Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”
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RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date
Be aware there are several surgical options; open, laparoscopic and robotic. The method chosen may be totally your choice or it may be dictated by the type and complexity of the hernia. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the differing methods. You may have the option to do nothing or wait. But circumstances mayContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: It’s Official Now: Welcome to the Hernia Club
Those people in the white coats have summoned you to award you membership in the Hernia Club. There are some 700,000 hernia repairs each year in the United States and 100,000 in the United Kingdom. There is not much exclusivity in the Hernia Club. No ribbons. No gold stars. But most likely some bruising andContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: It’s Official Now: Welcome to the Hernia Club”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll
Your physician has diagnosed a hernia of sorts and there are several types and if its an inguinal hernia the next step in the journey will usually be an inguinal ultrasound. Move those underpants down, let the gel flow and the wand does its magic. No preparation No pain. No fuss. No loss of dignity.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class
Off to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, specifically to the Family Practice Clinic which I have been a patient of for a decade or so. It is part of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and its physicians are instructors at that Faculty of Medicine. Sunnybrook is a teaching hospital for residents wishing to practiceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure
THE JOURNEY BEGINS The Great Hernia Adventure begins prior to your realization of it a common feature of maladies, afflictions and plagues. You only know when you are stricken. Out of the shower in May 2023. Towelling off. You don’t always look “down there” but even when you do are you are paying any degreeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure”
RKS Health: Your Prostate: Elevated PSA Urologist Follow Up: Will They Afford You Any Dignity? Facing The Rectal Firing Squad!
Well fellows your PSA levels as indicated by your blood test are above the normal level and a follow up appointment has been booked with a urologist. What to expect? As you check in with reception at your urologist hopefully you can have a long hallway to pace up and down before you meet theContinue reading “RKS Health: Your Prostate: Elevated PSA Urologist Follow Up: Will They Afford You Any Dignity? Facing The Rectal Firing Squad!”
RKS Health: Beware of Drug Companies Clinical Trials!
“First, commercially sponsored clinical trials report favourable conclusions about the sponsor’s drug or device 34 percent more frequently than non-commercially funded trials do. Moreover, when the principal investigator of a published clinical trial has financial ties to the manufacturer of the drug being studied-as is the case in two-thirds of published clinical trials-the odds areContinue reading “RKS Health: Beware of Drug Companies Clinical Trials!”
RKS Health: U.S.A. Big Pharma Where Sales and Marketing Trump Research
“In fact, shaping doctors’ beliefs has become the drug companies’ primary job. To this end, the majority of the largest drug companies spend twice as much on sales and marketing as they do on research and development of the drugs themselves. And a quarter of those spend ten times as much on sales and marketing.Continue reading “RKS Health: U.S.A. Big Pharma Where Sales and Marketing Trump Research”
RKS Health; Skyrocketing Health Costs in the United States and Decreasing Healthy Life Expectancy
“Back in 1980, the United States spent 8.2% of GDP on health-care, virtually the same as the second highest spending country (Germany at 8.1 percent) and just 1.7 percent above the average of ten comparable countries. But as discussed in the introduction, by 2019 American health-care spending had skyrocketed to 17.7 percent of US GDP.Continue reading “RKS Health; Skyrocketing Health Costs in the United States and Decreasing Healthy Life Expectancy”
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