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When to Say No to Your Doctor


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Thanks, Babyrex. Interesting reading.

 

The U.S. medical care system has gone a bit mad!!! 

 

Private healthcare and direct access to specialists probably fuel this.

 

The NHS has thankfully avoided the worst excesses by being publicly funded.

 

There but for the grace of God ........

 

LF 

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Interesting babyrex,

doesn't affect me anymore. I've decided to be my own medical adviser .

should i ever need treatment, i shall watch every step, every move , do my own

research.

the only Doc who i shall trust with my eyes closed , is the Pathologist. ;)

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First time I was prescribed my devil drug, Xanax, my doc asked me what I was there for and I said panic attacks and he said, when is the last time you had a colonoscopy.  Bozo.  I'm in my 60's every time I go in you can hear the cash register going.  Then they had me sign a paper stating that they had asked me about a number of tests and I said no.  Nothing ticks me off more than someone trying to strong arm me.  My mother always did what they wanted.  I think the next generations aren't so easily lead down that path and lead to believe they are all knowing.     
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Make no mistake: A good doctor is, or should be, your most trusted resource if you're sick. If you're not sick and he wants to treat you anyway, that doesn't necessarily make him a bad doctor. But it does make him a player in a system that operates according to the unspoken and often unexamined assumption that more treatment is better for the patient. It's unquestionably better for the financial health of the stakeholders in the system: the doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, the health-insurance companies, and the hospitals. If you don't know how the game is played, the odds go up that you'll wind up the loser.

 

Truer words have never been spoken.

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