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Mysteries in Medical Philosophy !

Posted in bio ethics, Quotes, Venkat quotes, tagged , , , on May 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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When Robots help doctors during a surgery it charges 100,000 $ more !

Posted in bio ethics, cardiology -Therapeutics, medical quotes, Quotes, Technology, Venkat quotes, tagged , , , , on May 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »

An  article , I stumbled upon recently  discusses why American health care is  in deep trouble. There is a huge variation in the health care costs across the country. The article goes on to reveal  ,   a  simple  Appendicectomy can  cost  anywhere between 7500   to 1,70000 $  in different hospitals in USA.  (In India it costs  1000 $  in  any  star hospital !)

The fundamental flaw is   treatment  being the same ,   it is delivered in such a  fashion ,  the cost incurred is  kept ridiculously high.

It is akin to comparing  a 10 dollar  lunch to a 1000 dollar feast , both  ultimately  fulfills a  purpose ,   relive the hunger effectively

while , the later can  damage the country’s economy  in a variety of ways !

https://www.massdevice.com/blogs/massdevice/anatomy-walletectomy

Car makers automate the industry with Robots to   reduce  the  human labor and  cost of a vehicle ,  while medical industry does the opposite   . . .  privileged few get their appendix removed with a help of metal hand  !

Final message

Modern medicine must  aim to improve the quality  of  care  with a   positive impact  at a reasonable cost . In the name of cutting edge technologies ,  it  should not raise  the medical bill in a meaningless  fashion .This is meager exploitation of  human suffering.

It is  hilarious to note  certain medical  Robots* are primarily  made to assist  surgeon  for which  no assistance is required at all !  (I heard a story about a  Robot  which responds  to voice command   and pass on a   knife  for cutting and a gauze for wiping ! What a great medical discovery !)

Disclaimer

*  Of course  Robots (Cyber knifes )   may have a role  in some rare surgeries which require high precision  cutting  especially in  Neuro  ,  Vascular ,  oncological  surgeries.

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Cardiology quotes: Single vs Dual chamber pacing

Posted in Cardiology - Electrophysiology -Pacemaker, Cardiology quotes, medical quotes, Quotes, tagged , , , , on March 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Choosing a pacemaker  is not a child’s play . It is a  complex game played by cardiologists , electro-physiologists and their  ill-informed

patients. The  superiority of dual chamber pacing over single chamber pacing  was never convincingly proven.

Still . . . usage of  dual chamber pacing is steadily increasing over the years  for various reasons.

“Every thing hangs around a key word called quality of life . DDD pacemaker is supposed to enrich life due to their AV synchrony “

World  health organization  says  quality of life  of homo-sapiens are  determined by at least few dozen factors .They are  mostly non medical.

How an extra lead at a cost of  2000 dollars more , is  going to  provide that  elusive “quality of life”  to all those poor patients with bradycardia  in  this world  ,   which     . . . they  any-way lacked even  in their best of times  !

Scientifically also there is  a major  flaw in calling DDDR as physiological pacemaker

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Cardiology quotes : Failed thrombolysis and rescue PCI !

Posted in Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, Cardiology quotes, cardiology- coronary care, Cardiology-Coronary artery disese, Quotes, tagged , , on March 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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A Great quote on science and research by Abraham Flexner

Posted in Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on March 11, 2012| 1 Comment »

Improving upon  (or help  improve )  others idea is still  a great  research contribution.

No need to feel inferior about it !

Steve Jobs exactly did this  . . . and  he was a great visionary !

Unfortunately ,  it is looked upon as partial  plagiarism in some quarters  . It need not be !

 

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