[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>Has anyone noticed an alarming increase in the number of
>recommendations made
>by hospitals (doctors and dieticians) for these expensive preparations
>for
>weeks on end?
>Do practices have a policy on prescribing these items?
>Comments welcome.
Has anybody noticed that hospitals still don't feed people?
Not just the patients, they don't feed doctors properly.
WIth a combination of poor nutrition in hospitals and early discharge
after major surgery it seems a very good idea to me to provide dietary
supplements to patients, and they appear to improve well-being
considerably.
Very old-fashioned nursing, keeping an eye on what food goes to a
patient, and on what comes back uneaten, and then pressing a bit more
in where it will do good.
Many post-op patients should come out of hospital with a supply of the
supplements the dietician recommends, or even with a standard package.
There are several failures related to the Project 2000 approach, (many
of them due to the failure to replace the nurses taken off the wards
with somebody else to do their work - which was a key reequiremnet of
Project 2000), but even before that it was recognised that hospitals
were very poor at feeding people. SIlly really, putting all that
clever high tech effort into fixing people up and not feeding them.
I prescribe supplements when it looks useful. THey are very cheap, and
good value.
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