Monday, August 5, 2013

10% recovery for stroke

A one slide presentation you can give to any medical stroke group.
10% is the only thing on the slide, you can create your own examples and make it into an hour-long presentation. They will remember it as the most powerful presentation they have ever seen/heard. Hopefully it will spur them to action.  Leave them with, 'What medical procedure would you undertake with only a 10% chance of success?
First, according to Steve Jobs, you have to explain the problem.
Only 10% of stroke survivors fully recover. From here.
5 Powerful Ways to Open a Presentation

Is a 10% rate acceptable in any endeavor?
Use professional baseball hitting average,
Shaquille O'Neal free throw percentage,
Quarterback passing percentage,
Or any other percent that can show how stupid 10% is, you will need to beat them over the head with it.
Would you have a surgery that only had a 10% chance of succeeding?
Do not allow any excuses to be presented, like 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'
You then ask for their solutions to bring that to 100%.
F.A.S.T. is not allowed, prevention is not allowed.
You then start at the beginning.
Diagnosis - objective - 17 possibilities; Which one are they researching/using?
How about these 11 risk reduction ideas,
Never mind hypothermia - these 16 possibilities. Reduces the damage occurring. It doesn't seem to work.
Reduce the neuronal cascade of death - maybe these 177 possibilities. If your doctor isn't using any of these, they are a major part of the problem - Fire them.


5 Powerful Ways to Close a Presentation

I know you don't feel this is your responsibility but everyone in the stroke world is sitting on their asses doing very little that is useful. This is not

Stroke - Somebody Else's Problem   Its your problem because you are the only one who cares.

There is no coordinated strategy or plan on how to address the coming tsunami of stroke. And I want 200% better service that I received last time. That is actually meaningless since I received no service at all from my doctor and 200% time zero is still zero.

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