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What's Wrong with Health Care in the U.S.
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"Rock, All the best to your grandmother for a speedy resolution and quick healing.
The email that came across alerting me to this post said, "A message to all members of SleepGuide
excellent thread emerging on what's wrong with health care in the U.S'
I can't resist replying to that and my comments have nothing to do with your grandmother's case.
What's wrong with health care in the U.S. ?
The damn patients are the biggest problem.
Their doctors tell them over and over to eat a proper diet, lose weight, exercise regularly, practice good sleep hygiene, quit smoking, don't drink so much, and always sleep with your CPAP.
Then what do the patients do?
-Eat huge meals including plenty of sugars, saturated fats, empty carbs and salts!
-Eat very few vegetables!
-Sit around watching tv, playing video games, texting, Twittering, and posting in forums!
-Have very poor sleep hygiene!
-Smoke!
-Drink heavily!
-And then the abysmally poor record with CPAP compliance!
-And then whine because the drugs to fix their problems are expensive and not so effective!
Take control of your own health."
"Rock, All the best to your grandmother for a speedy resolution and quick healing.
The email that came across alerting me to this post said, "A message to all members of SleepGuide
excellent thread emerging on what's wrong with health care in the U.S'
I can't resist replying to that and my comments have nothing to do with your grandmother's case.
What's wrong with health care in the U.S. ?
The damn patients are the biggest problem.
Their doctors tell them over and over to eat a proper diet, lose weight, exercise regularly, practice good sleep hygiene, quit smoking, don't drink so much, and always sleep with your CPAP.
Then what do the patients do?
-Eat huge meals including plenty of sugars, saturated fats, empty carbs and salts!
-Eat very few vegetables!
-Sit around watching tv, playing video games, texting, Twittering, and posting in forums!
-Have very poor sleep hygiene!
-Smoke!
-Drink heavily!
-And then the abysmally poor record with CPAP compliance!
-And then whine because the drugs to fix their problems are expensive and not so effective!
Take control of your own health."
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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I tell my pts that "if you take a lackadaisicle approach to your therapy that it will allow everyone else to do the same" I try to stress the importance of staying on top of ones individule treatment. If you don't know one else will.
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Permalink Reply by Judy on
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There's nothing wrong w/America healthcare that the US government won't make worse!!! Guaranteed they will lower it to the lowest common denominator just as they have education and the school system.
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Permalink Reply by White Beard on
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I tend to agree with Judy, I spent 22 plus years in the military I retired in 1990 and went back to school and became an RN, I am now on disability! If the Government gets control of the Medical establishment, then we are all in trouble, we will wait for ever to get medical appointments, ( has any body ever tried to get a quick appointment in the VA sytem? Good Luck on that!) The Government will pay more and you will get less just like they do in Military procurement! 50 dollars for a hammer, and 500 for a toilet seat! I have seen the medical establishment from both sides, (Government and Civilian) and (Patient and as an Oncology Nurse) Our system has some flaws, maybe many, but it is way more advanced and ahead of most and I qualify the word (most) of its Government counter parts, ie VA and Military medical. And as far as the Socialized medicine in other countries, well why do all the rich and important people all come here to the United States (as in Mayo Clinic and others) to get their medical care? Don't kid your self they know where the best medical treatment in the world is! It's right HERE! We might complain about our system and it might not be perfect, but like our form of Government it might not be perfect but it is the BEST that there is! I am not saying that there is not room for improvement, of course there is and it always should be striving to get better!
Thats my 5 cents worth!
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