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Health Time, Doug Stephan here doctor Ken Cronhouse as we investigate a number of
things. These are questions for doctor Ken. Doctor Ken, if you're new
to the program. Ken Cronhouse as a cardiologist. He specializes in preventative heartcare.
As a fabulous I love going to Florida where his clinic is Late Cardiologies
down in Modura, Florida. You can visit with him there if you choose
to go down this time. Here's a great time to go down there and
make an appointment. You'll have to call three five two seven three five.
But did I start this sentence with y'all? I think y'all Call three five
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all over your body. You can get that checked out as well, but
can't get it checked out if you don't call them three five, two,
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eight five five, nine nine nine three six eight four questions for doctor Ken.
A lot of the questions this week come sort of on the heels of
all this covid news. The is it true that because of covid there is
a surgeon flu? How maybe the better question here, Ken is how is
the surge and flu We've I've had it, We've all been talking about this.
How does it connect to COVID nineteen infections? And how does that As
a cardiologist, how to either the flu or covid infections affect your heart well.
These respiratory infections DOUG this time of year, flu COVID nineteen RSP,
they can trigger heart complications from the fever, the dehydration that the fever can
cause, and also from this excess inflammation. So people who have heart disease
or people who have risk factors for heart disease have to be a little extra
causes from getting these and if you do get them, take good care of
them. Yeah, the state of California, the state of Oregon, they've
announced this week that they are dropping all of their CDC rules. Are they
behind the times having most of the other states already drop the CDC rules?
And I guess when we talk about CDC rules, what are we talking about
these California state government says and that there's a reduced impact from COVID. That's
a kind of a duh. But what do you make of that? Well,
I think you have to take this on each location. You have to
know what's going on in your hospital and your county, because this really does
vary. The incidents of these various respiratory infections vary from county to county,
and these recommendations are based on how active these infections are in your locality.
There's a question here about the cost of drugs. Apparently there is, And
I just I think I saw this out of the corner of my eye when
I was looking at something over the weekend about big Pharma. Why are drugs?
I guess that the question to you and to all of us is trying
to understand why drugs are so much more expensive here in our country than they
are pretty much anywhere else in the world. Is that just because they can
charge more? What do you believe is the cost of Know a lot of
your patients are frustrated, certainly they ought to be with the price of drugs,
Right boy, Why don't you ask me the easy questions RD for tomorrow.
Part of the cost may be where they're being made, and unfortunately too
many of our drugs have been moved offshore, Doug, which I know how
you feel about that, and part of that may be adding to the cost.
Also, in different countries there's cost controls what you can charge, and
I think a lot of that has to deal with why there's varying charges for
these various products, and also the quality of production. In some countries they
vary. And just because it's called a certain ingredient, there's a lot more
to medications than just the active ingredients, so how it's put together may vary
in the production factories from places to place. All right, can vision problems
indicate Alzheimer's question for doctor Ken Doug. This comes out of some recent research
that imagine that a sign more predictive than memory loss that you're bound to get
dementia. Strange visual disturbances occur early in about ten percent of Alzheimer's cases,
and when this happens, it almost always signals impending a rival of a disease.
The condition is called posterior cortical atrophy and it involves changes in vision and
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