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

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> As I read your diatribe, I am reminded of a saying of one of my mentors, "The
> facts are not important." You probably didn't follow his instructions, but
> there's no convincing you of that fact (i.e. The facts are not important.) When
> an infectious disease requires a blood test for diagnosis, both an acute and
> convalescent sample are generally needed, so a single sample at the beginning
> of the illness isn't going to be diagnostic. You probably didn't hear, or you
> didn't want to spend the money for the office visit, that you needed to return
> in 2-4 weeks for the repeat blood draw. I have had patients that have come back
> to me and stated that I'd told them "so and so," when I knew that there was no
> way in the world that I"d said such a thing. 

My biggest bitch with doctors isn't exactly the doctors themselves.. 
It's retarded low paying jobs without medical insurance that expect you 
to go to the doctor anytime you get sick even if you know perfectly well 
what's wrong and how to care for yourself. Last time I went to the 
doctor it cost more than $150 and they wanted me to come back a week 
later for the second round of tests which they assured me would cost 
another couple hundred dollars. Of course that wasn't counting the 
medicine they prescribed.. which was of limited worth anyway as it 
didn't make me better (And anyway I returned to work for one day only to 
catch something even worse.. so they pretty much fired me. :P)

Last time I had blood drawn I got quite sick from it too.. dizziness, 
naseua, etc.. weird since it usually doesn't bother me. They did take 
kind of a lot though.. for all those tests. :P

I do think doctors imply things they don't mean to imply. You don't 
actually say what the patient thinks you said but because neither of you 
clarify the wrong information gets passed along. Which is why I tend to 
ask to many (probably stupid) questions of my doctors.


-- 
"At what price learning? At what cost wisdom?"
"The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life."
                                            Kampus, by james e. gunn

Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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