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Americans are the Winner and Loser at the same time in the radiation department.

Americans Get the Most Medical Radiation

Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, more than citizens in other rich countries. We finally win at something. The U.S. accounts for half of the most advanced procedures that use radiation and the average American’s dose had grown six fold over the last couple of decades.

This is not looking at anything but medical tests. What’s amazing is not looking at airport scanners, power lines, cell phones, or microwaves.

Americans get the most medical radiation and still have lousy health. So the biggest myth buster is more radiation is going to ensure better health. In fact it raises the cancer risk and medical costs.

Reality Check

Using technologically advanced medical imaging hasn’t changed how allopathic medicine conducts business. Americans are over tested and over treated, and yet are still unhealthy. Now, we have another source of danger acquiring too much radiation from all the testing.

Radiation accumulates over time. Doctors don’t keep track of radiation given to their patients. Also, there are no federal rules on radiation dose. Children are going to have a lifetime to accumulate more radiation exposure than any previous generation.

Sometimes machines aren’t adjusted for the patient’s size. This isn’t non-toxic and it makes plain sense to realize this generation of super X-rays that give fast, detailed images should be used very selectively.

At this point in time it is used selectively, to avoid a lawsuit by misdiagnosis of a patient.

Danger

Too much radiation raises the risk of cancer. That risk is growing because people in everyday situations are getting imaging tests far too often. Like the New Hampshire teen who was about to get a CT scan to check for kidney stones until a radiologist, Dr. Steven Birnbaum, discovered he’d already had 14 of these powerful X-rays for previous episodes. Adding up the total dose, “I was horrified” at the cancer risk it posed, Birnbaum said.

When other radiologists tell him they’ve never found such a case, Birnbaum replies: “That tells me you haven’t looked.”

Another study by Columbia University researchers, published in 2007, estimated that in a few decades, as many as 2 percent of all cancers in the U.S. might be due to radiation from CT scans given now. Since previous studies suggest that a third of all tests are unnecessary, 20 million adults and more than 1 million children are needlessly being put at risk, they concluded.

Business as Usual $

At this time this is how allopathic medicine conducts business. Yes, these are business decisions as well as dumb choices for safeguarding the American consumer’s health.

Spotting health problems by using ultra sophisticated scanning machines is one thing, trying to avoid a malpractice lawsuit shouldn’t be at the expense of the patient.

Welcome to America’s defensive healthcare, with you getting bombarded with radiation so doctor’s can play it safe. Imaging that shows a problem doesn’t always mean that it will lead to effective treatment.

Healthcare takes many forms; the one thing it is not, is free.

Healthcare

The federal government is starting to build an effective way to deliver more healthcare to everyone. Now, that sounds good on the surface. However, if you look at what the healthcare industry has been delivering it may look different.

Americans seem to believe more care is better. This is such a pervasive believe. Aggressive treatment is the order of the day. From treating normal cholesterol, pre-diabetes, borderline hypertension, and every possible classroom behavior, we have become a nation of prescription pill addicts.

Medical

Medical treatment is not healthcare. The dependency on this type of care shows that we lost our way. Medical care is sick care, not healthcare. Aggressive treatment has a downside, from side effects, to projected future health events.

A recent study found that 15,000 people were projected to die eventually from the CT scans given in just a single year. This also showed that there is significant overuse of this technology.

Now, with more people having coverage the numbers will go up. People have complained of rationing and that may be true. The flip side is rationing what. Testing that is not conclusive, and may subject people to the harmful effects of both the testing and treatment.

The danger is both hospitals and drug makers will have more power to control peoples lives.

Affordable Health Insurance

Affordable health insurance is not bad in itself. No one wants an insurer to deny a claim. However, we do not get the best care by those criteria alone

Many times procedures such as CT scans and Cesarean births provide no benefit. Plus, there is potential harm from many of these procedures. Men who can survive their prostrate cancer without treatment, are treated and left incontinent and/or impotent.

Cardiac stents and bypass operations not only have side effects, but don’t always reduce heart attacks.

Having access to a Ritalin prescription is not a plus for the children involved. Being treated aggressively for type 2 diabetes is a dangerous practice, which also doesn’t change the outcome.

With more people getting this type of care medical errors will rise.

Health

Health isn’t the domain of healthcare in this country. Needless care is many times what medicine is about.

This country doesn’t ration healthcare, the citizens do. The important task of taking care of one’s health has seem to fallen into the governments hands.

The fact that seems to get lost is no one can take care of you better than yourself. The toughest job seems to be to convince people of this fact.

Healthcare will fail and has failed to deliver health, because it is not based on health. What healthcare does is look for disease, and dysfunction, and proceeds to treat the symptoms.

Besides the unnecessary treatments handed out, the necessary ones often make things worst in the long run.

Medical Dependency

Medical dependency is an offshoot of our healthcare policies. The more dependent we become, the less we take responsibility for our life.. What this nation needs is not a government takeover of our healthcare, but an individual takeover of our healthcare.

The overlooked factor that determines your future. is your lifestyle. This video says it all.

Keeping your health in volatile times is playing out as the big story of this decade. News flash, the volatility of the times is making health care the top issue of the day. In today’s environment the healthcare industry is reflecting our economic troubles. It is getting to test its resolve and challenge its ability to survive in a new way. The country is moving in a new direction.

Shifting into uncharted waters can be where you find glittering gold, hitting the bull’s eye. Healthcare’s vulnerability in a weak global market, doesn’t mean that it can’t function at its best. In a good market there is a fair amount of playing it safe, in a down market you adapt either by being on the defensive or offensive. You need more stamina, leverage, control, and combined forces like never before.  A recession means receding and that is not an option, it is the time to flex muscles. The options and opportunities are the currency in today’s world.

What epitomizes our times is how fast everything is changing. The world is fertile ground for just the right changes, at this time it is desperately searching for answers. The population is looking to seize any potential opportunity for normality. The new trend setter will be problem solving, bringing powerful new real time solution to help us thrive. All the more reason it is important not to get unplugged by the turmoil.

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