Page 8, Portland Observer, June 5, 1986
h PuMIc Service of the Portland Observer
Healthwatch
by Steven Bailey. N. D and Adam Ladd. N.D
Albina Ministerial Alliance
Mini people thaï I lalk io will ad-
mii lhai their health costs are rising
each year. When they think about the
cost o f Uncle Bill’s hospital stay
when he had his gall-bladder opera
tion last year, or how much they paid
for unexpected doctor visits, or how
the « » I o f prescription drugs has
skyrocketed in the last few years, it
makes them a little irritated.
The fact is that our medical-care
expenses in America have gone up
more than J00 percent in 10 years.
This includes hospital stay expenses,
insurance premiums, doctors' fees,
and prescription medicines.
The third largest industry in the
U.S. now is health-care. Medical costs
are roughly nine percent o f the Gross
National Product. That represents
quite a lot o f money and work hours.
But the important thing to ask is. arc
we getting healthier as a people? Is
our health-care system delivering
better health to us? Let us look at
the facts:
Adults in this country aren’t living
any longer than they were, on the av
erage, in the 1920s (65 years). More
and more people arc developing can
cer and heart disease than ever before.
Nearly half o f the American people
(almost 100 million people) suffer
from som e form o f degenerative dis
ease. A nd, surprisingly, the death
rate for most major cancers has NOT
changed significantly in 25 years,
despite new radiation techniques, and
drugs, and education.
Our health-care system has changed
its form significantly in the last 25
years, lo o . Conventional medicine
loves technology, and most hospitals
now seem to be highly centralized in
stitutions. Highly sophisticated cquip-
ment, impersonal doctors, high cost:
this represents the com m on experi
ence o f medical care in this day and
age What has happened to the fam
ily doctor? Where are the neighbor
hood clinics that serve the everyday
people? Our technical system seems
very interested in taking good care of
medical science, but the importance
of people’s health has been inadver
tently kicked out the back door.
The conventional medicine that we
grew up with is failing, in a grand
way, to provide us with the health and
well-being that we can rightfully ex
pect.
The facts bear this out. It has been
established that one out o f five pa
tients admitted to a hospital will de
velop a NEW problem solely as a re
sult o f his or her slay in the hospital.
Such problems, called iatrogenic, o c
cur as a result o f treatment by a physi
cian or surgeon. They require special
medical attention, and are fatal in
one out o f JO patients. Fifty percent
o f all iatrogenic diseases result from
drug complications, and 10 percent o f
them com e from diagnostic procedures
alone.
Medications in hospitals kill a p
proximately 100,000 Americans a
year, and make J'/i million others
seriously sick. And, it is estimated,
more than half the surgeries per
formed each year in this country arc
unnecessary.
Surgery may actually be a threat to
the well-being o f patients in hospitals
A number o f years ago there was a
strike in a hospital near Los Angeles,
and almost all the dociors slopped
coming into work for a week or more.
Studies showed that, contrary to ex
pectations, there was a steady d e c lin e
in death ratees during the doctor
walk-out, followed by a sudden leap
upward in the number o f deaths in the
very first week that surgery as usual
was resumed.
These examples are being presented
in order to point out clearly som e o f
the inadequacies in our conventional
medical system. Modern day medi
cine. in all honesty, is very good at
what it does well. For instance, if you
were hit by a truck on your way to
work, or you broke a limb accident
ly, you ’d be in superb hands almost
anywhere in America.
What I’m trying to say is that we
don’t have at the present time a good
“ health" care system; we have, in
stead, a very good disease-care sys
tem. I’m not saying that conventional
medicine is good-for-nothing. I’m
saying that it is not g<xxl for everything
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testimonies from Rev Sylvester Jackson and Missionary Elizabeth Proctor, with a
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The 41at Annual S tate C onvocation of the Greater Churches of God in Christ,
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cast Primary Health Care Clinic,
which has been a service component
o f the Albina Human Resources Cen
ter lixatcd at 5022 North Vancouver
Avenue, relocated to the Walnut
Park Building. 5J29 N .E. Union
Avenue, this past week.
It opened for business at the new
location on W ednesday, June 5. The
new name for the facility is the North
east Health Center. The telephone
number remained the same: 248-518J.
The Albina Human Resources Cen
ter will continue to provide services
offered by the Adult and f amily Serv
ices Division, Employment and Vo
cational Rehabilitation Divisions, as
well as emeigency loud and housing
referrals by Center Administration
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