nipping problems in the bud

[Guest guest]

Peg, I know this has been said before many times, but I'm going to rant

about it again! Why doesn't the medical system really work this way?

They should nip diseases in the bud. I am so angry. Why did I have to

get sicker and sicker for a decade and nobody pays any attention

because " if it's something serious, we'll see signs of that soon

enough " . By the time we can prove to them that we're ill, it is so so

hard to reverse the disease at all.

It seems to me that medicine works the same way everything is going

these days. Let the environment go to hell until it's probably too late

to do much of anything about it except mop up a few of the worst

problems. By all means continue letting the economy, especially

short-term economics, rule the world, and don't bother looking too far

down the road.

Hello, world, it is a lot harder to clean up after disasters than work

to prevent them!

Of course, my own household isn't a good example of keeping things

under control....

- Kate

On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 01:31 AM, Peg wrote:

> I wonder how many organisms are subclinical. How long they are

> brewing before they can not longer exist just under the radar. I read

> an excellent but old paper by a doctor who was referring to the

> diabetic process, so it was long ago, but it spoke very clearly how

> the disease process begins long before anyone knows anything is going

> on. It said that that process occurs in all disease, so the trick is

> to develop the patterns that different disease have in their pre-

> recognition stages so that medicine can provide much better solutions

> by the time the patient is really hurting.

[Guest guest]

KAte

Well put. I alway's attach a lot of urgency that people get a good

diagnosis early in the disease on most forums I visit. Yet the

problem is the other's there really want them to get a cfs diagnosis

and go visit a good cfs doctor(disaster)...It's absolutely

rediculous when your told everything is OK normal- they are just

very poor interpretors of tests.I would think 5 to 10 trillion

platelets missing in action or the same amount of red cells going

south needs a little closer interpretation.

I actually try and get them to get a good sinus diagnosis because on

the net anyone that develops a decent sinus infection that won't go

away also develops fatigue ilness.I actually would love someone

during an office visit with there doctor actually change the way

things have gone the last 50 visits- The facts are the ones that

just sit there and listen to there doctors are more likely to kick

there legs in the air before the fighters that take some control...

tony

>

> > I wonder how many organisms are subclinical. How long they are

> > brewing before they can not longer exist just under the radar. I

read

> > an excellent but old paper by a doctor who was referring to the

> > diabetic process, so it was long ago, but it spoke very clearly

how

> > the disease process begins long before anyone knows anything is

going

> > on. It said that that process occurs in all disease, so the

trick is

> > to develop the patterns that different disease have in their pre-

> > recognition stages so that medicine can provide much better

solutions

> > by the time the patient is really hurting.

>