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I'm forwarding what I think is an interesting article regarding doctors.

On Mondays I spend two hours as a volunteer at the local hospital.

Yesterday one of the doctors came by to " Hi " ...a wonderful woman with

a most kind and generous heart. I thought about the discussion here

....and, though I have had many bad episodes with docs, I have also

had wonderful experiences. This doc is one of them. Tomorrow I'll see

a kidney doc. I first saw him after the episode when a naturopath...

who apparently thought she knew better than my MD's and in spite of my

telling her that 30 years ago I had been given Cytomel and, later,

a med I think was called Euthroid which led to to a dx of enlarged

heart...doubled the amount of dessicated thyroid I was taking without

telling me. I ended up in the cardiac cath lab with a new

dx...cardiomyopathy. The kidney doc is a saint. He had me come in

several times during the first few months he treated me...monitoring my

blood pressure closely. It was months before I learned that he was only

reimbursed by the insurance company for the first visit.

There are good docs out there...in spite of the incredible stress that

healthcare providers work under.

Source: University of Bath

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070913081058.htm

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Karl Stonjek

[Guest guest]

So its just the thyroid docs who are clueless.

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Need Support To Cope With Patient Death]

I'm forwarding what I think is an interesting article regarding doctors.

On Mondays I spend two hours as a volunteer at the local hospital.

Yesterday one of the doctors came by to " Hi " ...a wonderful woman with

a most kind and generous heart. I thought about the discussion here

.....and, though I have had many bad episodes with docs, I have also

had wonderful experiences. This doc is one of them. Tomorrow I'll see

a kidney doc. I first saw him after the episode when a naturopath...

who apparently thought she knew better than my MD's and in spite of my

telling her that 30 years ago I had been given Cytomel and, later,

a med I think was called Euthroid which led to to a dx of enlarged

heart...doubled the amount of dessicated thyroid I was taking without

telling me. I ended up in the cardiac cath lab with a new

dx...cardiomyopathy. The kidney doc is a saint. He had me come in

several times during the first few months he treated me...monitoring my

blood pressure closely. It was months before I learned that he was only

reimbursed by the insurance company for the first visit.

There are good docs out there...in spite of the incredible stress that

healthcare providers work under.

Source: University of Bath

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070913081058.htm

Posted by

Karl Stonjek

[Guest guest]

Follow the money...see who's paying for much of the education...read up

on the techniques pharmaceutical pres use to court docs...then factor in

the climate that our lawsuit-happy culture has nurtured. At times it

seems to me that physician/patient relationships have become a

battlefield. Patients have contributed to that. My former internist

has told me she's doing her best to steer her daughter away from a

medical career. Some of the best doctors want out.

Crystal wrote:

>So its just the thyroid docs who are clueless.

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[Guest guest]

Well my doctor/patient relationship would be screwed if I went in to get my

tubes tied and they took my uterus instead. Or maybe the wrong arm or leg.

Doctors contribute to that.

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May Need Support To Cope With Patient Death]

Follow the money...see who's paying for much of the education...read up

on the techniques pharmaceutical pres use to court docs...then factor in

the climate that our lawsuit-happy culture has nurtured. At times it

seems to me that physician/patient relationships have become a

battlefield. Patients have contributed to that. My former internist

has told me she's doing her best to steer her daughter away from a

medical career. Some of the best doctors want out.

Crystal wrote:

>So its just the thyroid docs who are clueless.

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