Ask Dr. Smith: Chemotherapy at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
More than 50000 Americans are diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck each year. Symptoms usually appear only in the advanced stages. However, with an early diagnosis, the prognosis can be excellent. Nowhere is there a more advanced or skilled approach to diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancers than at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care. For more information, visit www.Montefiore.org
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Leaders in Oncology Care _ LOC_French Version (previously called the London Oncology Clinic)
This video shows how the LOC – Leaders in Oncology Care (www.theloc.com) (Previously called The London Oncology Clinic) strives to deliver the best internationally available cancer treatment in a very personal way. After viewing this video you can go to Second Life, where you will find a virtual replica of the LOC, where you can walk around the clinic at your leisure, and experience what it would be like to be treated here. The concept, script and storyline of this video were devised by Dr Maurice Slevin and the video was directed, filmed, edited and produced by Ted Mikulski.
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Why are we always being told that cigarettes kill thousands of people and sap the health care system?
Question by CAL: Why are we always being told that cigarettes kill thousands of people and sap the health care system?
Smoking merely causes people to die sooner, thus saving the taxpayers a ton of money. The average lung cancer patient is diagnosed at age 68. That is right after they finish paying taxes and before they can cash too many Social Security checks. If not for smoking, they could live to be 80 or 90 and consume far more benefits than they ever paid for in taxes. If we are really concerned about health care costs for smokers, why not just refuse to treat smokers for lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. We could be humane about it. Just send them home with a big box of morphine so they could manage the pain. If the pain got to be unmanageable, they could just get “careless” with the dosage. So in reality, smokers save us a bunch of money. They pay millions in tobacco taxes, they tend to die before they can suck Social Security dry. I have A Modest Proposal. Instead of trying to get people to quit smoking, we should send a free carton of smokes to everyone who is on the dole.
Pinky, I did point out that smokers pay millions in taxes. Thank you very much. However, the idea that they deserve compensation from tobacco companies because they were lied to is just silly. How could you not know that inhailing smoke is bad for you? You deliberatly destroy your health and then expect society to expend scared resources to prolong your life? Amazing.
This is supposed to be satire, like Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal. I don’t know if somepoeople are just too dense to recognize satire or I am simply not as talented as Swift. Anyway, the point is we unfairly scapegoat and punish smokers for being a drag on health care costs. If we want to continue to treat them unfairly, what woould be the logical conclusion. And, while we are at it, why not persecute others that are a drag on taxpayers.
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Answer by Luna Winter
So… it’s okay to smoke to save money?
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Care package for someone with Cancer/Leukemia?
Question by tlc: Care package for someone with Cancer/Leukemia?
Hi….I want to send a care package to Australia for a friend of mine whose had a long on going battle with cancer/leukemia. I am looking for some great ideas…and things that aren’t to heavy to mail. I thought of some DVD Movies…..(but was wondering if ours (Canada’s) play in their dvd machines). I also was wondering if he would have any eating restrictions…..I could also send , cashews, or something like that. Any suggestions are appreciated. I would really like to cheer him up.
THanks.
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Answer by Isaiah 40:31
books on cd are good if he likes to read. sometimes leukemia patients get too tire to read, but they can listen to the cd’s. as for food it is often hard to keep any food down depending on his treatments. i spent some time in the hospital & a friend brought me some wonderful pj’s. i just loved them. hope this helps
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Q&A: If Obama implements Universal Health Care, will our newspaper headlines read like Great Britian?
Question by Obama – Wimp in the White House: If Obama implements Universal Health Care, will our newspaper headlines read like Great Britian?
Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was created on July 5, 1948. As with all government programs, bureaucrats underestimated initial cost projections. First-year operating costs of NHS were 52 million pounds higher than original estimates1 as Britons saturated the so-called free system.
Many decades of shortages, misery and suffering followed until 1989, when some market-based health care competition was reintroduced to the British citizens2.
Unfortunately for those requiring care, a mostly socialist health care system still has problems. The articles and commentaries in this section identify some disasters caused by government intervention in the British health care system.
Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors
http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/ukaudit4.html
- Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/24/mrsa-hospital-hygiene
- Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists’ contract
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4073515.ece
- David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]
Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals
- Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]
Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay
- Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]
Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her
- Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Dental patients face care lottery
- March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]
Lung patients ‘condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs’
- Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Women in labour turned away by maternity units
- John Carvel, March 21, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
Health inequality has got worse under Labour, says government report
- Andrew Sparrow, March 13, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
Angry GPs reluctantly accept plan for weekend and evening surgeries
- John Carvel, March 7, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]
NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she’s ‘too old’ for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery
- Chris Brooke, February 28, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Patient ‘removed’ from waiting list to meet target
- January 31, 2008 [The Scotsman]
One in eight patients waiting over a year for treatment, admits minister
- John Carvel, June 8, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]
Audit Office asked to investigate record £500m NHS underspend
- John Carvel, May 30, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]
The drugs the NHS won’t give you
- May 11, 2007 [Telegraph UK]
UK lagging behind on cancer drug access, study finds
- May 10, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]
One in six trusts is still putting patients on mixed-sex wards
- Daniel Martin, May 10, 2007 [Daily Mail(UK)]
Specialist stroke care ‘lottery’
- May 9, 2007 [BBC News]
Smokers and the obese banned from UK hospitals
- May 2, 2007 [Healthcare News]
Cancer patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS
- Lyndsay Moss, February 13, 2007 [The Scotsman]
UK health service “harms 10 percent of patients”
- Kate Kelland, July 7, 2006 [Reuters]
5,000 elderly ‘killed each year’ by lack of care beds
- June 26, 2006 [Telegraph UK]
Dental Socialism in Britain
- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 9, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]
Pay for nurses and surgeons doubles NHS overspend
- Beezy Marsh, Patrick Hennessy and Nina Goswami, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]
The money addicts: it’s your cash they are gambling with
- Patience Wheatcroft, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]
NHS chiefs get luxury car deals
- Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, April 9, 2006 [The Times]
Secret NHS plan to ration patient care
- Nigel Hawkes, April 7, 2006 [The Times]
British Healthcare To Be Rationed
- April 7, 2006 [United Press International]
British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer patients
- March 17, 2006 [Reuters]
National Health Service – Grappling with Deficits
- March 9, 2006 [Economist.com]
Hundreds wait to register as another dentist quits the NHS
- Martin Williams, September 23, 2005 [The Herald (Scotland)]
Life-saving cancer drugs ‘kept from NHS patients by red tape’
- Sam Lister, September 20, 2005 [The Times]
NHS slides into the red despite record increases in health care spending
- September 20, 2005 [Telegraph UK]
Alzheimer’s sufferers hit by further delay in NHS approval for vital drugs
- Michael Day, September 18, 2005 [Telegraph UK]
We all pay a price for our ‘free’ NHS
- John Smith, August 19, 2005 [The Scotsman]
2,000 British doctors out of work
- August 14, 2005 [The Washington Times]
UK health ‘unsustainable’
- August 14, 200
Improper Bostonian, if the healthcare system in Boston is so great, why did this appear in the Boston Globe this week?
Mass. healthcare reform is failing us
March 2nd, 2009
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/02/mass_healthcare_reform_is_failing_us/
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Answer by Improper Bostonian
No. If you want to ONCE AND FOR ALL learn about this healthcare, read about how it was mandated in MA. by Mitt Romney. It’s based off the same plan we have here and sorry, all that you say is untrue and plain old fear mongering.
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Q&A: Why does everyone care about preventing/detecting breast cancer?
Question by mattpytlak: Why does everyone care about preventing/detecting breast cancer?
It isn’t the most common cancer and it actually has one of the better survival rates. Why don’t we look at pancreatic cancer which has a 5 year survival rate of less than 5%?
It’s not like I’m pro-breast cancer, I just want to know why colon cancer or prostate cancer don’t get the same media treatment. Everyone has seen the pink ribbons but what about the other forms of cancer?
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Answer by three3s
do you care about preventing colds, flus, or any other minor ailment? of course you do, because it’s unpleasant at best.
the fact breast cancer kills lots of people every year should make you realise just how stupid this question is.
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Why Health Care Reform is Personal to Me
My Fight for Health Care Part 1 Here is why Health Care Reform is personal to me. What was once a powerful bill that could have saved me and many others has been dwindled down to something that will do so very little to help Americans like myself. We are dying, and we need help. Please pass this along to as many people as possible, and read my notes on my Facebook. www.facebook.com I’m also on CNN iReport @ www.ireport.com Amendment: As of this date I am still without health care and facing paralysis and death. Any health care plans I have been offered have either been priced in the thousands per month to pay for the policy, or they would deny any care that may be construed as relating to my pre-existing conditions. I was born with one lung, which means no care for any respiratory infections, including swine flu. I was born with one kidney which means no cover for kidney stones, bladder infections, nothing to do with the renal system. I was born with severe scoliosis, curvature of the spine. This effects my entire spinal chord and all the muscles and vital organs within my body that receives signals from my central nervous system. I can work now, I want to work. I don’t want money to allow me to sit at home and be a victim. All I want it be able to afford to see a doctor, just like every other American not born with birth defects has the right to do so. Please pass this on to as many people as possible.
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What would you do? I have a situation at hand. I care for my 75yr old mother whom has lung cancer. See Below>>?
Question by : What would you do? I have a situation at hand. I care for my 75yr old mother whom has lung cancer. See Below>>?
For now.. she is mobile, drives, cooks, no walker. She has asthma and sometimes get a little winded but it takes awhile and some days she is fine. She will occasionally nap. She has to have treatments coming up for cancer and possibly for two brain mets. Then checked every four months for both with cat scans. Oncology appts and her general MD. We share my car. She put it in my name when she was diagnosed and I am the one who primarily food shops, cleans and takes care of my one older dog.
I had been collecting unemployment which ends the second week in Feb. I went for an interview today at Pet Smart for a groomer trainee but.. they require you to stay one whole month in another far away location. I am unable to do so because of my mothers needs and treatments along with my dog and leaving her without a car. So.. I have to decline.
I wanted to take a legal assistant/secretary course for 15 months which can be done two full days only a week OR.. at nights. But.. the issues is a job. I can’t work a typical M to F job because I have to have a 2-3 days open a week for my mothers appointments with cancer are many. We have no one else to help or take her at all.
I was considering home health care/companion aide where you travel to a few or so homes a day or night.. Or split shift. But.. there are no health benefits in this for me.. But the hours are flexible around your own schedule which allows me the freedom for my mothers appointments and treatments and possibly even for school for me. I personally .. rather do something I like a lot but.. at this time and in my situation.. I don’ t have many choices out there to choose from. I also can office clean at night but I will only bring in 15-20 hours at night of work and that is not enough money a month for me. With home health care you can get 30 or work for two or three agencies. I just rather not.. work again with sick because I am dealing with that now. Should I just bite the bullet and do it ..like it or not because of my situation?
Thanks
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Answer by Page
i know how you feel i am 14 now and i was diagnosed with cancere when i was 7 and had it til up to last month. times are tough and my mom had the same problem raising in money for me and my medical bills. once you get a good job there will be medical advantages that you can put your mother on and you might even beable to get medical insurance that pays more of the bills. cancer takes alot out of a patient. all best wishes and prayers to your mother.. God bless<3
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Justin Klamerus, MD – Hematology/Medical Oncology, Cancer Care
Northern Michigan Regional Health System Medical Oncologist Justin Klamerus, MD discusses cancer treatment. To learn more, please visit: northernhealth.org.
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Leaders in Oncology Care _ LOC_English Version (previously called the London Oncology Clinic)
This video shows how the LOC – Leaders in Oncology Care (www.theloc.com) (Previously called The London Oncology Clinic) strives to deliver the best internationally available cancer treatment in a very personal way. After viewing this video you can go to Second Life, where you will find a virtual replica of the LOC, where you can walk around the clinic at your leisure, and experience what it would be like to be treated here. The concept, script and storyline of this video were devised by Dr Maurice Slevin and the video was directed, filmed, edited and produced by Ted Mikulski.
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Q&A: Why is the health care system in the USA so backward?
Question by cerbere1564: Why is the health care system in the USA so backward?
Most medical insurance companies will not grant your application if you have cancer, heart problem, blood disease etc…
The point of having an insurance is to get help when you need it the most, but in the USA, it’s the opposite, they want you when you’re healthy…
Totally backward frankly
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Answer by ci50158
Because its profit-driven.
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Q&A: How do I take care of my grandmother?
Question by : How do I take care of my grandmother?
My grandmother has lung and breast cancer. She’s 78. There are metastases from, luckily, the breast cancer. She has a growth in her hip that makes moving it excruciating. She can walk on it relatively easily. By easily I mean she isn’t crying in pain. However, she needs help getting into a seated position to stand up, and she needs help getting into cars, among other things. My home is the best place for her, my mother works in a VA hospital, and everyone there is at least 65. She specializes in elderly care, and things of that nature. But, she isn’t here all the time. My Dad doesn’t know what to do, so he always dumps my grandmother on me. I’m fourteen, I do what I can. She starts crying when trying to sit up and the stuff I mentioned before. How do I move her properly? When she feels pain while I’m helping her sit up and stuff should I stop, or try to keep going and make it as quick and possible? Any other old people tips would be nice. She’ s well taken care of in my house, I assure you, but I want some help for the things I’m not quite certain about.
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Answer by Eddie Wilson
be gentle with her, let her move at her own pace she knows how to move herself with the least amount of pain, your there to help her do it. 
if she has a walker put that in front of her and let her pull herself up while you stand next to her with a hand on her back to support her as she gets up and the other hand on the walker just to make sure its stable (pop the brakes on if it has wheels)
if she doesn’t have a walker I’d suggest standing in front of her with your feet either side of hers and slipping your arms round her as if you were going to hug her and gently standing her up.
if she is feeling pain just ask her if she would like you to stop or if she’d like to slow down.
a way to make it a bit easier is to raise the height of the chair so there is less up and down for her.
little things like cups of tea or coffee or whatever she like to drink if you see her without magazines, TV and that sort of thing.
you can imagine how bored you’d get if you couldn’t just get up and walk around.
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Elaine Shares Her Battle with Breast Cancer and Experience with Palliative Care
Elaine shares her battle with stage four metastasized breast cancer and her experience with the Cooper Cancer Institute’s Palliative Care Program.
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is lack of knowledge of treatment the main reason for not getting good care for lower class cancer patients?
Question by queen_ash: is lack of knowledge of treatment the main reason for not getting good care for lower class cancer patients?
is it lack of knowledge of treatment options? no coverage? thinking they shouldn’t have it because depression and distress is normal?
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Answer by Denisedds
Knowledge plays a role in it, but most of it is money.
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Occupy Wall Street – Part 3 Old Age, Pensions and Health Care
How long are you willing to work, from school to grave? Pensions? Health care?What’s the deal for the future? The global economic impact of the five leading chronic diseases — cancer, diabetes, mental illness, heart disease, and respiratory disease — could reach trillion over the next 20 years, according to a study by the World Economic Forum (WEF). “This is not a health issue, this is an economic issue — it touches on all sectors of society,” Eva Jane-Llopis, WEF’s head of chronic disease and wellness, said in a telephone interview. Social security is already a topic in the US 2012 elections, what will the next decade bring. Our economic quicksand is deepening as more issues tumble in, we are sinking and need a life line..
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How does this health care system sound to you?
Question by Me: How does this health care system sound to you?
How does this health care system sound to you?
Just a few statistics…how would you feel about have a health care service like the one below?
1)figures show that (country X) total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP (8.4%) is actually below the OECD average and a long way below that of the USA, which has easily the most expensive system at 16%, nearly double (country X) spending.
2)Country X spend per head of population is $ 2,992 as opposed to $ 7,290 in the USA.
3)Country X’s health care system is largely free of the huge transaction costs associated with revenue collection and marketing that blight other systems, such as the USA.v As a result, the cost of administration in country X is estimated at around 12% compared to more than 30% in the USA
4)Country X spends 3% of its budget on management costs, as opposed to 17% in the USA
5)For example, Country X outperforms the USA where mortality rates from lung cancers are concerned.
Likewise, Country X’s mortality rates from heart disease and stroke are considerably better than the USA.
And in terms of in-hospital recovery from stroke, Country X is ranked second only to Japan amongst the OECD countries
6)In comparison with the healthcare systems of five other comparable countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the USA) the national health service of country X was found to be the most impressive overall by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund in 2007 (the USA came last). Specifically the national health service of country X was rated as the best system in terms of quality of care, co-ordination of care, and equity, but also, crucially, in terms of the efficiency of care.
7)According to the 2009 Country X’s Social Attitudes report, satisfaction with the national health service for country X is at its highest level for 25 years. And those with personal experience of the national health service for country X rate it highest of all. 
No one in country X waits more than 18 weeks from the time they are referred to the start of their treatment. Most importantly, the average wait for treatment is much shorter, at just 8 weeks. And median waiting times are just over 2 weeks for outpatients and 4 weeks for inpatients.
For cancer patients, 99.7% of patients are seen within 2 weeks from urgent GP referral to outpatient appointment. For breast cancer, 99.8 % of patients are treated within 1 month from diagnosis to treatment.
Virtually all patients are treated within four hours at Accident & Emergency units in hospitals
Not a quiz. Actually country. I was just curious if you guys did not know which country it was, if you would like the sound of the health care system.
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Answer by correrafan
This is either a quiz, which I won’t participate in, or a trick question.
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Why hasn’t TedKennedy gone to Canada or Cuba for his brain cancer treatments.Wouldn’t he want the Best care?
Question by Rich B: Why hasn’t TedKennedy gone to Canada or Cuba for his brain cancer treatments.Wouldn’t he want the Best care?
Hey protect america is that the best lie you can come up with?
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Answer by Protect America from Republicans
Cause only working class people and seniors go to canada to get affordable healthcare and prescriptions.
People with 100 million dollars like kennedy can afford american hospitals.
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Do Prestigious Law firms care about the universities you studied at or how long you studied for?
Question by Like Lily, Like Wilson: Do Prestigious Law firms care about the universities you studied at or how long you studied for?
I went to the London college of economics and studied international relations and hopefully this year I’ll be able to enrol onto Northwestern’s accelerated JD. LSE was 3 years and Northwestern’s accelerated JD is 2. Neither are Ivy League colleges. What do you think? And do you think doing 2 years rather than the traditional 3 in law school can hinder my chances?
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Answer by Kaleb
yes
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Palliative Care Aids Quality of Life at End of Life
Some terminally ill patients who receive palliative care live longer and with a better quality of life than those who receive standard medical care. Researchers at Harvard Medical School evaluated the life expectancy and quality of life of roughly 150 patients with terminal lung cancers. Patients were asked questions about their mood and their quality of life at the start of the study and again after 12 weeks of treatments. Patients receiving palliative care, which focuses on treating pain, anxiety and loss of appetite, reported a 50% lower rate of depression than non-palliative patients. They also lived an average of 2.5 months longer. The study appears in the the New England Journal of Medicine. Death an dying is not something people want to talk about. Even when loved ones have spelled out their wishes we often subject them to unnecessary medical treatment that does little good. Wouldn’t you rather have a few more months with a loved one who was lucid and living a quality life to their last day. Consider these options and talk to your family members about them.
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