10 Things Your Doctor Should Tell You But Won't

Most people depend on their doctor(s) when it comes to the most important decisions they make about their health.  For many things, doctors are indeed a good source of information, considering how intense their education and training in the health sciences is. 

Fluoride in the water is 'compulsory mass medication and a breach of human rights'

Fluoride in the water is 'compulsory mass medication and a breach of human rights' 

The American people are victims of chemical warfare. The fact that they are unaware of it does not change the truth.

If you are persuaded to take a chemical into your body under false pretenses, you are nevertheless a victim of chemical warfare as surely as if someone had set off a chemical bomb in your neighborhood. This is essentially the case when chemicals are applied to you surreptitiously under the guise of "public health."

Sepsis: A medical emergency

Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming response to infection, which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, amputations, and death. When there is an infection, sepsis can occur.

Sepsis symptoms start off very subtly and may mimic a flu or virus. It’s important to look for the warning signs of sepsis. Spotting these symptoms early could prevent the body from entering septic shock, and could save a life.

Symptoms include:

• S – Shiver, fever, or very cold

• E – Extreme pain or general discomfort (“worst ever”)

• P – Pale or discolored skin

• S – Sleepy, difficult to rouse, confused

• I – “I feel like I might die”

• S – Short of breath

Assisted Suicide: Human Right or Homicide?

Assisted Suicide: Human Right or Homicide?

NEW YORK: Death is an inevitable outcome for everyone. How one dies is a legitimate matter of concern for individuals and families, one that governments and courts should address rather than avoid. Physician-assisted suicide represents a fraction of all types of suicide, which together account for approximately 1.4 percent of annual deaths worldwide. Despite low incidence, the action to voluntarily end one’s life poses a dilemma – is assisted suicide a human right to be permitted or a homicide to be prohibited?

Can Physicians Learn Empathy? At St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, I highly doubt it!

Can Physicians Learn Empathy?

At St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, I highly doubt it!

We want competent physicians, but we also want compassionate ones. How do we get them? Is it nature or is it nurture? Is it more important to search out more compassionate students, or should we instill compassion somehow in the ones we start along the training pipeline? I think the answer lies in nurturing what nature has already put there.

Putnam Hospital Center Shrinks Sepsis Mortality

Putnam Hospital Center Shrinks Sepsis Mortality

Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. The chance of sepsis mortality increases 8% for every hour that treatment is delayed, but sepsis deaths are preventable with rapid diagnosis and treatment. Aiming to shrink sepsis mortality, a multidisciplinary team at Putnam Hospital Center (PHC) initiated best practices and interventions focusing on education, early recognition, and prompt intervention.

Dstl seeking commercial partners for new sepsis test

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) in the UK has developed a new test for sepsis which is now available for commercial licence and has the potential to improve survival rates.

Sepsis claims the lives of six million people each year, and is caused by an immune response triggered by infection. The new test has demonstrated an accuracy of 97% and could improve patient survival rates as it enables diagnosis and treatment to take place before symptoms appear.