramp, and good old myalgia (Pain in the muscles). In truth these conditions all have the same underlying cause.
The results are stiff, painful, swollen muscles in the hands, arms, shoulders and neck. The swelling in the arms puts pressure on the nerves. The Carpal Tunnel is literally a tunnel through which the nerves and tendons to the hands go through, the swelling causes pressure, and pain. Surgeons are tempted to relieve the pain by operating on the Carpal Tunnel.
Carpal Tunnel syndrome is just the latest and most lucrative name for RSI. Other names include De Quervains synovitis when it is so bad the tendon "crackles", but don't forget, golfer's elbow, tennis elbow, sometimes frozen shoulder, dystonia (Awkward movements), writers' cramp, and good old myalgia (Pain in the muscles). In truth these conditions all have the same underlying cause.
The results are stiff, painful, swollen muscles in the hands, arms, shoulders and neck. The swelling in the arms puts pressure on the nerves. The Carpal Tunnel is literally a tunnel through which the nerves and tendons to the hands go through, the swelling causes pressure, and pain. Surgeons are tempted to relieve the pain by operating on the Carpal Tunnel.
However
a) no one knows what happens in the long term when a youngster has this surgery. It reminds me of the enthusiasm with which cartilages were removed from knees in the 1970s an 1980s and the knee pain and osteoarthritis which inevitably followed in the 1990s and 2000s .
b) It does not treat the cause, just one symptom.
This is the One Minute Medicine approach to RSI
1) RSI is caused by repeating one action or activity or a limited range of activities. Any activity done often enough, can cause RSI. From counting tickets, running on running machines (yes any limb, any activity - it used to be called "shin splints"), writing, data entry, to good old typing.
2) Hard working types get RSI. People going for the Word Speed Record, or Ticket Counting Tally. It is not a condition for idlers or the faintheartedly. Their enthusiasm means they ignore the first warning signs of pain and stiffness and wait until it becomes seriously painful.
3) RSI causes pain and stiffness in all of the muscles of the arms, shoulders and neck. The person is usually tense and rigid, and highly focused on work, and they do not notice the pain that this causes. This may be the only exercise they get. Wrists, hands and shoulders are stiff, often on both side and he or she can never pinch their shoulder blades together at the back.
The First step
Stop or reduce the activity - that is complete rest until pain goes and then start from scratch gradually increasing the activity with frequent breaks. This may be every ten minutes to at the beginning
Then Treatment is three fold
1) Find ways to avoid typing such as -
a) Voice recognition software, but it can be difficlt to train a computer and you have to speak to it slowly
b) Dictate the reports and get them back from India four hours later, ready for editing - for example, http://www.indraftsolutions.com/
2) Do the it differently -
a) work station assessments to make sure the person's posture is correct,
b) wrist rests and other aids, to make sure the person keeps their joints in a neutral position. For example, Track Balls instead of mice, big pens that are easier to grip and so on.
c) change your typing position - most of learn to type in a hit or miss sort of a way. A proper old fashioned typing coure can help someone unlearn bad habits and learn to type better and more effectively
The neutral position is the most efficient way to work a muscle and joint. Extending or stretchig to work at a distance from the body means that the muscles do not work efficiently. This causes pain quicker than if the joint or limb is held in a comfortable neutral position.
3) Loosen up !
a) Physiotherapists are best at managing RSI. They intuitively understand that all parts, wrists, arms, shoulders and neck need treating. Physio is essential if you want to solve the problem and prevent it coming back
b) learn to fidget rather than sit still - stretch and shake yourself out every few minutes, change positions, shrug your shoulders, keep moving!
c) do different physical activities - like dance, yoga, pilates, Alexander technique, different sports, gardening and other outdoor pursuits, rather than just the gym. Do a different type of exercise every day.
d) learn to relax and enjoy the day, rather than keep trying to chase your tail faster and faster - the harder you chase your tail, the faster it moves. Do things differently!
e) Quick exercise = Roll your shoulders forwards, Roll your shoulder backwards and shake your arms out! 10 of each every twenty minutes as required.
None of this suggests surgery. I wrote this post because this morning, I saw a young girl heading for surgery for her "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". I was left wondering why after millions of years of evolution, and some of the finest biological design work imagineable, does a person suddenly need their wrists cut open in order to lead a normal life?
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Dr Liz Miller's Top Ten Health Tips
1. Omega-3 Supplements
2. Exercise daily
3. Get outside and feel the rays
4. Eat healthy food
5. Avoid junk food
6. Avoid alcohol and other poisons
7. Breath from your belly
8. Rest and relax
9. Focus your mind
10. Learn all you can about health
1) Omega-3 Supplements
The easiest and quickest way to improve your health is through Omega –3 supplements. Omega 3 essential fatty acids help a wide range of medical conditions from heart disease, mental health to better joints.
Shop on-line at http://www.mindfirst.co.uk/. or at any health food store, on-line or in the High Street. It takes a couple months for their full benefit to be clear. Choose one without vitamin A or vitamin D. If you are a vegetarian and do not want to take fish oils, then Udo’s Oil and Hemp Seed Oil are fish free alternatives. The next step is a multimineral, multivitamin supplement and if you can choose natural vitamins in preference to synthetic ones.
Once upon a time, a balanced diet gave you the minerals and vitamins you needed but fifty years ago, fruit and vegetables contain five times the vitamins and minerals as they do today. Over-intensive farming, long periods of storage in warehouses, refrigeration, picking unripe fruit and vegetables mean food quality is getting worse.
2 Exercise daily
Exercise needs to be daily, varied and fun; like dancing, football, running, walking the dog, taking the stairs rather than the lift and running up the down escalator. The gym is fine, but variety is the spice of life and the key to being fit.
There are three types of exercise:
1) Those that concentrate on posture such as Yoga, Pilates, Alexander technique, postural alignment and martial arts training. These exercises concentrate on balance, so a person gets their ears above their shoulders, above their hips, above their knees, above their ankles.
2) Those that concentrate on building strength for short bursts of exercise, such as weightlifting, shot putt and gym machines. These exercises build muscle. Core strength is more important than bulging pecs. Regardless of how you look on the beach, if you have strong arms, strong legs and a weak back, you will develop back trouble. Rather than developing specific muscles, all round strength is important,
3) Exercises for stamina, such as running, swimming, football, dancing, skipping, cycling and fast walking.
Try a different exercise, each day of the week
3) Get outside and feel the rays
Sunshine is an instant pickmeup. Just half an hour in the midday sun, especially in winter makes a big difference to the day. Sunshine makes us feel better; so just getting out of the office for a quick wander, even in the rain there is more light outside than there is inside. If you find the winter depressing, think about buying a light box, or a light visor from http://www.outsidein.co.uk/ Put it on full blast while you clean your teeth and make your breakfast to stop the winter blues.
4) Eat healthy food
Start the day with a fresh fruit smoothie. Even easier, a glass of tap water, rehydrates ready for the new day. Eating a healthy diet is about eating natural food. If it was not around 10,000 years ago, then it is probably not good for you and you should not eat it. The best food is organic from your own garden or local farmer. You can have a box delivered to your door.
A natural diet and daily exercise keeps the blood sugar steady and that helps keep your energy up, and helps concentration.
5) Avoid junk food
Treat your stomach with respect. Always read the label. Factories turn food into junk. The purpose of a biscuit is to sell another biscuit. Did you ever see a Kit Kat tree? A packet of crisps can be stored for 2 or even three years, and the crisps are still crunchy, there is nothing alive in that bag. “You are what you eat” and do you want to end as a MacDonald and fries or a Pizza express?
A modern milking cow produces up 20 litres of milk a day, ten times as much as a natural cow. Modern milking cows produce high concentrations of hormones, most of which go into the milk. Dairy products do more for supermarkets selling yoghurt and semi-skimmed milk than for anyone else in the food chain.
The stomach is one of the most complex and interesting organs in the body. It even has its own nervous system or mini brain. It sorts out, digests and absorbs the complete range of diets different people across the world eat. On the other hand, putting something like Coca-Cola into this delicate and refined organ, is like pouring battery acid into your PC. It is hardly surprising people get indigestion.
6) Avoid alcohol and other poisons
Alcohol reaches those parts that other poisons don’t. It damages the brain, the liver, and the pancreas. Few organs escape its effects. Nothing reduces a person’s energy, damages their lungs, narrows their blood-vessels, gives people wrinkles and increases their risk of cancer quicker than cigarettes. In the right environment, the body can recover from almost anything. Drinking and smoking stop the body healing.
7) Breath from your belly
Most people pant! They take far too many short breaths using only the top part of their lungs. Longer deeper breaths increase the oxygen in the blood without over breathing.
Real breathing comes from the belly and it has become counterintuitive. When you breathe in, the belly comes out as the diaphragm pushes down to allow the bottom of the lungs to fill. As you breathe out, the belly comes back in and pushes the air out, like a piston moving up and down. Belly breathing needs the shoulders to be relaxed down and back. Babies and small children naturally breathe from their belly. The first time you start to control your breathing it may feel as though you are going to suffocate, no one has yet.
Practise breathing from your belly for a few minutes everyday and gradually it will become more of a habit as you develop a more natural way of living. Being able to control your breathing, is the fastest way to control your state of mind. It is impossible to panic if you breathe gently and quietly!
8) Rest and relax
There are many ways to relax and calm the mind, from meditation through breathing, repeating a mantra, or just becoming more aware of what is happening from moment to moment. Other people relax by reading, sewing or through a hobby. Nonetheless everyone needs time just to chill out, rest and recover and let go the worries of the day.
9) Focus your mind
In some ways this is the opposite of the last tip. Just as the mind needs to relax, so it also needs to work. The most effective way to work is to focus or concentrate on one task at a time. It can take twenty minutes to recover from an interruption.
Modern life is full of diversions, e-mail, texts, mobile phones and it is easy to be continually distracted and do nothing all day. Multitasking sounds great but it is not efficient. People work better if they concentrate on one task at a time. The natural rhythm of concentration lasts between forty and fifty minutes. After that time, take a few minutes to recover, with some belly breathing, stilling the mind, and having a drink of water, before starting the next cycle.
Focus takes time to develop. Just as it takes time to get the body fit, it takes time to train the mind to focus on one task only. Start by setting a timer, to help you stay concentrated for a few minutes. As you get mentally fitter, your concentration span gets longer, until you can manage to concentrate intensely for up to forty or fifty minutes at a time.
A healthy mind is a fit mind. It is a mind that does what you want it to, rather one that is at the mercy of every passing whim and impulse.
10) Learn all you can about health
Although there is more and more health information available, much of it seems contradictory. One person says do this and another person says do that. Nonetheless, every health article usually has one or two good points worth remembering. But there always has to be a balance, for example, exercise is important but not if you have the flu. Activity has to be balanced with rest, concentration with relaxation and living a healthy life with the demands of earning a living. Some people recommend a low-fat diet, others a low sugar diet. You alone are the best person to find out what suits you and helps you feel healthy and energised.
By being interested in health, you learn more about yourself and this will encourage you to live a happier and healthier life.
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
2. Exercise daily
3. Get outside and feel the rays
4. Eat healthy food
5. Avoid junk food
6. Avoid alcohol and other poisons
7. Breath from your belly
8. Rest and relax
9. Focus your mind
10. Learn all you can about health
1) Omega-3 Supplements
The easiest and quickest way to improve your health is through Omega –3 supplements. Omega 3 essential fatty acids help a wide range of medical conditions from heart disease, mental health to better joints.
Shop on-line at http://www.mindfirst.co.uk/. or at any health food store, on-line or in the High Street. It takes a couple months for their full benefit to be clear. Choose one without vitamin A or vitamin D. If you are a vegetarian and do not want to take fish oils, then Udo’s Oil and Hemp Seed Oil are fish free alternatives. The next step is a multimineral, multivitamin supplement and if you can choose natural vitamins in preference to synthetic ones.
Once upon a time, a balanced diet gave you the minerals and vitamins you needed but fifty years ago, fruit and vegetables contain five times the vitamins and minerals as they do today. Over-intensive farming, long periods of storage in warehouses, refrigeration, picking unripe fruit and vegetables mean food quality is getting worse.
2 Exercise daily
Exercise needs to be daily, varied and fun; like dancing, football, running, walking the dog, taking the stairs rather than the lift and running up the down escalator. The gym is fine, but variety is the spice of life and the key to being fit.
There are three types of exercise:
1) Those that concentrate on posture such as Yoga, Pilates, Alexander technique, postural alignment and martial arts training. These exercises concentrate on balance, so a person gets their ears above their shoulders, above their hips, above their knees, above their ankles.
2) Those that concentrate on building strength for short bursts of exercise, such as weightlifting, shot putt and gym machines. These exercises build muscle. Core strength is more important than bulging pecs. Regardless of how you look on the beach, if you have strong arms, strong legs and a weak back, you will develop back trouble. Rather than developing specific muscles, all round strength is important,
3) Exercises for stamina, such as running, swimming, football, dancing, skipping, cycling and fast walking.
Try a different exercise, each day of the week
3) Get outside and feel the rays
Sunshine is an instant pickmeup. Just half an hour in the midday sun, especially in winter makes a big difference to the day. Sunshine makes us feel better; so just getting out of the office for a quick wander, even in the rain there is more light outside than there is inside. If you find the winter depressing, think about buying a light box, or a light visor from http://www.outsidein.co.uk/ Put it on full blast while you clean your teeth and make your breakfast to stop the winter blues.
4) Eat healthy food
Start the day with a fresh fruit smoothie. Even easier, a glass of tap water, rehydrates ready for the new day. Eating a healthy diet is about eating natural food. If it was not around 10,000 years ago, then it is probably not good for you and you should not eat it. The best food is organic from your own garden or local farmer. You can have a box delivered to your door.
A natural diet and daily exercise keeps the blood sugar steady and that helps keep your energy up, and helps concentration.
5) Avoid junk food
Treat your stomach with respect. Always read the label. Factories turn food into junk. The purpose of a biscuit is to sell another biscuit. Did you ever see a Kit Kat tree? A packet of crisps can be stored for 2 or even three years, and the crisps are still crunchy, there is nothing alive in that bag. “You are what you eat” and do you want to end as a MacDonald and fries or a Pizza express?
A modern milking cow produces up 20 litres of milk a day, ten times as much as a natural cow. Modern milking cows produce high concentrations of hormones, most of which go into the milk. Dairy products do more for supermarkets selling yoghurt and semi-skimmed milk than for anyone else in the food chain.
The stomach is one of the most complex and interesting organs in the body. It even has its own nervous system or mini brain. It sorts out, digests and absorbs the complete range of diets different people across the world eat. On the other hand, putting something like Coca-Cola into this delicate and refined organ, is like pouring battery acid into your PC. It is hardly surprising people get indigestion.
6) Avoid alcohol and other poisons
Alcohol reaches those parts that other poisons don’t. It damages the brain, the liver, and the pancreas. Few organs escape its effects. Nothing reduces a person’s energy, damages their lungs, narrows their blood-vessels, gives people wrinkles and increases their risk of cancer quicker than cigarettes. In the right environment, the body can recover from almost anything. Drinking and smoking stop the body healing.
7) Breath from your belly
Most people pant! They take far too many short breaths using only the top part of their lungs. Longer deeper breaths increase the oxygen in the blood without over breathing.
Real breathing comes from the belly and it has become counterintuitive. When you breathe in, the belly comes out as the diaphragm pushes down to allow the bottom of the lungs to fill. As you breathe out, the belly comes back in and pushes the air out, like a piston moving up and down. Belly breathing needs the shoulders to be relaxed down and back. Babies and small children naturally breathe from their belly. The first time you start to control your breathing it may feel as though you are going to suffocate, no one has yet.
Practise breathing from your belly for a few minutes everyday and gradually it will become more of a habit as you develop a more natural way of living. Being able to control your breathing, is the fastest way to control your state of mind. It is impossible to panic if you breathe gently and quietly!
8) Rest and relax
There are many ways to relax and calm the mind, from meditation through breathing, repeating a mantra, or just becoming more aware of what is happening from moment to moment. Other people relax by reading, sewing or through a hobby. Nonetheless everyone needs time just to chill out, rest and recover and let go the worries of the day.
9) Focus your mind
In some ways this is the opposite of the last tip. Just as the mind needs to relax, so it also needs to work. The most effective way to work is to focus or concentrate on one task at a time. It can take twenty minutes to recover from an interruption.
Modern life is full of diversions, e-mail, texts, mobile phones and it is easy to be continually distracted and do nothing all day. Multitasking sounds great but it is not efficient. People work better if they concentrate on one task at a time. The natural rhythm of concentration lasts between forty and fifty minutes. After that time, take a few minutes to recover, with some belly breathing, stilling the mind, and having a drink of water, before starting the next cycle.
Focus takes time to develop. Just as it takes time to get the body fit, it takes time to train the mind to focus on one task only. Start by setting a timer, to help you stay concentrated for a few minutes. As you get mentally fitter, your concentration span gets longer, until you can manage to concentrate intensely for up to forty or fifty minutes at a time.
A healthy mind is a fit mind. It is a mind that does what you want it to, rather one that is at the mercy of every passing whim and impulse.
10) Learn all you can about health
Although there is more and more health information available, much of it seems contradictory. One person says do this and another person says do that. Nonetheless, every health article usually has one or two good points worth remembering. But there always has to be a balance, for example, exercise is important but not if you have the flu. Activity has to be balanced with rest, concentration with relaxation and living a healthy life with the demands of earning a living. Some people recommend a low-fat diet, others a low sugar diet. You alone are the best person to find out what suits you and helps you feel healthy and energised.
By being interested in health, you learn more about yourself and this will encourage you to live a happier and healthier life.
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
Saturday, June 14, 2008
DEAL WITH TRAUMA ON THE DAY
Reduce hospital stays, reduce infections and reduce complications
Deal with Trauma on the Day. No one, neither surgeon, anaesthetist, nurse nor porter should leave the hospital until the decks are cleared.
The story behind this headline
An 89 year old man, veteran of the Burma campaign and a hospital consultant in Geriatrics and General Medicine at Bedford General Hospital has already waited 36 hours for reduction of a dislocated hip in Bedford General Hospital.
Dr Robert Miller is at increased risk of thrombosis, pneumonia, bedsores, confusion, infection and a failed reduction. And even if the hospital keeps him in a bed for ten days before operating he will still need his operation. Every day his surgery is delayed, delays his recovery and increases the NHS hospital bill. Every day your relative has their surgery delayed, delays their recovery.
The hospital says it cannot afford to open a second theatre to clear trauma cases. They cannot afford not to, and if they are short of money now to open a second theatre, they will have even less money by the time they have dealt with the complications they have caused.
This man is my father. His case is not unique. I want people to write to their MPs and demand that hospitals Deal with Trauma on the Day and post below:
Please write to your MP -not for my father but for your relatives, and for your friends and for your children
Find your MP here
http://www.writetothem.com/
Copy this letter into your email and send it to him or her.
Deal with Trauma on The Day
Dear ______
The UK is the only county in Europe which does not Deal with Trauma on the Day. The longer a patient waits for surgery, the greater their risk of complications. These complications include, infection, thrombosis, pneumonia, bedsores, confusion, failed surgery, and death. The older the patient is, the greater their risk of complications. The younger the patient is, the greater their risk of permanent disability. Hospitals cannot afford not to open a second theatre.
As an MP for ____ hospital, I ask you to campaign to Deal with Trauma on the Day
1) Raise questions in the house
2) Talk to the Chief Executive of ____ and demand action
3) Ensure that all trauma in your constituency is Dealt with on the Day.
Yours truly,
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
Deal with Trauma on the Day. No one, neither surgeon, anaesthetist, nurse nor porter should leave the hospital until the decks are cleared.
The story behind this headline
An 89 year old man, veteran of the Burma campaign and a hospital consultant in Geriatrics and General Medicine at Bedford General Hospital has already waited 36 hours for reduction of a dislocated hip in Bedford General Hospital.
Dr Robert Miller is at increased risk of thrombosis, pneumonia, bedsores, confusion, infection and a failed reduction. And even if the hospital keeps him in a bed for ten days before operating he will still need his operation. Every day his surgery is delayed, delays his recovery and increases the NHS hospital bill. Every day your relative has their surgery delayed, delays their recovery.
The hospital says it cannot afford to open a second theatre to clear trauma cases. They cannot afford not to, and if they are short of money now to open a second theatre, they will have even less money by the time they have dealt with the complications they have caused.
This man is my father. His case is not unique. I want people to write to their MPs and demand that hospitals Deal with Trauma on the Day and post below:
Please write to your MP -not for my father but for your relatives, and for your friends and for your children
Find your MP here
http://www.writetothem.com/
Copy this letter into your email and send it to him or her.
Deal with Trauma on The Day
Dear ______
The UK is the only county in Europe which does not Deal with Trauma on the Day. The longer a patient waits for surgery, the greater their risk of complications. These complications include, infection, thrombosis, pneumonia, bedsores, confusion, failed surgery, and death. The older the patient is, the greater their risk of complications. The younger the patient is, the greater their risk of permanent disability. Hospitals cannot afford not to open a second theatre.
As an MP for ____ hospital, I ask you to campaign to Deal with Trauma on the Day
1) Raise questions in the house
2) Talk to the Chief Executive of ____ and demand action
3) Ensure that all trauma in your constituency is Dealt with on the Day.
Yours truly,
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
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