Word: blood
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...better medicine and better medicine will be cheaper in the long run. But more information can also lead to less medicine. EMR can greatly increase insurance-company denials of the treatments doctors want. Might this eliminate unnecessary testing? Sure. But who determines what is necessary? When a white-blood-cell count isn't high enough to "justify" hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this patient is sick and belongs in the hospital" is told his services, as well as the hospitalization, will not be paid for. So he has two choices: wait for the patient...
...boast about, it's to make you feel better and live longer; those are the patient outcomes. Sometimes though, good surrogate outcomes don't lead to good patient outcomes. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, raises good cholesterol, which helps reduce the risk heart disease. But it also makes the blood more likely to clot, which raises the heart disease risk. A cancer treatment that shrinks the size of a tumor is of limited value if it's soon followed by tumor regrowth...
...What does the job entail? We go in and perform the most detailed decontamination we could possibly do. If someone passes away on the carpet, then chances are the blood and body fluids are going to seep out down into the property all the way to the foundation, so you're talking through the carpet, the padding, the floor and whatever else. If that's the case, we've got to go in, get structural cleanup, every last bit of contamination. Then we issue a certificate when we're done so they can have confidence that things were done...
...another thing is that, let's say a mother just had the suicide of her son in the kitchen. If she's cooking a week later and she pulls out a pan from her rack and turns it over and sees a little spot of blood on it, that's such a huge traumatic reminder of what happened. We refuse to let that happen. So what we do is we get lights, we go top to bottom, left to right, like an inch from the wall, just looking over everything. And that's part of the physical side...
...talk about blood and muscles. One of the things you mention is varicose veins. What exactly are they? Well, your blood runs all over your body, so it obviously has to go against the direction of gravity sometimes. The only way you can do that is to have valves. They keep the blood from falling back down in between your heart pulses. Varicose veins are when valves don't work. Blood can't work its way up anymore, so it starts to pool and the vein starts to swell and it gets painful and horrible. At the moment with...