2. • "we don not have to suffer & die quietly … new medical technologies
allow something to be done." (pg 126.)
• Medical advances and their associated costs have the potential to
expand without limit. As long as people are subject to sickness &
Death, there will be no lack of demand for new medical investments"
3. OHIP
• What’s covered
• visits to doctors
• hospital visits and stays
• eligible dental surgery in hospital
• eligible optometry (eye-health services)
• podiatry (foot-health services)
• ambulance services
• travel for health services if you live in northern Ontario
OHIP does not cover:
• prescription drugs provided in non-hospital
settings (e.g. antibiotics prescribed by your
family doctor)
• dental services provided in a dentist’s office
• eyeglasses, contact lenses
• laser eye surgery
• cosmetic surgery
4. %%%
• Percentages of today's medical expenses covered in other worlds
have become largely irrelevant:
• In the States yr. 2006, Private insurance plans covered 35.4 percent of
medical expenses.
• With Medicare/Medicaid (government-owned programs) covering an
additional 17.2 & 16 percent
• Leaving 13.7 percent to individuals
5. • Today's Medical technological breakthroughs - like the stethoscope -
"helped to create an objecive physician, who could move away from
the involvement with the patient's experiences and sensations, to a
more detached relation, less with the patient but more with the
sounds from within the body.“ (pg. 126)
• Other Technologies like the stethoscope will follow
6. • Powerful Medical Tecnologies exist today
• Examples include:
• Kidney Dialysis Machines
• Antibiotics
• Surgery
7. Kidney Dialysis
• First machine constructed using a bath tub & parts salvaged from
foundry to create replace kidneys.
• Created by Dr. William Kolff, refined later once imported to Western
Medicinal practice.
• Major improvement included use of a tube, disabling the need to tap
arteries and veins everytime dialysis was required
8. Antibiotics
• Antibiotics
• Antimicrobial drug used to treat and prevent bacterial infections
• First Dicovered by by Alexander the fleming, the first natural
antibiotic penicillin in 1928
• Thousands available today at doctor's presciption, large majority
covered by OHIP
9. Antibiotics Cont.
• "Before bacteria can multiply and cause symptoms, the body's
immune system can usually kill them. Our white blood cells attack
harmful bacteria and, even if symptoms do occur, our immune system
can usually cope and fight off the infection."
10. Surgery
• Covered by OHIP
• Some surgeries relieve or prevent pain, others can save your life
• Surgeries requiring large incisions can be done using smaller incisions
by utilizing a small tube with a camera. This is called laparoscopic
surgery
11. Surgery Cont.
• Major surgery's involve the opening of a major body cavity (abdomen,
chest or skull) and can stress vital organs
• Lifechanging technology (Pacemaker) regulates heart beats, and is
implemented in open-heart surgeries
• Controlling of heart beats increases blood flow to the heart,
decreasing risks of stroke and heart attacks
12. Conclusion
• "Ideally the usee of sophiticated technologies frees doctors from
tedious work, leaving them with more time for personalized
interactions with patients and more accurate diagnoses"
• In a way, technology frees them from the guilt of failing a patient by
focusing on objective data.
