piano in waiting room

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Dude I totally hear ya... my doctors lobby has this pricey

recirculating fountain, some kinda 2-hepp SoHo-art-gallery light

fixtures and hifi speakers endlessly recycling a narrow repertoire of

that superficially relaahhhxing kinda new age music IT ALL GIVES ME

THE CREEPS. The moment I saw this whole setup I was like

eeeyyyiiikes... I have to admit it is *slightly* calming but on a

deeper level its directly unnerving to me, personally. And kinda

overpriced service... Im changin doctors... I can afford his prices

but can I afford to take advice from people that would charge them?

(Ive actually got a real soft spot for new age music but only from

someone who cares about art like Eno.)

I once had the greatest doctor, he was of the same persuasion as the

one I have now (Integrative, ie alt-med / straight-med fusion) and was

the greatest guy, an authentic mensch, workmanlike prices and had a

bare-walled waiting room with good honest classical music (Beethovan,

Copeland) and a rigorous attitude toward the evaluation of treatments.

He damn well gave a damn. But he didnt know borrelia even tho he sees

alot of PWC; I requested a WB myself and he agreed to it but sent it

to Quest (all bands negative and thats that). At this time I was fresh

from the psych ward getting through days hour by hour and had no

knowledge of anything nor any idea how to get any.

You gotta look out tho, you really got to. All judgements are

probabilistic merely. Some dudes put on the frills but can still

totally get goals accomplished. For my myofascial dysfunction pelvic

pain I saw this frilly osteopath with the $300 ergonomic chairs in the

whole palatial waiting room with overpriced faux-zen sculpture, dark

wood desk, dark wood everything, glossy glossy mags on holistic

anything, basically the most extravagance youve *ever imagined* in a

doctors office (and like most of us Ive been to about 14). And I was

lookin like a big hippie so he made some cheeky comments on the

administration of Reagan (who had just died) which came off as real

easy-sleazy rapport (or maybe I was just in a semi-permanent crotchety

mood?). But in spite of it all this guy was for REAL. Many

physiotherapists are much too meek in dealing with pelvic floor

dysfunction - well not this guy, he did some amazingly painful tissue

manipulations that cured my pelvic pain forever in one 2-minute

session, which is quicker than any of my dozens of idiopathic pelvic

pain correspondants ever got fixed. Lotta glitz, *serious* dude.

<dumbaussie2000@y...> wrote:

> Penny

> This is all born from frustration with the system, a couple of

> dollars worth of medical supplies are refused yet a couple of

> thousand on so called proffesionals are accepted as necessary in

> medical circles.I realised early in my ilness which doctors were

> decent- and to stay away from piano clinic offices.This bunch is

> really a well oiled money making machine with a very yuppy, in your

> face, you need psych treatment being delivered to everyone.The other

> things was that this group seemed to indulge in more of the psych

> drugs themselves, which made it a strange doctor patient

> relationship for me.