Business Insight presented by Arlington Dermatology Medical invention: good or bad story When Alfred Nobel established Nobel Prize, he did it for those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind! He perhaps did it a little out of guilt he felt over his engineering and chemical inventions. While he was a genial scientist, his main invention was dynamite. As we all know, it could be used as much with good outcomes as with bad intentions and tragedies. Medical inventions are often no different than Nobel's works. They are developed as a response to the needs of medical science and human population. Great thinkers and scientists had been working for long years to help those in chronic pain. Cancer patients, old age arthritis patients, post-operative care pain sufferers, all these cases are very much I have been contemplating and writing in need of handling their debilitating about for some time: trust. We all need symptoms, often preventing them from functioning in any form. But at the same Trusting medical professionals is probably time, thousands of painkiller abusers died more important than others because it is of overdose and illegal prescriptions. We usually during the times of distress and recently witnessed one of the largest suffering when we seek their advice and settlements in opioid cases, in no form we are then more vulnerable than ever. rehabilitating medical scientists who allowed for massive abuse. Development of some of the diagnostic building trust takes effort and time. Losing testing and equipment allows doctors to it may be a matter of minutes. When concentrate on more accurate diagnosis people and patients trust us, we should and less of hit and miss treatments. But carry that trust as a badge of honor and those tests are often expensive and hardly never allow to mistreat it by being too affordable in our system. They often sure of our deeds. Trust should come with are prescribed with no need, just to put humbleness towards those who allow us more dollars to the pockets of accidental to assist them with their sickness, pain, or providers. Some tests may not follow suffering. the standards required by our national laboratory agencies who guard accuracies Holidays? Trust comes with believing. and inaccuracies. Patients can die from During the Holidays, we believe in so wrong results communicated by doctors many events and things. Our beliefs are trusting that lab results were correctly expression of trust. But we should seek it achieved. Recent example of Theranos and cherish it not just during the Holidays shows not only how illegal can that kind but every day, in every place, small and of operation be but also how easy it is big, church and business. to mislead people, even very intelligent individuals. All of these cases refer back to something trust in our personal and professional life. If we do not live by trusting others, others will not trust us. Showing trust and So, why is this writing during the Happy Holidays! Michael Bukhalo, MD Arlington Dermatology 5301 Keystone Court Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Tel. 847 392 5440 | www.arlingtondermatology.net Business Insight presented by Arlington Dermatology Medical invention: good or bad story When Alfred Nobel established Nobel Prize, he did it for those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind! He perhaps did it a little out of guilt he felt over his engineering and chemical inventions. While he was a genial scientist, his main invention was dynamite. As we all know, it could be used as much with good outcomes as with bad intentions and tragedies. Medical inventions are often no different than Nobel's works. They are developed as a response to the needs of medical science and human population. Great thinkers and scientists had been working for long years to help those in chronic pain. Cancer patients, old age arthritis patients, post-operative care pain sufferers, all these cases are very much I have been contemplating and writing in need of handling their debilitating about for some time: trust. We all need symptoms, often preventing them from functioning in any form. But at the same Trusting medical professionals is probably time, thousands of painkiller abusers died more important than others because it is of overdose and illegal prescriptions. We usually during the times of distress and recently witnessed one of the largest suffering when we seek their advice and settlements in opioid cases, in no form we are then more vulnerable than ever. rehabilitating medical scientists who allowed for massive abuse. Development of some of the diagnostic building trust takes effort and time. Losing testing and equipment allows doctors to it may be a matter of minutes. When concentrate on more accurate diagnosis people and patients trust us, we should and less of hit and miss treatments. But carry that trust as a badge of honor and those tests are often expensive and hardly never allow to mistreat it by being too affordable in our system. They often sure of our deeds. Trust should come with are prescribed with no need, just to put humbleness towards those who allow us more dollars to the pockets of accidental to assist them with their sickness, pain, or providers. Some tests may not follow suffering. the standards required by our national laboratory agencies who guard accuracies Holidays? Trust comes with believing. and inaccuracies. Patients can die from During the Holidays, we believe in so wrong results communicated by doctors many events and things. Our beliefs are trusting that lab results were correctly expression of trust. But we should seek it achieved. Recent example of Theranos and cherish it not just during the Holidays shows not only how illegal can that kind but every day, in every place, small and of operation be but also how easy it is big, church and business. to mislead people, even very intelligent individuals. All of these cases refer back to something trust in our personal and professional life. If we do not live by trusting others, others will not trust us. Showing trust and So, why is this writing during the Happy Holidays! Michael Bukhalo, MD Arlington Dermatology 5301 Keystone Court Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Tel. 847 392 5440 | www.arlingtondermatology.net