What is our baseline? page

[honeypig]

Gone.

[geostump]

Yes it is appalling and no, I am not surprised the doc put "healthy" on his chart. Big Pharma baby.

[Heidi]

That's such a shame. It's like these doctors are just waiting for patients to get unhealthier and need more medications so they can get kickbacks from the drug companies. I suspect my current doctor is one of these types. Before, when I was in a lot of pain, all she wanted to do was prescribe scary pills that would mask my symptoms instead of fixing the problem. Senseless.

I used to be one of those who accepted that health problems multiply as a normal part of aging. (Even my doctor told me that.) But learning how the PB lifestyle can protect against and reverse health problems has been quite an eye-opener for me. It doesn't have to be all downhill after 30.

[MightyAl]

My MIL is on a dozen medications and the scariest one is the statin. She has had a heart attack but I thought the research said that statins were of no help for women over 65 to avoid a second heart attack. I asked her about and she was unsure as she has always had low cholesterol. Big Pharma getting paid by someone that has always had low cholesterol and had a heart attack anyway so give them the boiler plate sripts.

[IcarianVX]

Apparently the "baseline" is the ability to breathe and pay for over priced medications. The definition of "healthy," as it were.

[john_e_turner_ii]

Be careful quoting from medical records, even when you are doing so anonymously and without any kind of identifying information about the patient. I know someone that got in trouble for this exact thing. This person sent an email to someone with a quote from a report without any identifying information about the patient, and they were reprimanded for it as a HIPAA violation.

[geostump]

Be careful quoting from medical records, even when you are doing so anonymously and without any kind of identifying information about the patient. I know someone that got in trouble for this exact thing. This person sent an email to someone with a quote from a report without any identifying information about the patient, and they were reprimanded for it as a HIPAA violation.

Very much so. I work for a DME and it wouldn't be difficult for this to be reported to Medicare.