Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000076A
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00:17 Have you ever known someone
00:18 that just did not want to go to their doctor? 00:20 Our doctors really do have an important role in our health. 00:23 You don't want to miss this program - stay right there. 00:27 I'm Dr. James Marcum, 00:29 are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:32 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problem? 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:38 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:43 Thank you for joining us on today's program. 00:45 My name is Nick Evenson, and today, 00:47 we're talking about the place 00:49 for modern medicine and our health. 00:51 And Dr. Marcum, thank you for joining us on the program, 00:53 and let's hear what you have to say about this. 00:55 Well, you know, Nick, there's an important place for 00:58 modern medicine and there's also an important place for us being 01:01 our own best doctors and we're going to 01:03 discuss this a little bit today. 01:06 Do you go to a doctor on a regular basis? 01:09 You know, not as regular as I should. 01:12 Okay, well a lot of people do not go to the doctor 01:14 on a regular basis and this is a problem. 01:17 Why go to a doctor on a regular basis? 01:19 Well, sometimes the doctors can help point you 01:22 in the right direction healthwise. 01:24 You might be led astray, they can help identify 01:27 problems before they become big problems. 01:30 One of the biggest problems we have in our world today is 01:33 coronary artery disease - that's a disease that starts 01:36 in our youth and it's going on years and years until 01:39 something bad happens like a heart attack. 01:41 Well, a doctor might point you in the right way of nutrition 01:44 or exercise or cholesterol. 01:46 Blood pressure is another one that is a silent killer. Right 01:49 Early detection of cancer... all this. 01:52 So basically, if we can find something early 01:55 and nip it in the bud, it's always better. 01:59 So how often do you recommend that we see our doctors? 02:01 Well, it's according to how old you are. 02:03 In the 20s, you probably need to go every 4 or 5 years, 02:07 and have some screening tests. 02:08 By the time you get to the 30s, you'll want to go more often 02:10 unless you have health problems. 02:13 If you have health problems or concerns, 02:14 it's even better to go earlier, but now there are 02:17 lots of places that work that do well in the screening 02:20 that can screen you for these similar things 02:22 as there are very useful programs as well. Right 02:24 They can screen your blood pressure, 02:26 your blood work, ask you some questions to see 02:28 if you're at high risk categories. 02:31 So I think going to the doctor... 02:32 one of the things is if they help prevent problems, 02:34 it's very useful. Yeah 02:36 Sometimes treating symptoms is not so good 02:39 unless we get at the core of the problem. 02:41 So that's very important. Right 02:43 Now, modern medicine is good for dealing with disasters, 02:48 and let's think back through the years, 02:49 some of the most important discoveries 02:51 in modern medicine that's helped a lot. 02:54 Well one of the big ones is anesthesia. Right 02:56 You know, making chemicals that would put people to sleep. 02:59 Remember before we had anesthesia, 03:01 people would die of things like appendicitis, 03:04 gallbladder disease - they would die from these things. Right 03:07 People would die from broken bones even 03:09 because they couldn't be put to sleep to set the bones. 03:12 Bleeding problems were not able to be repaired by surgeons. 03:16 So anesthesia, which was modern medicine, 03:20 opened up the world for modern surgery. Right 03:22 And think about it, surgery usually takes care of 03:25 acute events - it doesn't prevent problems, 03:28 but it takes care of acute, so that was very useful. 03:31 Through the years, also, we've had many bacteria, 03:34 and one of the useful things in modern medicine is 03:38 antibiotics - there is a role for antibiotics. 03:40 Before we had antibiotics, people used to die of strep 03:43 and staph infections. 03:46 So antibiotics were a very good place for modern medicine 03:49 and still very useful today. 03:51 Certain vaccines are very helpful, you know, 03:54 we think about smallpox and polio - those used to be 03:58 terrible things, so that's another great use 04:00 for modern medicine. 04:02 We think more in the modern era - we think things like 04:04 pacemakers. 04:06 In fact, if you can hold that up for me, 04:09 this is a pacemaker and before people had pacemakers, 04:14 their hearts would gradually go slower, slower and slower, 04:18 and then stop! 04:19 So pacemakers have been a very useful advancement 04:22 that we have had to help people out, 04:24 and pacemakers now are very small. 04:26 They are put under the skin. 04:28 In fact, I had a pastor that came to me and his heart was 04:32 going 32 beats a minute, Nick, and it was just slow 04:36 because it got old quicker and if he would not have had 04:39 a pacemaker, he could not have continued on his ministry, 04:42 but now, he has a pacemaker, he does well... 04:44 So a pacemaker is sort of a really good place 04:48 for modern medicine. 04:50 We have another device here that I'm going to hold up... 04:52 This is a defibrillator and a defibrillator is for people 04:56 that have very, very weak hearts. 04:58 When they have a very weak heart, sometimes it goes 05:02 into funny heart rhythms. 05:03 The dangerous rhythm is called "ventricular tachycardia," 05:06 ventricular fibrillation. Right 05:09 If a heart goes into one of these rhythms, 05:11 this device will not only recognize it through a 05:13 computer chip, but it will see it, it will first 05:16 try to do a pacemaker to pace it out... 05:18 If that doesn't work, it will actually shock the heart. 05:21 Before that would happen, people used to die 05:24 from these dangerous rhythms. 05:25 This is like having an ambulance with you 24/7, Nick. 05:29 We used to not have that in the past, 05:31 and when we didn't have that, 05:32 people with weak hearts would die suddenly. 05:34 Well now, they don't do that if they have 05:36 one of these devices in them. 05:37 That's a very good place for modern technology. 05:41 Now, these are actually implanted 05:42 and where do they go in the body? 05:44 They usually go underneath the skin, usually above the clavicle 05:47 on the left side or the right side, 05:49 depending on whether you are left or right-handed, 05:51 and then we have leads that go into the heart that 05:54 not only monitor what's going on in the heart, 05:56 but is able to deliver treatment. 05:58 Now these don't prevent problems, 06:00 but if the problems occur, they are there to help you. 06:02 And they are instantly available to help. 06:04 So you're noticing a trend, modern medicine helps 06:07 acute events, but they don't necessarily help chronic events. 06:10 You want it when you have an emergency. 06:12 Right - modern medicine to get you over the hump, 06:14 and now do the things you have 06:15 so you don't need modern medicine. 06:17 Our goal is not to need modern medicine, 06:20 but we're glad it's there. Right 06:22 One of the ones that we do every day for 06:23 heart attacks is stents. 06:26 If a person is having a heart attack, Nick, that means 06:28 the artery is completely closed, the heart is getting no blood. 06:32 The heart is getting no blood, it can go into a dangerous 06:35 rhythm - a person could die very quickly. 06:36 So a stent, if it's placed within a short period of time, 06:41 opens up that artery so the heart gets enough blood, 06:43 so the heart doesn't die; it doesn't predispose it 06:46 to these abnormal rhythms. 06:48 So modern medicine - there is a place for modern technology, 06:51 but I have some people that come to me; 06:53 they don't want to do anything that's not "natural." Okay 06:57 Well natural things are fine and dandy, 07:00 but natural things are mainly used for chronic conditions 07:04 to prevent needing modern medicine. 07:07 But when you have a crisis, you need modern medicine, 07:11 it helps get you, sort of, over the hump. Right 07:13 So there is a place for modern medicine. 07:16 Hopefully, we will never have to use it, 07:18 but these are just some examples through the years, 07:20 just a few examples, of where technology 07:22 has helped us tremendously. 07:24 And we have some questions today that sort of deal with 07:27 when to use modern medicine, 07:28 when is other things more useful. 07:30 But one of the things that is also helpful 07:32 in modern medicine is all these things that we have 07:35 for first aid. That's right! 07:36 And we've been putting together a first aid kit and you've been 07:38 highlighting some of the important items that we 07:41 should all include in our first aid kit, 07:42 so what are we going to talk about today here? 07:44 This one is a very good one, and a lot of people don't 07:46 realize about it, but part of first aid is when things 07:49 bite us. 07:50 And this first aid kit helps us and this is a very 07:54 advanced one and you would get this in the store. 07:56 And I'm just going to hold this up here. 07:59 This is a first aid kit that helps with bites, 08:02 and there are many different ones available. 08:04 This one does mosquitoes, snakes, wasps, bees 08:07 and has a lot of things and it would take us too long 08:09 to go into it in great detail, but inside this kit 08:13 they have some special devices that can help extract venom. 08:17 Oh, okay, what? You know, when something 08:19 bites you - what damages you, not always the bite. 08:22 You know, the bite damages the tissue, 08:24 but it's usually what the insect puts in you. 08:28 And this has some devices that it can actually help extract 08:31 some of the venom in it. 08:32 You know, it's not very fancy, it's very easy to use, 08:35 but this is a device that a lot of people get 08:37 that are out in the woods, that go hiking and camping, 08:40 they get bit - this is a very useful kit to help maybe 08:44 minimize some of the trauma from a bite 08:46 or sting, or something like that. 08:48 So this is something I think is worthwhile for 08:50 people to add to this. 08:51 In this kit, not only do they have that, 08:53 but it also has some band aids and some other things 08:56 to help the pain go away. 08:58 But this is another useful place for modern medicine. 09:02 You know, when you get bit by a snake, 09:04 you're going to want some antivenom, 09:06 you're going want something right away. 09:07 You're not going to want some natural remedy. Right 09:10 That's an emergency situation. 09:12 Right, when you're having a heart attack, 09:13 you don't want a natural remedy! 09:15 You know, when you have a gallbladder that ruptures, 09:17 you don't want... 09:19 It's time for an intervention, right? 09:21 So I want everyone to understand that there's a very 09:23 important place for modern technology, 09:25 but it has to be used in the right setting, 09:28 and it's mainly acute emergencies, 09:30 but it's not something that we should have to do 09:33 year-in and year-out, get us over the hump 09:35 then we learn the things, get back to what 09:37 you said earlier - about how we can get back 09:39 to God's original plan that keeps us from needing 09:42 the place for modern medicine. That's right. 09:44 And we have received a number of questions from our website, 09:47 and if you have a question, you can go there right now at: 09:49 heartwiseministries.org 09:51 and you can ask the doctor your question. 09:53 We'll be right back as Dr. Marcum answers 09:55 some of the common questions 09:56 we receive on modern medicine - stay with us... |
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