by Dansk 26 Replies latest jw friends
I used to work for a company called Metagenics- "Genetic potential through nutrition."
I have some of their products sitting in the kitchen
I wouldn't take any more vaccinations since I got extremely sick as a baby after I got them.
Doctors killed my grandmother and almost my mother.
My dad had a lot of experience with them recently and overall the experience was positive.
There are few doctors that you can really trust. At the best, it's a crapshoot.
After several surgeries and many nights in hospitals, no I do not trust what every doctor has to say. It is their opinion, and I now take it into consideration, rather than completly trust it. Ultimatly I have to choose the proper treatments. Many people in my town do not trust the only hospital around. Most have to drive 200 miles to a larger city for different opinions and better health care. I know that this is a serious thread but I recieved this e-mail a while back and I have to throw it in. A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - and I was in the wrong one. Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yes, they used to be," remorsed the patient. Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarction. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive internal fart." Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity test. I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began, "Cover your right eye with your hand." He read the 20/20 line perfectly. "Now your left." Again, a flawless read. "Now both," I requested. There was silence. He couldn't even read the large E on the top line. I turned and discovered that he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing there with both his eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to finish the exam. Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. "Which one?" I asked. "The patch. The nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!" I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see . . Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one. Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion she answered... "Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive." Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, "So , how's your breakfast this morning?" "It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste" the patient replied. I then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled "KY Jelly." Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room, when a young woman with purple h air styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that read, "Keep off the grass." Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said, "Sorry, had to mow the lawn." and finally... A new, young MD doing his residency in OB was quite embarrassed performing female pelvic exams. To cover his embarrassment he had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassed him. He looked up from his work and sheepishly said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?" She replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was, "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener". (Dr. wouldn't give his name)
That's why I'm having second thoughts about medical school.
As badly as I want to become a doctor--everywhere you look, the healthcare system and even private practices are becoming like corporations. Whatever happened to housecalls in this country? I really don't want to be a part of that.
The idea of going to China to study Eastern Medicine intrigues me, though. But I don't want to leave my children for that long.
I'm also afraid of being sued for malpractice or something.
laters
kaykay_mp
Jb- It's a fact that "Western" medicine while it excels at teating the acute (severe traumatic injury, ie. a severed limb) it does not address and for the most part ignores treating the "whole" person. For example while at Metagenics I worked with licensed Doctors and "health care practicioners" ie. chiropractors, homeopaths etc.
Most doctors (through no fault of their own) are legal drug dealers. Most of their practice is prescribing of drugs. It is a physical impossibility for any doctor to keep up with all the drugs and what's the latest and greatest (and what's crap). They are mired down in beauracracy and patient load. So many rely on the pharmaceutical reps to "recommend" what's best and the latest. They are given "incentives" and tons of free samples through shrewd marketing by the pharmaceutical co's. I've seen many times where a person is on over a dozen medications and suffering all kinds of side effects, when NONE are necessary. I'm not one of those "no drug" people, if you need 'em take'em. But when a person could just modify their diet slightly and exercise a little, but are instead loaded up on meds that will do a ton of damage over the long haul, I question it. Stress is something few doctors look at , it can mimick almost any illness or syndrome and untreated cause infinite probs. but docs rarely see this- they just prescribe!
Sick people is BIG BUSINESS!!!! So caution is always in good order. I do not subscribe to one camp or the other. Doc's seem to hate non Docs and vise versa. They are all vying for our $$$. I think balance is in order and buyer beware is good advice. Be a smart customer and you'll do OK. Ask questions and demand satisfactory answers or look elsewhere.
good luck (watch "Patch Adams" w/Robin Williams) it rocks!
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u/d--on the subject of drugs:
last week in Psych, we were talking about how learning takes place in the brain, and how it's possible in the rest of the human body.
There was an experiment conducted earlier this century where they were testing this cancer drug on a terminally ill young lady. But there was one problem--the drug was fatal if it built up in the blood. So they first conditioned the body to rose oil, obviously with no effect. Then with rose oil and castor oil--no effect. Then with both oils and the experimental drug--duh, it worked. After a while, they discontinued the cancer drug and just administered only the rose oil. Her cells responded to that treatment.
So the question pertaining to that is: is the human body itself "smart"? Can we "train" our body to heal itself?
Groundbreaking s##t.
laters
kaykay_mp
CAN WE TRUST ANYBODY - IN FACT I WILL START A THREAD ON THIS
It's a physiological fact that the human body is capable of synthesizing anything it needs. Why some bodies do and others don't is the mystery. Genetics plays a role, diet, pollution, stress etc. can all affect the bodies ability to make what it needs. In a "vacuum" of perfection it should all work and no one would suffer any physical ailments.
That is part of the Dub reasoning on sickness and aging being "unnatural". In theory it should all work.... but alas it doesn't.
I just find it amazing that the field of medicine is all locked up. Think about it if we live to be 70 (and working) you'd spend about 1/5 of your adult life in school just to be a doctor. Talk about "a snare and a racket"!!! Whatever happened to apprenticeships?
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