[MLUG - DISCUSSION] RE: [MLUG] progress .... ???/

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Fixing machines is as much 
> experience and 
> intuitive understanding as knowledge. I'd suspect it's about 
> the same as 
> being a doctor except in our case there is nothing we can't fix given 
> enough desire to do so. :)

And the fact that you know how a computer works, and don't completely reverse microchip theory every two months.

I have a great deal of respect for people who know what they're supposed to know and do what they're supposed to do. Needless to say, I have no respect for any living medical professional.

Reasons:

In 93, I had Protusus (whooping cough). The first doctor said "yes, thats what it looks like, but I need to run a few tests." His tests were sent to the lab here in Jefferson City. While waiting for the results, we happened to drive by said lab and see a canoe tied to the back door and floodwater up to its doorsil. The results: its viral, not bacterial, so no antibiotics, and its going to be flu-like and pass in a few weeks. This was late June/early July. In December I still had it. It didn't go away till Spring when I was due for my nearly annual sinus infection. By startling coincidence, after a week of antibiotics, I not only was free of sinus infection, but I also was finally over that virus. Almost ten years later, we brought it up in conversation and he finally called it what it was. I should add that my ENTIRE family aside from myself was diagnosed with Protusus, treated with antibiotics, and was over it within two months at the same time. My youngest brother only took two weeks to get over it.

More recently, starting in 96, I developed a skin rash that was marked by scaley skin, redness, and irritation. Instead of testing and medicating it, a whole string of doctors including two dermitologists gave me a different lotion and told me it was a different disease. IIRC, there were 15 different diagnosis'. My grandmother had an identical rash that was diagnosed and treated. It is hereditary. Instead, I discover that what they're "treating" me with actually clogs pores, creating an additional cyclical achne problem, which carried on long after I gave up on medicine. To treat this, they gave me Cycline antibiotics. About this time I developed an inexplicable cough that they could not diagnose. My PDR at home cleared that up real quick "May cause throat irritation or cough". 

I could go on, doctors have cause mom to be on the edge of paralysis by exasorbating a neck injury, they have stuck me in the arm far too many times to the point that I was losing a noticible amount of blood before they found a vein for an IV, a psychiatrist talking to my great-uncle on the phone told him "go ahead" when he threatened suicide and was somehow surprised when he heard a gunshot and dead air afterwards, they used a live innoculation with an egg base on my brother who has a documented severe alergy to eggs which we told them about ahead of time, and one has prescribed medicine under a different generic name that we had just discussed my alergy to. Fortunately had learned to look up my meds by that time, and found what it was.

So in short, don't compare yourself to medical doctors. They are somewhere between murderers and rapists in the hierarchy of evil professions, IMO. I respect several lawyers, but with good reason I don't trust any doctor.

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