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