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We’ve all heard of Listerine, but there’s much more to Dr. Joseph Lister than mouthwash! Tidbits has the facts on this British surgeon who is considered the father of modern surgery. • Joseph Lister got an early start in the world of medicine. His father, a wine merchant, was also an amateur scientist, who developed a microscope. Joseph spent his childhood years peering at a variety of specimens through the microscope, as well as dissecting creatures, studying their skeletons, and drawing them. • While working as a surgeon in Glasgow, Scotland, Lister realized that half of amputation patients died from infection following the surgery. Surgeons were not required to wash their hands and there were no facilities for cleansing a patient’s wounds in the operating theater. Doctors considered the stains on their unwashed operating gowns as a badge of honor of their experience. • In 1865, while studying the work of French scientist Louis Pasteur, the father of pasteurization, Lister learned of the Frenchman’s discovery that microorganisms could cause infection. Lister began conducting experiments using diluted carbolic acid, a coal-tar by-product that was used to kill the parasites found in sewage. He sprayed surgical instruments, the patients’ incisions, and the bandages with the solution, as well as spraying the air within the operating room. All surgeons in his hospital were instructed to wear clean gloves and wash their hands with a carbolic acid solution before and after each procedure.

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Half of veterans who are enrolled in Department of Veterans Affairs health care also are signed up with Medicare Part D. What that means is they can get their prescriptions from either the VA or Medicare through a civilian doctor ... or too often from both. Until now there has been no way to tell if a veteran was collecting opioids from both sources. A recent study looked at 200 patients who died and 800 others, categorizing them as VA only, Medicare only or both. Of these, 60 patients who died and 117 control patients had received opioid prescriptions from both sources. They had a much higher chance of dying from drug overdose than those who received drugs from only the VA or Medicare. Granted, these stats are from 2012 and 2013, but it does indicate a very likely pattern -- patients who are able to get painkillers from two sources just might use both. Now the VA and Medicare have hooked up with a program to monitor drug prescriptions, including opioids. The VA will be able to keep an eye on drugs prescribed by health-care sources outside the VA and will know if anyone has been prescribed double the amount. What the press release doesn’t say is just how the VA plans to monitor the drug prescriptions. Will it have access to a patient’s file at a civilian doctor? Will it have access to the Medicare computer? Or the pharmacy? Between the doctor, the pharmacy and Medicare, at what point will the VA know what’s being prescribed? And if a drug is doubly prescribed for a veteran, what is the VA going to do about it? The biggest question of all: Will this require new Did you hear about the family who got stuck computer software at the VA? If so, it could take some on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. time. Apparently, their vehicle would nevernever land.

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