More power at the physician network Spessart EC of Chairman Dr. Norbert Staab reported about the successful project internal network dates”more members. Thus, a better service and quicker appointments at the specialist provided the patients within the network. The project also contributes to the binding cooperation between House and medical specialists”the ENT specialist Staab said. The members agree that the medical care of main-Kinzig-Kreis in the future can be achieved only in close cooperation of all the medical care in the District of involved. Particular problems are the growing doctor shortage, but increasingly also the lack of specialist in this context. Thus, patients have some difficulties to find even a general practitioner already in some places.

It is also increasingly difficult for patients to get appointments with medical specialists in a timely manner. We are intensively and successfully addressed these problems “Dr. If you are unsure how to proceed, check out Dr. Neal Barnard. Ulrich Dehmer due to bad ORB. By learning about the doctors in the Circle one another, trust is created across the disciplines. This in turn facilitates the daily work.

We expect a further increase interest of colleagues to join our network. Especially because increasing the daily work, and some hardly space for other activities can be, do we need a local medical community of interest, the two Board members Dr. Eberhard Wetzel and Dr. Ulrich Dehmer declared compliant. In addition, the interests of participating doctors can be better represented than would be possible alone in a strong community. In a next step, the doctor network about the own professional group want to cooperate, more with other professions, such as maintaining or therapists. We must ourselves more interdisciplinary on and be active beyond the traditional sector boundaries,”emphasizes Edmund Frohlich, who is charged with his consulting company cheerful Management GmbH (www.froehlich-management.de) with the management of the network. Only in this way can in the next few years, demographic change in health care in the country be mastered. These also are the conditions, to obtain a financial support from the outside, unless by the physicians Association (KV) or the public sector. The successful training for aspiring general practitioners, which was established together with the district hospitals and the House Medical Association and where more than ten young doctors and doctors have found their way into the district is at the core of the reflections. You can also connect on the analyses and proposals of the action programme for the municipal services of general interest (MORO), which Edmund Frohlich for the physician network has regional actively participated in Spessart.

How using an alternative method of therapy chronic back pain can be cured by Dr. med. Britta Knoll, Munich as long as there are people, the treatment of pain is a perpetual theme. In the middle ages, you had to manage with rabid methods such as the short burning pain, which in the long term should capture the original pain and life-threatening Krauterrezepturen of poppy, Mandrake root, and henbane. Since the invention of aspirin and the development of modern pharmacological ingredients operations lost their horror and every pain seemed impossible. But that is unfortunately not the case, the pain medical societies had to admit at its current annual meeting. Bone and joint diseases are the main cause for prolonged pain with physical as well as mental disabilities worldwide. Not in vain WHO in 1999 for the years 2000 to 2010 the bone and joint \”Decade cried out.

30 million German citizens are already treatment muscle and musculoskeletal disorders affected. The increasing life expectancy, the immobility and the tendency to overweight in our advanced civilizations will contribute to a further increase in security. In 2005, 1.4 million patients received medical treatment of pain, which is an increase of 40% in 10 years. The joint replacement operations undertaken as a last resort reached the legendary figure of 360,000, intervertebral disc operations over 100,000 in 2007. That casually explains why the costs in this area are now unsustainable: 25 billion euros alone for the treatment of degenerative muscle disorders, 16% of the total expenditure and 1.7% of the German GDP are. The loss of production, i.e. the pain-related costs are estimated at 100 billion euros each year.

Conclusion: back pain is the most expensive disease in the industrialized countries. And precisely in this precarious situation the medical profession must throw their so far valid thinking scheme, the three-tier WHO stages program for pain therapy, overboard. Too many Side effects and complications threatening some of the brought the anti-inflammatory pain relievers of at level 1 into disrepute.