When doctors go on strike does the death rate go down?

When doctors go on strike does the death rate go down?
January 4, 2008
Mortality statistics sometimes show a drop during a doctors' strike.
• 1. One example often cited is that of a monthlong strike by Los Angeles County physicians in 1976, during which the mortality rate for patients was seen to drop by 18 percent. But a 1979 study in the American Journal of Public Health showed that the overall area death rate remained unchanged, as enough personnel remained on duty to handle the real emergencies. Any seeming benefit to patients' health likely resulted from about 11,000 fewer operations (presumably elective) being performed that month than was typical, meaning that an estimated 50 to 150 patients who could have been expected to die didn't.
• 2. A four-month Israeli doctors' strike in 1983 was found to have some definable effects on public health - the percentage of cesarean sections increased somewhat, and one study suggested hypertension patients might have received worse treatment - but no observed impact on mortality. Nonetheless, the popular wisdom saw the work stoppage as a disaster: a detailed study of public perceptions afterward found that nearly one in four urgent-care patients (or their relatives) felt the strike had resulted in major health problems.
• 3. A 1984 doctors' strike in Varkaus, Finland, mainly meant fewer visits for colds and stomachaches; no significant harmful effects to the public were seen, researchers found, and the uptick in visits after the doctors returned to work suggested that patients were glad to have them back.
• 4. Another key example used to support the proposition that fewer doctors means fewer deaths comes from a June 2000 article in the British Medical Journal written during another Israeli strike; the author reported that in the three months after doctors walked out death rates fell significantly in affected cities. However, her data was by no means the result of a scientific study but consisted mostly of anecdotal reports from funeral home directors, who claimed they'd seen "the same thing in 1983." What is known is that, as in the LA strike, many thousands of elective surgeries were postponed but emergency rooms and chronic care departments remained open.
• 5. In 2003 a SARS outbreak closed four hospitals in Toronto, and all non-emergency services were suspended. Among other things, this led to the canceling of a quarter to a half of joint-replacement surgeries, 40 percent of cardiac surgeries, and as much as 93 percent of some outpatient procedures. The result? The greater Toronto area did see a slight dip in mortality rate relative to the prior two years, but so did the rest of Ontario, and the decrease wasn't statistically significant anyway.
So despite media suggestions to the contrary, doctors' going on strike doesn't seem to have much effect on the death rate one way or the other, and any reduction seen is probably the result of postponed or canceled nonemergency surgeries. And that figures: any surgery is risky, and some common procedures (like coronary bypass or aneurysm repair) have a death rate you just can't ignore. But leaving the tummy tucks out of it, most elective surgeries boast a pretty serious payoff, either in quality-of-life improvement right now or in medical trouble avoided down the line. If 600 people die each year as a result of hip-replacement surgery, does that mean the 200,000-plus patients that pulled through were fools to go under the knife?

How to determine if your vitamins are natural or synthetic I want you to have a way to determine whether your vitamins are natural or synthetic.

How to determine if your vitamins are natural or synthetic
I want you to have a way to determine whether your vitamins are natural or synthetic. The following list, will help you determine what you are paying for with your hard earned money.

Most Dangerous Things to Look for In a Multiple Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

*Synthetic vitamin A as Lemon Grass, Palmitate, Acetate or if source not given on the label.
*Synthetic Vitamin B-1 as Thiamin Mononitrate, Thiamin Hydrochloride
*Synthetic Vitamin B-2 as Riboflavin
*Synthetic Vitamin B-6 as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride,
*Synthetic PABA Aminobenzoic Acid
*Synthetic Folic Acid as Pteroylglutamic Acid
*Synthetic Biotin as d-Biotin
*Synthetic Choline as Choline Chloride & Choline Bitartrate
Here is an example of deception on a label Vitamin B-1 Thiamin Hydrochloride and Brewer’s Yeast, it’s Synthetic B-1 with a pinch of natural B-1 from Brewer’s Yeast. The health food store will play up the yeast when 99% of it is from Synthetic B-1

*Synthetic vitamin C as Ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate
*Synthetic vitamin D as Irradiated Ergosteral (Yeast), Calciferol
*Synthetic vitamin E as “DL-Alpha tocopherol”
*Vitamin F Essential Fatty Acids, do not use Omega 6 and 9, only use Omega 3 is safe
*Synthetic vitamin K as Menadione

In Judith DeCava's book, The Real Truth about Vitamins and Antioxidants, she defines a vitamin as "a complex mechanism...of functional, interrelated, interdependent components. A vitamin consists of, not only the organic nutrient(s) identified as the vitamin, but also enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants and trace element activators." A vitamin complex is not simply an individual chemical or several chemicals. It must contain all factors that make up the vitamin in its entirety. Just like a car is not four tires, nor a wheel, nor an engine, but rather it is a "car" when all parts are complete and working together.



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ABOLISH THE CENTRAL BANK AND THE CENTRAL BANK AND TRADE CARTEL AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT THAT PROTECTS THESE CRIMINALS

We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.

4 things to look for in Vitamin/Mineral/Phytochemical Supplemen

4 things to look for in Vitamin/Mineral/Phytochemical Supplements

1. Standardized natural vitamin complexes
2. Standardized plant-derived mineral
3. Standardized plant-derived Phytochemicals
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Wealth and the Christian

Learning to Taste the Gravel Early
Topic: Wealth and the Christian

The problem of dishonesty in work and labor is a difficult one to address because it is often the case that the first one "lied to" is the liar himself. He is dishonest in his work and labor, and in order to do this most effectively, he must be dishonest first with himself. Remember that the truth about yourself is not seen by looking into your own hearts; the truth is found by looking into the mirror of the Word (Jas. 1:24-25). The Word of God is the only solution to self-deception.

That said, honest work belongs to the Lord. "Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are His work" (Prov. 16:11). This means the Lord identifies with honest work. The weights in the bag are His; the nails in the wall are His; the repair job is His—provided it is done honestly.

If God identifies with honest work, and honest business, then why is there any problem? Why is there any lure to dishonest work? We live in a fallen world. Sin is attractive, at least at the beginning, and this can include Christians. "Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel" (Prov. 20:17). Learning honesty therefore means learning to taste the gravel early.

The simple do not learn this, and listen to the call of a foolish woman. "'Whoever is simple, let him turn in here'; and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 'Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.' But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell" (Prov. 9:16-18). Again, there is a sweetness at the beginning of dishonesty and deception, but the end is a calamity. Often people learn how "sweet" it is to be dishonest in early life, in their school work, but the end is hell. It is a "sweet deal" -- all the benefits, and none of of sweat.

Dishonesty comes to a bad end because a sovereign God hates it. "Diverse weights and diverse measures, they are both alike, an abomination to the Lord" (Prov. 20:10). The word abomination here refers to something disgustingly wicked. This sin is right in there, in God’s sight, with sodomy (Lev. 18:22), bowing down to idols (Deut. 7:25), or witchcraft (Deut. 18:12). "Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and dishonest scales are not good" (Prov. 20:23). A dishonest man is therefore a wicked man. "The wicked man does deceptive work, but he who sows righteousness will have a sure reward" (Prov. 11:18). The wicked man cuts corners.

It should not be surprising that dishonesty frequently involves "tomorrow." "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips" (Prov. 27:1-2). Not completing work on time is dishonesty. Not completing it on time the way you said you would, or with the quality you promised, is dishonesty. If you are good for it tomorrow, then let another say so. This is something they can do based upon your past performance, not upon your promises. The future is infinitely malleable, and that is why dishonest workman are constantly saying that they will get to it "next week" for sure. No question. And then when they are a no show again, and you finally catch them on the phone, the appeal again is to "tomorrow." But this is understandable. There are only two ways to go -- into repentance, or into tomorrow (which always has its own tomorrow).

Dishonesty has a big mouth and brags. "Whoever falsely boasts of giving is like clouds and wind without rain" (Prov. 25:14). Although this is a proverb concerning claims of generosity, we may apply to other forms of "giving" as well. This person is all hat and no cattle, all foam and no beer, all gong and no dinner. He is clouds and wind without rain. People boast vainly of how much they will give, how much they will earn, how much they will do, how much they will accomplish. But when we come to count it up, not much is there. Other forms of bragging show up as well. "'It is good for nothing,' cries the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts (Prov. 20:14).

When dishonesty begins, the end is perversion. And of course, another form of dishonesty corrupts the courts directly. "A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back to pervert the ways of justice" (Prov. 17:23).

Posted by Douglas Wilson - 6/12/2008

Boy with the incredible Brain

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Amazing. This is worth your time to watch this.

The Boy with the incredible Brain

48 minutes long

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Extraordinary People - The Boy with the incredible Brain

Daniel Tammet first came to worldwide attention in March 2004 on
international Pi Day (3/14, of course) when he recited, from memory,
Pi to 22,514 decimal places. It took over five hours and set a new
European record. The event, which Daniel named "Pi in the Sky",
coincided with Einstein's birthday and took place in front of
Einstein's blackboard at the Museum of the History of Science in
Oxford, England. Daniel used that event to raise funds for the
National Society for Epilepsy because it was after a series of
childhood seizures that his extraordinary number and memory abilities
began, aligning him with that rare circumstance of the 'acquired
savant' in which such exceptional skills surface following some CNS
injury or disease. He is proud of the monies raised on behalf of this
organization, and certainly gave this worthy cause a good deal of visibility.

In addition to number and massive memory skills, Daniel has
exceptional language skills as well. He speaks French, German,
Spanish, Lithuanian, Esperanto and Icelandic. He learned the
difficult Icelandic language in seven days which was carefully
documented in the one hour film about Daniel titled The Boy with the
incredible Brain.