Frequently Asked Questions

You have put your finger directly on the problem in America today. Millions of people are doing what you suggest and they wind up having complications from surgery, miss diagnosis, taking the wrong drugs, or the right drugs and the wrong dosages. You require additional surgery to repair the botched surgery they just went through, and their illnesses are taking longer to get over than previously before. What’s more there are close to 100,000 unnecessary deaths per year from hospital induced infections, not caused by the original illness, and you don’t think partnering with your doctors is a good thing? We wouldn’t conduct our lives that way, and we don’t think you should either.

Some of it is. There are some great books that have been written through the years on hospital care, picking the right doctor and surgeon. How to get your nurses to give you superior service. When to opt for a second opinion? One of the big problems is that by the time a book is published, everything is at least 6 months old that’s in the book. Some of the information is 1 to 2 years old, and then if you get the book 6 months or a year later, you could be reading data that is 3 years old. Meanwhile, our information is updated every 30 days, and we send you updates and if appropriate.

We would. We would never let a doctor perform an invasive procedure including surgery without thoroughly discussing our options with at least one more doctor. We quote a world renowned surgeon when he stated, “The is no such thing as minor surgery”. All surgery entails risks, and all kinds of risk. If you let anyone perform surgery, you get a second opinion. The only exception is an absolutely dire emergency where you have to rely on the luck of the draw has to who will perform the surgery.

Yes, you could possibly get a good result by simply relying on chance, and that’s what you would be doing, is using “chance” as your decision making tool. So let’s ask you a question. When was the last time that you got a great result at anything by leaving it up to chance? It hasn’t worked for any of us, and we don’t suspect it would work for you. There is another issue. If it does go wrong, and if you get a bad result, wouldn’t you like to know that you did everything in your power to get it done right, so that there are no regrets.

No, there is no such thing as MINOR SURGERY. All surgery involves risk, and the risk can include your life. Among other potential issues there are allergic reactions that can kill patients very easily if not caught. A surgeon can encounter unexpected difficulties once he is operating.  The anesthesiologist can have problems. You could contract a hospital cause secondary infection which can cost you several more unnecessary weeks in the hospital. All kinds of things can go wrong, and there is no such thing as MINOR SURGERY.

They are worse than what you heart. Close to 100,000 patients die every year in a hospital from infections acquired in the hospital that have nothing to do with the initial reasons that you were in the hospital to begin with. One could argue that a hospital is about the most dangerous environment that a patient could find himself in. Now hospitals have the knowledge and ability to stop these infections. The problem is whether or not they have the WILL to stop them. Regardless of the answer, we show you how to stop them in your room, before you become a victim of this preventable problem.

We cover this on many, many pages in the Report, but essentially it is a thinking problem on the part of the doctor. Psychologists have studied this in enormous detail, and governments have done major studies as to why doctors make mistaken diagnosis. The thinking problems involve a just a few of the following. There are a lot more we cover in the Report and we show you how to help your doctor avoid them, and believe us, he needs help.

* Rush to Judgment issues
* Confirmation Bias issues
* Lets go with my Gut errors
* Anchoring Errors

It’s way bigger than you would be led to think. There are ways to prevent it, like the patient having his own written list of everything he or she should be taking, and then changing the list as the doctor makes changes. Also when the doctor does make a change, asking the doctor why are we doing this. When the nurse hands you a pill to take, you should ask the nurse to read the name on the hospital instructions. You could be Kathryn White in room 145, and there could be a Kenneth White in room 347, and the instructions might simply say K. White, and the medication gets switched. Does this happen? You bet it does. Could the dosage be incorrect – we have seen that too. What it comes down to is that as a patient, you must get involved.

You got it. They are as human as the rest of us, in spite of the high esteem with which most of us hold them. Just cars come out of the manufacturer with defects in them, doctors make mistakes all the time, nurses make mistakes all the time. Now most of these mistakes fall through the cracks, and most of them are not life threatening, but when combinations of mistakes take place, they can be lethal. What we show you is how to intervene in the process, and immersing YOU as a partner with your medical professionals to get the best optimum medical outcome you can for yourself.