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oct 20, 2007 (+ added update on WAIT TIMES/kötid & REHAB, photos, suggestion for SOLUTON etc on march 16 2008 + more on rehab , wheelchairs etc may 19 2008, + oct 18 2008 added mp3 n more on SICK_JOKE meeting about failing to give me reasonable wheelchair after 10 YEARS n counting sitting so BAD that pelvic n back get more n more wrong SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY OPERATE WITH NO CUSTUMER FOCUS ...) see photos and mp3s below: 2009: article by me published on NEWSMILL (swedish): "Vårdens Problem & Lösning" --> Well, Michael Moore in his movie Sicko claims US health care sucks and wants socialized health care. Well, since Moore, as usual, only present one side of the argument (his own opinion hidden behind "comedy") here are some other perspectives: Sweden is the number one with that which Moore wants and has a government run/controlled health-care monopoly, all hospitals run by politicians in the very same Kafka-esque way, where lack of competition (=lack of different thinking/ideas/approaches), responsibility or interest in non-absurdely-dangerously-slow processes, where noone is responsible and noonecan be sued in reality, and it leads to horrifying results like the following examples showing how Sweden fails to achieve even the arguably most basic purposes of healthcare:
- People die in long queues/lines/wait times, and since ONLY one employer, whn nurses go on a strike to up their salary, many 1000ands of operations get cancelled. - People are refused treatment and sometimes die IF THEY DON'T HAVE A SWEDISH SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ("personnummer"). -Swedens' specialized care is among the worst in the west, example Sweden only has half as many neurodoctors per capita even as neighbours Denmark, Norway and Finland! Thirteen (13) highly qualifid leading expert doctors wrote about this and other examples of how Swedens health-care ”sucks” in biggest daily newspaper DN, april 1, 2007 (no, unfortunately, it's not an aprils' fools joke) - "Svensk högspecialiserad vård bland de sämsta i Västeuropa", see www.cederholm.net/svensk_vard_samst_vasteuropa.pdf (you need to have free adobe reader - ask a computer savvy friend for help.) - REHAB / REHABILITERING What can be demanded from a reasonable definition of rehab? Well, individual attention of a certified physical therapist for at least 1 hour EFFECTIVE time thre times per week for TWO years is the Belgian standard for my condition FA. In the US you go to physical therapy EVERY DAY even if you don't have any condition but just broke an arm, PAID for by your HMO/mdical insurance you have if you have a fixed job. a highly effective walking robot (Lokomat) for neuro-rehab exists since over 10 years. It's in Asia, all over rehab clinics in the US and I have a 14 pages document in small font full of rehab clinics including most EU countries, including Denmark. Guess what country doesn't have it or doesn't even buy rehab for neuro-rehab patients in a place in another country who does have it? Yep, Sweden is clueless!
Read about Lokomat here:
http://www.hocoma.ch/web/en/patients/introduction_lokomat_2.html
SWEDEN'S ANCIENT +30 YEAR REHAB EQUIPMENT - FROM "TOP PLACE" VINTERSOL (NOT!) WHERE A SELECT FEW ARE SENT FOR "INTENSE REHAB" AFTER YEARS OF WAITING,GETTING ONLY 4 WEEKS WITH RIDICULOS LOW 20 MIN _EFFECTIVE_ (+10 MIN GET IN N' OUT) INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL THERAPY 5 DAYS/WEEK, 4 WEEKS. THAT'S IT, THEN BACK TO SWEDEN W 35 MIN/week!: (click on photos below for larger pics)
c) the brief "intense" physical therapy periods I've received in 10 years (2,5w 2002, 2,5w 2003 & 4weeks 2007) have great meausurable documented effects, like being able to walk 5 metres w walker before and 60 m after, on 6 min walk 12meters before and 27 after etc) d) an article in renowned Lancet proves I should raise the brake-medicine even more to benefit even more from physical therapy (no side effects!) e) ALL doctors and physical therapists responding on my inquiry about FA rehab from MANY different countries feel FA patients like myselt should have a MINIMUM of 2 hourrs individual physical therapy 3 days per week on an ongoing basis DESPITE the
above and more,
my
neurodoctor överläkare Åke Sidén at falsely-famous Karolinska, refuses
to attend a meeting to discuss my rehab with experts, PLUS refuses to
write a paper specifying I need more than 30 min individual physical
therapy per week. He also bends overbackwards not to raise my
brakemedicine further, claiming that the risk of side effects is still
there despite INSTEAD he makes the socialists creed: "if I give you more
p.t. than 30 min/w, who should then get less?" Upon which I reply "you're
my doctor since 1996, you should be looking out for ME, right?" Sidén
then starts to question if physical therapy works in general , or for me
(despite knowing the aforementioned 3 FANTASTIC results I acheived from
3 "intense" p.t. but couldn't maintain since POOR/NO rehab otherwise).
And he writes me a letter that maybe I should switch doctor...
- wheelchair, how long? (answer: 7 years in one so damaging narrow for your feet so your mis-treated, 40 degrees wrong treated left foot forces your right foot to grow crooked. 2 more years putting up with buerocrats wasting tax-payers money filling out forms wrong so you never get a correct chair and eventually give up. try again later, same shit and you give up again. then you abroad get a finished order/remiss, then you email and push virtually EVERY day and you finally get one after "only" 5+ months (speed record for sicker than sicko Swedish health-care...)
wheelchairs and ADL-AIDS ="TECH AIDS FOR DAILY LIVING" / "HJÄLPMEDEL" Are also monpoly-operated, resulting in rationing (like food was rationed in Soviet and coffee etc during WW2 in the west) HORRIFIC wait-times, poor aids and unspeakable errors with terrible results. For a person in a long radiointerview I did (UR, see http://www.cederholm.net/press/press_media.htm ) another person, an otherwise "happy" camper brought forth as a sunshine example of how "good" the Swedish system is supposed to be,"only" had to wait two (2) YEARS for an elecrical wheelchair... On a Swedish airport aug 2008 I met a girl with a funky wheelchair. She said she had bought it herself abroad for SEK 4000, "since she needs a wheelchair now and NOT in a year which it takes on average in Sweden". MY THOUGHTS: she sits wrong for years, her back,spine,pelvic etc gets wrong, resulting in lots of unneccesary COSTS FOR THE TAXPAYERS- SO NO THIS SNAIL-SLOW-BO-SWEDISH WAY DOESN'T SAVE ANY MONEY, ON THE CONTRARY IT WASTES THEM WITHOUT EVEN COMING CLOSE TO DELIVERING REASONABLE RESULTS!
NEW BLOG ENTRY JUNE 19 2011 ABT Swedish socialized-monopoly-HMO ("Landstinget") wastes even more money than you think with example Resolut for Kvintett beds: http://otillganglighet-diskriminering.blogspot.com/2011/06/fd-kommunpolitiker-anmaler-landstinget.html In my case, since doctors refuse to correct erraneous medicaljournals, I still 10 years after the mistreated workaccident havent even received a wheelchair with correct footplates or even correct measurements acording to my body (i.e. seatlength "sittdjup"): On top of lousy rehab, waiting almost 10 years for my first higher left shoe to compensate for my left leg becoming several cm shorter due to the mistreated workaccident, I've been SITTING IN THE WRONG WHEELCHAIRS FOR TEN YEARS...
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IN THE SAME BOOK PG 42, Åke stresses the importance of having a correctly fitted wheelchair/sitting correct. If you sit wrong (banana-style pelvic etc) you will, according to his book, GET pain in the shoulders, sitting wounds and scolios (twisted back! YEP TEN YEARS W WRONG WHEELCHAIR HAS GIVEN ME ALL THOSE PROBLEMS AND ALSO:
>> FAST FORWARD To sep 22, 2008. We're at Sodexho w therapist Kerstin from rehab Farsta, Maria from Sodexho + technician Tord from Sodexho, myself + personal assistant. The following two files are audiorecordings from the SCANDAL MEETING about SNAIL-SLOWBO flagrantly failing to give me a new wheelchair since autumn 2007, and closing/aborting without coming close to solving the problem Red Cross physical therapist defined my shoulders needed ASAP /"AKUT". Well, a year has gone, they obviously dont give a fuck about my shoulders since they close and dont even wanna look at recent MRT pics of how bad my shoulders have become due to their failure to deliver [in Swedish]: sodexho_22_sep_2008_part1_of 2_krympt.mp3 sodexho_22_sep_2008_part_2_of_2_krympt.mp3 What's still wrong with the wheelchair after 1+ year of struggle:
Private for profit organizations care so much about the customers opinions and feelings that they do surveys- The Landsting OBVIOUSLY THEN w above mentioned people care so LITTLE about the customer that they ignore what the customer says, emails, records etc + THAT THEY LETS ASAP = OVER A YEAR, GIVE UP.
PS! Oh by the way, one america-hating friend, lets call her ’Karin’, said ”Peter should be lucky not being handicapped in the USA”. And my dear Mom beleives her more than me, just like she failed to see the benefit of having US Mayo Clinic do in ONE (1) WEEK what Swedish health-care failed to do in two (2) YEARS (never be a prophet at home)… Really?! Consider the above + these irrefutable facts:
- USA are world leaders in rehab (testified also by pro-soccer player Sergio from Canada who plays for different teams all over the world. He and his likes go to the US for rehab and hospital-treatments, and say US is the best, and quality always cost).
- Personal Assistants – USA has had this MANY more years than Sweden, in fact Adolf Ratzka, the guy who convinced center-right politician (Folkpartist) Bengt Westerberg to introduce Personal assistants/LSS in Sweden, took the idea/arguments FROM the US! And most other EU countries don’t have Personal Assistance paid for by the government, the attitude in most EU countries including France is that you should stay home and be ashamed of yourself if you use a wheelchair. Most restaurants, if you can get in at all, have no handicap toilet. This leads to…
A.D.A. –Americans with Disabilities Act. George Bush (father of todays President George W Bush), On the occasion of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act - 26th July 1990, said " Let the Shameful Wall of Exclusion Finally Come Tumbling Down". I wrote my thesis in Public Speaking about this law (C-uppsats i Retorik). This ADA law and its results is why I and many ”handicapped” people enjoy the US so much over Sweden, France and most other countries. A few examples: 1. Lets say you want to go out to a bar, reastaurant, theatre or museum. In the US, thanks to ADA law, you just Go where you want, safe that you can get in, do it all and that there are handicap restrooms. In Sweden, France etc there’s no spontaneity - you FIRST have to plan/investigate where you CAN go, find the rare places that dont have hindering steps/stairs, if you can participate once in, and if the place is one of the few having a handicap-accessible toilet! 2. Amusement/Theme parks and leading a normal active life. In the US you can rent cars everywhere for NO extra costs with hand controls. In Sweden you simply can’t rent cars with handcontrols anywhere, not even if you offer to pay extra! In Stockholms prestigeous theme park ”Gröna Lund” you can’t do ANYTHING fun (no roller coaster etc) if you use a wheelchair. In Paris’ Euro-Disney its the same, ”for legal reasons” (= lack of ADA type law). LUCKILY we can go to the US. In theme parks all over (six-flags all over including Chicago, in Florida’s and California’s Disney world, Disney land, Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, Sea World, Universal Studios, Discovery Cove etc) you can almost do it ALL even if you use a wheelchair. I know, I’ve personally been to them. ALL J 3. Find below a few photo evidence: a. Accessible taxi-cabs in San Fransisco (they are everywhere incl wheelchair-accessible buses in Washington, Chicago, New York, Orlando etc etc, cabs in London (UK has something like the ADA law now) b. Me in my wheelchair enjoying Men-in-Black at Universal Studios, Orlando Florida - a high-speed ride. I could choose to transfer, but opted to choose the ”ADA option”, where they provided special vehicle so I could remain in my wheelchair
c.
Me
kissing and swimming w Dolphins at Discovery Cove, Orlando Florida.
Without ADA-law they could have, for ”safety/legal reasons” said like in
Sweden/France etc: sorry, but you cant be in the water with the dolpins/stingrays/tropical
fish coral reef. THANKS to ADA, they automatically provided strong
people to help me in the water to do it ALL, and for no extra charge
even!
And, as a comment to dollar-multi-millionaire-Moores first agitpropaganda movie "Roger and me"- NO, jobs do NOT grow on trees, only Soviet union thought that.
PLUS as a comment to dollar-multi-millionaire-Moores Bush-Bashing agitprop movie Fahrenheit 9/11: - a) see 59 direct lies of said movie on site http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm
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b) read my article based on RELEVANT intel from personal friend
who fled Saddams Baghdad :
http://www.cederholm.net/
(middle east big picture) + Expressen artikel :
http://www.cederholm.net/press/Irak.htm.
Accessible taxi-cabs in San Fransisco (they are everywhere incl wheelchair-accessible buses in Washington, Chicago, New York, Orlando etc etc, cabs in London (UK has something like the ADA law now)
Me in my wheelchair enjoying Men-in-Black at Universal Studios, Orlando Florida - a high-speed ride. I could choose to transfer, but opted to choose the ”ADA option”, where they provided special vehicle so I could remain in my wheelchair
Me kissing and swimming w Dolphins at Discovery Cove, Orlando Florida. Without ADA-law they could have, for ”safety/legal reasons” said like in Sweden/France etc: "sorry, but you cant be in the water with the dolpins/stingrays/tropical fish coral reef" THANKS to ADA, they didn't, but instead automatically provided strong people to help me in the water to do it ALL, and for no extra charge even! (correction 2009: France and Norway HAVE ADA-type law, Sweden still doesn't :( 2009: article by me published on NEWSMILL (swedish): "Vårdens Problem & Lösning" -->
(c) Peter Cederholm |
As
can be seen in this photo of me in the Panthera U2 chair they stuck me
with for many years, the footplates were NOT ADAPTED WHATSOEVER FOR THE
WRONG ANGLED AND ROTATED FOOT, NOT TO MENTION THE RESULTING SHORTER LEFT
LEG. Sitting like that for 10 years naturally had negative effects on my
ENTIRE BODY!!! None of which would had happened if the mistreated
work accident hadn't occurred/had been treated reasonably well! (And NO,
I didn't have anything wrong with bone lenght/feet/pelvis/spine before
the mistreated accident - as proven also by absense of such reporting in
ANY journal prior to the mistreted accident!)
Jag svarar gärna på Dina frågor - skriv en rad till peter (at) cederholm.net. svensk sjukvård swedish socialist health-care is mainly a government operated monopoly :( - see www.foxnews.com glenn beck & bill o'reilly