You know... I think some people who continually say those in healthcare industry are only out for their own good have had terrible doctors and didn't know how to advocate for themselves. This isn’t directed at anyone, I’m really just ranting. I sometimes find it upsetting since I am in a healthcare industry… no direct patient contact, but what I do is for patient and medical education amongst other things. The doctors/health care providers that are only in it for the money I think, are few and far in between but since they get more lip, people get the idea that the healthcare industry is mostly out for their own gain. Actually, I know a current student at my alma matter who quit her abdominal surgery practice due to rising cost of overhead, liability insurance ect. she just wasn't getting enough income for her to keep her practice open.
Maybe it is hard to make a concrete treatment protocol for scoliosis is due to scoliosis being so varied in presentation and progression in each person. It's not clean cut like where if you replace a missing enzyme, you are cured. Same goes for any trials for treatment, there’s only a small time frame in which someone with scoliosis can opt for non-surgical treatment, if you miss the window of opportunity, and it’s not coming back. So naturally most people would try something that HAS been proven to work in the past.
jshannon -- What kind of revolution in healthcare are you looking for? I see changes in medicine all the time, medicine is not and never has been stagnant.
Maybe it is hard to make a concrete treatment protocol for scoliosis is due to scoliosis being so varied in presentation and progression in each person. It's not clean cut like where if you replace a missing enzyme, you are cured. Same goes for any trials for treatment, there’s only a small time frame in which someone with scoliosis can opt for non-surgical treatment, if you miss the window of opportunity, and it’s not coming back. So naturally most people would try something that HAS been proven to work in the past.
jshannon -- What kind of revolution in healthcare are you looking for? I see changes in medicine all the time, medicine is not and never has been stagnant.
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