Deans' stroke musings: Doctor-rating websites offer helpful but limited advice

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Doctor-rating websites offer helpful but limited advice

If our stroke associations wanted to do something useful that doesn't require lots of intellectual effort they could create a rating system for neurologists and PMR doctors listing the efficacy of their interventions. How many of their patients get to 100% recovery? This is the only metric needed. But even that is too difficult for our stroke associations, it is way more difficult than putting out lazy press releases extolling the F. A. S. T. method which isn't even truthful since tPA only works fully 12% of the time.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/doctor-rating-websites-offer-helpful-but-limited-advice-201508138178