--- Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snippage> > (Do patients take their treatments together?)
Sometimes; they frequently are in waiting rooms together at nearly the same times, as - depending on the therapy - their timetables for treatment will be ~ the same. Often several families will become quite close as they go through this trauma together, and many clinics organize formal support groups. > Now a year later he's getting the > usual stories of how laugher saved someone... Humor, as an attitude improver, does seem to help many people; I can't recall the data at the moment, but I think that there has been formal research into the effect of laughter/humor on NK cells (natural killer cells, sort of like Mad Max leucocytes which go prowling about, 'looking' for foreign or mutated cells). IIRC, it also improves blood pressure and lowers stress hormones. Using the new tracking technology for surgical instruments/equipment, as Reggie suggested, is intriguing; I don't know what is 'economically feasible' when considering that the numbers apparently break down to ~ 50 of 1 million operations having these retained objects. (The number of sponges etc in a single operation approaches 200, IIRC from somewhere?) I don't like the idea of extra X-rays just for checking, as that adds to the ionizing radiation burden of the general public, although many procedures have routine post-placement X-rays anyway (checking for bone alignment in hip replacement, frex). Debbi who needs to head for the sack <yawn> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
