The Health Scare industry
Posted by Edison Macusi on Friday, September 18, 2009
Under: Special bulletin
One of the questions we face when trials come upon our ways is whether God is really with us all the way or He has simply left us to suffer alone. Recently I faced one of the toughest trials yet that I have faced on earth, I almost lost my son because of sepsis. During our stay in Germany, it was our plan that my wife give birth in a decent hospital that would care for her and our baby. It is hard to imagine, much more to compare the difference of treatment between what one receives in a German health care industry to that of the government here in the Philippines.
The main difference starts when one compares of the expertise and machine that the doctors use for your wife and kid. They always have anything that you would need for in giving birth to a healthy baby. They too have all that you would need for that baby from cutting the umbilical cord to having the baby tagged with vaccine so that she grew to a healthy normal baby immune from the most persistent bacterial and viral attacks on her system. You too won't need to juggle out of every store looking for the specific medicine because they have the supplies needed in the very hospital...you won't need to go out. And after its paytime, your bill will come through your insurance...its paid or you have to pay an amount which was not specified covered within your insurance. Even this very direct way and hustle free kind of insurance does help us in a way that frees us from always trying to buy medicines every time we have something needed to be used for her.
Last week, we ran to Cagayan Valley Medical Center and brought our newborn baby Daniel Amos because of infection that even most doctors in our town would be quite challenged to heal. It was really hard for my wife who had lived in a better place (Davao) with a better hospital because this experience was truly stressful for both of us and also our family. Even so, we are still thankful that finally, we were able to bring our baby to CVMC and he was healed with the golden touch of Dr. Geraldine Ramirez. I thank her for that and would have given anything even to anyone who would have done similarly for my child. There is a cost though but even so, compared to other private hospitals, the charge was not too high and the Philhealth cover that I was holding did worked too for us.
God is really wonderful in having provided for us the needed blood type during the DVET procedure which they did to my newborn son, as well as the caring nurses we've met in the St. Raphael Ward. Our experience with the CVMC hospital does tell us that in our country, most regional hospitals do work for good compared to our provincial hospitals because of the number of doctors present and the training of the specialists that are there and present in the regional hospital. I think that this functions well. I am thankful even for this. What I was a little bit discouraged is to find that it is more filthy and unmanaged well to see the ObGyne wards of most hospitals with most probably the exception of the New St. Paul Hospital which was neat, clean and air cooled and rivals in glory the hospitals abroad.
Most provincial hospitals should have a better service by providing enough bed space and private wards too for those who are willing to pay and willing to stay in the premises of the hospital. When this condition is not met, we will find clamor and complaints of such thing as this. My son was born at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital but it was a little twist of destiny to find that what we expected to be a private ward for us is a charity ward for everyone. We were not feted to a private ward but has had to suffer joining with other patients found in the same room mixed in together with different degrees of cases, some mild, others less serious or not at all. What more, the clean restrooms is anything but clean....even so, there is something more that could have been done for a newly constructed hospital, its management should be given a higher priority and a vision to truly fulfill goodwill and service to its constituents.
At UP Diliman, most janitorial services have been given as contracts with private sanitation companies because of the better service that they render than those in permanent positions. Most people in permament positions if they do not have any passion of service are often, parasites who are bound to the cycle of waiting for the next payday without necessarily giving their best at work. This route is not needed if the sanitation management and hygiene of a hospital is managed well by those who are called to be “health care” workers.
This case is unimaginable in Germany simply because of their will-power to live in clean and decent hospitals. For the janitors, cleaning is a breeze because of the machine they use and the supplies of cleaning materials and chemicals such as lysol and chlorox. None would dare to pocket those chemicals and try to sell them outside. They are satisfied to earn money per hour and to focus on cleaning their floors. Even though they are mostly African immigrants, these janitors do the work because they are not simply well paid but have the ethics to clean and to depend on their job as their very source of livelihood.
Germany is arguably the most brilliant and mature people on earth, the place to be for ideas and culture, its intellectual development is quite high per person considering the path it has trudged in to become economically self sufficient and intellectually well even in the past centuries. They too have many problems but every time they focus to solve one, they do it to eradicate or to stop it at the very roots. This is the main reason why it was Martin Luther, the German monk who was crowned as the Father of Reformation instead of Jan Hus of Bohemia or John Wycliffe of England. German brands too has you covered from head to toe, from Bayer. Nivea. Levi Strauss. Adidas. Literally. From the aspirin you trust to the sneakers you love, German brands have prominent positions in just about every major market. But it was probably Martin Luther who sent the greatest shockwaves of freedom to this world.
When this humble monk resolved to destroy and put once and for all the myth of papacy and Catholic domination of the world, keeping it in the state of ignorance and slumber, he pushed the tides of darkness, declared the lies of papacy and stood for truth that no one will be justified except by personal faith in the saving works of Jesus Christ on the cross. That statement has since whipped the papacy and the Catholic church to reform its ways and bring the Bible to the masses as well as built the formidable Lutheran and protestant denominations into this world. It can be said that John Wycliffe and Jan Hus laid the foundation for the Reformation but it was Martin Luther who battled and faced the ugly contorted face of shame and deception in the papacy and Catholic deception of those times. Without this monk, freedom cannot be a word to be taken for granted these days.
In fact even if one would have to revisit again the places where many Jews have been killed and exterminated, the Germans were so mechanized that they have all planned and converted an old barracks into a factory of death, from the cleaning of human flesh to the "shower rooms," to the crematory and then to the mass graves. This demonstrates the high level of skill and intellect that these people have been endowed with, even so, we cannot compare both countries on par because we are talking here of the existence of the German states long before the Philippines had even a name of a country.
What is the point? I have not given up on my country and this is the very reason why I refuse to work abroad though there are opportunities for me to do so, because I want to be one of those band of brothers who would stay and help our country to its path. We cannot do that in one sling shot, but every time we try to do it in small ways that we can, we add strength to the fracture we have already begun to blow on the rocks. There are causes in this life that is not worth trading with money. I do not apologize for that and will never do so. Given the current scenario that medicine have become a priced commodity on earth, a commercial venture more than service and calling, this will be a gateway of hell for most countries in the coming times. It was through the medical science in NAZI Germany that most of the breakthroughs in medicine from trauma, death, poison and pharmaceuticals were developed.
When the medical community decided to control who is going to live and who is going to die, this opened up the greatest destruction to come upon mankind. The Germans had the best and most awarded scientists working how to kill, and not simply how to kill but to kill instantly in the least possible amount of chemical, poison or torture that can be inflicted and in the greatest number. They first decided to eliminate the “useless eaters” or those who are elderly and dependent on the government for subsistence and then the disabled. When this was not sufficient, it was then easier to ask and kill the Jews. Because money was the deciding factor and every patient is a customer, a “commercial commodity,” experimental mice, the value of life was cheapened bringing a sadistic glamour among those in authority and medical science became the main tool to exact the most number of death toll among the people.
Not having experienced much serious trouble in the past, it made me aware and more sensitive to find that there are indeed private hospitals in our localities who are exacting much “death toll” when we experienced this kind of trouble. To those who have been exacted such “commercialist interest,” it would do us no good if we continue to patronize such hospitals who look to human lives as mice in their hands to experiment on rather than life to support and to serve. I would dare our community to raise their voices and clamor and boycott such hospitals. Why choose the mercantile man over those who serve? There are those who truly serve even though they are outgunned by those who are after mammon.
Our continual prayer is for medical science to be used for healing the sick and the poor as well as the wealthy in such a way as none would feel that they are exacting “tolls” from us. There are medical doctors who are truly serving in the best capacity they can, and to those who are such we should patronize and help them. But whenever we find those self-serving doctors, let us learn to boycott their services until they bow their knee. Unless the community is one in this, we will find isolated voices and the oppressor will continue to exact his vengeance upon us. Medical knowledge was provided for the sake of saving lives because Jesus came to give life that we might have it more abundantly, not less. In contrast, Satan came to steal, kill and destroy not just your money but above all, your life. Those who murder and accomplice of death are workers of iniquity, vessels of death. Without medicine, we would still be grappling with black death, and many other plagues which wiped out more than half of the entire human population in the Middle Ages.
Sickness or illness is but a slow death if not cured or stopped. Therefore both the health workers and those who are their support base should learn to also charge reasonable amounts for their clients to survive too. Since medicine is branch of science that deals with the sick, we cannot separate it from prayer and healing which is also a branch of faith. What more, the realm of miracle is indeed only miraculous because of the speed of the healing in the name of Jesus! But even if the sick were to be healed slowly such as in a hospital, this is not anything less than a miracle. God can choose to do both or the other. We rejoice that you are healed.
Life must be valued well, and it must never be cheap. This is the reason why even if Kalingas are said to be valued too much, they project the true reality that life has to be valued truly because one life cannot be paid even if the whole earth would be used as a payment for it. Jesus purchased every one of us by His blood, which cannot be measured in value. Can one drop of the blood of the King of Kings be less valuable than the whole Universe? My prayer is to find a people whose aims and fervor is to value life amidst the lies of the enemy that life is not any cheaper than their next meal.
It would also be good to find philanthropists who are willing to fund and give scholarship to those willing to pursue the study of medicine until they finished their board and specialization. If we have such more men willing to fund students who values life more than gold or silver, we will not only have a degree of medical knowledge but we will see empty hospitals because of their expertise and words of encouragement healed all the patients. Hope is still the greatest commodity and the anchor of the soul in healing the broken hearted and distressed patients.
Without men who will stand in the gap and be ready vessels to do good works for the King, we will find this increasing malpractice of commercialist ventures in medicine taking over the health care industry. It would not be any “care” anymore but would be “health scare industry.”
The main difference starts when one compares of the expertise and machine that the doctors use for your wife and kid. They always have anything that you would need for in giving birth to a healthy baby. They too have all that you would need for that baby from cutting the umbilical cord to having the baby tagged with vaccine so that she grew to a healthy normal baby immune from the most persistent bacterial and viral attacks on her system. You too won't need to juggle out of every store looking for the specific medicine because they have the supplies needed in the very hospital...you won't need to go out. And after its paytime, your bill will come through your insurance...its paid or you have to pay an amount which was not specified covered within your insurance. Even this very direct way and hustle free kind of insurance does help us in a way that frees us from always trying to buy medicines every time we have something needed to be used for her.
Last week, we ran to Cagayan Valley Medical Center and brought our newborn baby Daniel Amos because of infection that even most doctors in our town would be quite challenged to heal. It was really hard for my wife who had lived in a better place (Davao) with a better hospital because this experience was truly stressful for both of us and also our family. Even so, we are still thankful that finally, we were able to bring our baby to CVMC and he was healed with the golden touch of Dr. Geraldine Ramirez. I thank her for that and would have given anything even to anyone who would have done similarly for my child. There is a cost though but even so, compared to other private hospitals, the charge was not too high and the Philhealth cover that I was holding did worked too for us.
God is really wonderful in having provided for us the needed blood type during the DVET procedure which they did to my newborn son, as well as the caring nurses we've met in the St. Raphael Ward. Our experience with the CVMC hospital does tell us that in our country, most regional hospitals do work for good compared to our provincial hospitals because of the number of doctors present and the training of the specialists that are there and present in the regional hospital. I think that this functions well. I am thankful even for this. What I was a little bit discouraged is to find that it is more filthy and unmanaged well to see the ObGyne wards of most hospitals with most probably the exception of the New St. Paul Hospital which was neat, clean and air cooled and rivals in glory the hospitals abroad.
Most provincial hospitals should have a better service by providing enough bed space and private wards too for those who are willing to pay and willing to stay in the premises of the hospital. When this condition is not met, we will find clamor and complaints of such thing as this. My son was born at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital but it was a little twist of destiny to find that what we expected to be a private ward for us is a charity ward for everyone. We were not feted to a private ward but has had to suffer joining with other patients found in the same room mixed in together with different degrees of cases, some mild, others less serious or not at all. What more, the clean restrooms is anything but clean....even so, there is something more that could have been done for a newly constructed hospital, its management should be given a higher priority and a vision to truly fulfill goodwill and service to its constituents.
At UP Diliman, most janitorial services have been given as contracts with private sanitation companies because of the better service that they render than those in permanent positions. Most people in permament positions if they do not have any passion of service are often, parasites who are bound to the cycle of waiting for the next payday without necessarily giving their best at work. This route is not needed if the sanitation management and hygiene of a hospital is managed well by those who are called to be “health care” workers.
This case is unimaginable in Germany simply because of their will-power to live in clean and decent hospitals. For the janitors, cleaning is a breeze because of the machine they use and the supplies of cleaning materials and chemicals such as lysol and chlorox. None would dare to pocket those chemicals and try to sell them outside. They are satisfied to earn money per hour and to focus on cleaning their floors. Even though they are mostly African immigrants, these janitors do the work because they are not simply well paid but have the ethics to clean and to depend on their job as their very source of livelihood.
Germany is arguably the most brilliant and mature people on earth, the place to be for ideas and culture, its intellectual development is quite high per person considering the path it has trudged in to become economically self sufficient and intellectually well even in the past centuries. They too have many problems but every time they focus to solve one, they do it to eradicate or to stop it at the very roots. This is the main reason why it was Martin Luther, the German monk who was crowned as the Father of Reformation instead of Jan Hus of Bohemia or John Wycliffe of England. German brands too has you covered from head to toe, from Bayer. Nivea. Levi Strauss. Adidas. Literally. From the aspirin you trust to the sneakers you love, German brands have prominent positions in just about every major market. But it was probably Martin Luther who sent the greatest shockwaves of freedom to this world.
When this humble monk resolved to destroy and put once and for all the myth of papacy and Catholic domination of the world, keeping it in the state of ignorance and slumber, he pushed the tides of darkness, declared the lies of papacy and stood for truth that no one will be justified except by personal faith in the saving works of Jesus Christ on the cross. That statement has since whipped the papacy and the Catholic church to reform its ways and bring the Bible to the masses as well as built the formidable Lutheran and protestant denominations into this world. It can be said that John Wycliffe and Jan Hus laid the foundation for the Reformation but it was Martin Luther who battled and faced the ugly contorted face of shame and deception in the papacy and Catholic deception of those times. Without this monk, freedom cannot be a word to be taken for granted these days.
In fact even if one would have to revisit again the places where many Jews have been killed and exterminated, the Germans were so mechanized that they have all planned and converted an old barracks into a factory of death, from the cleaning of human flesh to the "shower rooms," to the crematory and then to the mass graves. This demonstrates the high level of skill and intellect that these people have been endowed with, even so, we cannot compare both countries on par because we are talking here of the existence of the German states long before the Philippines had even a name of a country.
What is the point? I have not given up on my country and this is the very reason why I refuse to work abroad though there are opportunities for me to do so, because I want to be one of those band of brothers who would stay and help our country to its path. We cannot do that in one sling shot, but every time we try to do it in small ways that we can, we add strength to the fracture we have already begun to blow on the rocks. There are causes in this life that is not worth trading with money. I do not apologize for that and will never do so. Given the current scenario that medicine have become a priced commodity on earth, a commercial venture more than service and calling, this will be a gateway of hell for most countries in the coming times. It was through the medical science in NAZI Germany that most of the breakthroughs in medicine from trauma, death, poison and pharmaceuticals were developed.
When the medical community decided to control who is going to live and who is going to die, this opened up the greatest destruction to come upon mankind. The Germans had the best and most awarded scientists working how to kill, and not simply how to kill but to kill instantly in the least possible amount of chemical, poison or torture that can be inflicted and in the greatest number. They first decided to eliminate the “useless eaters” or those who are elderly and dependent on the government for subsistence and then the disabled. When this was not sufficient, it was then easier to ask and kill the Jews. Because money was the deciding factor and every patient is a customer, a “commercial commodity,” experimental mice, the value of life was cheapened bringing a sadistic glamour among those in authority and medical science became the main tool to exact the most number of death toll among the people.
Not having experienced much serious trouble in the past, it made me aware and more sensitive to find that there are indeed private hospitals in our localities who are exacting much “death toll” when we experienced this kind of trouble. To those who have been exacted such “commercialist interest,” it would do us no good if we continue to patronize such hospitals who look to human lives as mice in their hands to experiment on rather than life to support and to serve. I would dare our community to raise their voices and clamor and boycott such hospitals. Why choose the mercantile man over those who serve? There are those who truly serve even though they are outgunned by those who are after mammon.
Our continual prayer is for medical science to be used for healing the sick and the poor as well as the wealthy in such a way as none would feel that they are exacting “tolls” from us. There are medical doctors who are truly serving in the best capacity they can, and to those who are such we should patronize and help them. But whenever we find those self-serving doctors, let us learn to boycott their services until they bow their knee. Unless the community is one in this, we will find isolated voices and the oppressor will continue to exact his vengeance upon us. Medical knowledge was provided for the sake of saving lives because Jesus came to give life that we might have it more abundantly, not less. In contrast, Satan came to steal, kill and destroy not just your money but above all, your life. Those who murder and accomplice of death are workers of iniquity, vessels of death. Without medicine, we would still be grappling with black death, and many other plagues which wiped out more than half of the entire human population in the Middle Ages.
Sickness or illness is but a slow death if not cured or stopped. Therefore both the health workers and those who are their support base should learn to also charge reasonable amounts for their clients to survive too. Since medicine is branch of science that deals with the sick, we cannot separate it from prayer and healing which is also a branch of faith. What more, the realm of miracle is indeed only miraculous because of the speed of the healing in the name of Jesus! But even if the sick were to be healed slowly such as in a hospital, this is not anything less than a miracle. God can choose to do both or the other. We rejoice that you are healed.
Life must be valued well, and it must never be cheap. This is the reason why even if Kalingas are said to be valued too much, they project the true reality that life has to be valued truly because one life cannot be paid even if the whole earth would be used as a payment for it. Jesus purchased every one of us by His blood, which cannot be measured in value. Can one drop of the blood of the King of Kings be less valuable than the whole Universe? My prayer is to find a people whose aims and fervor is to value life amidst the lies of the enemy that life is not any cheaper than their next meal.
It would also be good to find philanthropists who are willing to fund and give scholarship to those willing to pursue the study of medicine until they finished their board and specialization. If we have such more men willing to fund students who values life more than gold or silver, we will not only have a degree of medical knowledge but we will see empty hospitals because of their expertise and words of encouragement healed all the patients. Hope is still the greatest commodity and the anchor of the soul in healing the broken hearted and distressed patients.
Without men who will stand in the gap and be ready vessels to do good works for the King, we will find this increasing malpractice of commercialist ventures in medicine taking over the health care industry. It would not be any “care” anymore but would be “health scare industry.”
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