Re: Re: Following the Money, Doctors Ration Care

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It's true that you never know. And that's the time to go to the doc.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

lin

From: rumjal <rumjal@...>Flu Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 11:16:06 PMSubject: [Flu] Re: Following the Money, Doctors Ration Care

Hi , OTOH, I will not forget going to my doc last winter and his mention that if I had not come in when I did, that I would have had pneumonia. And this despite a pneumonia shot. So you never know.>> The demand for medical care in the US in phenomenal. We seem to like to run to > the doctor for the merest hint of a sniffle; and we do demand the latest high > tech wonder medicines and treatments when often the older and less expensive > simpler modalities will work fine. You don't need a CT scan or a MRI when it's > clear you have a broken leg. A simple x-ray would be sufficient.>  > > There never was a good war or a bad peace.

> lin