Margali's Griffin Wood Ranch

[fuzzi]

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.

Good read by a physician about the latest trends in medicine.

 

[farmerjan]

Good read by a physician about the latest trends in medicine.

Reference to the website/ publication that this came from, Please... Somewhere along the line I have missed this information pipeline...

 

[fuzzi]

Reference to the website/ publication that this came from, Please... Somewhere along the line I have missed this information pipeline...

Here you go:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com

Click on No Thanks I'd you don't want emails.

I have a premium membership, so let me know if there's something you can't read and I'll try to help.

 

[Margali]

2025 Lambing
Aria has started off with a single ram. He’s 10.60lbs and white with brown spots.

 

[Baymule]

He is a handsome boy!

 

[SageHill]

Eye candy too! Congrats

 

[Margali]

All 3 of the kids have racking, hacking coughs from weather change. Dominic's blood sugar is running high as a result.

I started working on taxes and got a nasty surprise. The company that Alijah worked for last year didn't withhold Federal taxes! He filled out the form but never checked his paystubs and they are only online so I didn't either. So now we have to make a BIG tax payment this year. It feels like the raise that helped with the horrible commute is now gone.

 

[Margali]

Boss Stupid has been sending out emails continuously since 10:40am. I hope he doesn't expect anything today. I do not get On Call pay so I dang sure will not be booting up laptop and doing work. If there is an emergency, I'll answer my phone.

I don't get it. He's younger than me graduating college in 2015. He has a wife, not sure about kids. Does he actually believe the tripe about "show your commitment by going the extra mile" unpaid? I'm a cynical B but have a life outside of work is more important than any bleeping job.

 

[murphysranch]

You are completely in your right to not reply on weekends.

 

[Baymule]

His employer saved their share of FICA taxes so now you get to pay it all. Plus income tax that wasn’t withheld. I hope you have a lot of write offs. IRS is a horror of rules, laws, regulations and anything else they can think of to make your life miserable.

Your boss is on an ego trip because he’s the boss. What a jerk.