One thing for sure and that is your memory is much better than mine. That hospitalization was a very unhappy experience although there were some very pleasant interludes, including your visit. It left me with many interesting tales to tell but with a challenged set of vertebrae and discs from that time to the present.
Maybe this is the way they will avoid making any noticeable cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Put idiots in charge of public health and that problem just solves itself. Medicare doesn’t cover the cost of funerals.
It's definitely going to be interesting... Having been on staff in a University Hospital, I believe research will definitely be continuing - however, the government research dollars and oversight will dry up, giving pharmaceutical companies free rein over medications, information, and advertising. Our current definitely-not-regulated-enough healthcare industrial complex is about to go feral.
If memory serves, my very first "house call" was to see you when I was still in school, and you were in the hospital with osteomyelitis. Back in the '80's.
Since elementary school days in the 1960s we were taught to wash hands. Cover coughs and sneezes. Although only more recently was advice to aim to your elbow so hands weren't contaminated and carrying the germs. Also, we were more than encouraged to be vaccinated. I remember in-school sugar cubes with polio-vaccine. I also remember mass testing for TB (forearm 4-pricks). Other than in the school I remember the many years of incremental new vaccines for my own generation, and for my kids in the 1980s-90s. Shots were never fun, but YAY for prevention of diseases.
I remember those sugar cubes -- our class was told to line up and we all marched to the auditorium. We saw the nurses in their starched white uniforms, and thought it would be bad -- but no -- SUGAR CUBES!!! And it was a cube that day and another a week later. And no permission slips, no parents thinking it was a bad idea, since they knew people who'd been afflicted.
The problem is not for people like you and me, who know better -- but the people who will fall prey to what the government tells them.
During my work years in Texas and Maryland I knew two people who suffered from polio when they were children. Their walking was affected permanently. I don't know whether those states mandated polio vaccination as we had in New Jersey.
As a kid I did have a bout with mumps and 'German' measles before that vaccine (now called: MMR) became routine.
One thing for sure and that is your memory is much better than mine. That hospitalization was a very unhappy experience although there were some very pleasant interludes, including your visit. It left me with many interesting tales to tell but with a challenged set of vertebrae and discs from that time to the present.
I remember how much pain you were in. I'm sorry for the lingering aftereffects.
Thanks for the sound and much needed advice Doc!
I live to serve. This is the easy stuff, Joanne. It will get a lot more difficult if Worm Brain has his way.
Maybe this is the way they will avoid making any noticeable cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Put idiots in charge of public health and that problem just solves itself. Medicare doesn’t cover the cost of funerals.
It's possible, I believe the new Medicare plan is going to be called "just die already."
It's definitely going to be interesting... Having been on staff in a University Hospital, I believe research will definitely be continuing - however, the government research dollars and oversight will dry up, giving pharmaceutical companies free rein over medications, information, and advertising. Our current definitely-not-regulated-enough healthcare industrial complex is about to go feral.
I am sending you an email, Tim.
I only wish you did housecalls.
If memory serves, my very first "house call" was to see you when I was still in school, and you were in the hospital with osteomyelitis. Back in the '80's.
Since elementary school days in the 1960s we were taught to wash hands. Cover coughs and sneezes. Although only more recently was advice to aim to your elbow so hands weren't contaminated and carrying the germs. Also, we were more than encouraged to be vaccinated. I remember in-school sugar cubes with polio-vaccine. I also remember mass testing for TB (forearm 4-pricks). Other than in the school I remember the many years of incremental new vaccines for my own generation, and for my kids in the 1980s-90s. Shots were never fun, but YAY for prevention of diseases.
I remember those sugar cubes -- our class was told to line up and we all marched to the auditorium. We saw the nurses in their starched white uniforms, and thought it would be bad -- but no -- SUGAR CUBES!!! And it was a cube that day and another a week later. And no permission slips, no parents thinking it was a bad idea, since they knew people who'd been afflicted.
The problem is not for people like you and me, who know better -- but the people who will fall prey to what the government tells them.
During my work years in Texas and Maryland I knew two people who suffered from polio when they were children. Their walking was affected permanently. I don't know whether those states mandated polio vaccination as we had in New Jersey.
As a kid I did have a bout with mumps and 'German' measles before that vaccine (now called: MMR) became routine.