Barry Baines
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
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But I think the ergonomic thing, we're seeing this more and more, you know, not only from the standpoint people are using computers more. So we have a lot of issues with, you know, certainly, you know, carpal tunnel and, things from keyboarding. But the other thing is just the amount of sitting that people do.
I don't have the statistics offhand, but I think they equate the amount of sitting that people do in a day to the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes per day as mortality. If you don't get up every hour and walk around, they're just sitting and sitting
It really is a health issue and work today is sitting in front of a computer and, you know, you get hand strain and neck strain, stuff like that. But you also wind up sitting way too, you know, way too much. And those have impacts. Those are more of like what I would call the micro health issues, even though for an individual, it's very, can be very significant.
But it's, you know, you don't think of it quite in the same terms. of people falling off buildings and dying as a result of that. Exactly.
Yeah, Barry. Yeah, well, I think one of the things that's happened over time, and this does get into the health care system, as it were, and why it really is important for these, you know, when people have their checkups for kids,
In particular, I mean, one of the things that I used to do when I was in a more active full range family medicine practice, one of the most important things that we did was having the conversation with parents about the list of safety things to do. And, you know, quite honestly, we didn't, you know, it's like what you don't, you know, you don't know what you don't know. Yeah.
And and that's actually that, you know, who knew about, you know, Clarence or me sticking a fork into an outlet? You know, the kids are curious. OK. And so it really there's a lot of weight on educating the public about this, whether it be, you know, through nurses. Physicians, when you're seeing patients to make sure that safety is
you know, is put on the table and, you know, as well to really have that conversation and also having some excellent handouts that fortunately now are made up in different languages for, you know, for people whose, you know, English might not be their primary language. And many of these things are relatively easy to mitigate if you know what they are. But if you don't know, then that's a problem.
And, you know, again, in my practice over the years, you do wind up with seeing some of these, you know, avoidable tragedies, you know, that have happened. And so I think trying to be proactive, again, putting on my public health hat, Um, you know, this is something that's, that's very important to, to address.
Uh, of course you can't get away from the impact of, you know, substandard housing and issues that make it, you know, even more dangerous, like, like in the home and things. So it's not something that's necessarily in isolation, but it is a piece of that mosaic. It's a piece of that puzzle. And it's something that I think needs to be, uh, needs to be addressed.
Second Amendment rights and the political part of it. But the reality is, is that we have an epidemic of lots of people owning guns just in general. And one of the kids, the leading cause of death in kids, at least, is from firearms. And and there are things that really can be done to mitigate that quite a bit.
I'm not talking about gun violence in the streets where they're relatively random acts, but in the home, there are so many gun accidents that happen as a result of kids getting a hold of guns that are loaded. And these generally tend to be pretty accidental. And again, it's making a plea again for using gun locks
So they can't be fired, not having ammunition, you know, not having bullets in the gun, having it in a separate place and having your gun locked up somewhere. Of course, you know, this gets away from, you know, why people have guns. A lot of times they say, well, I have a gun to protect myself. And, you know, I can't protect myself if my gun is locked or if it's, you know, somewhere else.
But the reality is kids are very curious and they get into that and you wind up with a tragedy as a result of that. And I know that there have been a lot of efforts to make sure that firearms are safely locked up and certainly for sportsmen and hunters, et cetera. They're, generally speaking, I think have a lot more and take a lot more care
of equipment to keep, you know, their guns in a separate place and keep it locked up. But it's hard to imagine that firearm deaths are the leading cause of death in kids, young people. You know, I always, you know, thought it was cars, you know, which we also, you know, get into. And the basic rules of gun safety as detailed in our
excellent research is it's not complicated things you know that you that you need to do to kind of keep your family safe just internally within within your house um and and those are things that uh just you know really i think should be you know should be highlighted because kids kids can't distinguish the difference between real guns and play guns yeah yeah yeah yeah
And I think part of it is, you know, is, is understanding the environment, right? You're in a shower. Oftentimes bathtubs can be even worse versus a standup shower. But if you take a shower and you know, you have the bathtub. So, you know, just think about it. Soap plus water. Slippery. Exactly. Slippery. I don't know any, any bathtubs or wall pots in the bathroom that are soft. It really is a,
you know, almost like an accident waiting to happen. But that's why even without grab bars, at least maybe have one of those suction mats or something that provide, you know, a little bit more stability when you're, you know, when you're standing.
I'd like to weigh in quickly on that, only because I know that when I started to drive, Actually, my dad had a 1963 car, which they didn't have seatbelts yet. But in 1963, the government mandated that you had to have the mounts in the car for a seatbelt. You didn't have to have a seat, but they had the mounts.
And when I started to drive in 66, one of the first things I did, my dad kind of looked at me. I said, we got mounts. Let's buy some seatbelts. Right. I was ahead of the, you know, ahead of the curve there. I think, you know, with seatbelts in particular, um, the seatbelts that are not used, uh, it's like, you don't, you don't have them now.
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