The medical profession is permeated with a misguided sense of infallibility. For example, how often have you heard some infantile drillmaster bark out the order: "Get back in that bed until the DOCTOR says you can get out!"
And the older you are, the more righteously indignant becomes the medical profession when its dictatorial mandates are not accorded subservient obeisance.
| Actually, if doctors could only charge for
a cure they would go broke. Instead, 45% of what doctors do charge for is
simply FINDING OUT WHAT IS WRONG.
Test after test, and battery of tests after battery of tests will be run at the patient's expense, until the problem is definitely isolated and real treatment begins. Then, when adequate improvement does not appear on the scene (after all that mere doctors can do) patients are either shunted off to another branch of medicine -- or the patient is relegated to the status of troublemaker, hypochondriac, or worse. When doctors are right they are very right. When doctors are wrong, they are very wrong. But a lot of that is the fault of the patient choosing the wrong branch of medicine to begin with. A surgeon cannot be blamed for proposing surgery where it has worked in the past. A chiropractor cannot be blamed for proposing to adjust bones where it has worked a cure before. Not even a psychiatrist can be blamed for prescribing more and more pills until the patient quits complaining. |
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It is up to you to decide what kind of doctor you go see first. Do you need a a dietician, or a doctor, or a chiropractor, or a neurologist, or an allergist, or a psychologist, or a good talk with your spiritual leader? Easily one of the most MISdiagnosed medical complaints is that of PAIN. Here then are some internet resources to help you PREdiagnose your pain symptoms, before you decide what kind of a doctor to see first. Pain, Pain, Go AwayPain Management is the act, manner or practice of managing pain, handling or control of an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder. Treatment for chronic pain is best understood and accomplished by a physician specializing in pain management. Doctors For Pain (A directory to help you find a pain physician or clinic anywhere in the world; pharmaceutical help; self-help alternatives) Pediatric Pain providing assistance for health care workers caring for children in pain and researchers investigating pain in children -- for self-care of children in pain, and for their parents. American Pain Foundation builds individual partnerships with people who care about improving the lives of those suffering with pain. The
AACPI has launched an internal website housing the expanded Toolbox for
Starting, Rejuvenating and Sustaining Pain Initiatives. R.E.S.C.I.N.D. (Repeal
Existing Stereotypes about Chronic, Immunological and Neurological Diseases -
Covers issues relating to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness,
Fibromyalgia, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Lyme Disease and more) American Medical Association
(See Consumer Health Information) |
Yes. The web offers all the information you need to make an
informed decision. The following links offer the best information on the
web to help you determine which path to start out on, and what to do after you
get on the right path.
As you can see, the Web is overwhelmingly full of health resources. The problem is sifting through the chaff to get to the wheat. The solution is finding a compiler with express methods which are congruent with your needs. For example, my DRUGSTORES ON THE WEB page was compiled by how much information about the products was available on each company's web site. My object there was to provide as many good resource options as possible from around the world. The very first reference is to the National Association of Pharmacy Boards. That site provides a restricted slant on compilations of CERTIFIED pharmacies on the web.
The danger of having so much information on the web is treating yourself with ignorance. Here I'll use myself as an example. Back when I was homeless I developed a bad cough. Naturally I looked for a cheap remedy. Dollar General® offered three different kinds of cough syrup for $2 each. I studied each label for a long time and finally picked out the one I thought would do me the most good for the kind of cough I thought I had.
Well, Every time I took the medicine I would feel better, but an hour later I would be worse than ever. A priesthood blessing did me good for only a day, and then I got worse again in spite of the blessing and the cough syrup. At last I agreed to take charity and was hustled in to see a doctor. S/he thumped me on the chest for a moment, took one look at my cough syrup bottle, and threw the bottle into the trash. "You've got pneumonia and you need an EXPECTORANT. Every time you took a dose of that stuff you were carrying yourself closer to death's door."
In looking back I can easily see that given the same circumstances and reading the same labels, I would select the same kind of cough syrup again; I personally cannot tell the difference between one kind of cough and another. I would be wrong every time, and I would kill myself every time.
Now to the flip side. Eight times in the last twelve years Euromerican doctors have said my mother would not live to see night fall. Eight times we have taken her home and resorted to Native American cures and she is still perking along today.
| Am I advocating a return to Native
American cures for everyone? No, but I do applaud the hiring of Native American medicine men by local hospitals which Native Americans frequent. A good medicine man can still work wonders when Euromerican doctors are very wrong, but they are now hopelessly outclassed when Euromerican medical practices are very right. |
Uh, incidentally, in the last four of those twelve years Mama has not seen ANY kind of doctor. I'm sure there is a moral to that story somewhere. I'm just not sure what it is.
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Lin Stone is an author, writer, and photographer. He has written four books and published numerous articles. Over 300 of them are available for free reading on the web. Choose a few samples by clicking HERE.
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