health warning

[Topless]

Best wishes for your father's recovery PL.

As to quality medical care? Bad things happen in hospitals so avoid them like the plague IMO. Surgery as an absolute last resort. (wifey is a Radiologic Technologist) The medical industry is built around treatment for trauma, treatment for symptoms, and medication. They don't do prevention or cure very well. As a society we have fallen off a cliff in the prevention and cure department.

What should we do? Eat right (whole foods with lots of greens instead of fast food/packaged food/processed food), lots of exercise (walk 3 miles/day or equivalent), avoid soft drinks/energy drinks (diabetes in a can), avoid prescription drugs whenever possible (too many negative side effects), sleep 8 hrs/day, enjoy life. If we do these things we move towards good health and prevention of disease. Then Obamacare, prescription drugs and hospitals become far less important.

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by Topless

.....enjoy life.

Couldn't agree more with your advice! Of course the enjoy life part is why we have Boxsters My 54 year old neighbor went to the hospital for a minor issue. A month later he was dead from a staph infection. Just not a place I want to go.

[Troutman]

Originally Posted by Topless

Best wishes for your father's recovery PL.

What should we do? Eat right (whole foods with lots of greens instead of fast food/packaged food/processed food), lots of exercise (walk 3 miles/day or equivalent), avoid soft drinks/energy drinks (diabetes in a can), avoid prescription drugs whenever possible (too many negative side effects), sleep 8 hrs/day, enjoy life. If we do these things we move towards good health and prevention of disease. Then Obamacare, prescription drugs and hospitals become far less important.

Sound advice..try to avoid SUGAR in as many foods as possible. But soft drinks are probably the biggest problem causing diabetes and obesity in the US, UK and now many other countries.
India and China are in for a massive health problem in a few years after they have succumb to that sweet juice.

[pjv]

The advice given by Perfectlap and Porsche Chick is very sound advice. Where prostate disease is concerned, I was found to have prostate cancer without ever having an abnormal PSA result. PSA is better that no test at all, but it is essential to have the finger test as well (as unpleasant as that may be to most of us!). Also, don't be talked into prostate surgery without getting lots of opinions, the after-effects are not much fun, and may be avoidable since it appears to be unnecessary in many cases, according to current opinion.

I have known two guys who died of prostate cancer, and currently a close friend has just been given just a few years to live with it - all because of inadequate testing. I was fortunate in being a health professional with experience in these areas, and knew when things were not right with me.

High cholesterol has a well-known association with 'vascular dementia', and also excessive sugar consumption is the cause of many of our modern lifestyle-related diseases.

And best wishes for your father, Perfectlap.