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Regarding the stupid doctor thread I had to chime in though I've not posted in ages. I would have thought that after twelve years I might have all but given up hope that I might find a doctor who ``gets'' it, but I still hope. Little good that does me becaue I've not seen any indicators over these last years that doctors are getting sharper. Maybe it is just me, but I read somewhere that there are ``tiers'' of doctors and the trick is to reach the tier that you need for your illness. Cancer has its own tier altogether. Pretty much your GP is in tier one, which it seems to me that after beating my head on the wall the4se years my problem has been that I can never seem to get out of tier one medicine. Oh, I might bet a referral to some specialty but then after running around doing all the work, they usually drop me for some ridiculous reason, i.e. cutting back, different direction, etc. I call it the three visit drop because it takes about three visits for the doctor to figure out that he is really in above his head. Never is it considered that it might wear the patient out to be constantly going to three visit doctors without ever receiving real care it is just a revolving door of lab work and reviews. I thought sending my records ahead might prevent some of this useless visits, but how silly of me for forgetting that the first visit is the big money maker.
I quickly learned that it took more energy to be angry, than that appointment was ever worth. So I just go on one foot in front of the other. It has not whizzed past my attention to realize the incredible opportunity that doctors pass up on by their complete insistence in their own grandeur. In fact, I think that the cultural impact to the disease process has been affected by medicines approach to deny at all costs. Heck, disease is probably square dancing for their good fortune to have such ignorant people in the front line positions. Just think about it, is it impossible to believe that many diseases could have been prevented by the sheer presence of a wall of united defense. Is disease so different than other of life's issues. How many times have you had an experience where you faced a problem and it seemed that the moment you stood up against it, it just went away. I know that this is not one of those problems, but with a united front along side of doctors against disease isn't there that possibility. I'd just like to get two alike opinions in a row. I just finished a six month bout of trying to get some answers on my loss of vision seeing everyone from retinolgist to regular Optomotrist. I didn't get two opinions that were even close. I think you can probably relate to that kind of scratch your head confusion. Isn't this supposed to be about science? I can't even get diagnosed anymore. Now you just get ``opinions.'' What a cop out. getting paid for a luke-warm response seems like other ways we get used in life.
Oh, and where did the concept of advancement through ideas go? Like the doctor who had the idea to wash his hands before delivering babies saved thousands and thousand of lives over time. But today, nobody even talks about the possibility that an idea might advance medicine. It all about waiting for the perfect drug. Nobody in medicine seems to get the concept that there will always be disease as long as man breathes and creates. There is no perfect pill. Disease has already been there, done that, now laughing all the way. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. lymielu
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Look around and see the epidemic of cancer, the rising numbers of kids with autism and attention deficit disorder. No one seems to be as concerned about finding the cause as they are about inflicting a lot of expensive and drastic treatments or everlasting drug taking that doesn't fix it, and sometimes the treatment itself causes more problems.
This does not seem like a very advanced way of handling health problems. You are right to question how medicine is structured.
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Honestly, I'm finding that having Lyme disease and having a positive outlook on the future of society are mutually exclusive.
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