Quote of the Week
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison
He was right but, alas, we are not there yet. Obesity is spreading like wildfire and along with it goes chronic diseases. It’s tough to get patients interested. We did force people to upgrade Edison’s incandescent light bulb to a crappy compact fluorescent one, though. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
Google Prevention Magazine and “Dirty Electricity” and you will come up with a great article regarding the “dirty electricity” put out by CFLs and other devices we use every day. CFLs are not green. It’s much healthier to use LEDs.
That is nice until it comes time to dispose of the light bulbs (sooner than advertised in most cases, I find) or one breaks and then we have a mercury cleanup problem.
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”-Plato
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”-Mark 8:36
“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”-Winston Churchill
Educating our patients and making them aware of the hazards they come in contact with and the possible preventative measures that are available should be an essential part of the service we provide our patients. Unfortunately HMOs Insurance companies and the other sources of remuneration for the physician do not pay for this type of service.