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Breaking pandemic news --> We are 100% certain that MichaelE does **not** have COVID-19 today (11/23/21) ...

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MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/pediatric-cancer-diagnosis-delays-covid-wcba-1.6253093?cmp=rss
>>>
>>>
>>> Late diagnosis of tumours in children collateral damage of COVID-19,
>>> doctors say
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>>> Lack of in-person visits with family doctor a factor in diagnosis,
>>> treatment delays
>>> CBC Radio · Posted: Nov 21, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 21
>>>
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh, a pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's
>>> Hospital in Hamilton, says the health-care system should be able to stay
>>> on top of cancers and all of the other diseases that have been given
>>> less priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Submitted by Dr. Sheila Singh)
>>>
>>> 930
>>>  comments
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh is used to explaining complex medical situations in
>>> simple terms. The pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital
>>> in Hamilton says that lately, she's seeing too many oranges and
>>> grapefruits and fewer ping pong balls.
>>>
>>> That's not good, and it could signal that the COVID-19 pandemic has
>>> delayed the diagnosis of many pediatric diseases, sometimes with
>>> devastating results.
>>>
>>> "You can imagine a tumour that's the size of a ping pong ball, it's
>>> easier for me to work around and remove it," she said. "But if that ping
>>> pong ball-sized tumour grows to the size of an orange or a grapefruit,
>>> the tumour has grown to a size where it's much more difficult now to
>>> deal with."
>>>
>>> Singh told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat Black Art, that she is
>>> now seeing two to three times more oranges and grapefruits than before
>>> the pandemic. In other words, the tumours have been left to grow much
>>> longer due to delays in diagnosis.
>>>
>>> Singh says she believes the delays in diagnosis have been caused by
>>> patients staying away from hospitals because:
>>>
>>> They are afraid of catching COVID-19.
>>> There is a lack of in-person visits with their family doctor.
>>> There is an anchor bias to look for COVID-19 symptoms to the detriment
>>> of flagging other serious diseases.
>>> "There's no doubt there will be collateral damage," she said, "and some
>>> of that will be death and poor outcomes from diseases that could have
>>> had better outcomes."
>>>
>>> Singh says she remembered a recent patient, a young girl who had a
>>> tumour that typically grows in one place in the brain. "This little girl
>>> came in and this tumour was actually in four places in her brain. And
>>> let me put it this way, two out of those four places I'd never seen this
>>> brain tumour in before." Instead of doing one surgery, Singh had to do
>>> several risky and difficult operations.
>>>
>>> Doctors worry they won't be able to help every cancer patient diagnosed,
>>> treated late due to COVID-19
>>> THE DOSEStudies reveal the unintended consequences of delaying
>>> surgeries, drop in ER visits due to pandemic
>>> As a pediatric doctor, Singh says that it has been heartbreaking to see
>>> some of the children whose cancers have progressed much further than the
>>> pre-pandemic norm. "I feel like I've been practising in a Third World
>>> country. I have seen disease that has spread so far that it's almost
>>> like cases I've read about in rural India. It's been quite difficult and
>>> alarming."
>>>
>>> Pediatric cancer specialists at CHEO, formerly the Children's Hospital
>>> of Eastern Ontario, in Ottawa also saw fewer patients coming in the
>>> early days of the pandemic, when parents said they feared going to the
>>> hospital.
>>>
>>>
>>> 26:30
>>> The COVID fallout: tumours as big as oranges
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh, a pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children’s
>>> Hospital talks about the enormous collateral damage caused by the
>>> pandemic. She's now seeing tumours as big as oranges and grapefruits,
>>> instead of ping pong balls. Dr. Singh blames it on prioritizing COVID
>>> over all else, telling people not to come to hospital, and relying too
>>> much on virtual health care -- all lessons for the future. 26:30
>>> Early signs of widespread diagnosis delays
>>> Early research suggests that later diagnosis of illness in children due
>>> to the pandemic may extend to other serious illnesses, not just cancer.
>>> In a study published earlier this year in the medical journal Pediatric
>>> Diabetes, researchers in Alberta found that more children are being
>>> treated for diabetic ketoacidosis, a serious and potentially fatal
>>> complication of diabetes.
>>>
>>> The authors suggest that parents may have been reluctant to access
>>> medical services because of fear of COVID-19 and that "increased virtual
>>> visits resulted in reduced face-to-face contact with health-care
>>> providers and may have contributed to the under-recognition of the
>>> severity of illness."
>>>
>>>
>>> Pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Patrick McDonald says he wants to make sure
>>> that lessons are learned from what was done right and what was done
>>> wrong in providing adequate care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
>>> (Submitted by Dr. Patrick McDonald)
>>> Dr. Patrick McDonald says he remembers the challenges of the lockdowns.
>>> For much of the pandemic, McDonald headed up the pediatric neurosurgery
>>> division at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver. In the early days of
>>> COVID-19, "I think all of us struggled with the issue [of] how do we
>>> make sure that families know that they can still access care. It might
>>> be a little more challenging, and we might have to do it initially by
>>> phone."
>>>
>>> He said that "it's a legitimate concern that people might not be able to
>>> or might not be accessing care in a timely fashion."
>>>
>>> Push for more in-person care
>>> In October, the Ontario Ministry of Health and the College of Physicians
>>> and Surgeons of Ontario issued a letter that encouraged doctors to
>>> resume in-patient visits over virtual appointments.
>>>
>>> "The standard of care is often difficult to meet in a virtual care
>>> environment," the letter stated. "In-person care is essential for
>>> certain conditions and services or where physical assessments are
>>> necessary to make an appropriate diagnosis or treatment decision."
>>>
>>>
>>> Singh says it's imperative that children undergo an in-person physical
>>> exam to receive a proper diagnosis. (JD Howell)
>>> That's particularly true when examining a young patient, Singh stressed.
>>> "There's so much room to miss a diagnosis when you're staring at a child
>>> on a screen."
>>>
>>> One of the common symptoms of a brain tumour in a child is macrocephaly,
>>> a technical term for an enlarged head, which Singh said can be a
>>> challenge to identify during a virtual visit.
>>>
>>> "Depending on the angle at which you're looking at a child, you might
>>> not even notice how big their head is or even be alarmed about it,
>>> whereas if that child walked into a room, it'd be the first thing you'd
>>> notice about them."
>>>
>>> McDonald says he believes that it may be another year before the full
>>> impact of delayed diagnosis due to COVID-19 is really understood. When
>>> the data does emerge, he stressed that we need to carefully examine what
>>> happened to understand why people may not have sought out the care their
>>> children needed.
>>>
>>> "There may be another pandemic, and we want to make sure that we learn
>>> appropriate lessons for what we did right and what we did wrong in
>>> providing adequate care," he said.
>>>
>>> 700 families waiting for children's health services at Toronto hospital
>>> as pandemic backlog grows
>>> In the meantime, Singh offered two pieces of advice to parents. First,
>>> she said, "It's safe to go to your hospital." And second, "I would
>>> really encourage parents not to accept a virtual visit as being a proper
>>> way to diagnose your child."
>>>
>>> Singh stressed that when parents are concerned about their child, an
>>> in-person physical examination is imperative to receive a proper diagnosis.
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> Canada & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
>    I am wonderfully hungry!

Source: 
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Positive control on USENET: 
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. 

Laus DEO !

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart

...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis

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