1. NIH needs to change funding to be focused on finding cures. It is not doing that now. NIH budget this year alone is $49 BILLION dollars. NIH funds individual researchers who if successful get a patent and then a drug company makes an expensive drug to treat the symptoms. If no patent, no…
1. NIH needs to change funding to be focused on finding cures. It is not doing that now. NIH budget this year alone is $49 BILLION dollars. NIH funds individual researchers who if successful get a patent and then a drug company makes an expensive drug to treat the symptoms. If no patent, no drug company interest then the research findings lie dormant in a huge database wasting the billions of dollars of taxpayer money. There is no priority list of disabling, chronic diseases costing trillions a year for NIH. There is often no published results to help the next researcher. Instead money is thrown across thousands of sites with no coordination to find the final answer, instead ALWAYS "more research is needed." Fund consortiums looking at root causes for cures yet not getting funded. See the 2024 lectures at AlzPi.org and NeuroImmune.org for root causes of dementia, mental illnesses, chronic diseases and fund them instead.
2. Medical schools, oversight agencies should insist on competency. Teach and test updated information on the most misdiagnosed diseases, disabling diseases and costly diseases ROOT CAUSES and stya current. Now outdated information is taught and a flood of basic science concepts is thrown in with no attempt to tell how this is useful for a clinician.
3. Nurses need to use their skills and not be wasting time due to our system of taking the patients meds away. Patients should take their own pills. They do this 99% of their lives. An initial check of what meds they take needs done on arrival as many of the problems patients have is polypharmacy. Then nurses would have the time to be in the rooms to help patients and physicians instead of always passing meds. Med errors are too likely in a hectic, overworked hospital. Nursing home patients would benefit from stopping a lot of their meds.
4. CDC/HHS is outdated in many of their publications and funding There has been millions of dollars wasted just as with NIH. They need to have a priority list of diseases and fund accordingly. Patient advocates need to be given much of the money instead as they will use it wisely.
A few very quick fixes would make a huge impact.
1. NIH needs to change funding to be focused on finding cures. It is not doing that now. NIH budget this year alone is $49 BILLION dollars. NIH funds individual researchers who if successful get a patent and then a drug company makes an expensive drug to treat the symptoms. If no patent, no drug company interest then the research findings lie dormant in a huge database wasting the billions of dollars of taxpayer money. There is no priority list of disabling, chronic diseases costing trillions a year for NIH. There is often no published results to help the next researcher. Instead money is thrown across thousands of sites with no coordination to find the final answer, instead ALWAYS "more research is needed." Fund consortiums looking at root causes for cures yet not getting funded. See the 2024 lectures at AlzPi.org and NeuroImmune.org for root causes of dementia, mental illnesses, chronic diseases and fund them instead.
2. Medical schools, oversight agencies should insist on competency. Teach and test updated information on the most misdiagnosed diseases, disabling diseases and costly diseases ROOT CAUSES and stya current. Now outdated information is taught and a flood of basic science concepts is thrown in with no attempt to tell how this is useful for a clinician.
3. Nurses need to use their skills and not be wasting time due to our system of taking the patients meds away. Patients should take their own pills. They do this 99% of their lives. An initial check of what meds they take needs done on arrival as many of the problems patients have is polypharmacy. Then nurses would have the time to be in the rooms to help patients and physicians instead of always passing meds. Med errors are too likely in a hectic, overworked hospital. Nursing home patients would benefit from stopping a lot of their meds.
4. CDC/HHS is outdated in many of their publications and funding There has been millions of dollars wasted just as with NIH. They need to have a priority list of diseases and fund accordingly. Patient advocates need to be given much of the money instead as they will use it wisely.