‘You’ve got a serious problem; it’s related to your cardiac movements. The time is not far, hence, you must and must strictly follow the medications that I’m prescribing you. Even by mistake do not waver in having them...’ these are the words (though not exact), which the doctors tell the ‘patients’, but irony lies in the fact that the so called patient actually is free from any such disease, forget about the heart problems.
Is the traditional way of diagnosing heart problem is saturated with flaws?
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has postulated that the traditional way of diagnosing heart problem is saturated with flaws and hence, it completely rejects the notion that there are 1.5 million people in danger of the disease.
The study revealed that the risk of heart disease is lower in white middle aged men than in the past but the ratio of the same disease has seen an escalating graph for the women’s section. One in three women in their 60s are at risk of heart disease, a figure previously thought to be one in four.
In order to prove this, scholars did a survey on nearly 1.28 million people to diagnose any heart relate problems. This detection was done on the basis of ’smoking, blood pressure and ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol, along with age and sex’. Since, it’s also the conventional way of identifying the problem so the researchers included other factors like, ’social deprivation, genetic factors and weight’.
Formerly, it was taken that nearly 4.7 million people are suffering from heart related problems but this study reduced the figures to 3.2 million.
Does that mean that treatment is being given to the people who are actually not in need of it? As Julia Hippisley-Cox, lead author of the study says,
We are potentially missing the right people for treatment.
Now the rhetorical question emerges, who is responsible for all this?
Is the inefficiency of doctors to be blamed or are the drug companies to be targeted as they create hype regarding diseases, which often lead doctors to over prescribe certain set of medicines.
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Let me start with the proverbial ‘Good news Bad news.’ The good news for the white middle-aged British men is they have lower risk of heart disease than previously thought. While the bad news is that the anti-cholesterol drugs ‘statins,’ which they were prescribed and have been consuming for years, were never really required in the first place.
These and several other flaws in the way doctors diagnose the risk of cardiovascular diseases among patients have been pointed out in a recent study conducted by the British Medical Journal. True enough the studies need to be regularly updated to keep sync with changing conditions affecting disease, but such a discrepancy in results over time points to a serious flaw somewhere.
I pity those poor guys who spent money in trying to prevent heart attacks, thinking ’better safe than sorry.’ Wonder if they will get some kind of reimbursements? Probably not.
Screw the Health care companies. Creating mountain of a mole hill!
There is a difference between how doctors used to advise around 15 years back and how they advise now.
Today, with new inventions doctors study the ”reasons” for particular ailment and then the ”cure”, as against the previos strategy of doctors to straight away go for the ”cure”
There is nothing better than the technology, and you need to trust those who have an expertise in a particular field.
Finding fault with doctors way of handling a patient is like a ”cobbler” suggesting NASA of how to make rockets.
Let the people with expertise and technology decide , and the people have to TRUST them.
If the TRUST factor is not there , there would be no CURE.
It is not for nothing that an average age of people have increased. People have stopped dying of small pox and chiken pox. Polio has almost been eradicated. Work is on for the cure of AIDS.
What more do the doctors and health care people have to do to make you trust them ?