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HBF Health Funds - ArticlesHBF Warns Rebate Change Disastrous for West AustraliansHBF has warned that the changes to the health insurance rebate expected to be announced in the budget next week will be disastrous for its 800,000 members. AsthmaAsthma is a disease in which the patient will wheeze. However not everyone who wheezes has asthma and this often presents some challenges to the physician, especially in the first year or so of life. Cooperating In Our Health CareFunny thing pain, if you’ve never had a severe pain then the suggestion of taking simple analgesia and resting the affected area all seems quite reasonable. I was reminded of this when I read recently of a doctor’s advice to someone who was suffering from sciatica. New Years Eve ReflectionsPerhaps we can reach out to those who need that extra bit of care and attention. Perhaps by living a healthy life we can reduce our reliance on the health system so that less is needed to treat life-style related health problems, and more can be spent on treating sick kids and those in real need. Perhaps by each one of us taking responsibility for living our own lives as well as we can, then we can really say that we are smart people living in a very lucky country. Walking GroupsMany of our current health and lifestyle problems have arisen from the fact that we eat too much and exercise too little; in other words too much energy in and too little energy out. Walk to WorkThe headlines these days seem to focus around one particular subject - energy! There is an energy crisis; the global price of oil is rocketing and global warming is here. It seems like the world is full of energy addicts and we can’t get enough of the stuff, but in our desire for more, we appear to be ruining ourselves and destroying the planet too! Pap SmearsEach year tens of thousands of young women should be thinking about whether they should start having their Pap smear done. So what is this smear test, how is it done and is it really necessary now that girls are having HPV vaccinations at school? Effective CommunicationOne of my earliest experiences of poor communication was in a teaching hospital in England during my training. A student nurse had been told to “put the patient in bed eight on a commode”, as he “wasn’t allowed to walk to the toilet”. I still remember walking past the curtained bed and seeing the patient’s head appear over the top of the curtain asking for help. Peeping inside, the young nurse was supporting the precariously positioned commode, with the patient perched on it on top of the bed! A Special GiftDonating blood saves lives – and you never know, one of those lives might be yours some day. Breast AwarenessIn life, we like to think we are in control and one thing that the diagnosis of cancer brings with it is the awareness that we cannot be in control all of the time! When we see high profile women diagnosed with breast cancer our hearts go out to them, and should they die from the disease, then our hearts break for the young families who have lost their beautiful mothers.
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