- Opiods and addiction - all of these readings and videos provide a great understanding of the problem: from opioids to heroin to fentanyl, and how it is being treated.
- The article, "How Bad is the Opioid Epidemic?" presents shocking graphics about how bad it really is. The video, "Chasing Heroin(e)" is on D2L. You can watch later.)
- LA Times article on Oxycontin
- Listen to Dr. Lemke's interview about treating addicts, and Beth Macy's description of her book, "Dopesick" - as well as the interview on Fresh Air.
- New Yorker article about Purdue Pharma's Sackler family, "The Family that Built the Empire of Pain," New Yorker, 10/30/17
- Alternative Treatments, including new ways of treating addiction - want to add readings in the comments below?
- The Controversies... too many to list.
- Read Rosenthal's first chapter on Unaffordable Healthcare. Know why the current market for healthcare just doesn't deliver. "It is deeply, perhaps fatally, flawed." Faced with disease, we are all potentially victims of medical distortion.
- Listen to her interview (reading is only a summary)
- The history and physical (H&P) is covered in great detail in the new chapter seven on a "Crash Course on Diagnosis", including what medical students typically learn:
- chief complaint
- history of the present illness and review of systems
- diagnosis and treatment
- Wasted Medicine (ProPublica's special series on squandered health care dollars).
- After reading ProPublica’s story, lawmakers in Florida and New Hampshire say they plan to follow the example of an Iowa nonprofit that redistributes leftover medications to needy patients, published Dec 1, 2017.
- Electronic Medical Records: Helping or Hurting?
- The Burnout Crisis in American Health Care: Are electronic medical records and demanding regulations contributing to a historic doctor shortage? The Atlantic, May 11, 2018.
- Assessment of US Hospital Compliance With Regulations for Patients’ Requests for Medical Records, JAMA, Network, Oct. 5, 2018 (pdf).
- Hope for Healthcare
- Chapters from "When Doctors Don't Listen" and the 8 pillars (will post later).
- The Patients Playbook
- The patient revolution
- In the Appendix in Rosenthal's book, she lists a number of helpful references, including a glossary, and letter templates you can write to correct a pricing error.
- Also consider links from ProPublica's Prescriber Check-up based on Part D of Medicare’s prescription-drug program. This program serves more than 42 million people and pays for more than one of every four prescriptions written nationwide. Use this tool to find and compare doctors and other providers in Part D in 2015. Related Story »
- Genetics and Gene Editing
- Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us: And, so far, they’re just fine. America needs a sober debate about the pros and cons of Crispr instead of a paranoid ban on the technology.
- Will add more here.
Other topics you think we should discuss as part of the final, including presentation material?
T or F, is uh-huh means yes?
ReplyDeleteAnswer: T go google search for the definition
what is the function of opioid and what are the negative effect from consuming it? (the answer can be varied)
Answer: opioid is a narcotic drug that is used to treat severe pain, also can be classified as painkiller. However, a small amount or high dosage of these substances can lead to negative result, such as addiction dependency from this medication, plotting any alternative method to obtain this drug, and finally it can bring you to death.
Why are more people dying from hospital?
Answer: Doctors do not listen to patient's story, in most often time doctor prescribe unnecessary drugs or request unneeded surgery operation.
Name one positive and negative aspect of DNA editing?
Answer: positive-remove illnesses; Negative-destroy human kind.
What is the name of the company that produces "OxyContin" and killed many people from opioid addiction?
Answer: Purdue Pharma
Why do people keep taking their medication even though some of them do not provide a positive result to their health?
Answer can be many. From my perspective: For small problem or condition such as the feeling of pain, a lot of them has to do with the person itself and it's state of mentality. People can be weak or strong when thinking mentally, what most of the time people believe is that when they consume such drug it can empower them or relief their issues. However. in reality, the drug do nothing but cause more negative impact toward their health. At this point of feeling such a pain condition, I think is better to see a psychiatric than consuming drugs when in reality the person does not have any illnesses or diseases. Don't let the brain fools you.
In comparison to other countries, how fast are drug approved in the United States?
Answer: fast
State your reasoning, if the doctor and pharmaceutical, they both play the role of win-win situation, meaning if you help me you get benefit? what benefit are they getting and what is bad about it?
Answer: the win-win situation for both doctor and pharmaceutical company will be doctor getting paid as the result of selling the pharma's products. The more he/she prescribe drugs, the more benefit which is money they will receive. Then, the negative impact from this type of scheme is the drug can be very expensive to patients and the effect of therapeutic is either bad or good when compare to a cheap one. This way of prescribing drug is also very unregulated and corrupt that they have high freedom of regulating the market.
What is Crisper?
a) an enzyme that modified the DNA
b) a robot
c) a DNA strand
d) part of EHR system
Answer: a
Define alternative medicine.
Answer: the practice of healing with traditional medicine, yoga, exercise, chiropractic, acupuncture, and etc... without the need of surgery and man made drug.
Before going to the hospital and allowing the doctor to assign you an procedure, what should you do?
Answer: bring your previous medical record, learning something from it, and tell your story before the doctor start assigning unnecessary procedure that can cause harm than good.
Why are many people fall into the victim of drug commercial?
Answer: people assume they are good drugs that has the effect of treating their disease.
Thanks, Fernando. I may use some of your questions, though the answers are probably more complicated than, say, "destroy human kind" :)
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