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 « T RENTALS 234-7466 E lonza J E d w a rd s (P astor) YOU ARE WELCOME TO WORSHIP AT 84 N.E. Killingsw orth • 281 0499 "A warm spirit of fellow ship always" J* a t. - The Ark of Safety 'OtMBf IfcZWwm Bahaa 307 N .E. B ro a d w a y P o rtla n d , OR 97232 15031284 1106 Tuesday 130pm Bible Bend Thursday Choir Rehearsal 7 0 0 p m . Sunday Sunday School 9 I 5 i m Morning 11 15 e m Worship 6 30pm YPW W Evangelist it 8 00pm Worship P r o d u c ía man shall sec thv fo rò mrmwm ?« ' ■ Wv mr r» Mars k-wi-ll Eerguson and Robert Edward Stephens Jr., were married May 25 ai Williams Temple Church Shades of blue accented her white lace gown with pearls. 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S 1 N.ioetx .’HI HMH’ T IM ll« 0 y u F n to y T tta a S a ia re a y * O 0 « a t S a n d e » » OD a a t IJ A i e 12 O D a at 11 C O p a t Phone: 284-3979 EVICTIONS STOPPED PHARMACY P R M C C L IN IC PHARMACY a • C o u « ta» a v u» t— N « « a l a t n , *a r * a a a « .a a a m a Rental tenants' Do you teel you ere being unfairly treated I -> IB N M o rris St P ortland O regon 67227 2B1 9S31 Professional Services 8720 N.E. UNION 283-4123 The Multnomah County North- 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 staff. l« e n s e d Bonded 240 5324 573 N. K illin gaw orth ’ P ortland O R 97211