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Tonight is the Junior Prom @ Minnisink High---which is where Kristyn will graduate from next year!!!
The weather sucks----but we are taking the hour ride to see her dressed!!!
Appears the whole weekend will be rainy and chilly~~~
This school has proms starting from 8th grade till grad.---so where is the Xcitment??
It wont be fun standing in the wet grass taking picutres
So much for anything of interest----
I am still totally fatigued----totally annoyed NOW with ALL doctors---cus I would like to KNOW what in GOD's name is wrong with me--
Next week MAMMO----and more Iron --
Supposedly---for someone that seems to have nothing wrong I sure feel like crap~~~
Now that I made your day---have a good weekend----stay well and do keep that
luve Barbara
the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control
I believe that I can pinpoint the reason why you are so frustrated with the medical care you have received. After researching and analyzing this for a long time, it is my decided opinion, that the "practicing of medicine" is a game. That's right - a game. Notice how even the wording of the license, (license to practice medicine), suggests as much.
Since the dawning of civilization, humans have devised countless games, that were intended to do everything from providing training, so that the younger generation can "learn the ropes", before entering adulthood, to keeping ourselves entertained. In primitive societies, the young played "hunting" games, that taught them the survival techniques that they would need to kill animals, in order to provide for their families. In today's society, the young play "video games" to teach them to . . . um, uh - hmmmmmm, wonder why so many of those games are still about killing? The only difference is that the video games are about killing other people.
Sorry, I kinda got off track there. To get back to the realization that the practice of medicine is just a high-stakes game, consider the way that it is played. The game is played, (like all good games), according to a well-established set of rules, that are rarely deviated from. Here's how it's played:
You go to a doctor with a health issue, and first you wade through all the paperwork, waivers, etc. You can be bleeding to death, but first you wade through the paperwork, before the main event can begin. The main event, of course, is all the testing. You take a test, (or two), come back in a week or so, to learn the results, and the doctor will schedule another test. Then, you come back in another week or so, and get that result. Whoa! Guess what? "Looks like we need to schedule another test."
This goes on and on, until finally, a diagnosis becomes so obvious that the doctor is forced to reluctantly admit that it's time to end the game, and "declare" an official diagnosis, or, he runs out of tests, and calls an end to the game due to a "foul". IOW, if the tests didn't find anything wrong with you, then, by default, there's nothing wrong with you. The fact that there are no other options, is due to the following rule, which seems to be unique to the "game of medicine":
The reason why the patient is at such a tremendous disadvantage in this game, is because of the unique arrangement by which the doctor is both a primary player, and the referee. Obviously, this gives him/her a huge advantage over the patient, and is the primary reason why the doctor always goes home with the "pot" at the end of the game.
Is it any wonder that it's such a frustrating game for the patient? You can't win. LOL.
I 100% agree with you. Practicing is all they do and I am with Barbara, Totally sick of the medical profession - with the exception of my BP.
Yesterday with a face so swollen and in agony the first question the dental surgeon I was referred to asked - Who is your insurance company. They then treated it as a consultation because of an emergency referral - not pre-approved and it cost me $120. Could not use insurance on a non pre-approved referral for consultation.
I hate insurance and everything right now.
I am on a really mad role and added to the list I posted for Barbara, I am just totally tired all the time and no one knows why.
Life sucks, Maggie
Maggie Scarpone
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Now that we have read such a allegory of the game that doctors play lets look with a good sense of turn about as fair play at the games that the patient plays. The combination of the two IMHO is the real reason for both the doctors and the patients frustration with the whole system.
From my point of view a vast majority of the public expects to go to the doctor and have him or her cure them. Not a far step from witch craft or magic. Test me with your magical machine that will divine my very essence and then give me an elixir that will cure all that is wrong. You the doctor has gained the wisdom of ages you will know far better than I what is right and good for me. I hand my power to you.
Don’t tell me to lose weight. Give me a magic elixir that will make it so. Then I will not have to quit eating all the wrong things or examine my diet even beyond the recommendations of what the government thinks is the correct diet. Don’t make me think. Don’t make me change A really fun game should not require either one. How nice it is to have given over my free will to the game master.
If it does not work I can blame the doctor. After all I have given him all my power and he has done nothing with it .
My point is that for so many the game is the belief that all those magical machines and all the mystery behind them is something to belive in. The patient is as much a part of the game as the doctor is .
Finding a way back can be a matter of looking at your health as Dr. Fine does -
You are on the stool. When the physical leg is shortened, weakened, or removed, the stable four-legged stool becomes a less stable three-legged stool. To remain on the stool, the three remaining legs (the mind, emotions, and spirit) must be secured. Loss of one more leg leads to a certain tumble off the stool of health. (My analogy to a sitting stool has no gastroenterology pun intended.)
