more on 'blaming the patient'

[Guest guest]

I know I'm on a jag here. But I feel that it's important for us to

realize where some doctor's(possibly paid by insurance companies)

misinformation might lead us.

This is a growing trend in medicine today. We all need to be careful

of where this trend is leading. Will it lead to inadequate care

because insurance companies will pick up on this misinformation and

determine we all need to cure ourselves by: living rightly?

Sociologist Arthur W. writes, " Today the healthy want to believe

that disease does not 'just happen.' They want to believe that they

control their health and that they have earned it. Those who have

cancer must have done something wrong, which the healthy can then

avoid. The sick person must have participated in sickness by choosing

to have a cancer personality. Otherwise illness is an intolerable

reminder of how risky life is. "

just replace the word cancer for your disease of choice.