Dr. Ronald Murphy, local dentist
from Batavia, who has joined many
colleagues from all across the country during special Leadership
conferences hosted by MGE: Management Experts, Inc. in Florida
Continues to Step Forward During this Fourth of July Holliday to
Show Support for our Veterans. The training sessions on Leadership
include topics on increasing one's outreach and responsibility for
the welfare of one's community and Nation. Therefore speakers who
are active in this field are invited to speak. It has been shocking
and not understandable to Dr. Murphy and his colleagues that our
veterans don't typically have these opportunities to select their
treatment modalities and increase their chances for improvement for
a better life. So efforts and support for this condition to change
has now become a major demand.
BATAVIA,
Ill., July 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dr.
Ronald Murphy, local dentist from
Batavia, who has joined many
colleagues from all across the country during special Leadership
conferences hosted by MGE: Management Experts, Inc. in Florida
Continues to Step Forward During this Fourth of July Holliday to
Show Support for our Veterans. The training sessions on Leadership
include topics on increasing one's outreach and responsibility for
the welfare of one's community and Nation. Therefore speakers who
are active in this field are invited to speak. One of the guest
speakers was from Veteran Strategic Solutions, Mr. John Spagnola (www.veteranstrategicsolutions )
who advocates for the health and welfare of veterans; and another
guest speaker, Jierra Clark (www.jierra.com ) who has a
distinguished achievement of being a Number One Charting Artist,
and who is also a Human Rights Advocate. She works
shoulder-to-shoulder with likeminded people like Mr. Spagnola..
Dr. Murphy pointed out to his colleagues
that it is up to us to demonstrate leadership as health
professional in a shoulder-to-shoulder National effort to help and
to continue the support. It's important and vital to win these
battles. However, we need to persist until we win the war.
The horrific statistics of veteran suicides and the ten years
plus of unchanged veterans suicide deaths, were brought to light
during several presentations and an update of the projects which
have been supported.
Mr. Spagnola pointed out that the vast majority of veterans do
not understand the side effects, or that treatment options are
available to them. He added that this was in a large part due to a
misunderstanding, that verbal consent is adequate to apply to Black
Box Medications such as Antidepressants, Stimulants and Opioids.
"That's fine for Aspirins or Tylenol but not the highest risk
medications," Spagnola stated. "We must take every conceivable step
imaginable to protect and fully inform our veterans," he added.
Written Informed Consent has now been at the forefront to help
veterans to be involved in their treatment plans. The conferences
have included a short clip of a NewsMax interview Mr. Spagnola had
with John Bachman, which provided
statistics and solutions to help these warriors.
It has been shocking and not understandable to Dr. Murphy and
his colleagues that our veterans don't typically have these
opportunities to select their treatment modalities and increase
their chances for improvement for a better life. So efforts and
support for this condition to change has now become a major
demand.
On that note, despite far from winning this war, the following
actions have been achieved:
Congressman Cory Mills (
https://mills.house.gov ) former Green Beret, originated to Mr.
Spagnola, that he wants to champion his federal legislation to
implement Written Informed Consent for Veterans in the VA System.
This bill will mandate the VA to carry out a Pilot Program on
Written Informed Consent. And what is exciting is the prospect that
veterans would have a crucial opportunity to be informed of the
side effects of the medications that are being prescribed. It would
also be great to be able to select other treatment options such as
canine, exercise, acupuncture chiropractic, physical therapy, talk
therapy and many other more natural treatments. Surprisingly, most
don't realize that it's their decision and not the doctor's.
Another major step forward in this battle was made when Mr.
Spagnola visited the Executive Director of the Reserve Officers
Association, Major General Jeff
Phillips. The General agreed to send out a "Print Out" for
veterans to take with them to their medical interview. The "Print
Out" will act as a reminder to engage the doctor to further ensure
that he provides the Veteran his rights under Informed Consent. He
also agreed to place this information on his national website. But
more importantly, he voiced that he would propose that the Military
Coalition (this is 32 National Veteran Organizations [V.S.O.] being
over 7 million members strong) do the same.
And along those lines, yet another major step was achieved. This
adding the information to their website has also been implemented
by The Association of The United States Navy! Their Operations
Manager is a strong supporter of this issue, and contacted Mr.
Spagnola and expressed how urgent it was to provide this
information to his members. He also requested that Mr. Spagnola do
a podcast along with the former president of Paralyzed Veterans of
America. That podcast, along with a written narrative of the issue,
is now on then AUSN's national website:
http://www.ausn.org/post/ausn-discusses-the-need-for-informed-written-consent-for-veteran-health
Dr. Murphy pointed out to his colleagues that it is up to us to
demonstrate leadership as health professional in a
shoulder-to-shoulder National effort to help as much as possible
and to continue the support. Yes! It's important and vital to win
these battles. However, we need to persist until we win the
war.
About the Dr. Murphy likes to spend his free time traveling to
warm places. Furthermore, he enjoys deep sea fishing. He is still
looking for the blue marlin that got away from him on his honeymoon
in 2002. He enjoys spending time with his family. The three girls
keep him hopping.
To this day, he still gets tremendous satisfaction with every
patient he is able to help. A smile brings happiness and he is
proud to be a provider that can help spread health and happiness to
the world.
Media Contact
Ronald Murphy, Ronald A. Murphy
DMD, 1 6308797642, docmurphy@murphydentistry.com,
www.murphydentistry.com
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