Primary Health Care

Many work places, I am certain, will be “a-buzz”, with discussions about the new Michael Moore documentary, Sicko. Whether completly accurate or not,…it is sure to “stir” more than a few “bee-hives”. If ever we needed…a “Bee-in-our-bonnets”…it is now. As in my many other peripheral sites, postings and bolgs…we have no time left to waste. WE are at a critical cross-roads…spanning a very wide “highway” that is paved with “ill-intentions” attached to our health and well-being. If anything the illumination from the film will be “spot-lighting” the “ill-effects” of increasing evidence that Health (and Wellness for that matter) is considered a Commodity by many…who see the Baby-Boomers as the biggest economic windfall imaginable. It has been one of the major reasons few in power to transform Health Care has not been interested forwarding the Prevention or Health Promotion agenda…there is just far too much money to be exploited out of an industry driven system. Big Pharma, essentially has share-holders…as does all the “medical-supply-companies”…and essentially all health care professionals are “stake-holders”…as well as far too many are both “Share-holders” and “Stake-holders”. As the film has presented…many politicians pockets are lined with “industry” money…so too are many “health care professionals” who should under an ethical mandate “first-do no harm”, but so not see their practice as “unethical”…if they undermine other programs and other professionals that are orientated to Primary Health Care.

With not one but two Advanced Practice Degree’s in Primary Health Care (PHC), I should know something about Primary Health Care and Community Development. There are incredible “invisible barriers” that prevent me from practicing to my full scope of practice…and practice what I know best (PHC). I can neither publish or talk to political leaders about what I know and what has happened to me personally. I can not even write an article…or be included in an article that has been published…regarding the barriers that exist for Advanced Practitioners of Nursing. I know there are other disciplines that feel much the same frustration and discouragement…as the status quo…is maintained by the policy makers of Health Care Policy…(essentially they are politicians, many of whom have law degrees…and alot to power).

So In short…you would have to sit down with me in Private…to get an entire take of M.M.’s new film. I will not be publishing “prematurely” so to speak….the books are at least half written…I get a new feeling everyday about which one should be published first….should it be academic/educational/professional…perhaps I would be sabotaging my Academic career…if I were to release a “tell-all” to the public press.

You will have to stay tuned…for the date of release…of the book…or will it be my own documentary. As you view the Yoga video made very amateurishly (and with no rehearsal)…I may soon be bold enough to recruit them into a bigger project. Perhaps it would be fun to take suggestions as to the Short-and-Sweet title that could be a response/re-buttle to “Sicko”.

BE wise, BE well, BE “well” intentioned,

Dave