Health Care Acquired Infections in US Hospitals Remain at Epidemic Proportions

Based on voluntary reporting from 26 states over 2 MILLION American get a hospital acquired (HAI) infection and 200,000 of them die. The odds of you getting an HAI are now one in nine. Surgery makes the risk much higher. Bariatric surgery has a very high risk of killing you with an infection.

It's not surprising that the state with the filthiest hospitals and now laws protecting patients are mostly red states.

Find a retired nurse in her sixties or seventies and ask her about the number of hospital acquired infection that she was aware of when she first became a nurse. She will tell you that they were extremely rare. She will go on to tell you that they were not tolerated and that when they did occur the county health department tracked them down, asses got kicked and the problem got fixed. Back in her day HAIs were taken very seriously. Today hospital infections are routine and expected. Thirty years ago medicine was a profession. Today it's an industry. Forty years ago doctors were compassionate healers who honored their profession and their oath. Today they are LLC (Limited Liability Corporations)

Today there are companies like Kimberly-Clark and organizations like RID Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths who sell products and promote effective protocols to eradicate HAIs. The disinfecting products that Kimberly-Clark sells are far superior to what was available thirty years ago.Kimberly-Clark is aggressively publicizing the desperate need for infection control in American hospitals and hospitals worldwide.



Kimberly-Clark has launched a NOT ON MY WATCH a campaign that is aimed at educating doctors (good luck with that) and other health care workers on how to prevent Hospital Acquired infection. If you click this link you will find some very disturbing data that Kimberly-Clark is presenting to warn patients. It is the same data that your doctor and hospital would rather you not know.



Kimberly-Clark and RID are not the only ones working on behalf of patients in trying to educate hospitals and doctors on the importance basic hygiene. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health along with Consumers Union has issued effective protocol that hospitals ignore and doctors still ignore. The federal government does not now nor will it regulate health care. hat is and will continue to be left up to corrupt and weak state medical boards. Johns Hopkins is urging people to contact their state legislatures to ask hem to pass laws that will protect patients from these deadly pathogens that infest our hospitals and I am not just talking about doctors. If you go to this LINK you will find  who to write to in your state. Please take a few minutes to write to your state senator or assemblyman. They may have lost a loved one to the gross negligence of a hospital and may be inclined to do the right thing for the citizens of your state.

Kimberly-Clark and others are offering hospitals and health care facilities great tools and great advice for eradicating hospital borne infection but damn few hospitals are listening. It would be easy to blame the working stiffs who get treated like crap by their higher ups. Most hospital workers are scared shit less of management and if they were ordered to keep the hospital clean or else, the hospital would be clean and disease free.

According to Time Magazine In the U.S., hospital-acquired infections affect 1 in 10 patients,killing 90,000 of them each year and costing as much as $11 billion each year

Read more:http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733754_1735344,00.html#ixzz0oujrz8ti

Stopping hospital infections is a no brainer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter J. Pronovost is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.^[3] He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public  Health, and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

He introduced an intensive care checklist protocol that during an 18-month period saved 1500 lives and $100 million in the State of Michigan.^[4] According to Atul Gawande in The New Yorker,Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade".

In 2008 Time named Pronovost one of the 100 most influential people in the world; that same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a "genius grant".

One of the good guys Peter Prononost.

Pronovost's book Safe patients, smart hospitals: how one doctor's checklist can help us change health care from the inside out was released in February 2010.


So here we have Peter Provonost whose simple check list saved 1500 lives and most hospitals ignore him. Why? Why? Why?! Is it because bad medicine is more lucrative than good medicine and while an ounce of prevention may still be worth a pound of cure treating hospital borne infections is worth a lot more... a hell of a lot more.

So much for the slick photos of attractive models portraying concerned and vigilant doctors, medical technicians and nurses. Now it's time to see the results of medical negligence when it comes to infection control.


Thanks Doc! 

Here's a link to some real people telling their stories about being infected.

Controversial Anti Obesity Video

Fat women make bad mothers and all the data supports that reality. The following video PSA drives that point home in a very powerful way. Today's women are stupid and out of control.

An anti-obesity campaign video featuring a 300-pound man having a heart attack in the ER as his life of overeating flashes before his eyes is going viral, stirring viewers with its powerful life-or-death message. The PSA, “Rewind the Future,” is from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life wellness movement, which has made waves in the past with its shock-value campaigns. The latest video has been viewed more than 3 million times since Sunday, and is sparking intense discussion about obesity on Reddit and YouTube.

“This was me when I was a kid,” wrote one Redditor, referring to the story conveyed in the video’s succinct minute and 42 seconds. It focuses on a 32-year-old man and his path to heart disease, which began in childhood with unhealthy eating and video-game habits. Another shared, “I’m 5’9, 32 years old and almost 300 pounds. I played all those gaming systems and pretty much grew up like that… I think for the first time, a PSA got to me.”

Related: Heart Attack Grill Owner Says He’s Combating Obesity Epidemic

Others offered diet and fitness tips, and a few physicians even weighed in, including one who offered this: “As someone who is overweight (working on it, have lost considerable weight) and an MD, obesity is a very, very personal and important topic for me. I have seen time and time again obese patients crash in the hospital. Obesity is perhaps one of the worst comorbidities to have for a hospital patient. It complicates everything. Every. Single. Thing.… And while I do understand that these patients are responsible for their conditions, I cannot help but feel empathetic when I look back at my own history.”

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the largest pediatric providers in the country, originally launched the video back in 2012. But it didn’t make much of a splash until it resurfaced this week on Reddit and was subsequently picked up by BuzzFeed. “Now was when the conversation was ready to happen,” CHA wellness marketer Carolina Cruxent told Yahoo Health, referring to recent national discussions about soda bans, nutrition in schools, and obesity in general. “The time was just right.”

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Medical Errors Net The Medical Industry ONE $TRILLION Every Year

Preventable medical errors cost country $1 trillion

BY KATHRYN MAYER

October 26, 2012 • Reprints

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Preventable medical errors may cost the United States up to $1 trillion dollars in lost human potential and contributions, according to the Journal of Health Care Finance.

That estimate is exponentially higher than previous studies, which focused solely on direct medical expenses associated with preventable medical errors. Previous studies showed the economic impact to range from $17 billion up to $50 billion annually and only focused on direct medical costs such as ancillary services, prescription drug services, and inpatient and outpatient care.

“Previous studies do not come close to illustrating the economic loss of human potential and contribution, which families, colleagues, businesses, and communities experience when someone dies from a preventable medical error,” says author Stephen Davidow, a Chicago-based health analyst. “The magnitude of the problem for our society is many orders of magnitude greater than just the medical costs.”

But researchers used “Quality-Adjusted Life Years” to develop a more complete accounting of the economic impact when someone dies from a preventable error.

The authors based their calculation on several well-accepted reports, studies, and economic measures. Based on that, there is a loss of $73.5 billion to $98 billion in QALYs. However, an article in last year’s Health Affairs says preventable deaths due to medical errors are 10 times higher than the IOM estimate. If that is the case, the economic impact is a loss of $735 billion to $980 billion—nearly $1 trillion—in human potential.

“There has been too much focus to date on just the health care cost impact of medical errors. This analysis makes an important contribution to our understanding of the broader economic impact of preventable medical harm,” says Jim Unland, editor of the Journal of Health Care Finance.

Davidow also notes that, to estimate the true economic cost of medical errors, there must be an effort to calculate lost productivity and assign a value to the economic activity of the 1 million or more patients who suffer from a medical error but survive. Some patients clearly have no long-term problems but others may be disabled for an extended period of time or for the rest of their lives. What this means is that the economic impact could be much greater than $1 trillion dollars.

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How to Get Fat and How To Get Skinny

I, Fat Bastard have always said vegetables are what food eats. Proud FA, the former Dean of Feederism will tell you this one undeniable fact... FAT FATTENS BEST.

Two of the greatest forces responsible for the obesity bloom are Dr Arthur Agatston of the South Beach DIEt and the late great Dr Robert Atkins of the Atkins diet. Atkins was obese as hell when he died and Agatston is a fat boy who needs to take statin drugs. OINK! A minor player in that game is Barry Sears of the Zone Diet.

           Why Are Thai Girls So Skinny? Low Insulin?

When I Fat Bastardo really want to have a foodfest or a gluttony safari and I do quite regularly I take a little extra insulin to spike my already huge appetite. Like the Chef, I am a big man with a big appetite and I ain't makin no apologies for it.

Low Carb diets make you fat. That said... fat guys should do low carb and fat girls need to slim down and eat the way Asian girls eat. Asian chicks are HOT and Belly Boy will attest to that. Asian chicks eat high carb diets consisting of of fruit and rice.

American Medicine More Deadly Than Terrorists

The Following from Natural News

America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history.

Four commercial jets crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the United States, claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?

Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the United States every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.

According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine, by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where is the government support for stopping these medical mistakes before they happen?

After 9/11, the White House gave rise to the Department of Homeland Security, designed to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Since its inception, billions of dollars have been poured into it. The 2006 budget allots $34.2 billion to the DHS, a number that has come down slightly from the $37.7 billion budget of 2003.

According to the study led by Null, which involved a painstaking review of thousands of medical records, the United States spends $282 billion annually on deaths due to medical mistakes, or iatrogenic deaths. And that's a conservative estimate; only a fraction of medical errors are reported, according to the study. Actual medical mistakes are likely to be 20 times higher than the reported number because doctors fear retaliation for those mistakes. The American public heads to the doctor's office or the hospital time and again, oblivious of the alarming danger they're heading into. The public knows that medical errors occur, but they assume that errors are unusual, isolated events. Unfortunately, by accepting conventional medicine, patients voluntarily continue to walk into the leading cause of death in America.

According to a 1995 U.S. iatrogenic report, "Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined." This report was issued 10 years ago, when America had 34 million fewer citizens and drug company scandals like the Vioxx recall were yet to occur. Today, health care comprises 15.5 percent of the United States' gross national product, with spending reaching $1.4 trillion in 2004.

Since Americans spend so much money on health care, they should be getting a high quality of care, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. Of the 783,936 annual deaths due to conventional medical mistakes, about 106,000 are from prescription drugs, according to Death by Medicine. That also is a conservative number. Some experts estimate it should be more like 200,000 because of underreported cases of adverse drug reactions.

Americans today are used to fixing problems the quick way – even when it comes to their health. Thus, they rely heavily on prescription drugs to fix their diseases. For every conceivable ailment – real or not – chances are there's a pricey prescription drug to "treat" it. Chances are even better that their drug of choice comes chock full of side effects.

The problem is, prescription drugs don't treat diseases; they merely cover the symptoms. U.S. physicians provide allopathic health care – that is, they care for disease, not health. So, the over-prescription of drugs and medications is designed to treat disease instead of preventing it. And because there are so many drugs available, unforeseen adverse drug reactions are all too common, which leads to the highly conservative annual prescription drug death rate of 106,000. Keep in mind that these numbers came before the Vioxx scandal, and Cox-2 inhibitor drugs could ultimately end up killing tens of thousands more.

American medical patients are getting the short end of a rather raw deal when it comes to prescription drugs. Medicine is a high-dollar, highly competitive business. But it shouldn't be. Null's report cites the five most important aspects of health that modern medicine ignores in favor of the almighty dollar: Stress, lack of exercise, high calorie intake, highly processed foods and environmental toxin exposure. All these things are putting Americans in such poor health that they run to the doctor for treatment. But instead of doctors treating the causes of their poor health, such as putting them on a strict diet and exercise regimen, they stuff them full of prescription drugs to cover their symptoms. Using this inherently faulty system of medical treatment, it's no wonder so many Americans die from prescription drugs. They're not getting better; they're just popping drugs to make their symptoms temporarily go away.

But not all doctors subscribe to this method of "treatment." In fact, many doctors are just as angry as the public should be, charging that scientific medicine is "for sale" to the highest bidder – which, more often than not, end up being pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry is a multi-trillion dollar business. Companies spend billions on advertising and promotions for prescription drugs. Who can remember the last time they watched television and weren't bombarded with ads for pills treating everything from erectile dysfunction to sleeplessness? And who has ever been to a doctor's office or hospital and not seen every pen, notepad and post-it bearing the logo of some prescription drug?

Medical experts claim that patients' requests for certain drugs have no effect on the number of prescriptions written for that drug. Pharmaceutical companies claim their drug ads are "educational" to the public. The public believes the FDA reviews all the ads and only allows the safest and most effective drug ads to reach the public. It's a clever system: Pharmaceutical companies influence the public to ask for prescription drugs, the public asks their physicians to prescribe them certain drugs, and doctors acquiesce to their patients' requests. Everyone's happy, right? Not quite, since the prescription drug death toll continues to rise.

The public seems to genuinely believe that drugs advertised on TV are safe, in spite of the plethora of side effects listed by the commercial's narrator, ranging from diarrhea to death. Patients feel justified in asking their physicians to prescribe them a particular drug they've seen on TV, since it surely must be safe or it wouldn't have been advertised. Remember all those TV ads heralding the wonders of Vioxx? One might wonder how many lives could have been spared if patients didn't see the ad on TV and request a prescription from their doctors.

But advertising isn't the only tool the pharmaceutical industry uses to influence medicine. Null's study cites an ABC report that said pharmaceutical companies spend over $2 billion sending doctors to more than 314,000 events every year. While doctors are riding the dollar of pharmaceutical companies, enjoying all the many perks of these "events," how likely are they to question the validity of drug companies or their products?

Admittedly, not all doctors reside in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. Some are downright angry at the situation, and angry on behalf of an unaware public. Major conflicts of interest exist between the American public, the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry. And although the public suffers the most from this conflict, it is the least informed. The public gets the short end of the stick and they don't even know it. That is why the pharmaceutical industry remains a multi-trillion dollar business.

Prescription drugs are only a part of the U.S. healthcare system's miserable failings. In fact, outpatient deaths, bedsore deaths and malnutrition deaths each account for higher death rates than adverse drug reactions. The problems run deep and cannot be remedied without drastic, widespread change in the system's money and ethics.

The first issue – money – is the main reason the medical industry cannot seem to change. Prescribing more drugs and recommending more surgeries means more profits. Getting more drugs approved by the FDA, regardless of their safety, means more money for the pharmaceutical industry. As the healthcare system stands today, physicians and drug companies can't seem to pass up earning loads of money, even if a few hundred thousand people lose their lives in the process. Even in drastic cases of deadly drugs, everyone involved has a scapegoat: Drug companies can blame the FDA for approving their product and the doctors for over-prescribing it, and doctors can blame the patients for wanting it and not properly weighing the risks.

What ultimately arises is a question of ethics. In layman's terms, ethics are the rules or moral guidelines that govern the conduct of people or professions. Some ethics are ingrained from childhood, but some are specifically set forth. For example, nearly all medical schools have their new doctors take a modern form of the Hippocratic Oath. While few versions are identical, none include setting aside proper medical care in favor of money-making practices.

On the research side of the issue, "Death by Medicine" cites an ABC report that says clinical trials funded by pharmaceutical companies show a 90 percent chance that a drug will be perceived as effective, whereas clinical trials not funded by drug companies show only a 50 percent chance that a drug will be perceived as effective. "It appears that money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you any 'scientific' result you want," writes Null and his team of researchers.

The government spends upwards of $30 billion a year on homeland security. Such spending seems important. Since 2001, 2,996 people in the United States have died from terrorism – all as a result of the 9/11 attacks. In that same period of time, 490,000 people have died from prescription drugs, not counting the Vioxx scandal. That means that prescription drugs in this country are at least 16,400 percent deadlier than terrorism. Again, those are the conservative numbers. A more realistic number, which would include deaths from over-the-counter drugs, makes drug consumption 32,000 percent deadlier than terrorism. But the scope of "Death by Medicine" is even wider. Conventional medicine, including unnecessary surgeries, bedsores and medical errors, is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism. Yet, our government's attention and money is not put into reforming health care.

Couldn't a little chunk of the homeland security money be better spent on overhauling the corrupt U.S. healthcare system, the leading cause of death in America? Couldn't we forfeit the color-coded threat system in favor of stricter guidelines on medical research and prescription drugs? No one is attempting to say that terrorism in the world is not a problem, especially for a high-profile country like the United States. No one is saying that the people who died on 9/11 didn't matter or weren't horribly wronged by the terrorists that day. But there are more dangerous things in the United States being falsely represented as safe and healthy, when, in reality, they are deadly. The corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and in America's healthcare system poses a far greater threat to the health, safety and welfare of Americans today than terrorism.

If the Obama Administration really wants to save lives -- a lot of lives -- it needs look no further than the chemical war has been declared on Americans by Big Pharma.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html#ixzz35oHf54h4

How You Can Save Others From Weight Loss Surgery

There is a site called Obesity-Help. It's a weight loss surgery site set up to sucker suckers into paying a butcher/surgeon to wreck their digestive system. Obesity Help is not about helping people struggling with obesity but rather Obesity-Help is there to exploit the fears and ignorance of the obese.

Obesity help has a forum and a chat room. Many of the members are sock puppets and attack trolls. I would urge you to register on that forum and using private messaging to was newbies about the dangers of WLS. Click Here For The Obesity Help Forum 

My motivation for asking you to do his is two fold. First and foremost it is to save lives and prevent misery but it is also to put a financial hurt on the scumbags doctors who do this.

If you are considering WLS ask yourself for all the valid reason for why you can't eat 2000 calories a day if you are a woman and 2500 if you are a man. If you eat at that level you CANNOT become obese.

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