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 "Rosemary remembered how she had thought it was odd for Virginia, out of the blue, to mail her personal medical records. Her sister had never done such a thing before. It was almost as if she had felt something was coming.
Unable to go out because of her grief, Rosemary sent her husband to Bauder Pharmacy, an independent drugstore near their home in Des Moines, to get the lengthy FDA-approved prescribing instructions for Vioxx."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Very strict laws as to the confidentiality of medical records have been in effect since April 2003. Thus, you will have to sign a document authorizing the specialist to release your otherwise confidential information to another party, including your primary-care physician. While you are at it, you might as well ask him or her to send a copy of the letter to you. In contrast to the 1950s and 1960s, when doctors' notes were not available to patients, today you control access to your medical record. You decide who can and cannot see it."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "Going through his medical records, he discovered that he had had one of the lowest magnesium blood counts ever recorded in England. He suffered from unrelenting chest pain, gallbladder tenderness, and swollen glands. His memory had deteriorated, and it took enormous effort to apply himself to any focused mental exercise. He was horrified to realize that for the past year he had been unable on most days to walk more than 100 yards before collapsing in exhaustion. He was essentially bedridden, and he was not prepared to live like that any longer."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Weight Gain Patterns
A weight gain grid in the medical records helps to evaluate weight gain progress. It is helpful to identify inadequate weight gain that may be related to restriction of food intake. Guidelines for weight gain recommendations are given in Table 2 [30].
VI. PHARMACOLOGICAL AGENTS
Pharmacological therapy is added to nutrition therapy when women with GDM are unable to achieve or maintain target blood glucose levels and/or when fetal growth rate is above normal [8, 61].
A."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
| "Parke-Davis also paid doctors if they agreed to let corporate employees read their patients' medical records. Franklin learned physicians could earn fifty dollars for each patient's record, plus an additional sum to cover the doctor's cost of overhead.
In another program the company paid doctors to experiment on their patients by prescribing Neurontin in doses that were double the maximum recommended by the FDA. The executives aggressively pushed this program even though patients suffered more side effects as they took higher doses of Neurontin." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
| "The Truth About Confidentiality
Traditional belief holds that medical records are confidential, bound by a sacred doctor-patient relationship. But that's not always the rule—or law. Guidelines for the release of patient information vary state to state. Typically, disclosures to government agencies are required when gunshot wounds, communicable diseases or child abuse are involved." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) |
 "My procedure is to first collect all the medical records that the person has accumulated up to that time, so I don't have to repeat any tests that have already been done. If some things have obviously been missed, then I try to fill in the gaps. There are labs around the country that do a pretty good job of looking for parasites, candidiasis, low magnesium, and other disorders that are either not done or done poorly by conventional labs."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Michelle's parents might have brought their claim under this theory; according to her mother's testimony and medical records, she suffered an intermittent high fever, up to 106 degrees, and severe diarrhea following the shot. However, before it agrees to compensate children for a so-called MMR encephalopathy, the court generally requires evidence that the child lost consciousness for an extended period following the shot. Michelle does not seem to have had a seizure or loss of consciousness." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Luanne Pennesi requested my grandson's medical records. She felt the child's parents and I would learn and benefit from a Gary Null lecture. At that time my grandson's x-ray showed two frightening spots on his lungs. We spoke to Gary. He suggested the boy take specific supplements, and emulsified cod liver oil. A month and a half later a new x-ray revealed clear lungs, no spots. Today my grandson is seven years old. He is home schooled. His health continues to be good. This experience changed many of our concepts. People have tools for health and healing. There is much to learn." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Ideally, medical records should be sent ahead of you. You may be awash in medical forms depending both on what has been done ahead of time and on your insurance plan, but don't be afraid to ask questions: The staff is there to help you.
Once the clinical staff has processed your information, you will be taken into the examining room. Here, a nurse or aide will take your vital
It is important to remember that you, the patient, are in control of who is in the room with you. If you need a caregiver to be with you, you have the right to say so."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "If you have a family history of reactions to any vaccine, or your child has experienced what you believe was a negative reaction to a vaccine in the past, you must absolutely discuss this with your pediatrician and make sure the reaction is well documented in your child's medical records. If your child broke out in a rash after taking penicillin, your doctor would be unlikely to give it to him again. The same safety measure should be taken with vaccinations.
There is a saying used by public health agencies: "Be wise?immunize." But there's another saying, too: "Educate before you vaccinate."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Although her mother believes that the medical records exaggerated what she had told the doctor, Willow may have also made threats about harming the unborn baby. In her competitive need for her attention, Willow's reactions were more characteristic of a child much younger than age thirteen; but her mother asserts that she never felt that Willow would hurt the baby.
Feeling overwhelmed by family pressures and conflicts, Mrs. Barlow brought Willow back to the neurologist who had diagnosed her with ADHD as a small child."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "HIGH RATES OF ANTIDEPRESSANT MADNESS IN ADULTS6 IN 1996, Robert Howland from the University of Pittsburgh reviewed the medical records of 184 patients who had been treated at a university clinic and hospital with SSRI antidepressants including Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft.7 He found eleven patients (6 percent) in whom mania was clearly associated with starting the drugs. The reactions were "generally quite severe" and eight of the eleven patients became psychotic, including four who were so agitated that they had to be put into seclusion." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "It's the only case in this book that didn't come through my psychiatric practice or medical legal work, and the only one in which the background medical records were no longer available. I phoned Emily to ask permission to speak with her and she later told me that anxieties from the past had been stirred up after she agreed to let me interview her. When we finally talked, she learned from me that her experience was surprisingly and shockingly common—that many people on antidepressants developed murderous and suicidal compulsions." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "From examining Jennie's medical records, I have been able to confirm the negative urine test and the ER's failure to inform the parents about it. Jennie's parents were, of course, relieved to find out that their daughter had been telling the truth all along, but it was too late to heal Jennie's wounded feelings and sense of betrayal. Mom explained to me, "Jennie had lost trust in us. My husband and I both felt it was a big turning point. She ran away after the false accusation and we were never again as close." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "They subpoenaed the medical records of a patient, which we refused to give them. The patient had no complaints about me or the care he received, and he denied the board the right to his records. I suggested to the board that we meet before a judge and let them explain why there was a public need for these records. And that case went away. I now have a $2 million extortion attempt by Medicare simply because I use alternative therapies at my clinic.
"Are there risks to other physicians that might prevent them also from speaking up?"
Dr."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "When the Justice Department gave Hunt's medical records to outside cardiologists, they found no evidence that the surgery had been needed. Hunt's blurry vision cleared up once his blood pressure was successfully treated with drugs, but his life would never be the same after his surgery. He suffered a hernia at the incision site, which meant he could no longer do the physical labor of ranching: the fencing, bucking hay, and moving cattle. Five years later, he lost his ranch."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In most hospitals, patient records are routinely kept in multiple places, with CT scans and X-rays in one department and medical records in another. During handoffs of patients between one shift of nurses and the next, or when patients move between floors, critical information is regularly lost. Sometimes it seems, as in my friend's case, as if nurses and doctors don't even read a patient's chart before deciding how to treat them. Home Depot does a better job of tracking a box of nails than your local hospital does in tracking you, the patient." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The researchers had to dig deep into the medical records of their Medicare patients to extract information not only about how much was spent on their care but also about any "comorbidities," other conditions they had that might influence their outcomes. The team looked at what procedures and tests patients underwent; which drugs they took; and whether or not their health was improved by any of it. They even looked at socioeconomic status, which can independently affect health outcomes." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Led by Elizabeth McGlynn, a researcher with the RAND Corporation, the study involved combing through thousands of medical records for information about 439 indicators of the quality of health care. Did migraine sufferers get the right drugs? Did people who came to the hospital with a broken hip receive heparin to prevent a stroke or heart attack? Did elderly patients get a pneumonia vaccine when they were admitted to the hospital? Did diabetics receive counseling to improve their diets and get more exercise?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "If you suspect an error in your medical records, ask your doctor to check the report or contact your local medical society for assistance.
• Picking Up the Medical Tab
Sometimes paying for a doctor's bill out of pocket is the cheaper deal.
If a particular treatment might not look so good on your medical record—and you can afford to pay for it yourself—it may be to your advantage if you don't file for reimbursement from insurers. Preexisting or chronic conditions (made evident by certain treatments) could bump up your premium when your policy is reviewed or switched." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) |
 "According to a study of over 7,000 patients' medical records spanning eight years, if you take ibuprofen for any reason—say, arthritis pain relief—while engaged in aspirin therapy for heart disease, you are twice as likely to die from a heart attack or stroke because of the way these two powerful drugs interact. The study, which was conducted by Britain's Medical Research Council and published in The Lancet, was confirmed by another study published in the journal, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, on April 5, 2007."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
| "This was borne out by the survey, which found that the medical records of 38% of the patients had no information on exactly when the stroke started.
Warning signs of a stroke include dizziness, sudden weakness on one side of the body and headache.
Another reason tPA may not have been given is that hospitals need time to diagnose stroke patients before administering any drugs.
"Ideally, the target is that when patients arrive at the hospital, tPA should be given within an hour," Reeves says. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
| "In one of the studies, researchers examined three years of data covering the medical records of over one million patients (data made available by the Kaiser Permanente Renal Registry in San Francisco). The average age of the subjects was 52 years. The research team specifically looked at the results of a blood test that measures the rate at which kidneys are able to filter waste from the bloodstream (glomerular filtration rate or GFR). The findings revealed that as GFR dropped, the risks of cardiovascular disease, stroke, hospitalization and death all increased sharply." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "The fact that Hitler abused government-controlled medical records is not a reason to do without medical records. However, if the government wants your medical records, you should ask why it really needs them (insurers might like to have access to a centralized system to find more reasons to deny insurance coverage). Despite what promoters may tell you, your chances of recovery if you land unconscious in a remote emergency room will not be materially improved by having your past history in a central computer or on a SmartCard."- Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.) |
| "Their report, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2004, covered the medical records of more than 4,400 Medicaid patients, averaging 15 years per patient. Approximately 1,475 subjects suffered cardiac arrest during the study period. When the complete medication use of each subject was analyzed, researchers came up with these results:
• The rate of sudden death from cardiac causes was twice as high among patients using erythromycin compared to subjects that didn't use the antibiotic." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "Rhoden and Abraham Morgentaler at Harvard Medical School write:
In an attempt to ascertain whether testosterone replacement therapy ignites prostate cancer, the medical records at six urology practices were reviewed. The records of 20 men undergoing testosterone supplementation for sexual dysfunction or "rejuvenation" who were found to have prostate cancer after initiation of exogenous testosterone supplementation were analyzed. Prostate cancer was detected within 2 years of testosterone initiation in 11 men (55%) and from 28 months to 8 years in the remainder."- Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) |
 "All my medical records are on his desk, but Sir David asks me to state the case as I see it.
I go through my history.
Sir David does not say a word.
"Chemotherapy at once" was the advice of my first consultant, also from Harley Street. But there was "Touch chemotherapy and you are a goner" from Professor Wynder. Then chemotherapy was recommended by Professor Salmon in Arizona, Dr. Littlewood and Dr. Powles.
"I hope I have not been obstreperous in resisting this advice," I say.
"Obstreperous is too mild a word for you, Mr. Gearin-Tosh. But go on."- Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) |
 "Most fibromyalgia patients come into my office toting a stack of medical records from several different doctors, because a diagnosis of fibromyalgia usually takes an average of seven to eight years to get! Talk about frustration! They have been tested from top to bottom with absolutely no abnormal findings. The only way to truly discern whether a patient has fibromyalgia is to do specific tender-point testing of eighteen predetermined areas. If eleven or more of these areas are significantly tender when only mild pressure is applied, the patient is diagnosed with fibromyalgia."- Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) |
| "The fact that Hitler abused government-controlled medical records is not a reason to do without medical records. However, if the government wants your medical records, you should ask why it really needs them (insurers might like to have access to a centralized system to find more reasons to deny insurance coverage). Despite what promoters may tell you, your chances of recovery if you land unconscious in a remote emergency room will not be materially improved by having your past history in a central computer or on a SmartCard." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.) |
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