Klink and the psychiatrist

He was the man who wrote a letter stating he wouldn’t, he couldn’t find himself walking a right wing governmental path. He was the man who suddenly stepped out of the negotiations for a new government, because he felt there was not enough trust and confidence, and there were not enough grounds for cooperation. Me [...]

Are weightcontrolprograms unhealthy?

It’s a long, long time ago I mentioned in a debate about weightcontrol that prevention is great and motivating people to get rid of their weight is great too, but that more thoughts need to be spend on the national campaigns because there’s far more to it than telling people to eat healthy. Not only [...]

No sponsoring by healthcare organisations anymore

I’ve always thought it to be strange that healthcare organisations survive in subsidies, grants, gifts, sponsoring and that they themselves sponsor all sorts of events, like sportevents, art exhibitions and such. It’s ridiculous to think that the money isn’t used for patientcare, better equipment or prevention, but on events that won’t pay off in any [...]

Centralisation of surgical procedures

The demissionairy minister of health decided that catheter guided heartvalve surgery is no longer allowed in other hospitals than 5 hospitals which, according to him, had the best results. The 5 are in the west and south. It means to us we have to travel by train for 2 hours, and need to add time [...]

Destroying vaccines … bye, bye taxmoney!

During the mexican flu “epidemic” lots of unnecessary panic was created. The facts are that less people died in my country due to any flu than on other years. So some of us call the mexican flu an ordinary summer flu. The minister of Health was not informed very well, or he ignored information. He [...]

bacteria in toothbrushes

TNO published that after 3 months of use of a toothbrush 7 million bacteria have found a place to live in it. Well, I’m one of the very few who clean the bathroom and include a dip of the toothbrushes in the anti bacteria solution. And the brushes are thrown away after three months or [...]

pregnancy leave

The European Union wants to extend the duration of pregnancy leave. Already The Netherlands offers two weeks less than the lowest adviced duration. (16 weeks) In the papers the subject was discussed and the readers were told that more leave wouldn’t be positive as with a longer leave nothing would change at all, like work [...]

One national cancer hospital for children

I’m chocked. The oncology centre for children in my town will be sacrificed to one national cancer centre for children. The result will be that children who are struggling with cancer have to move from home, friends and family to get treatment, and they have to travel hours to be seen for controls. The motivation [...]

protection against the sun

Oh my dear! The temperatures went very high today and I saw some children playing outside in the sun without any protection. I don´t understand those parents, because enough warnings have been issued to protect children. We´re even warned against bad creams and lotions. More than half of the suncreams contain oxybenzone, which influences hormone [...]

government, obesitas and money

Ofcourse our government has to find ways to balance expenses and income. Like everyone else, I would say. So today we were informed about plans to save money on healthcare. A few years ago a new system was introduced, which worked rather OK. Better than expected. Pity for me the meds that keep me alive [...]