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image-thumb.pngWe have accepted the suggestion from a BU family member to facilitate discussion on medical matters which is a topic area that should interest us all. Based on exchanges with and between BU family members posted over time, many of you work in the medical field or possess information on various medical issues acquired based on personal circumstance or otherwise. Medical Corner seeks to encourage ANYONE to submit views on medical experiences, new developments in the industry or any related matter which readers feel can serve to educate the BU family.

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  1. David Avatar
    David

    One wonders how ordinary people are expected to navigate the mountain of information to be able to make informed decisions. Who to trust?

  2. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    De Boss ponders…
    “One wonders how ordinary people are expected to navigate the mountain of information to be able to make informed decisions. Who to trust?”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Is the blog master FINALLY beginning to grasp the hopelessness of our present predicament?
    LOL…
    Who exactly qualifies as ‘ordinary people’? Do you mean the hoards of brass bowls whose measure of success in life is to have a ‘job’ (IE to be a servant of some other brass bowl)

    What ‘mountain of information’ is that Boss? The loads of PROPAGANDA pushed by special interest groups – which are ALL controlled by the greedy albino-centric forces?

    What is an ‘informed decision Boss?’ besides the lotta shiite ideas that we have all been eddykated and brainwashed to accept – IN SPITE OF THE ONGOING AND WORSENING results that we are seeing.

    Hear THIS!!!
    The ONLY reliable ‘mountain of information’ that can possibly exists, MUST have originated from the CREATOR of this experience that we call ‘Life on Earth’.
    Everything else is shiiiite…. or at least smelly.

    ‘INFORMED DECISIONS’ that ignore, or that are ignorant of, the INTENT and OBJECTIVES of the CREATOR – are nothing but jobby to be FLUSHED… or at least ‘shiite-talk’ suitable for the rum shop and Laff-it-off.

    Bottom Line…
    Our World is now RUN by EVIL SPIRITUAL FORCES – mostly via their albino-centric human agents, and by their petty brass bowl wannabes.

    Trust ANYTHING and ANYONE at your peril. This applies to your medical, physical – BUT ESPECIALLY SPIRITUAL well being. (Wise BBs know that we battle NOT against flesh and blood, BUT against wicked spiritual forces in high places)

    The ONLY reliable point of TRUST lies in the words, the laws, and in the LOVE of the CREATOR.

    Whether Pacha likes it or not… 🙂
    Whether it suites our academic jokers’ mock theses or not..
    THIS is the ever present REALITY of 2024.

    Wunna keep on playing dat wunna don’t know….

    What a place
    What a curse
    What a time to be alive…

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    You too unfair. Ordinary people should be able to trust public medical professionals.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Questions and Answers with new chief chief executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

    QEH CHECK- CHECK-LIST

    The Sunday Sun recently sat down with British-born medical health administrator Neil Clark, the man who is now in the hot seat as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

    Clark started the job exactly two months ago and shared with The Nation’s Associate Editor Barry Alleyne some of his ideas for making the hospital a much more efficiently run organisation.

    Q: What were your expectations when you took this job?

    A: I was expecting to come to a hospital that needed some improvements. And I’m excited to come to a health care system where you have one hospital that provides the majority of services for the whole population. I’m excited to be here.

    Q: What were your first priorities after taking the job? A: I’ve spent the first two months meeting the directors and the clinical leads (heads of departments). There are 40 departments at this hospital, so it’s a complex organisation. We could have up to 5 000 different clinical treatments to be dealt with at the same time. It’s probably the most complex organisation in Barbados.

    Q: What is your first expectation? A: I hope to make this hospital a sustainable, safe serviceprovider for the population. I’ve been meeting and listening to people. I’ve tried my hardest in the first two months not to offer opinions or views, but to gather as much information as I can and understand people’s perspectives. It’s important to get that local context.

    Q: How quickly do you think you can make the necessary changes based on your observations? A: It’s going to take time. I’m quite happy so far with the medical personnel I’ve come across. People seem enthusiastic and motivated.

    Q: What are some of the concerns or comments you have been hearing from the people you’ve met with? A: Most of the people I’ve met have ideas about what they need to move forward. What I need to work out, is how I can bring in change-management teams to help them make those changes, gather the information to put a plan in place and to monitor it. Everyone knows what needs to happen, but they just haven’t been able to make it happen. That’s where I come in. to

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    I the want She’s the on what Emergency A& we train cyber need numbers Q: Will you need to bring in more people to effect those changes?

    A: Those people are probably here already. There are nearly 2 500 staff, and I already asked the human resources department, how do we find from the 2 500 staff who wants to have a new challenge, who wants to have a change and be involved in service improvement.

    Q: Which members of your team are you leaning on so far?

    A: I’ve already asked my chief operating officer and I want her to really focus over the next year, on both the service quality, and the patient flow agenda. We want to avoid the waiting times we’re seeing now.

    She’s done a great job over the last year managing the hospital, but now I’m here, I want her to focus on this. This is our number one thing.

    Q: What staffing ideas do you have for what would lead to an improved Accident & Emergency Department?

    A: If we are going to bring in a new IT system for A& E, we have to have the IT infrastructure. Then we will need more IT personnel. We will also need to train people how to use it. We need to shore up our cyber security and our data protection so we will need experts to support those functions.

    Q: What immediate improvement to staffing numbers do you envisage?

    A: It’s all about efficiency. If we have less people on the wards, I might not need more nurses. It’s too early for me to conclude how much more staff we need. We are doing some work with human resources about the current staff levels, and the ratios, and just how much staff would we need. We have to figure out are we 100 per cent staffed, and what vacancies we need filled.

    Q: How soon do you think new nurses would be needed for the QEH?

    A: There have been additional nurses requested. We are going to try and bring nurses from Ghana and the Philippines. Knowing what those numbers are, and where they will be deployed is equally important.

    I’ve set up a weekly meeting where we look at things like that.

    Q: Have you paid special attention to staffing in the A& E Department?

    A: We’re working with A& E to figure out if we have enough numbers to manage the flow of patients. We need the right numbers at the right times. We will also look at the staffing on the wards. After that we can identify how to make the operation more efficient.

    Q: How do you plan to reduce the amount of deferred or cancelled surgical procedures Barbadians have been experiencing?

    A: We have to look at the utilisation of our (operating) theatres. Are we using them effectively?

    Are we only using them 50 per cent of the time? We have to look at everything, at what time an operation starts, what time it finishes. That would give us more information so we can deliver improved services.

    Q: What are the plans for non medical-health services?

    A: For all the other support services, the work has started. I’ve met the engineering team, the HR team, and the admin team. They too need to feel engaged and involved in how the hospital’s services are delivered. It all impacts on patient care. All of them need to be fully engaged. Everyone will know what their expectations are.

    Q: What are your initial plans for cybersecurity at the QEH?

    A: I’m aware of the cyber security attack the hospital had. I’m also aware an implementation plan has been put in place to strengthen the security. Part of the recruitment process that has been approved, is for a cybersecurity officer, who will be completely responsible for that. We recognise cybersecurity isn’t just about people trying to hack. It’s also about people who work here, and probably offering out information. Part of the role isn’t just the technical aspect, but also educating everyone who works here, that when you see an email from someone you don’t know, that you don’t open it. I expect our IT system to try to phish our own staff, and to tell them, you failed.

    A lot of this will be about education, and doing it internally so there is no harm done when someone makes a mistake.

    Source: Nation

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    Hants

    https://nationnews.com/2024/06/08/drug-shortage-crops-up-every-2-years/

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Barbados ‘can do more cancer research’

    By Tony Best

    It is within Barbados’ “grasp” to play a greater international role in scientific research efforts to boost global understanding of the cancer picture for Black people in the Caribbean, US, Britain and elsewhere.

    Any scientific success can raise the early detection rates of cancers in Bajan men and women at a pace that would reduce the non-communicable disease’s morbidity and mortality in and out of the region and the rest of the Hemisphere.

    So said Dr Ken Harewood, a highly respected Bajan cancer researcher in the US who has spent decades as a leading scientist in laboratories of one of the world’s leading multinational pharmaceutical firms before he switched to full-time teaching and administration on university campuses in New York, Florida and North Carolina.

    “It is within our scientific grasp in Barbados to achieve that desirable goal,” asserted Dr Harewood, a retired bio-chemistry professor. “We have the institutions in Barbados and the skilled professionals there. What is lacking is the money” to get the job done.

    “It takes a lot of money to do the kinds of research the American Cancer Society has available to it and which it plans to spend on an extensive study of breast cancer in Black women in the US,” added Dr Harewood. “You need skilled personnel.

    “You need equipment and supplies as well as a dedicated team of researchers to conduct the studies, generate the data, interpret it and recommend courses of action,” he said.

    “Barbados has been talking recently about becoming a mecca for pharmaceutical manufacturing and if that manufacturing capacity materialises then you would have the perfect setting where you have University of the West Indies scientists conducting the research,” he added.

    “You would have the university setting in Barbados, where you would have scientists working with clinicians at the major hospital (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) and oncologists who can conduct the same studies that have been conducted in major metropolitan centres in the US and the UK,” he contended.

    “It is within our grasps (in Barbados). We have the patient pool to do it. If you have that pool, you already have the skills of scientists” then you could can move forward, said Dr Harewood. “Barbados can then compete for research funding in the US and elsewhere. There is no reason to believe that we cannot take on the task of conducting our own epidemiological studies and use the findings to achieve results,” he stated.

    Lowest survival rate

    The retired science professor was reacting to the American Cancer Society’s decision to conduct what might turn out to be the largest national study of its kind designed to solve a mystery that surrounds cancer: Why Black women have the lowest survival rate of any racial or ethnic group in the US for most cancers?

    Thanks to new medicines and better detection, cancer deaths in the US have been declining since a peak in 1991, but Black women there have the highest death rate for most cancers, the Society was quoted as saying.

    “The racial differences are especially stark with certain types of cancer, research shows,” stated CNN, a major cable news network in the US but has a global audience of millions.

    The news about the Cancer Society’s elaborate study hit the international headlines last month when the results of an extensive cancer study of Black female cancer victims in Barbados, Africa, and the US were published.

    The study’s results showed that twelve breast cancer genes identified in Black women may, in the words of Nancy Lapid of Reuters news agency, “one day help better predict their (Black women’s) risks for the disease and heighten potential risk difference for women of European descent.”

    The findings were drawn from more than 40 000 women of African descent including 8 034 with breast cancer.

    At a time when improved medicines are bolstering the early detection of cancers and life spans are being prolonged, Black women are still lagging behind women of European descent.

    According to published accounts by CNN and other leading news organisations and medical publications, women of colour who are equally likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer are almost 40 per cent more likely to die from the disease than white women. Black men in the US who are being diagnosed with prostate cancer are also said to be suffering a similar fate.

    How come? Dr Harewood, a reputable and respected Bajan researcher who has spent decades in research laboratories of a major US multinational pharmaceutical company before switching to the classrooms of different universities pinpointed some causes for the wide gap in the outcomes of cancers in ethnic minorities.

    That picture, Dr Harewood told the Sunday Sun yesterday from his home in North Carolina where he once headed the North Carolina Central University’s Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Institute, could be traced to a plethora of causes: a paucity of scientific research studies in minority neighbourhoods whose results can bolster understanding and awareness of the disease; blatant racism; and a lack of inclusion of Black women in the clinical trials conducted at major US medical centres.

    Source: Nation

  7. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Re Cancer Research:

    Oncologist Dr. William Makis of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (out of favour with medical authorities as he came out early on with concerns the mRNA COVID19 vaccines would likely be unsafe and refused to endorse them to his patients) has been looking into some early studies which show that well established, inexpensive, off-patent, proven safe over years of use medicines and even nutritional supplements had potential to be repurposed as possible cancer treatment options.

    Of course, big-pharma corporations are not interested in promoting the use of any inexpensive treatments that will compete with their expensive, patented treatments and will be sure to use their money and influence to keep the inexpensive treatment options off the table as much as possible.

    Since medications have to go through a series of extensive and expensive Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) before they can be promoted commercially as a viable treatment option for any disease, funds for funding large scale medical trials of inexpensive medications or unpatentable nutritional substances as cancer treatment options (or for any other diseases) are usually difficult to come by.

    See the links below for just some of the relevant articles from Dr. Makis’s substack page.

    IVERMECTIN and CANCER Part 2 – Treating Turbo Cancer – 7 new studies released in 2024 show Ivermectin works against CANCER – suggested PROTOCOLS for COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancers

    FENBENDAZOLE and CANCER – at least 12 Anti-Cancer mechanisms of action. Not approved by FDA. Cheap. Safe. Kills aggressive cancers. Why no Clinical Trials? Nine research papers reviewed.

    CHLORINE DIOXIDE and CANCER – Most Controversial Alternative Cancer Treatment – Safety and New Research evidence in 8 papers examined

    NONI Fruit and CANCER – Morinda citrifolia (Noni) as an Anti-cancer superfood – New Research – 5 papers reviewed

    CURCUMIN and CANCER – New Research in the past 4 years – 5 papers including a look at improving bioavailability

    IP6 and CANCER – Inositol Hexaphosphate and the latest Research since 2020

    FASTING and CANCER – New Research on a potential Revolution in Cancer Treatment – What’s best? Periodic fasting (3 days) vs Ketogenic Diet vs Caloric Restriction – 5 major papers reviewed!

    QUERCETIN and CANCER – New research of the past 4 years – 5 papers reviewed

  8. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    UK’s Office for Nationals Statistics (ONS) admits to massive screwup in stats used to show C19 vax safety.

    Story in a nutshell. The UKs ONS was responsible for making statistical calculations around death rates after the C19 vaccines rolled out in 2021 to show they were safe or possibly unsafe.

    After the the ONS stats came out for 2021, it was noted that there was a signifiant jump in the death rates for the UN-vaccinated group. Why were the unvaccinated dying in abnormally high number (and without COVID), and this was also co-incident with the rollout of the C19 experimental vaccines? Could it be that the ONS were for some reason shifting some vaccinated deaths into the unvaccinated category, making the unvaccinated group deaths unusually high and artificially making the post C19 vax deaths to be unnaturally low?

    The ONS was challenged by some independent researchers on this strange coincidence and asked if the statistics could possibly have been thrown off by a mis-categorization of some vaccinated deaths as unvaccinated deaths. The ONS denied this was at all possible, and rebuffed each inquiry about the matter with a blanket assurance that their stats didn’t lie. They counted strictly unvaccinated deaths only in the unvaccinated category.

    Within the last few weeks, the ONS has had to eat their words and admit that indeed they screwed up big-time, because, as some had long suspected, they had indeed been counting some vaccinated deaths as unvaccinated deaths which had the effect of making the vaccines appear to be safer than they really were.

    We were right! The UK ONS now admit that deaths in the vaccinated were categorised as unvaccinated in 2021
    The ONS denied it then but admit it now.

    NORMAN FENTON, MARTIN NEIL, CLARE CRAIG, AND 4 OTHERS
    MAY 23, 2024

    In 2021 when the UK ONS (Office for National statistics) started releasing its vaccine by mortality status reports we exposed that there were large spikes in the non-covid death rates in the ‘unvaccinated’. These spikes in mortality coincided with the first main vaccine rollout and did so for each age group (see this report, for example).

    Here is the chart for non-covid mortality rates in weeks 1-38 of 2021 for the 60-69 age groups: (Graph in original)

    The charts for the other age groups looked much the same.

    We asserted that these obvious anomalies were a result of the standard ONS procedure of categorising anyone within 20 days of their first dose as ‘unvaccinated’. However, in our own discussions with the ONS they maintained that, although that method was used for their efficacy calculations, it was not used when it came to mortality. They clearly said that a person dying any time after vaccination was correctly categorised, as a vaccinated death, in the mortality data they regularly released to the public and which formed the basis of a massive public communication campaign encouraging vaccination.

    SNIP

    As a result of a subject access request that Clare Craig submitted to the ONS we have now found out that we were correct after all!

    Clare has posted on this twitter/X thread, an internal ONS email confirming that the NIMS database of vaccinated people, that the ONS relied upon, had excluded those people who had died before vaccine records had been sent back to the central system:

    When we pointed out to the ONS exactly this possibility for miscategorisation in 2021 they continued to deny that it had happened (see Table 8 of our report here).

    Why is this so important? Because the ONS data – possibly more so than any other source of data in the world – was used to bolster the claim that the vaccines were highly effective and safe.

    And, as we have always argued, and which is now certain, any claims of efficacy and safety based on their data were completely illusionary and subject to the cheap trick of miscategorisation whereby even a placebo – or something even worse – could be ‘shown’ to be safe and effective.

    https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/we-were-right-the-uk-ons-now-admit

  9. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    US appeals court rules COVD19 jabs were NOT vaccines. Therefore mandates were illegal. Opens up possibilities for lawsuits aginst vaccine companies (in spite of indemnity provisions to protect the vaccine makers) and criminal prosecution against the wrong doers who tried to push them on US citizens and residents.

    VIDEO – Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson and Dr.David Martin – 9th Circuit Court rules COVID-19 mRNA Injections are not “Vaccines”

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/video-absolute-truth-with-emerald?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1385328&post_id=145528321&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=o3ikk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

  10. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    et ready, COVID-19 V2 coming soon in the form of the Bird Flu plandemic. Naturally mRNA vaccines will be the government sanctioned option and appropriate therapeutics will probably be banned as they did with HCQ and Ivermectin in Plandenmic V1, AKA COVID-19

  11. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Youtube has censored the video I posted about the coming plans to use Bird Flu as the source for PLANDEMIC V2 requiring another mRNA vaccine emergency rollout. Here is a link to the same video on the Free Speech video platform Rumble:

    https://rumble.com/v51goza-hang-on-bill-gates-is-now-doing-what-with-bird-flu-redacted-w-natali-and-cl.html

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