There's another point here which I don't think has been covered yet. This
is that patients can be their own worst enemies. i.e. When the doctor says
nothing can be done for their cold etc., they insist on anti-biotics or
something that they can take home with them! Our doctor has told us this.
Also my friends husband was sooo put out because they wouldn't prescribe
statins for him as he is on heart medication. He also was put out because
he couldn't have the pneumonia jab and had to be content with just the 'flu
jab (!) some people insist on being (mis)treated! Dee
-------Original Message-------
From: John Plumridge
Date: 19/10/2007 03:39:34
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: CS>Doctors...[Carol] - Kurt
All true Carol Ann, and nicely put. But anger is the natural emotion felt
at perceived injustice. Deception is an example. and the anger has an
object, though maybe fuzzy. It shouldn' t be all doctors, and is also a
system of political corruption. But that seems almost like all doctors.
We do bring our children up with some sense of understanding that people
have different roles, and in that we put trust if possible. With medicine
it may be that we are not necessarily lied to, and doctors aren't
researchers, merely robots. The problems are immense, but there is plenty
of evidence from doctors themselves.
