Ridgetop
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Angina?
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Margali
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It's related to something that triggers drops in thyroid levels. My mom has same thing but of course that is totally irrelevant.
Baymule
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Ancient medicine treated the whole body. Modern medicine treats the body parts.
When is modern medicine going to figure out that parts make a whole?
When is modern medicine going to figure out that parts make a whole?
When it pays.
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Margali
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Well, my son and I would be dead without medicine advances from 1890s onward... On the flip side, physicians are micromanaged by insurance and focus on test results to exclusion everything else.
SageHill
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We need Marcus Welby MD
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Modern medicine certainly has many pluses... The biggest problem is that lately, it is more of a business instead of the whole idea of working to heal a person .... without regard to what company is producing the medicine or if a simpler way will work as well or better and the doctor or hospital or someone won't benefit from it in any way.
I certainly would not be in a (mostly) pain free state without the ankle replacement or the knee replacements. THAT SAID, if more alternative treatments had been allowed/covered by my ins, I may have done the Prolotherapy/PRP/Stem cell therapy/treatments, a lot sooner and maybe never needed the replacements at all...
Things like what @Margali 's kids have to deal with have saved their lives and will give them a chance to have a mostly normal life... Penicillin saved hundreds of lives when it first came out to fight bacterial infections... drugs have their place....
But we have to treat the problem, and then incorporate it into treating the whole body to try to prevent what caused it to go off the rails in the beginning...and fix our lives to help to prevent or control future problems. The sad thing is so many of preventative things are "not allowed" or not paid for and often not encouraged by the way the insurance system is set up.
I certainly would not be in a (mostly) pain free state without the ankle replacement or the knee replacements. THAT SAID, if more alternative treatments had been allowed/covered by my ins, I may have done the Prolotherapy/PRP/Stem cell therapy/treatments, a lot sooner and maybe never needed the replacements at all...
Things like what @Margali 's kids have to deal with have saved their lives and will give them a chance to have a mostly normal life... Penicillin saved hundreds of lives when it first came out to fight bacterial infections... drugs have their place....
But we have to treat the problem, and then incorporate it into treating the whole body to try to prevent what caused it to go off the rails in the beginning...and fix our lives to help to prevent or control future problems. The sad thing is so many of preventative things are "not allowed" or not paid for and often not encouraged by the way the insurance system is set up.
SageHill
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So true. Add in that just getting in to see a doc is a wait, then that doc says you need a specialist - yet another wait, see the specialist and get referred over to someone else. It's frustrating when it takes many months to get seen. I've watched friends go through this.
