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Do You Have the Right to Know if a Trainee is Doing Your Surgery?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
According to a study published in July 2012 Archives of Surgery, only about 25% of eye institutions had a policy of informing patients that residents would be involved in their surgery! The reasoning of these teaching facilities is that it is critical that residents learn how to do surgeries and that if patients were offered the choice of not having...
Do You Need a Brain Scan if You Have Headaches
submitted by: admin on 04/03/2014
According to an article out of the Univerity of Michigan Medical Center that was published in March of 2014 in the journal, Internal Medicine, we spend about a billion dollars a year for unnecessary brain scans (MRIs and CT scans) on people who have headaches. Their research showed that the incidence of brain tumors, brain aneurysms, and AV malformations...
Do You Need a Colonoscopy?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki discuss the pros and cons for a routine colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. In asymptomatic people without a family history of cancer, the risks of doing a colonoscopy may exceed the benefits. Bowel perforations and severe GI bleeding are complications in 1 in 200 tests. Other screening tests are reviewed too.
Do You Need A Flu Shot?
submitted by: admin on 11/05/2014
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki review the history of the swine flu and the politics leading to its being defined a pandemic. You will learn the inside story of the collusion and corruption from the WHO, CDC, and White House. The lack of good science is revealed.
Do You Need the Swine Flu Vaccine?
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Do you need to take the swine flu vaccine? Some medical centers require taking the vaccine. Scare tactics are a powerful tool to intimidate people into taking the vaccine. The CDC has been concealing their data regarding the need for the vaccine. CBS did its own study on the incidence of swine flu and their numbers were much lower than those of the CDC. One person...
Do You Need to Supplement Your Diet?
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Do we really need supplements such as vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and important nutrients? If you live a healthy lifestyle you may not need supplements; if you don't you likely need supplements. You can overdo supplements and megavitamins have their downsides. Toxic exposures are a good reason to consider supplementation. The best sources of antioxidants,...
Do You Prefer a Male or Female Doctor?
submitted by: admin on 12/10/2013
Researchers at the University of Montreal evaluated 870 male and female doctors with regard to their compliance in managing diabetic patients with practice guidelines set by the Canadian Diabetes Association. They found that female MDs followed guidelines that included regular eye and physical exams, and the use of three medications that included a statin drug...
Do You Trust Your Doctor?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Ideally there should be a partnership between patients and doctors and the Internet has empowered patients to participate more so in their care. The authoritarian role of the MD is changing. HMO medicine is discussed.
Do Your Thoughts Create Your Reality with Meg Jordan
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Our thoughts have a lot to do with what is possible and affirmations are important, but there is an important difference between magical thinking and reality. Newtonian and Einsteinian physics both have truth to them. Balancing taking responsibility for ourselves and utilizing cultural support often determines what happens.
Doctor Saputo Radio
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Doctor Saputo Radio - archive
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki, as she is so affectionately known, have been providing cutting edge mainstream and complementary and alternative health information for their audience for more than a decade. Their Prescriptions for Health call in talk show airs on DoctorSaputo.com on the first and third Friday morning and their Fastrack Edition of Prescriptions for Health every...
Doctors and Dying Patients
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Doctors are poorly trained to take care of dying patients. There is a time for scientific excellence and also for listening and caring. Compassion, attentiveness, respect, and empathy are required for a healing relationship.
Dealing with death and dying is a very important issue. For some this is an overwhelming problem and for others it can be a time to...
Doctors and Nurses are not Washing Their Hands
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
When cameras are watching more doctors and nurses wash their hands. Less than 7% washed their hands immediately when entering or before leaving a patient's room. under normal conditions. This number shot up to 88% when cameras were installed to monitor hand washing. With hospital acquired infections reaching 5% and 100,000 deaths annually from them, hand...
Doctors and Nurses Use CAM More than the Public
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Three of every four US healthcare workers use CAM for prevention. MDs and RNs used CAM services more than their assistants. Thirty eight percent of the US uses CAM services such as supplements, meditation, chiropractic, Pilates, Ayurveda, and Chinese medicine. The reasons healthcare workers used CAM was for back, neck, and joint pain.
Yet only 1.5% of total...
Doctors Do Not Always Take Their Own Advice
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
When doctors step into their patient's shoes their treatment decisions are often different. Treatment protocols are often followed because they are the standard of care and not following them is plagued with potential law suits and disciplinary action from their medical boards. Medical practice is very complex and making decisions out of the mainstream...
Doctors Sue Aetna for Coverage Denials
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Thousands of doctors, through the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the California Medical Association are suing Aetna Insurance Company for routinely denying patients access to out-of-network doctors even when the patient had purchased a polilcy giving them the right to choose their provider. They are accusing Aetna of threatening patients with denial...
DoctorSaputo.com Introduction by Vicki Saputo, RN and Len Saputo, MD
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
This is an introduction to our DoctorSaputo.com website by Vicki Saputo, RN.
.Vicki has appeared with her husband Len on hundreds of radio shows and brings her wonderful and heartfelt energy across in this video introduction to the DoctorSaputo.com web experience.
Dr. Saputo shares his good energy in a video lower down on this page..
Enjoy!
DoctorSaputo.com Professional Healing Circle Blog
submitted by: admin on 03/30/2020
DoctorSaputo.com Professional Healing Circle Blog
Healing Circles are a novel way of looking at health issues from the perspective of multiple disciplines. We are going to look at COVID 19 infections in an open forum of healthcare practitioners that will be shared with visitors of DoctorSaputo.com.
You are invited to share your professional...
DoctorSaputo.com Professional Healing Circle Blog
submitted by: admin on 03/30/2020
DoctorSaputo.com Professional Healing Circle Blog
Healing Circles are a novel way of looking at health issues from the perspective of multiple disciplines. We are now looking at all aspects of COVID 19 infections in an open forum of healthcare practitioners that will be shared with visitors of DoctorSaputo.com.
You are invited to share your...
DoctorSaputo.com Site Introduction
submitted by: admin on 11/25/2024
DoctorSaputo.com is a 100% free site that was founded by Len Saputo, MD and Francesco Garri Garripoli on January 1, 2011. The purpose of this site is to provide a guide, all in audio and video, to taking care of your health issues using integrative strategies personalized to each unique individual's situation. There are more than 30 health assessments that...
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