Medical Bills

How would you feel if you had a procedure done at the hospital and your bill was $292,643? Not only did the hospital room cost $72,624, but the patient received this bill on Thanksgiving. The family was celebrating being thankful for the surgery their family member received at Cedars-Sinal Hospital, now to have a huge bill to pay. Even though this medical bill a large, it is definitely not the largest. A $1,196,246 bill was given to a family who's child was in the Neonatal ICU (NICU) for one month and only had one surgery. Why should medical services be so expensive and you wonder why some people do not like surgery. These bills are outrageous at any stand point, and should be looked into. Both of these patients even had insurance that took out part of the payment. And to get a huge bill on Thanksgiving? What a great thing to be thankful for. What do you think about his? 

Diseases of Pumpkins

In honor of Halloween, this article will be about diseases of pumpkins. This 2014 growing season, pumpkins were getting angular leaf spot. The pumpkins were also getting an another type of disease called bacterial leaf spot. Symptoms of the angular leaf spot disease are spotted by farmers very easily. This disease is also common in cucumbers, melons, and squash. Lesions appear on the object and they become brittle and break. Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans, which causes angular leaf spot, begins in the seed and can infect the pumpkin before it even grows. Xanthomonas cucurbitae causes bacterial leaf spot. The lesions appear underneath the leaf and are very small. These diseases are mostly present in midwestern parts of the United States. It is in places like Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. Since both of these diseases are seed born they are hard to control. Angular leaf spot and bacterial leaf spot have only known to come up in the year 2014 and they are trying to control them so the 2015 growing season is not ruined.

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/bacterial_diseases_of_pumpkins_an_old_enemy_and_an_emerging_bacterial_disea?__scoop_post=bc2bde10-62bd-11e4-8127-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611#__scoop_post=bc2bde10-62bd-11e4-8127-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611

EBOLA!

Do you think traveling in planes or even traveling in general is a good idea while Ebola is spreading like a mad man? Everyday on the news there is a new story about Ebola, and how they are bringing the infected patients to Atlanta to be treated? Are we even safe living  here in Atlanta, Georgia? I think we should be cautious with who we are around and the places we go. I would not want not fly on a plane right now are the risk of traveling with people that could be infected with Ebola. Would traveling bans stop the spread of Ebola even though it is not air-born? It did not stop the spread of HIV/AIDS or the bird flu. Traveling bans also didn't stop the spread of Swine Flu, are we freaking out over nothing? I am not saying they you should not traveling anywhere or not go anywhere but your house, just wash your hands and be cautious of your surroundings. What do you think? Would you travel right now? 

Work Cited 

Belluz, Julia. http://www.vox.com/2014/10/18/6994413/research-travel-bans-ebola-virus-outbreak?__scoop_post=d50f73d0-5799-11e4-a86d-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611#__scoop_post=d50f73d0-5799-11e4-a86d-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=3554611

H1N1 Virus Hits Thieret

http://m.phillytrib.com/news/health/article_318a254f-8dc9-561f-825b-f8e7e9f2035f.html?mode=jqm


The H1N1 virus threatened the United States in 2009 and killed 17,000 people worldwide in that year alone. Now five years later it has returned. Terri Thieret thought she just had a regular cough in January and it turned out to be a life-threatening virus. She was put into a medically induced coma for almost three months, while on the machine ECMO. The machine ECMO takes the blood out of your body, filters out the carbon dioxide replacing it with oxygen then pumps it back into your body. This machine has let people survive the H1N1 virus and eventually helps them to be released from the hospital. Thieret is married to her husband Joe and has two daughters Madison and Ashton. They received help from many places like her mom's colleagues, their church, and family and friends. By late February Thieret was beginning to show signs of improvement when her lung scan began clearing. Missing three months of their daughters life and one of her daughter's birthday hit her hard but they were all glad to just have her alive and getting well.

"Treatment Saves Nurse's Life from H1N1 Flu." The Philadelphia Tribune. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://m.phillytrib.com/news/health/article_318a254f-8dc9-561f-825b-f8e7e9f2035f.html?mode=jqm>.

Welcome to a new adventure into medicine and the medical field.