Hello everyone,
Well, the second week of the semester is almost over...tomorrow is Friday! I did the homework today and was not really surprise (working in the hospital setting) that most of "health communication" I observed was mostly about colon, stomach and breast cancer prevention (60%). Although many treatments (40%) still occur by way of surgery (appendectomy, breast lump removal, colon resections etc.), but mostly the clinic deals with breast exams, colonoscopies, and endoscopy (stomach cancer screening) patients. We perform approximately 6 to 7 upper and lower scopes a day in the clinic and this does not include the breast exams done by the surgeons in the clinic. Health communication, I think, need to include educating individual, patients, and groups about disease treatment and prevention. It's good to see that this particular clinic spends more time on prevention and screening practices versus the traditional view point of medicine that focuses on treatment and not prevention. I still think that preventive medicine has a long way to go, it's still not fully embraced by our society or by the medical community as whole. But as we've discussed in class, certain "corporations" have more money to spend and treatment (drugs, pharmaceutical) is where the "big" bucks come from....
Anyway, I better stop talking....
See you all monday!
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