What is the reason for creation of this "NO CUTS" movement ?
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Health care business in India and abroad has become highly commercial with no moral and ethical standards.
For years cut practice has become an integral component of healthcare delivery mechanism because no consumer is questioning the health care service providers
being not able to realize the consequences of this cut practice.
In fact, many healthcare set-ups in India and across the world consider cut practice as their marketing strategy to increase their business which
ranges to the extent of 10-70 %.
The severe disadvantages of CUTS:
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1. Increased cost
This system increases the cost to the patient. The healthcare cost has begun spiraling to include the share of 10 - 70 % to the referrer.
2. Poor quality
This promotes malpractice and poor quality of delivery of health care services.
For instance, family physicians often pressurise specialists to do surgery in order to maximise their revenue, which means that procedures
are done, which are not always in the patient's best interests. Because this practice is hidden, it's never discussed openly and the patient is the final sufferer.
The Physician may ask the diagnostic labs to conduct tests that may not be really necessary.
At times the patients may be misled by the Physician about the quality of the test results conducted by a genuine laboratory not affiliated to his/her practice.
Some times, it's possible that the patients may also end up getting referred to the wrong diagnostic labs /pharmacies where the quality of test results may be
compromised or the tests are reported to the physician even without conducting the tests.
3. Lost reputation
The fact that doctors indulge in taking kickbacks is an open secret - and hiding this reality creates a lot of suspicion in the patient's mind.
This is one of the major reasons patients do not trust their doctors, and why the reputation of entire medical profession has taken such a beating in recent years.
Doctors who take cuts do not realise how shortsighted this is. Not only does this cause them to lose their self-respect but also the patient will lose
confidence on his/her services that's being delivered.
Therefore, it is extremely important that the citizens of India/world aware of the seriousness of this issue and how it affects their health care.
What can you do ?
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Put into practice below simple things:
1) Next time when you visit your doctor, ask him/her to write the required diagnostic test/medicine that you need on a plain white paper and not on a
diagnostic/Pharmacy referral pad.
2) Tell your doctor that you're going to get the required diagnostic tests/medicines done at a diagnostic testing center /pharmacy of your choice and
will produce the test results.
The choice of the lab/pharmacy should be your's and not the Doctor's.
3) If possible, do your own investigation or ask a well wisher about the Physician /lab /parmacy you visit and learn if they indulge in this cut practice.
4) Abandon and never patronize those doctors /labs / pharmacies whom you believe indulge in this cut practice and spread the word about those who don't.
5) Spread the word by sending this email to your friends and relatives and ask them to do the same before they visit their health care services provider.
6) Send an email to 'nocuts@snehadiagnostics.com' to show your support to this movement.
What is Our goal and what Sneha Diagnostics is doing ?
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Our goal is to spread awarness among the public about how serious it is to understand the ramifications of this CUT PRACTICE for their health.
Towards this goal Sneha Diagnostics has launched a public campaign to spread the word via health care camps, reducing maany routine diagnostic test prices by 50%,
creating on-line campaigns like this one, collecting supporting emails at 'nocuts@snehadiagnostics.com' and conducting person-to-person campaigns.
Sneha Diagnostics strongly believes over time, public awareness will create a strong deterrent against CUTS PRACTICE.
Please join us, and support our struggle to eliminate this CUTS PRACTICE from India /world.
Who are NO CUTS movement Leaders ?
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All the people like you who pledge your support by doing your part.
We aim to join 1,00,000 members by the end of 2011. So please invite your friends and relatives to join this NO CUTS movement.
Join this cause at http://bit.ly/kRENeg
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“Unnecessary risks are being taken by patients seeking the liberation treatment.” says Dr. Avneesh Gupte of the CCSVI Clinic. “It has been our contention since we started doing minimally invasive venous angioplasties nearly 6 years ago that discharging patients who have had neck vein surgery on an outpatient basis is contra-indicated. We have been keeping patients hospitalized for a week to 10 days as a matter of safety and monitoring them for symptoms. Nobody who has the liberation therapy gets discharged earlier than that. During that time we do daily Doppler Ultrasounds, blood work and blood pressure monitoring among other testing. This has been the safe practice standard that we have adopted and this post-procedure monitoring over 10 days is the subject of our recent study as it relates to CCSVI for MS patients.”
Although the venous angioplasty therapy on neck veins has been done for MS patients at CCSVI Clinic only for the last 18 months it has been performed on narrow or occluded neck veins for other reasons for many years. “Where we encounter blocked neck veins resulting in a reflux of blood to the brain, we treat it as a disease,” says Gupte. “It’s not normal pathology and we have seen improved health outcomes for patients where we have relieved the condition with minimal occurrences of re-stenosis long-term. We believe that our record of safety and success is due to our post-procedure protocol because we have had to take patients back to the OR to re-treat them in that 10-day period. Otherwise some people could have run into trouble, no question.”
Calgary MS patient Maralyn Clarke died recently after being treated for CCSVI at Synergy Health Concepts of Newport Beach, California on an outpatient basis. Synergy Health Concepts discharges patients as a rule without in-clinic provisions for follow up and aftercare. Post-procedure, Mrs. Clarke was discharged, checked into a hotel, and suffered a massive bleed in the brain only hours after the procedure. Dr. Joseph Hewett of Synergy Health recently made a cross-Canada tour promoting his clinic for safe, effective treatment of CCSVI for MS patients at public forums in major Canadian cities including Calgary.
“That just couldn’t happen here, but the sooner we develop written standards and best practices for the liberation procedure and observe them in practice, the safer the MS community will be”, says Dr. Gupte. “The way it is now is just madness. Everyone seems to be taking shortcuts. We know that it is expensive to keep patients in a clinical setting over a single night much less 10 days, but it’s quite absurd to release them the same day they have the procedure. We have always believed it to be unsafe and now it has proven to be unsafe. The thing is, are Synergy Health Concepts and other clinics doing the Liberation Treatment going to be changing their aftercare methods even though they know it is unsafe to release a patient on the same day? The answer is no, even after Mrs. Clarke’s unfortunate and unnecessary death. Therefore, they are not focused on patient safety…it’s become about money only and lives are being put at risk as a result.”
Joanne Warkentin of Morden Manitoba, an MS patient who recently had both the liberation therapy and stem cell therapy at CCSVI Clinic agrees with Dr. Gupte. “Discharging patients on the same day as the procedure is ridiculous. I was in the hospital being monitored for 12 days before we flew back. People looking for a place to have the therapy must do their homework to find better options. We found CCSVI Clinic and there’s no place on earth that’s better to go for Liberation Therapy at the moment. I have given my complete medical file from CCSVI Clinic over to my Canadian physician for review.” For more information Log on to http://ccsviclinic.ca/?p=866 OR Call on Toll Free: 888-419-6855.
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