I could not leave the post below without mentioning another thing that happened yesterday at the doctor’s office:
When I went in to the appointment, the usual drill is the height/weight, blood pressure/rate, etc.
When asked if I took any medications, I said, as usual, “No.”
She then asked me if I had any allergies to meds, and because I was unsure of how my records read, I wanted to let her know that I was not certain if I did or not, but that I did not want antibiotics administered to me under any conditions except pending death.
We discussed it briefly, and during the interchange I explained that I wanted nothing to do with any prescriptions under much of any conditions. The statement was fueled in part from my past experiences and residual anger that will long be hard to completely get rid of, in light of how devastating the effects of most meds were on me, and on others I know.
Her response was surprising.
She said, “Boy is THAT ever nice to hear. Someone who actually does NOT want to take meds!”
She then confided in me that she felt the very same way. She was in her mid-late 40’s with a lot of experience in the field.
So it should go without saying, as I’ve always said before, we don’t need to throw the doctors out with the bathwater. They have applications, trauma especially, but little else outside of that.
And certainly not to help drive the profit motivations of corporations looking to get people hooked on prescription meds that in turn help drive one-fifth of the economy (see my other posts which can be found in the search field to the right about the economic and corporate motivations in the medical industry, which are self-evident and even obvious).
Just wanted to pass that along…gotta give some positive with the negative when ever it comes to doctors, and, of course, whenever it is remotely possible to do so.
Since these days, that does not happen very often.