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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (18727)	8/10/2010 2:21:53 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

If the drugs make the problem, that caused the diagnose, disappear, then yes. But simply prescribing insulin to a diabetes patient is not a solution, that's about making the problem tolerable. Yeah, I'm thinking you're not understanding the role of the physician. Contrary to the opinions of some, they aren't gods. In many instances, "make things tolerable" is the objective because nothing more can be done. The entire specialty of interventional pain management is about making things tolerable. Has a physician somehow failed when he manages an incurable illness? It is a very strange outlook you have, indeed. Perhaps we're just talking semantics here, or language difficulties, but it seems to me to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the physician in health care.

To: dybdahl who wrote (18727)	8/10/2010 2:36:41 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

simply prescribing insulin to a diabetes patient is not a solution, that's about making the problem tolerable. Giving insulin to a person who is dying because of lack of insulin is not a "solution"? Then, pray tell me, what is? For IDDM Insulin most certainly IS the solution. What we need is better high tech implantable toys which could sense blood glucose levels - and inject insulin automatically, as needed. Would be also nice if those little units could broadcast data and signals to a monitoring center - in case something is seriously out of whack. Maybe in time we'll have better and fancier nanothech solutions.... but we ain't there yet.