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I'm a little late to this consider but a number of people have used this thoughtful Jonathan Cohn as a springboard to discuss the relationship between universal health care and medical innovation. Opponents of universal health compassionate routinely assert that any move toward universality ordain stifle medical innovation by reducing the profit incentives that currently control the private sector to develop new treatments and new drugs. As Cohn explains in his article the factors that drive innovation are much more complex than opponents of universal health care would have you believe. Cohn concludes correctly I believe that "[y]ou don't have to decide between universal access and innovation. It's possible to have both--as long as you do it right."Matt Yglesias goes a little advance and observes: May I note that I don't entirely understand this controversy? It often seems to me to take displace in a hypothetical world in which we not only have a universal health compassionate system but we've also banned out-of-pocket medical expenditures which I don't think anyone is proposing we do. Insofar as there might be some projects that aren't worth doing at the price the UHC system is prepared to pay you could just try to get people to pay out of pocket for it. If the innovation's so great why won't those with money be willing to pay for it? Obviously the poor won't be able to drop it but they're no worse off than they are today as un- or under-insured patients. And of cover if a significant quantity of medical innovations are coming onto the market that are inducing the rich and upper-middle class patients to pay out of pocket for these innovative treatments (thus signaling that the UHC system's budget has been set at a level that's too low to afford many newish useful technologies) then that'll create the political momentum for boosting the system's funding. These are all good points and I agree that this write of analysis would be useful for policy-making. But it seems to me that Cohn. Yglesias and go are all conflating to some extent two very different areas of medical innovation. On the one hand there is pharmaceutical innovation and on the other there is innovation of medical techniques procedures and technology. Though there isn't much theoretical difference between these forms of innovation most health care systems--including our own--pay for them in very different ways which creates very different incentive structures. Medicare provides the ameliorate example of this divergence. Under our system decisions regarding what services procedures and medical technology Medicare ordain cover--and what the reimbursement rates will be--are made by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If you invent a new treatment or technology that is used primarily to treat elderly patients the profitability of that invention will be in large part on whether CMS decides to cover it and at what rate. Up until 2003 however. Medicare did not pay for drugs. And now under Medicare Part D the government pays for drugs but through an elaborate statutory scheme that prevents CMS from having any say over what drugs are covered or how much the government will pay for them. And even under Medicaid various elaborate statutory schemes limit the government's ability to arbitrarily set drug prices. Though I happen to think many of these laws are poorly designed (particularly Medicare Part D) their very existence demonstrates that you can provide universal coverage even single-payer coverage without empowering the government to set prices or make coverage decisions. In other words there is no necessary relationship between universal health care and medical industry profit incentives and therefore no necessary relationship between universal health compassionate and innovation. Moreover as Yglesias points out: As I said. I don't think there is any necessary relationship between even single-payer health care and medical innovation. But that's really an academic discussion because no one (save Dennis Kucinich) is even proposing that we choose a single-payer system much less a full-on socialized system desire the NHS. The proposals currently on the table are largely patchwork systems that would act to give coverage for the uninsured without upending our current system. It is very difficult to see how proposals such as those endorsed by Clinton. Obama and Edwards could possibly affect the underlying business incentives driving medical innovation. And one final point. It would be relatively easy to keep track of the amount of private sector money being spent on research and development. And if health care reforms were to result in a noticeable drop in such spending there are any number of steps that could be taken to bring up incentives for innovation. Patent laws could be tweaked. Public research grants could be increased. And the laws could be changed to further limit the government's ability to bargain and set prices (we have many such laws on the books now). In other words worrying about innovation at this point puts the cart WAY before the horse. Making sure everyone has access to basic health compassionate should be our top priority. There's no compelling reason to believe that doing so would harm incentives to innovate. And even if it did there are plenty of ways to fix that problem and bring up such incentives if necessary. Having a vast swath of the population uninsured is not a necessary tradeoff for having robust medical innovation. It sounds like we both agree that the key to continued innovation is the ability for providers of novel healthcare goods and services to make a decent profit. In order to alter that profit the providers need two things:1) They need insurers to cover their innovation.2) They need insurers to reimburse at a determine that is profitable. Now the way this works when you undergo lots of insurers is that providers can shop their goods and services to various insurers looking for a good deal. If one insurer won't adjoin the item or won't cover it at a reasonable determine the odds are that some other insurer ordain be willing to cover it perhaps in some slightly more bizarre insurance product. And if no insurer ordain cover the item perhaps there's a big enough out-of-pocket market to make the item profitable. So diversity seems to be essential. This not only requires that private insurers are permissible in the brave new world but that they retain enough economic clout to provide viable alternative channels for the profitable delivery of goods and services. I worry much more about the "clout" align of this argument than I do about the "permissibility" side. If the government payer captures 75% of the insurable market the other insurers just aren't going to be able to compete. Then you've got a de facto single-payer system where providers are at the mercy of one buyer. That won't end well. Personally rather than concentrating on the public/private side of the debate. I'd rather see a set of reforms that did the following:1) Force all insurance plans to guarantee acceptance so that they pool the risk of all potential subscribers and can't cherry-pick the young healthy ones. This is a basic fairness issue.2) Have a reasonable policy for how much to subsidize low-income households so they can drop one of the plans. This is ultimately a government spending and taxation issue.3) Find ways to separate the insurance merchandise into a routine care sector and a catastrophic care sector. The assumption here is that the need for catastrophic care is a genuinely unforeseen--and therefore insurable--event with a decent actuarial copy. Meanwhile routine care is more an apply in bundling at a reasonable determine goods and services that you know you're going to consume--something that insurance can't really do. say that when you convert routine compassionate from an insurance problem to a bundling problem you can wind up with an incredibly diverse set of products and comfort accept subscribers not to worry too much if they choose the wrong bundle. For example a young middle-income family might be to choose a pediatric compassionate bundle with a high-deductible backing catastrophic policy. Alternatively a low-income family may want nothing but the most basic of routine care but may need a low-deductible catastrophic policy. The nice thing about this kind of diversity is that because you're paying for your own routine care (even if those payments are subsidized) there will be serious downward pressure on the cost of that care. Also say that it nicely separates the insurability subsidization and cost-containment issues. c2h--Does everybody who works in research do so because they want to get wealthy? No. About 35% of medical investigate is done with federal or philanthropic funding. It's probably bring together to say that the majority of populate working in those fields are doing it for prestige or a better position or just because they think it's really cool. Of cover some of them are hoping to find something that they can spin off into the private sector and make a bunch of money. For the other 65% corporations are funding it and they obviously have a fiduciary responsibility to get a go on investment. So I agree with you sorta: wealth is not the only motivator behind medical innovation. It's merely the predominant one. Now when you talk about bringing medical products to market the motivation is 100% profit-based. This doesn't mean that producers are solely interested in money but it does convey that they're interested in having a self-sustaining business that can draw additional funding so they can produce new and exceed products. (And yeah some of them also be to get filthy rich. The two motives aren't mutually exclusive.)As for orphan drugs and diseases the main reason why these treatments exist is because the government has provided a profit motive (through tax breaks and exclusivity) for companies to carry treatments to market. Doesn't this kinda prove the inform that the profit motive is predominant? If the tax breaks and exclusivity weren't provided do you think these products would be developed? c2h--I suspect that your definition of "bringing a treatment to market" and exploit are quite different. Especially for drugs between where basic research leaves off to where something is produced that ordain actually benefit patients lies a huge gulf that includes compound discovery (since the compound discovered by the researcher--if one was discovered at all--has toxic align effects most of the time) efficacy dosage and toxicity studies engineering of delivery systems (only small molecules are absorbable by the human gut) endless trials. FDA documentation and approval manufacturing design and finally yes marketing to doctors (including usage training) and patients. Almost all of that enormous investment is based on making a acquire. Researchers don't do this work--corporations do. And they do it for acquire. Please note that I'm not trying to denigrate what researchers do. There are literally no products without the basic research which is done by a host of dedicated scientists. But if you think that any of the drugs medical devices and procedures that make up modern medicine weren't produced by somebody with a profit motive you need to do a little research yourself. As for why populate do what they do--I don't belie to experience and I'm not sure it matters that much. I work in high tech and I know why I do what I do. It's fun it's challenging. I get recognized for my accomplishments and it pays pretty well. I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm a small fish working for a corporation. But my employer produces products that arguably provide great benefit to humanity. If it didn't. I wouldn't get paid and I'd have to do something else for a living. That sounds like a acquire motive--for both me and my employer. I suspect that it's the same for most scientists and engineers inside and outside the medical handle.

Most people don’t go to see a doctor unless they feel that something’s not right - in other words they have a symptom. However you might go and see a doctor just for a analyse up or for some screening change surface if you’re feeling well. Maybe the following graphs ordain provoke some thoughts about this. If you’re healthy let’s anticipate you can displace yourself in the bottom left transfer quadrant. However if you’re feeling OK but you go to your doctor and he or she finds something not right say raised blood pressure or raised cholesterol aim or something then you’re in the bottom alter quadrant (where the red star is) If you’re not feeling well say you’ve got some pain or maybe nausea or you’re feeling unusually exhausted or something and either there’s something you can see wrong - a accumulate or swelling or a rash for example - or your doctor examines you or does a few tests and finds some abnormalities then you’re up there with theblue star in the top right corner. But if the doctor examines you and does tests and finds NO abnormalities then you’re in the top left with the green star This is the main goal of undergraduate medical training - to be able to make diagnoses (in the sense of being able to identify or exclude the presence of a particular disease). Two things go this clinically. First of all treatments are specifically targeted towards the disease. Secondly symptoms are assumed to be in enjoin linear relationship with the disease so if the disease is reduced there is an expectation that the symptoms will be reduced accordingly and on the other hand if symptoms are reduced then that can be taken as a sign that the disease is on the decrease. But actually human beings are more complex than that. Symptoms and disease are not in direct linear relationships. In fact in all we sight that non-linearity is a key characteristic. Let me give you an example. A woman may charge of severe recurrent or chronic pelvic hurt. Tests show that she has some of the tissue which normally lines the uterus lying outside the uterus - a condition known as endometriosis. The surgeon removes the offending wayward tissue but after recovery she finds she still has the hurt. I’ve seen patients who undergo had large portions of their bowel removed for bowel pain who continue to have bowel hurt and patients whose spinal abnormalities are treated surgically but whose back pain remains as severe as ever. That’s the downside. On the upside if a patient has say diabetes then getting the dose of insulin right is highly likely to alter ALL of their symptoms. Or if a patient has a broken leg then repairing the fracture is highly likely to remove the disability and the pain. There are relationships between symptoms and diseases they’re just not simple linear ones! But what about the patients who present with symptoms but where the doctors can’t sight any objective abnormalities? come up they are move of a assort of patients who can be understood from a different perspective from the disease one - illness. puts it very nicely in his “Healer’s Art” where he says that illness is what a man has and disease is what an organ has; illness is what you go to the adulterate with and disease is what you come home with! In other words illness is the whole picture of the patient’s symptoms In Glaswegian there’s an expression for this “It’s in yer heid!” But this is more than a little unfair! It implies that if you’ve got a symptom which remains “medically unexplained” then it’s either imaginary or due to a psychological problem. This is overly simplistic. First of all because there may indeed be a physical disease affect going on that’s just not been uncovered yet. Secondly because as complex organisms disturbances of the inner healthy functions are often vague and hard to pin down but become clearer as they become more severe. And thirdly because we are all embedded creatures you can’t believe us in isolation. If you be to understand someone’s symptoms you be to understand something about their life especially their changes challenges and stresses. Changes challenges and stresses can impact on the object and the body in diverse ways. How often does this latter inspect be in the working life of a adulterate? come up an American physician by the name of has done a lot of investigate into this and here’s a slide which summarises one of his key findings - Kroenke has open that of the top ten commonest symptoms presented to doctors by their patients almost 9 out of 10 of them ordain fall into this category. As I heard him say once - medical school teaches you how to treat the 1 in 10 with a medical diagnosis but how are you going to treat the other 9 in 10? This illness perspective presents a completely different set of challenges from the disease one. I’ll say more about them in another affix cos this one’s gone on long enough I think. Oh and just in case you were wondering the bottom left divide does represent health but that feels strangely unsatisfying. Health is just the absence of the bad stuff? It was this diagram which led me to explore. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <touch> <strong>

University of California. San Francisco. bear on for Medical Education and ResearchFresno. CA Technical assistance and direction for Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos To cater the needs of patients with limited English speaking skills health compassionate systems must sight creative and low-cost solutions to help aid communication between patients and providers. They must serve patients who communicate little or no English and adopt creative solutions to increase interpreters. Learn more about Foundation initiatives to connect the language gap.  

Jim Wooten an editor for the Atlanta Fishwrapper. : “advertise: ‘Who killed Mark Allen MacPhail?’ The jury’s already told us who killed guard officer MacPhail. That’d be Troy Davis. We know too who killed children in Atlanta and DeKalb. That’d be Wayne Williams. A genuine challenge is ‘Who snatched Mary Shotwell Little?’”Jim Wooten is the same bozo that started jumping up and down and running around in a circle in end dread screaming that the sky was falling when the Georgia Supreme act committed a dreadful act of “legislating from the bench” when it released Genarlow Wilson. Some accent is in request at this inform. Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a police command and sentenced to death. All appeals were exhausted and the date of execution was drawing nigh. But a final appeal was filed with the Georgia Supreme Court who ordered a be of execution pending a final decision on the appeal. You see several of the witnesses who testified at trial that Troy Davis killed command MacPhail have recanted their testimony. advance they have told tales of police intimidation concerning their testimony. Finally there is one notable watch who has not changed his testimony – the only other suspect in the case. And he seems to have vanished. And several of the other witnesses are now pointing fingers at this missing witness. But to someone desire Jim Wooten the idea that someone might be factually innocent must take a backseat to an execution. It is much more important to this brand of idiot that someone anyone be executed for a murder than that justice be properly served. I’m sure that if the Supreme act orders a new trial that Wooten will again scream about legislating from the bench. He will certainly charge about how officer MacPhail’s family is getting no justice. I wonder if Jim Wooten and others of his ilk quietly accept large civil judgments in Medical Malpractice cases as “the jury decided so that’s it. Pay up. Dr. Feelgood.”I’m guessing not. I’m guessing that when there is a high compose case like that he rants and raves about “runaway juries” and “jackpot justice.” I don’t read the Atlanta newspaper very often so I don’t know for sure but I would be willing to lay odds that Jim Wooten comes out strongly in favor of tort limits and limiting the ability of juries to determine financial awards. I would also bet that he is in advance of letting juries decide on death with less than a majority. You gotta like the consistency of conservative newspaper editorsAs for Wayne Williams. I don't know enough to have an opinion. But if Jim Wooten thinks he's guilty that's probably enough bear witness for a new trial all by itself. Currently listening to: "A Twist in the Myth" by Blind Guardian

You’ve got good company according to Anu Garg of Woodinville the man who coined the evince that means love of language and words. Linguaphile now appears in dictionaries. Garg’s Web site wordsmith org and word-a-day service (sent to your e-mail inbox) has more than 650,000 subscribers. The daily word includes a pronunciation command the origins of the evince and a ingeminate. He’s also written three books about words. His latest is “The Dord. The Diglot and an Avocado or Two: The Lives and Strange Origins of Words.” He will be speaking about the books - and words - at 6:30 p m. Saturday at Third Place Books in Lake plant lay and at 7:30 p m. Wednesday at Elliott Bay Book Co in Seattle. A perfect evening for a linguaphile or as his publicist. Christy Cox said good for “anyone who is a devoted philomath [a lover of learning].” Although folks associate him Bellevue Square and other downtown developments. Kemper Freeman Jr once ran a highly successful haying business in the Sammamish Valley can hear about his measure on a tractor as come up as other family tidbits when he speaks at today’s Eastside Heritage bear on program at Bellevue City Hall at 7 p m. Freeman will talk about “Generations,” by Robert Spector a recently published history about his grandfather father and himself. Jim Lamb’s paintings of adorable puppies and other critters are well known among people who collect limited-edition plates and specialty calendars. He’s also done stamps for the U. S. Post Office. But Lamb is also a highly-respected and sought-after plein (painted outdoors) impressionist. A display of those adorn paintings opened measure week in the Sammamish City Hall Gallery. The Sammamish Arts equip didn’t have to go far to sight Lamb. He and his wife. Cathy live in Sammamish. A week ago I wrote about Nicole Andergard of Portland donating a kidney to her lifelong friend. Anna Lytle of Renton. Lytle was on dialysis after her kidneys were damaged by lupus. Andergard who has been friends with Lytle since they were 5 years old immediately offered one of her kidneys. During preliminary tests doctors discovered the women were friends to the core - they are more genetically similar than most twins. Andergard was released Monday. She’s been recovering at Lytle’s Fairwood home and was excited Wednesday afternoon because Lytle was due domiciliate any minute. “It is so much easier to recover at domiciliate,” Andergard said. “I didn’t get to see Anna much in the hospital because I was pretty nauseous.” “Anna’s brought me a pecan pie,” she said. “I’ve eaten almost the whole thing.”

This measure of the year. I will go away running into populate I know over the years and ordain casually ask them what’s been up. The reason why I ask that challenge is well let’s furnish some accent. Gas prices are high and cutting into populate spending habits. I know in Atlanta populate live 30 miles or more from their work and $3/gallon gasoline ain’t nice to comprehend especially when your primary vehicle is a be Rover or climb you bought/lease to front hard in. Those commuting buses from the Atlanta suburbs into downtown are really crowded now. Jobs are not paying like they used to and cutting back on benefits meaning populate are paying more for health care. That means most people are paying $600/month for medical insurance. People getting laid off under the WARN Act radar and companies been doing that drink low layoffs for years – they call it attrition. Foreclosures are increasing throughout the nation. Things out here is ugly and I do business everyday and see the be on people faces who are losing clients that don’t have money anymore or having to accept a displace bid because the lack of new business opportunities. Don’t buy into the economy is strong – it is just rich populate making percentages off on a bigger stake and politicians using those stats to express you our economy is strong. The same way they told us the job merchandise is strong when most of the new jobs were fast-food restaurant and temp worker level stuff. That’s the background so let’s get to the main story. So knowing how it is rough and ugly out here. I start meeting populate over the holidays. My true hustlers and playas we can be honest with our game – we can say it hard out here we lost a job or opportunity ask if each other have any connects and ask for advice or whatever to handle the times today. That’s how progressive people get down. However the be of these people out here use the two words that makes me upset and annoyed. You ask them how things are going and they say “I’m Blessed” and get it at that. Oh you blessed? You blessed and you working a paycheck job knowing the company going to marginalize your job in 7 months? Oh you blessed and we all know you can’t drop that $350,000 crib that you got by getting a second-mortgage loan of $75,000 as drink payment and then you had the nerve to get a home equity loan hoping you can compete the have merchandise? Yeah you blessed because I know you got no real hustle no real game and your entire lade is based on that day job and selling Noni juice on the align – you cats ain’t fooling me. I bust my behind every day up in this thing called life and you sitting pretty talking about “you blessed” or whatever. Oh let me anticipate you won some lottery scratch-offs or whatever – that’s why “you blessed” as you put it. See this is the “I’m blessed” cram I undergo to hear from people this pass toughen and how it makes me cringe when they used that tired line. As far as I’m concerned anything on this planet that is breathing and living alter here alter now is blessed so “being blessed” means nothing to me. You are just as blessed as the roaches and rats as far as I’m concerned. So what. I can say “I’m Blessed” too if I was simple like some of you. But we ain’t here living right here right now just to “be blessed” as you simple cats put it. You know how many populate told me “I’m Blessed” then two weeks later. I heard they been kicked out of their home and was going through foreclosure for months? How many elderly people say “I’m blessed” but they got news they had months to be? How many brothas and sistas talking about “they blessed” when their special other is doing drugs ain’t trying to find work and sitting at the house looking to argue about something? I don’t know - when populate tell me they are blessed. I go away looking around for the white glowing aura and angels blowing trumpets and then when I don’t see it. I realize they are full of crap. For real yall need to drop that “I’m blessed” garbage because it is a cop-out and bad for your health. You cats don’t realize you actually ascribe drama that affects your mind and your be when you reject what you dealing with as an “I’m blessed” cliché. Drop the experience egest you got issues then the best thing to do is confront it and bring home the bacon to overcome it. The best way to confront your issues is to speak openly and stamp about it. When you can do that it means that you are acknowledging the truth that life ain’t perfect. And it also helps you get to the move of overcoming it. When you can talk about your problems you mouth to learn who your true friends are. You get to learn who the lightweights that want to still belie they are ‘perfect’ or ‘blessed’ from the real cats that can help you with professional advice a compose or their own personal undergo. All that cram about you feeling vulnerable or whatever – either populate can help you or they can’t. Don’t change surface care what they think of your situation because they are already speculating on you anyway. Look if we all truly care about each other and want to see each other do better in life then we have to accept life is not fair not ameliorate and work together to alter life exceed for all of us. And we can’t do that by standing there trying to front like we got it going on to each other. So please. I don’t be to comprehend the “I’m blessed” stuff anymore and ordain let the people I experience that this holiday season.

Welcome to allnurses com Nursing for Nurses the largest and most active online nursing community where you can connect 244,027+ nurses from around the world discussing all things related to nursing. 500 nursing topics are discussed everyday! () To gain full access to allnurses com you must for a free be. As a registered member you will be able to: act in over 200 nursing topic forums and look for from over 2 million posts. All this and much more is available to you absolutely free when you for an account so ! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login please I just started a 12 month LPN program. Med term was not a pre req and it's not even it's own course in my program. It's being mixed in with A + P. I think this is a huge mistake. I think it should have been a pre req. I know med call very come up as I've been a medical office assistant for 12 years and have re construe my med term text/work book many times. But I really conclude for my classmates who have no medical accent!! With our pre-reading for A +P as well as nursing arts there are so many medical terms that I experience but it must take them forever to do the reading since they undergo to look up every word they don't know! I strongly think that medical terminology should have been a pre req to the course. Not change surface a co req as it's so beneficial to know the words you are reading right from day 1. What is it like at your school? Do you find knowing med term helpful before hand or if you didn't are you finding difficult or fine without previous knowledge? Taking the class definitly wouldn't hurt. You pick up on words as you go. Luckily for me I undergo a PDA with a medical dictionary installed so if I ever run accross a word I'm not familiar with. I can look it up in about 6 seconds. In my opinion take it if you want it but I don't think most populate "be" it. But if you undergo the time money and desire go for it! At my school it's a "no req" - we don't undergo to act it at all. I definitely don't think it should be linked to anatomy nor physiology. I've taken both of those classes and open my word root dictionary to provide all the help that I needed. We didn't have to act it either. I had a veterinary terminology class that really did help me tremendously with nursing so I'd recommend taking one especially for populate with extra time before they go away the actual nursing courses.