A Deluge of Dollars Is No Back Cure
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Back pain
I think that people going to the E.R. looking for a high has really hurt the care that people get in the hospitals now days. I was hurt in an accident involving an ambulance. I was working with a patient and the driver slammed the breaks on and threw me off the bench seat into the drug cabinet and side door. I have sever spinal injuries, hip, right arm and leg damage. Because I look healthy, they think I am there for a fix. I hurt so bad I have even thought about suicide as the only way out. So there is no help for people with chornic pain if you look healthy. It makes me so mad I could scream. People just don't realize what the drug seekers are doing for the truely hurt and desperate people.
Back Pain
I think another cause of the increase in people with back pain (along with obesity) is the increase of people leading sedentary lifestyles. More and more people are in poor physical shape and lack the strength to do heavy lifting, yet the amount of lifting to do in life remains pretty much the same. Plus, when something heavy needs to be moved, most men will not admit they cannot move it by themselves or ask for help.
U.S. News's Avery Comarow has been editor of the America's Best Hospitals annual rankings since they first appeared in 1990. His reporting on clinical medicine, from the latest cholesterol guidelines to robotic surgery, has been driven by the question: What does this mean to patients? And that is the perspective he brings to his observations and commentaries on the increasing number of programs by hospitals and other healthcare providers to improve care and patient safety.
