Reasonable Rascal
09-22-01, 01:50
Previous visitors will have noticed a few changes to the forum. No, they are not part of the new national anti-terrorism measures. Quite the contrary.
Most if not all of us have been living on the edge of our seats since Sept. 11. We are only now beginning to sit back a bit and take a deep relaxing breath. Hard to do when you are waiting for the other shoe to fall.. For my part I believe that it will fall and be tossed in a different direction.
But most of us are not here because of one grand incident. We are here because we accept preparedness as part of everyday life. That also includes medical preparedness. Those of us who are older - no, I am many years from Social Security checks, thank you - may recall a time when doctors routinely made house calls. You simply did not drag a sick kid into a waiting room to possibly infect others, or be exposed to their differing ailments. My family doc when I was a kid had a wooden leg. It didn't slow him down any per se, and he was revered by the community. Most particularly by those who knew why he sported a wooden leg.
See. Doc Markham - that was his name - was in a car accident many years before. I believe he was a back- seat passenger but I am not real sure on that point. But his wife was pregnant at the time. He saw the accident coming and he literally threw his leg across her stomach to protect both her and their unborn child. His efforts worked, but he sacrificed his leg in doing so.
He was of the old school that believed in looking after those you cared for and loved, and that as a doctor if your patient could not come to you, why, you simply went to your patient. After all, that's why they carried those black leather bags. Once the doctor diagnosed the problem though, the rest was up to you or your family. There was calamine lotion for the chicken pox, cool clothes for fevers - and baby aspirin though now we know that may precipitate Rye's Syndrome in children younger than 15 - witch hazel, boric acid, oil of cloves and other remedies. They still work, and we now have even better remedies available as well.
But doctors don't make house calls any more with but very rare exceptions. And the more modern remedies necessitate a trip to the hospital or at least the clinic. We have sold our control over our well being for the sake of high tech medicine.
Now don't get me wrong, I advocate and use it at every opportunity myself. I can justify an $11,000 patient monitoring unit for an ambulance, plus ascessories, and show you were it will eventually pay for itself. I've done it before, and it worked. Patient care and safety were enhanced and it brought new revenues in even though use if the device itself was not chargable.
What we hope to accomplish on this forum is very simple: we hope to learn how to provide for ourselves in a future time when all the high tech medicine is not available and the doctors aren't equipped to make house calls, and may not even be able to be summoned. Then we hope to be able to legally acquire those items that make our mission and training possible. In short, we are here to learn, to discuss and better ourselves.
To that end I invite you to take a minute and register with the forum and offer your thoughts, suggestions and tips. Feel free to post articles, questions or even a funny joke. This forum is here for your use.
Thanks for humoring me. :smile:
RR
Most if not all of us have been living on the edge of our seats since Sept. 11. We are only now beginning to sit back a bit and take a deep relaxing breath. Hard to do when you are waiting for the other shoe to fall.. For my part I believe that it will fall and be tossed in a different direction.
But most of us are not here because of one grand incident. We are here because we accept preparedness as part of everyday life. That also includes medical preparedness. Those of us who are older - no, I am many years from Social Security checks, thank you - may recall a time when doctors routinely made house calls. You simply did not drag a sick kid into a waiting room to possibly infect others, or be exposed to their differing ailments. My family doc when I was a kid had a wooden leg. It didn't slow him down any per se, and he was revered by the community. Most particularly by those who knew why he sported a wooden leg.
See. Doc Markham - that was his name - was in a car accident many years before. I believe he was a back- seat passenger but I am not real sure on that point. But his wife was pregnant at the time. He saw the accident coming and he literally threw his leg across her stomach to protect both her and their unborn child. His efforts worked, but he sacrificed his leg in doing so.
He was of the old school that believed in looking after those you cared for and loved, and that as a doctor if your patient could not come to you, why, you simply went to your patient. After all, that's why they carried those black leather bags. Once the doctor diagnosed the problem though, the rest was up to you or your family. There was calamine lotion for the chicken pox, cool clothes for fevers - and baby aspirin though now we know that may precipitate Rye's Syndrome in children younger than 15 - witch hazel, boric acid, oil of cloves and other remedies. They still work, and we now have even better remedies available as well.
But doctors don't make house calls any more with but very rare exceptions. And the more modern remedies necessitate a trip to the hospital or at least the clinic. We have sold our control over our well being for the sake of high tech medicine.
Now don't get me wrong, I advocate and use it at every opportunity myself. I can justify an $11,000 patient monitoring unit for an ambulance, plus ascessories, and show you were it will eventually pay for itself. I've done it before, and it worked. Patient care and safety were enhanced and it brought new revenues in even though use if the device itself was not chargable.
What we hope to accomplish on this forum is very simple: we hope to learn how to provide for ourselves in a future time when all the high tech medicine is not available and the doctors aren't equipped to make house calls, and may not even be able to be summoned. Then we hope to be able to legally acquire those items that make our mission and training possible. In short, we are here to learn, to discuss and better ourselves.
To that end I invite you to take a minute and register with the forum and offer your thoughts, suggestions and tips. Feel free to post articles, questions or even a funny joke. This forum is here for your use.
Thanks for humoring me. :smile:
RR