Hospitals & Asylums
February 2013
By Anthony J.
Sanders
A
meteor entered the atmosphere in Russia’s Ural mountains
and broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Feb. 15, generating powerful
shockwaves that slammed into the city, blowing out windows, causing 1,500
injuries and millions of dollars of damage.
This was the largest meteor strike since 1908. The 10,000 ton meteoroid disintegrated in the
atmosphere. Volunteer skiers traversed
31 miles of its debris field, picking up more than 100 pieces, the largest of
which weighs about 2.2 pounds. Some chunks are being sold online for as much as
$16,000, though they haven't been authenticated. Scientists like to rule out
that a piece of asteroid 2012 DA14, estimated to weigh 40,000 tons, that was
passed extremely close by the Earth on Feb. 15, within 17,200 miles, closer
than satellites in geosynchronous orbit, because the trajectory is extremely
different indicating that the meteor came from an entirely different source,
the Apollo group, and the meteor exploded 16 hours before the closest passage
of the asteroid by Earth. Did the new
North Korean space launch shoot a big piece off 2012 DA14 or drop another rock,
while under cover of the passage of 2012 DA14, as the premonition in the
Western news media suggested? Probably
not, it seems most logical that the close approach to Earth reduced the orbital
period of 2012 DA14 from 368 days to 317 days and
perturbed it from the Apollo class to the Aten class of near-Earth asteroids. I theorize that the gravitational force of
the Earth, that so dramatically changed the asteroid’s orbit, caused it to
break and 20-25 percent of its mass fell to the Earth. Astronomers don’t have any good pictures from
before February 15 and just think of all the research grants a mass media
mystery might bring the Sentry Risk Table – our planet’s meteor defense. Just
this week, a $25 million Canadian-built satellite known as NEOSSat was launched to look for small asteroids in
Earth-threatening orbits. Until last year, NASA spent about $4 million a year
to track near-Earth objects, or NEOs. About 95 percent of the potentially
threatening asteroids bigger than a kilometer (half-mile) wide have been
detected. However, now NASA is working on charting the asteroids down to a
width of 100 meters (330 feet). To fund that more difficult task, the annual
funding level for NEO research was raised to $20 million a year including the Asteroid
Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, which is due to get $5 million
over the next five years. Less than a million dollars a year is going toward
studies aimed at figuring out what to do if a threatening asteroid is found.
The potential strategies range from diverting it gently with the aid of gravity
tractors or space paintball guns, to blasting it with nukes.
Caveat emptor – No one should
trust us, anyone who does is a fool. As
the result of recent political shenanigans in Washington D.C. the Divine Father
has forsaken us and we must go and live in peace with Earth Mother. This seems to be the reason underlying the
heightened need for human kindness and generosity in the Aquarian Age, which
began in 2011, and will continue for some time into the future. At the dawn of the Aquarian Age the conflict
is clearly between his-story written by the democratic victors but
socio-economic losers and her-story of merit based scientific socio-economic
observation by citizen keepers of the truth.
The federal deficit seems to be an accurate measure of this deviance
between his-story and her-story. The
British Court observed collusion between politicians and media monopolies. The Supreme Court seems intent on striking
down Section 5 of the Voting Right Act of 1964 which required federal
supervision of electoral amendments in certain states. States do need to be free to take anti-trust
action as independent parties against franchises of the national
Democratic-Republican (DR) two party system, but in
light of the separation of powers crossed in Marbury v Madison (1804) this is a
coup, and a bloody one at that. But is
it bloody enough to prevent the creditors from
downgrading U.S. securities? The Sandy
Hook Elementary school shooting was used to conceal a $75 billion delinquency
in disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy.
After he voted for the Republican defense perpetrator in flagrant
violation of the Berne Convention, and contempt of my stake of the censorship
in U.S. v B.P., and payment of disaster relief by stabilizing the Education and
Transportation budgets, I have taken the liberty to terminate Senator Sanders’
(V-I) free subscription to the quarterly.
Pardon Rod Blagojevich!!!
Walking Pneumonia to Salem for the Affordable
Health Care for All Oregon Plan HA-4-2-13
On February 4, the first day of the 2013 Oregon legislative
session, nearly 1,000 Health Care for All - Oregon advocates converged on the
Capitol steps in Salem, to support Rep. Michael Dembrow's
Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Plan (HB 2922). Sec. 1(8) promises: A health care provider must accept payment from the plan as payment in
full and may not bill a patient for an amount exceeding the payment made by the
plan. This satisfactorily abolishes the
medical b(k)ill.
HB2922 is well written and instantly achieves universal single payer
health insurance, however, Sec. 12 (9) is technically flawed, negating itself,
stating:
[Nothing in this section applies to basic health services, but basic health
services do not include] This
section applies to: as the author Dembrowe
must decide whether certificates of need apply or don’t apply to non-basic
services, and whether he wishes to cure the source of his mental distress and
delete (i) inpatient psychiatric services, from this
otherwise honorable list. I must grieve about the significant $250 cost of a family
size medicine cabinet and demand to benefit immediately and indefinitely from
OHP both as patient and medicine-giver adhering, much more strictly than the
Oregon State Hospital, to Sec. 1(2)(f)
Prescription drugs according to a drug formulary.
Because Risperdal (Risperidone) is the only
antipsychotic drug that has not caused neuromuscular tics in clinical trials it
should be the only such antipsychotic drug prescribed by Oregon, without a very
well written reason. Oregon must make Amantadine (Symmetrel)
available to all people antipsychotic and childhood stimulant drug
prescriptions to eliminate the risk of neuromuscular side-effects and should
sponsor a drug trial to see if a half dose for children and quarter dose for
infants will permanently cure autistic tics.
Just think: how many autistic children a school nurse might heal with
one package of Amantadine (Symmetrel) and how many
more with a state sponsored manufacturing of Cogentin (Benztropine
mesylate)? The rate of fatal drug overdose from
narcotic opioids, such as oxycontin, vicodin and methadone has gone up for 11 straight
years. The
disclosure of patient residential address by the pharmacy to the breaking and
entering of the state office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is
probably the greatest aspect of opioid overdose risk, that
can be reduced by state law abolishing the DEA reporting requirement of patient
address under the Health Insurance Protection and Portability Act Pub.L. 104–191, 110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996; and possibly eliminated by transferring the agency to the
state Department of Health and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) federally. Narcotic Antagonists prevent or abolish excessive
respiratory depression caused by the administration of morphine or related
compounds. Naltrexone (Narcan) became clinically
available in 1985 as a new narcotic antagonist. Its actions resemble those of
naloxone, but naltrexone is well absorbed orally and is long acting,
necessitating only a dose of 50 to 100 mg. The State of Oregon must
ensure that Narcotic Antagonists are provided as rescue medicine with all opioid
prescriptions. But will Oregon restock
my $250 family size medicine cabinet? Done February 28, 2013
Neurology HA-21-2-13
In an
average adult human the weight of the brain (about 3lb) is approximately 2% of
the body weight. But its energy demands
are so great that it received about 14% of the heart’s output and consumes
about 18% of the oxygen absorbed by the lungs –
enough to light a 25-watt bulb.
Neurologic illness affects many millions of people in the United
States. In the general population, per
1,000, the 1-year prevalence for migraine was 121, 160 for osteoarthritis, 150
for back pain, 7.1 for epilepsy, and 0.9 for multiple sclerosis. Among, the
prevalence of Alzheimer disease was 67 and that of Parkinson disease was 9.5.
For diseases best described by annual incidence per 100,000, the rate for
stroke was 183, 101 for major traumatic brain injury, 4.5 for spinal cord
injury, and 1.6 for ALS. Per 1,000 children, estimated
prevalence was 2.4 for cerebral palsy, 1.5 for Down’s syndrome; 5.8 for autism
spectrum disorder, for Tourette syndrome, the data were insufficient. The antiviral Amantadine (Symmetrel)
is the FDA approved, but untried replacement for the anticholinergenic
Cogentin (benztropine mesylate)
that cured the extra-pyramidal side-effects of antipsychotic and Tourette
syndrome of childhood stimulant drugs, in minutes with just one dose, that
should be tried in half dose for small children and quarter dose in infants
presenting autistic tics. Neuroleptic antipsychotic
and sleep aid drugs are the leading cause of fatal drug overdose; neurologists
need to pass their own psychological tests and refer their patients to a
licensed social worker so the psychiatric specialty and institutions, other
than forensic, can be abolished. Failure
to comply with epilepsy medicine is the leading cause of death from epileptic
seizure. L-dopa is the gold standard for
Parkinson’s treatment, although other drugs that reduce side-effects and extend
effectiveness. Exacerbations
of multiple sclerosis is treated with corticosteroids, adenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and marijuana. Cholinesterase inhibitors slow the breakdown of
acetylcholine to treat a person who has both Alzheimer’s disease and
Parkinson’s disease, or Myasthenia gravis (MG) other than Eaton-Lambert myasthenic syndrome that is treated with guanine and
botulism paralysis that is treated with an antitoxin distributed by CDC, the
U.S. Army and F.E.M.A. Ischemic strokes are treated with tPA
to reduce disability by 40 percent in ischemic strokes (87%) caused by coronary
artery disease that would be fatal in the 7-10 percent of hemorrhagic strokes,
caused by high blood pressure, of which more than half are fatal. Statin drugs are well tolerated but
supplemented with Coenzyme Q10 and discontinued at first sign of cancer or
dementia. Cardiac drugs, other than
statins, are the second leading cause of fatal drug overdose, Hawthorne is the
supreme herb for the heart and what is good for the heart is good for the
brain. Caffeine, coffee or tea, are the
first line treatment for migraine, followed by NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen
leaving physicians to administer ergotamine and methotrexate. There are a number of surgical interventions
for back, sciatic, arthroscopic and peripheral nervous pain but the results are
dubious and exercise is the cure for pain.
Fatal drug overdoses from opioids increased for the 11th
straight year and narcotic agonists Narcan and
naltrexone need to be provided to methadone and opiate consumers. Marijuana has no known fatalities and is reported
as successful in relieving symptoms of addiction, anxiety, tension, stress and
depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), HIV/AIDS,
post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), insomnia, migraine, movement disorders,
multiple sclerosis, digestive problems, inflammation, nausea and vomiting,
cancer treatment side-effects, pain, spasms and convulsions, psoriasis and
arthritis. Although corticosteroids are
maybe more powerful pain relievers, long term use increases risk of
excruciating osteoporotic fractures.
Osteoporosis is mostly a matter of Calcium, Vitamin D and fluoride,
there are bisphosphonates and 20-50% of white menopausal women get on Hormone
Replacement Treatment (HRT) although only 40% take it for the 10 years
recommended to prevent osteoporosis. Glucosamine and Chondroitin is a highly effective over-the-counter
remedy for arthritis. Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) are effective medicines from
different classes, such as antifungals, antimalarials
and migraine treatment, that either cure the cause of
the arthritis or ameliorate symptoms. Metronidazole (Flagyl ER) is an antibiotic that is uniquely indicated for
the GI, bones and joints, and is particularly useful at avoiding unnecessary
surgery, from appendectomy to knee surgery but somewhat contraindicated for the
central nervous system whose spinal tumors from Stapholococcus aureus, with
or without eruptions of S. dermidis, or Lyme disease are better treated with
doxycycline, that causes permanent yellowing of developing children teeth until
age 9, and bacterial meningitis and sinusitis with penicillin, ampicillin or
erythromycin, if subject to anaphylactic allergic reaction to penicillin, that
require probiotic supplementation.