what I love most about doctors

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1. they never run any diagnostic tests (like cultures, blood counts,

etc) to render a diagnosis of pathenogenic cause that, regardless of

viral or bacterial nature (for which they haven't confirmed with any

scientific test) antibiotics will always fix it

2. they never listen to what the symptoms are, but know antibiotics

will fix it

3. they are so magically competent they can look at you and know what

the problem is, yet can't do this over the phone, explaining why you

should bother to come in to the office full of other sick people, but

hey, a round of antibiotics to everyone will make it all better

4. you tell them you suspect your child has a disease known to kill

small infants, so they have you wait for 20 min in a waiting room with

a 3 day old baby, knowing your child will be coughing uncontrollably

(I guess those antibiotics in te candy dish on the counter will save

the baby?)

6. you get charged hundreds of dollars for the doctors to perform

their magical diagnosis

7. they always wanna recheck, I guess so your child can be exposed to

more diseases to keep the never-ending visits going. Of course, we

must be sure to keep those appointments, you wouldn't want to miss the

chance to see more magical diagnoses or miss out on the $$$ to shell

out for this mysterious feat

8. They're so good that now restrictive airway disease is now being

caught in children who have never been sick in their lives but

suddenly began coughing with a mild fever for over 2 wks. The best

part is it can be dxed by a 30 sec listen to the chest with a

stethoscope and nothing else.

The best part, your child is still sick and they still don't know

their @$$ from a hole in the ground.

Why does med school take so long? Heck, I could teach them in a day,

" look at 'em, give 'em a dx but don't do any tests, and always

prescribe antibiotics " . Seems simple enough to me.

Debi, who isn't bitter <g>

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Dear Debi who isn't bitter, and all-

It's an outrage to read that a mom has to fight to get a decent diagnosis for her little child in

(of all places) the United States of America. Very Very sad, indeed.

I'm adding you and your little one to my prayer list stat.

Regarding culture and sensitivity tests:

Since Reaganomics when the power shifted from Doctors to insurance regarding what could be done to acquire culture /sensitivity testing

we've seen poorer diagnosis with much worse outcomes. 30 years ago culture/ sensitivity studies were done routinely and cost about eleven dollars.

They cost much, much, much more now.

The pattern playing currently prevalent benefits insurance companies and big pharma.

IMHO Doctors are forced to "play patterns", insurance re-imbursable approved patterns.

Talented diagnosticians are a rare breed.

Insurance companies and Big Pharma have the largest portion of power in disease care (health care would be an inaccurate choice of words)

The days of talented diagnosticians is barely a memory thanks to profiteers in Pharma and Insurance

taking over traditional medicine in America.

That's why the U.S.A ranks so lowly in the world amongst industrialized nations in health care outcomes.

G. Pretlow, M.D., professor of oncology, pathology, urology, and environmental health sciences at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine stated, "How many of our citizens realize that the World Health organization ranks the United States 37th in the world for quality of health care, but first in the world for per capita cost? How many know that among the world's nine largest industrialized countries our life expectancy(USA) was the longest in 1940, but is the shortest today? Our system is badly broken , and needs to be fixed. This is perhaps best detailed by Rudolph Mueller, M.D., in his recent book,"As Sick as It Gets". What used to be a health care ministry is now a commodities business."

Recently I read suicides amongst M.D.s is increasing. It must be difficult for caring people to work in the constraints imposed by

insurance /big pharma monopolies. I wonder if the bar is being lowered to even find candidates willing to become medical doctors (?)

Anyone know?

BTW Debi when you open your ' one day med school' sign me on as a penmanship teacher.<lol>

Currently the right to help ourselves with nutritional supplements is under attack by those same

callous entities , mainly Big Pharma, for the purpose of garnishing still more profit, and causing further detriment to

American's health.

You can help stop this from happening if you wish to do so at this url:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action.shtml

-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Debi" <fightingautism@...> > 1. they never run any diagnostic tests (like cultures, blood counts, > etc) to render a diagnosis of pathenogenic cause that, regardless of > viral or bacterial nature (for which they haven't confirmed with any > scientific test) antibiotics will always fix it > > 2. they never listen to what the symptoms are, but know antibiotics > will fix it > > 3. they are so magically competent they can look at you and know what > the problem is, yet can't do this over the phone, explaining why you > should bother to come in to the office full of other sick people, but > hey, a round of antibiotics to everyone will make it all better > > 4. you tell them you suspect your child has a disease known to kill > small infants, so they have you wait for 20 min in a waiting room with > a 3 day old baby, knowing your child will be coughing uncontrollably > (I guess those antibiotics in te candy dish on the counter will save > the baby?) > > 6. you get charged hundreds of dollars for the doctors to perform > their magical diagnosis > > 7. they always wanna recheck, I guess so your child can be exposed to > more diseases to keep the never-ending visits going. Of course, we > must be sure to keep those appointments, you wouldn't want to miss the > chance to see more magical diagnoses or miss out on the $$$ to shell > out for this mysterious feat > > 8. They're so good that now restrictive airway disease is now being > caught in children who have never been sick in their lives but > suddenly began coughing with a mild fever for over 2 wks. The best > part is it can be dxed by a 30 sec listen to the chest with a > stethoscope and nothing else. > > The best part, your child is still sick and they still don't know > their @$$ from a hole in the ground. > > Why does med school take so long? Heck, I could teach them in a day, > "look at 'em, give 'em a dx but don't do any tests, and always > prescribe antibiotics". Seems simple enough to me. > > Debi, who isn't bitter > > > > > > > >