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From Medical Mistakes and Corruption

In the USA alone it has been recently estimated that some 210,000 patients died from medical mistakes in a year, making this the third leading cause of death while heart disease is the first and cancer second. Can the above figure be used to expose the corruption in medicine? The reason why it has taken so long to realise that something is not right and why so many still don't see that anything is going on can be explained like this: On the whole, people: healthcare workers or patients or the public at large, can regard many circumstances in medicine as isolated cause and effect relationships. In other words, people generally fail to make the connections between the different cause and effect relationships. It is necessary to make the connections so that we can step back and see the 'big picture' of what's really going on and why certain things occur. This can be likened to the analogy of looking at separated pieces of jigsaw puzzle and not having the realisation th...
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Dentist Is Comedy Gold for Generation

Members of Generation X grew up on a steady diet of pop culture, and many a laugh has been shared around the television set. A sampling of pop culture reveals the comic potential for oral hygiene. Several of my favorite television shows include at least one episode that features dentistry. Maybe there's something about a television character we love going to the dentist that just resonates. We've all been in that chair wearing a bib. How many Generation Xers remember the after-school rerun when Marcia Brady breathlessly awaited her date with Dr. Vogel, only to find out she had been hired to babysit for the evening? I think this episode might be how I learned what it meant to have a crush. The Brady Bunch, Mister Rogers and Sesame Street are all equally responsible for much of my character development, as much as The Electric Company is why I love words and Morgan Freeman. Not all of us are fortunate enough to have a dentist who converts to our own religion while we are patien...
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