Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Study on Type 2 Diabetes CURE

World Institute of Surgical Excellence is now conducting a study on a surgery that CURES type 2 diabetes; there is a limit of 20 participants. Details are as follows:

The treatment has proven excellent results on Type 2 Diabetes patients.

Around a 90% complete remission of diabetes, this means 5 years with stabilized measurements.

The remaining 10% are now on an extremely low dose of blood sugar medication.

There are a few specifications on who´s candidate:
  • 16 to 60 years old
  • Less than 10 years passed since diagnosis
  • Less than 10 year medication protocol
  • BMI under 35
  • *Peptide C and Glycated hemoglobin results
*These tests are going to be confirmed in Costa Rica.

**If you don´t qualify on some of these items, there are several options for you.

The Type 2 Diabetes Treatment consists on a modification of the Gastric Bypass procedure.

The main differences are:

  • The doctor makes a bigger stomach cavity or “pouch”. Since it’s planned for non-obese patients, having a bigger pouch helps them maintain a healthy weight.

  • He also bypasses a few less inches of the small intestine. The part of the small intestine that is bypassed helps stimulate the pancreas insulin production and reduces the hormone that keeps the insulin from activating into the blood stream.

You´ll stay in Costa Rica 9 days and your schedule is:

Day 1: Arrival. There will be a transportation waiting for you at the Airport to take you to the Recovery Center.

Day 2: Pre-Ops and Surgery. This requires a 12 hour fasting period.

Day 3: Afternoon discharge , you´ll have everything set up to go back to the beautiful recovery center, with 24/7 nurse supervision.

Day 4-7: Recovery.

Day 8: Post Op Appointment with the surgeon.

Day 9: Fly home…as a non-diabetic.

Visit us at wiseMDs.com or email us directly at info@wiseMDs.com . You may also watch this brief video with WISE Surgeon, Dr. Zafrani himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bn8U79R99A

Friday, April 6, 2012

Expert Questions Direction of American Healthcare

Despite a history of strength and stature in America, the hospital institution is in the midst of massive and disruptive change. Such change will be so transformational that by 2020 one in three hospitals will close or reorganize into an entirely different type of health care service provider. Several significant forces and factors are driving this inevitable and historical shift.

First, America must bring down its crippling health care costs. The average American worker costs their employer $12,000 annually for health care benefits and this figure is increasing more than 10 percent every year. U.S. businesses cannot compete in a globally competitive market place at this level of spending. Federal and state budgets are getting crushed by the costs of health care entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. Given this cost problem, hospitals are vulnerable as they are generally regarded as the most expensive part of the delivery system for health care in America.

Second, statistically speaking hospitals are just about the most dangerous places to be in the United States. Three times as many people die every year due to medical errors in hospitals as die on our highways — 100,000 deaths compared to 34,000. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that nearly 100,000 people die annually in hospitals from medical errors. Of this group, 80,000 die from hospital acquired infections, many of which can be prevented. Given the above number of admissions (in the U.S.) that means that 1 out of every 370 people admitted to a hospital dies due to medical errors.

Check out the rest of the article: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/03/onethird-hospitals-close-2020.html

This is much of the reason that Americans are looking abroad to Costa Rica for their healthcare needs.