27 Replies to “First World Medicine”

  2. Message from the chair

    “Evidence has long demonstrated that diversity and inclusiveness at all levels improves decision and outcomes. Leading with a culture of inclusivity is not just the right thing to do, it is the foundation for a future to ensure surgery is creative, innovative and competitively advantaged. Executing a new vision for surgery will also require a rapid adoption of new technologies to brand, communicate, collect data and compete. Our digital footprint is the world’s window to our programs. We are at a unique point of inflection in our department’s history. Together, we are poised to unleash a future fueled by a creative mindset and powered by our people. Simply put, we are working together to create a healthier world.”

    Mohit Bhandari
    Distinguished Professor, Chair, Department of Surgery

    https://surgery.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/

    1. … it is the foundation for a future to ensure surgery is creative, innovative and competitively advantaged.

      I am a highly educated … post-college-graduate educated adult with 60 years experience in the adult and academic world … and I have NO bloody IDEA what that statement means … nor how it applies to a medically/scientifically healthy outcome for a surgical patient. And I might note that killing children as a result of a ROUTINE excision of tonsils and adenoids is hardly what I’d call “creative” or “advantaged”. To put anyone in charge of a Hospital Surgical Chair, who utters such a phrase is malpractice in the extreme.

      1. I am not highly educated. But I know meaningless drivel when I see it. And I’ve been around long enough to know that when this kind of shit is spouted, it means the spouter is most often nothing but a bullshitting ladder-climber with nothing of substance to offer.

        1. I can remember when the reaction to a statement like that was something along the lines of pointing out that it’s not raining on my shoes.

      2. That’s because it’s not English – it’s bureaucratese gobbledygook.

  3. The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons will be working overtime to blame the patients and demand more money for their incompetence, it’s da usual bizness.

    The “Diddler’s List” is kept ‘top secret’ by the College, wouldn’t you like to know if your kid’s physician is on that list…

    1. It’s a possibility.

      My friend with advanced leukemia eventually died of sepsis from a common bacteria, because at that point he had few/no functioning white cells capable of fighting off an infection.

      What happens to people who have functioning white cells, but the “function” they have been programmed for is to look for and fight the version of the Covid spike protein from back when the vax came out?

      Sepsis could happen in some cases, and relapse from cancers previously in remission in others.

      1. Interesting video. The study presenter demonstrates what is wrong with many medical studies. I’m surprised Dr. Marik was invited to speak, but not surprised they hamstrung him with lack of information before the conference. They don’t really like him. Interesting medical point: in the last minute, the chair asked the assembled crowd how many would use vitamin C if their child presented with sepsis. Result, most family members should be suspicious of the analytical abilities of their medical family members. They won’t treat you, even in a certain death situation, with a known effective treatment without approval from their superiors, if it isn’t protocol. That is brainwashing demonstrated.

        1. To quote Dr. Thomas Levy, MD, JD:

          “Some doctors should be doing time.”

  5. Every year, about 28,000 Canadians die due to medical mistakes. Those fatality numbers, believed to be conservative, rank just behind heart disease and cancer. Medical errors also injure tens of thousands more.

    Recent studies of medical errors have estimated errors may account for as many as 251,000 deaths annually in the United States (U.S)., making medical errors the third leading cause of death

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/#:~:text=Recent%20studies%20of%20medical%20errors,third%20leading%20cause%20of%20death.

    population Canada = 40.8 million
    population US = 335 million

    Medical mistakes; the third leading cause of death in Canada and US

  6. With MAID numbers growing exponentially, we’re on track to have “doctors killing you on purpose” passing “doctors killing you accidentally” any day now.

  7. Pretty sure you can buy a medical degree in any alleyway in Mumbai for a few thousand rupee, then immigrate over to North America as a distinguished expert in your field.

    1. Are you suggesting that Doctor Mohit Bhandari got his license that way? If you’re not, I am.

  8. Tonsillectomies used to be done to children on an almost routine basis. We eventually figured out that was unnecessary medical quackery like lobotomies and “gender affirming care”. I’ve seen a few things lately about tonsillectomies, I wonder if the quackery is returning?

    1. Rusty,
      I was one of the children who had the “routine” tonsil removal in the mid 1960s. Also, both my brothers had theirs removed even earlier on.
      I am pissed off in retrospect that the “doctor” in backwater north Ontario removed that part of my immune system, because that was apparently the only way to deal with my case of Tonsillitis.
      Oh, and it hurt like hell, despite the compensatory jello and shitty vanilla ice cream.
      Later on in the 1960s, a horrible other unnecessary surgery was done to me that robbed me of 2 years of normal childhood. I will spare you the details, but let me say this….due to being burnt twice as a child with parents who trusted the system and doctor’s advice, I was, and still am, done with the medical industrial complex.
      I have come to think that those attracted to the medical game are missing something human.
      Cynical? Yup. Sorry to hear about those children who died from tonsils and jabs. Truly and sadly/
      Have a nice day.

      1. According to Dr Thomas Levy the solution to tonsilitis is injections of ozone to recover the immune function of the tonsils (with a 28 gauge needle if my memory serves me correctly).

    2. Rusty, the mostly pediatric patients who have undergone these surgeries have shown an increased likelihood to require CPAP or similar therapy in adulthood. It could be a feature of other characteristics present, but in general it is best to refrain from surgery if not unavoidably required.

    3. My wife is one of those who had complications after a routine tonsillectomy and nearly died. She told me how her brother, who came along for the office visit, attracted the doctor’s attention and she saw the doctor pretend to look down his throat without actually looking. He suggested both get their surgery at the same time. She was told she needed surgery because she was always getting colds. Her brother never got colds but he needed the surgery because he was going to start getting colds if he didn’t get it. In the end she spent many days more in hospital than her brother. She was vomiting blood and nurses wouldn’t come when she called. They insisted on speaking to her through the bedside intercom. She crawled out into the corridor to get their attention, bleeding all over everything. She was later told it was her fault she was bleeding because she, unlike her brother, didn’t react properly to the anesthetic. And she never did get any ice cream. There’s no such thing as routine surgery.

      1. I meant “routine” in the senser that your wife and her brother got their tonsils ripped out for no reason at all, just because they showed up at the doctor and he wanted to make a few bucks. There was no medical case for either of them having their tonsils removed.

  10. I had my tonsils routinely removed when I was maybe six years old back in the late 1940s. Never had any complications. By the time my children were born tonsillectomies were not a routine procedure so none of my children had their tonsils removed.

  11. I think it goes beyond sober and well rested.. You roll the dice and you take your chances..

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