Posted on 12/30/2021 5:34:49 PM PST by george76
Once I learned how corrupt the medical/drug/nutrition axis was, 5 or so years ago, I was through trusting them. So far, I know they’re wrong about:
1. Diet for Diabetes
2. Diet for Health/Weight Loss
3. Statins
4. Salt intake
5. Probably cancer, blood pressure, and God knows what else.
Humans are complicated, I get that. But that doesn’t excuse acting like you understand stuff that you don’t, and certainly doesn’t excuse IGNORING all of the evidence that prevailing (i.e., government directed) thought is totally wrong.
Not any doctor who works for a hospital system or hospital corporation. He/she is the corporation’s doctor and follows their guidelines, which may or may not coincide with the best advice or treatment for me.
Same thing happened to me. Frustrating.
I’m in the search for a new doctor to establish a relationship with - I don’t have high hopes. Anyone in the Houston area have a doctor they can recommend???
Ditto.
Then this last September I wound up in the local ER with the CCP flu. The ER doc rehydrated me and gave me a concise rundown on the monoclonal antibody treatment. The doc was sharp, professional and respected my ability to follow his explanations, brain fogged as I was. They got me right-side up fairly quickly.
Yesterday, I went to North Idaho Dermatology where I underwent a procedure to remove a benign lesion from my upper right arm. Again, everyone was thoroughly professional and I was treated with respect.
Now I've heard many horror stories and have no reason to doubt them. I've been fortunate to not encounter any of that.
Most doctors are part of a practice, or a clinic, that have board oversight over pretty much everything they do.
I found this out a long time ago when I went in for a refill of a medicine I needed at the time, and the doctor wanted to change the prescription, despite it working perfectly well.
I begrudgingly went along, but the substitute medicine was completely ineffective. I did my own search of the old med, but could find no dangers of any type identified anywhere.
So I went back and asked for the old med. He flat out refused, and said the doctors on his governing board wanted to switch to this new medicine. I said even it it doesn’t work, and all he could say was stick with it even though I was in immediate need.
I therefore then went to another doctor, who told me they were probably getting more, ahem, kickbacks from the other drug. He prescribed what I needed and I never went back to the other clinic.
The clinic fired mine for refusing the jab and providing ivermectin.
I trusted her. The replacement? Not so much.
A number of years ago Obama told me as long as I had the VA I didn’t need to sign up for Obamacare. OK, so I’ve been VA ever since.
Only problem we have, I have with the VA is my Primary Doctor. It’s crazy! We call, and call with promises of return phone calls, and nothing.
Everybody else at the VA wants to help. They are absolutely wonderful, but getting that Primary Doctor to keep things moving along is like trying to find teeth in a Duck. Consequently my wife (She can hear far better than Me) has to spend hours on the phone herding the guy. Same with his predecessor.
Wondering why the VA needs to have a Primary Doctor. I’m certain it is to screen for where to admit patients, and to guide them through the process, but they aren’t. We’ve had two of them drop the ball on me causing eight months delay in treatment. If it weren’t for my wife harassing them daily we wouldn’t be where we are now.
VA is great if you stand on your Primary Doctor’s head, and keep him/her moving, otherwise they seem to short out.
I don’t like the fact you get a Doctor assigned to do a procedure, and then never see him/her again. I don’t like that.
I asked my nurse practitioner if I could get a blood test for covid anti bodies... he said we don’t do that. That it won’t tell us anything.
I will be looking for someone who will.
We are in process of changing to new doc not owned by a hospital. A Co worker told me he will prescribe ivermectin n Costco (of all places) will fill it.
I don’t trust doctors and never have. I respect their professional abilities and tend to give weight to their advice, but under no circumstances do I take the word of any person on blind faith.
Yes. He and his staff are awesome, and realistic. Thank God for them.
The state of Vermont passed a law in 2009 that banned pharmacies from sharing doctors' information for prescriptions to manufacturers of other products. Their intent was to disincentivize payoffs from pharmaceutical firms if doctors could prescribe alternate medications without the briber knowing.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/court-upholds-vermont-law-prescription-data-mining
The law passed but the Supreme Court struck it down. Can't have the gravy train interrupted. https://www.hldataprotection.com/2011/06/articles/health-privacy-hipaa/supreme-court-strikes-down-prescription-datamining-ban/
Since then, Vermont has banned gifts but the data mining continues. Now instead of bribing the doctor, bribe the hospital heads and have them threaten the doctors whose compliance can be measured with the data mining.
I have two doctors I really trust. They push back against the political system and treat their patients as they see fit. Prescribed Ivermectin last April for COVID.
I had such a great Doctor for close to 40 years.
That brat retired a couple of years ago.
I got nothing else nice to say.
My general practitioner retired last year.
But he was not my doctor, he was a physician whom I paid to help me when I needed it.
Same goes for the current physician.
I got a guy who did a great job on my ticker plumbing. He pushes me on the death shot every time I see him. I’ve come very close to telling him to stick to his trade.
Mine is a vaxxer...he has had patients die and be hospitalized. I am “at risk” per metrics but not per my personal condition.
He strongly urged Vax. I strongly declined with facts.
Not he asks if I reconsidered and I say no and we move on.
Trust? No. Respect each other’s positions, yes.
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