yeah, they must teach that horses and zebras sayingin medical school, because it's one of the favorite doctor things to jeer at.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > When my doctor was trying to diagnose my problem, one of the > pathologists made the statement "when we see hoof prints, we look for > horses, not zebras". To which my doc replied "if you see zebra poop > all over the yard, and there is a zoo next door, you might wanna look > for a zebra." Meaning, of course, that the problem wasn't a common > illness, and looking at common causes wasn't helping. > > We've had four people die in our immediate family from medical > incompetence and mis-diagnosis. Frankly, I think doctors or nurses > who cause death of the patient due should be charged with murder. > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I agree. Something along the lines of "if I don't know about it it must > not > > exist." Don't get me started; I run support groups for DVT patients and I > > have seen waaaaaaaaaay too many horror stories. It's also much worse in > > public hospitals with a captive audience, as far as I can tell. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
