- Soy foods contain phytoestrogens, does this increase the risk of brease cancer? Apparently not, they may even be beneficial. Lower breast cancer recurrence in those with high soy diets

NEJM – Cangrelor an p2y12 inhibitor is no more affective than clopidogrel in patients with acs who were undergoing PCI. In fact, the drug was associated with more bleeding.

- Dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor was shown to be as effective as warfarin for acute venous thromboembolism, with the added benefit that monitoring is not needed.

BMJ – (christmas ed) Encouraging listening to Nellie the elephant while training cpr substantially increases the number of lay people executing the correct rate of compressions

ANNALS OF INTERNAL MED – Should low dose aspirin be continued in patients with cardiovascular disease that develop co-existant bleeding peptic ulcer? In short yes, although more risk of bleeding, mortality is reduced overall. More research needed.

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So why the fear? Well, other than post-cold war views towards anything that comes close to liberalism there are many arguments against socialized systems for anything:

• You lose competition – With only one health care provider, there would be no innovation. This ofcourse is untrue. Drug companies and health tech companies would still need to compete to sell to whoever is buying, regardless of whether its the goverment or individuals.
• Loss of Choice – ” I don’t want my government choosing what treatments I can and cant have because they want to ration healthcare.” Guess what, your HMO’s already do this although not only do they need to ration out all there payments to all of their customers but they also need to pass over some to the shareholders.

Finally its worthing pointing out that a healthcare system provided by goverment does not rule out private care. In the UK there are both, if the NHS will not cover your treatment you can still get private health care insurance in addition (considerably cheaper than in the USA) therefore providing the choice that you may otherwise have lost out on.

A capitalist economy is without doubt the best economy but there are somethings that need to be run by the goverment. The thought of privatizing something like the armed forces is ridiculous. Yet we still have private contractors providing to and innovating for the US forces. Healthcare should be on the same playing field. Whats the point in defending your citizens if you not gonna look after them inside your country.

Dr. Benjamin is understated and although coming into the limelight slightly after her show of determination during hurricane Katrina she far away from the glamour of Sanjay Gupta’s career path. Why then the change of direction? In this writers eyes she reflects the direction of the health reform currently circling the minds of policy makers. Primary care is cheaper. Primary physicians are among the lowest paid of medical school graduates and there numbers are diminishing. Pushing a higher proportion of future doctors into primary care makes sense for a lot of reasons. Mainly, the patient feels like they have more access to care yet the is less cost. A win win situation. This is already a policy adopted by countries such as the United Kingdom leading to recent ballooning of u.k primary care physician salaries so that most now earn well over $200,000.

Is there a bad side? While increased primary care may leave the patient feeling satisfied and not bankrupt, decreased investment in hospital care and speciality medicine is likely to have an impact on innovation and while it may make us feel better to have more access to doctors temporarily, a cure for cancer would be worth much much more.

You will need:

1. 1 x iPhone
2. Download the iChm iphone app
3. A visit to medichack.com to download medical ebooks in .chm format

Instructions

You may have noticed that most of the ebooks we link to are in .chm format.

You can download an chm reader for you iPhone using the link given before.

As long as you have a wifi connection, you can transfer the ebook files you downloaded from our website on to your iphone using the instructions provided with iChm for iPhone.

Now you have access to medical textbooks on the go!

Why spend time reaching targets in preventing unpreventable diseases when you can earn yourself, and the hospital more money by sticking to those with step throat.

Governments need to learn, you can’t manipulate markets to help consumers. In ANY industry.

Universal Healthcare, if done properly, should be something that all societies desire.

How come nobody ever says anything about universal food? Eating healthily isn’t always cheap. Yet nobody has asked for a government run foodstore.

Do we consider food less important than healthcare? Probably not. We are a true utilitarian society. As long as those that are malnourished don’t reach a big enough number to bother us. We’ll be quite happy to let them die.