If I were the Minister of Health in Singapore, I would put systems in place to help and ensure that medical practitioners communicate intensely among themselves.
While I am no expert on the inner workings of a hospital (not a good place to spend too much time), I do know that doctors need to communicate more among each other.
The more specialized they get the more they need to communicate.
Why?
Most diseases that cause illness or death in a developed country like Singapore are not infectious disease. Cholera, TB, influenza are not the big problems we face as a country.
The diseases that kill are degenerative diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, stroke, high blood pressure etc.
And degenerative disease is MULTI-FACTORIAL so medical staff of all specialties must communicate to form a holistic approach to health.
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For example, if you have diabetes, you might see an internal medicine specialist, but you probably have bad heart and cardiovascular health too, so you need to see a cardiologist, and you are probably fat, so you need a nutrition coach also, not to mention a personal trainer to get you exercising, and a kidney specialist because kidney failure is next up… oops so is alzhimers (people with diabetes also have far higher risk of alzhimers)… so you need a neurologist!
If these health professionals don’t talk in depth about you…you are in trouble.
The problem now is that in many cases, you are not messed up enough in some areas to warrant proper attention.
- Your blood pressure might be high, but not quite high enough to see a cardiologist…
- You may be overweight but not obese so no need to see a nutritionist or a personal trainer…
- You may have high blood fats and high indicators for blood vessel damage, but not enough to reach “critical”…
- You may be this and that but not bad enough to get your health professional’s attention… uhoh.
This is like taking the O level exam and never once getting a F9 fail grade… but getting LOTS AND LOTS of E8…
Did you “fail” …no… but are you in trouble.. YES YES and most certainly YES.
If doctors all communicated, you would know about this trouble and would be on the path to recovery far quicker!
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Awesome. I like the analogy you used.
Hey Jonathan, now this is some interesting stuff. Getting to see another health advice after getting bombarded by so many others you have mentioned since issue 1 of your Minister speech.
Keep it up!
Great info loved it , I will bookmark this . Looking forward to hear more from you . Digg it. huhuhu