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

["Matt Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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)

I've never had an employer or insurance tell me I had to go to the doctor
for treatment. Employers want a doctors excuse which costs me $10-20
depending on the copay, and the insurace didn't care what happened, so long
as what they had to pay for was in their approved list.

> 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 think the most I've had drawn was five of those finger sized tubes worth.
I think they take more from blood donors, but it was enough to make me feel
lightheaded. At the time I found it bothersome but still thought it was
useful. It was the only time I'd ever had projectile vomiting, or a cough so
deep and uncontrolable that I was gasping for air afterwards. A little
lightheadedness would have been well worth getting over that sooner rather
than later.

> 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.

I suspect many medical schools are saying to put it in writing. In
retrospect, the few doctors who haven't done so for me were the older ones,
though Dr. Honeywell, my current general practicioner, puts things in
writing, and was even the one who delivered me, to give a perspective on
age. He didn't argue with the other doctors' opinions on my "virus", but
he's never been the first one in any of my major illnesses. I don't trust
any doctor when it comes to my health, but he's not screwed up yet.


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