I sometimes get the feeling that when you tell your doctor that you are more interested in finding out what the cause of your problem is rather than tamping down symptoms you get very strange answers - none of which is an agreement to get to the bottom of things. This is especially true if you have several things going on that could be…
I sometimes get the feeling that when you tell your doctor that you are more interested in finding out what the cause of your problem is rather than tamping down symptoms you get very strange answers - none of which is an agreement to get to the bottom of things. This is especially true if you have several things going on that could be related.
I go to a PA (who I like) who I believe overly relies on a tool they use to diagnose patients and prescribe medicine. At least that is what I believe he is doing. We had a talk about it when I was last in and at the end of the conversation I said "My dad said to me when I was young - don't rely on the calculator so much because eventually you won't be able to easily recognize if there is an error and you will become less mentally nimble." I hope he was listening.
I avoided calculators for this exact reason after I noticed cell phones took away my ability to remember phone #s. I also largely avoid GPS for the same reason and just memorize the route beforehand.
True story: I had an event at a VFW post. I dutifully put the address into Google Calendar. Come the day of the event, I found that the address was private home several miles away. Turns out I had put in the lodge # and the City Name for number and street, respectively. Oops. Pity the government spooks: now they're trying to figure out how some some poor random SOB is linked to me (a known right wing paranoid and anti-vaxxer) and a neighborhood bar doing business as a military veteran's organization [grin].
Your comment is a hoot! 🤣🤣🤣 I truly hope and pray God sends me a random SOB who's a right- winged, anti vaxxer & knows what "government spooks" are!! If you are single, hit me up. If married, do you have any like minded single friends over 60?
True. I've volunteered as a cashier and after the total bill was calculated, would ask the kids what their change should be, and I could always beat them to it if they could do it all. I'd estimate that maybe 10% of them would even attempt to do it and most were wrong. I think it was that they'd learned to rely on calculators. Very sad.
Initially I didn't want that job but had a great time partly because a lot of recent immigrants would come through and I was able to learn enough of several languages to shock and amuse them and myself. Sometimes they'd have me guess where they were from, and I got to be pretty good at it which surprised and delighted them to no end.
I'm not sure there is money in it. Imagine if they figured out cancer, diabetes or asthma. Lots and lots of money to be made on various chemos, hacking out tumors, rerouting things around the pancreas. Asthma meds (the last I looked) are about 500 a pop. Not including emergency inhaler.
That's part of the money issue. It's also that the process of figuring it out would not pay anywhere near as well as most of the standard procedure based medical specalties.
They don’t care about finding the cause because that would mean a cure or at least lessening of the symptoms. It would cut income from big medicine and pharma and that can’t be tolerated. /sarcasm
I sometimes get the feeling that when you tell your doctor that you are more interested in finding out what the cause of your problem is rather than tamping down symptoms you get very strange answers - none of which is an agreement to get to the bottom of things. This is especially true if you have several things going on that could be related.
I go to a PA (who I like) who I believe overly relies on a tool they use to diagnose patients and prescribe medicine. At least that is what I believe he is doing. We had a talk about it when I was last in and at the end of the conversation I said "My dad said to me when I was young - don't rely on the calculator so much because eventually you won't be able to easily recognize if there is an error and you will become less mentally nimble." I hope he was listening.
I avoided calculators for this exact reason after I noticed cell phones took away my ability to remember phone #s. I also largely avoid GPS for the same reason and just memorize the route beforehand.
True story: I had an event at a VFW post. I dutifully put the address into Google Calendar. Come the day of the event, I found that the address was private home several miles away. Turns out I had put in the lodge # and the City Name for number and street, respectively. Oops. Pity the government spooks: now they're trying to figure out how some some poor random SOB is linked to me (a known right wing paranoid and anti-vaxxer) and a neighborhood bar doing business as a military veteran's organization [grin].
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Your comment is a hoot! 🤣🤣🤣 I truly hope and pray God sends me a random SOB who's a right- winged, anti vaxxer & knows what "government spooks" are!! If you are single, hit me up. If married, do you have any like minded single friends over 60?
Thanks for the giggles!☺️😉
True. I've volunteered as a cashier and after the total bill was calculated, would ask the kids what their change should be, and I could always beat them to it if they could do it all. I'd estimate that maybe 10% of them would even attempt to do it and most were wrong. I think it was that they'd learned to rely on calculators. Very sad.
Initially I didn't want that job but had a great time partly because a lot of recent immigrants would come through and I was able to learn enough of several languages to shock and amuse them and myself. Sometimes they'd have me guess where they were from, and I got to be pretty good at it which surprised and delighted them to no end.
So true! I used to know so many phone numbers. Now I know mine and a couple of others.
Imagine how excellent medical care could be if doctors just tried to get to the root cause of the problem.
I'm not sure there is money in it. Imagine if they figured out cancer, diabetes or asthma. Lots and lots of money to be made on various chemos, hacking out tumors, rerouting things around the pancreas. Asthma meds (the last I looked) are about 500 a pop. Not including emergency inhaler.
Oh I imagine it though.
That's part of the money issue. It's also that the process of figuring it out would not pay anywhere near as well as most of the standard procedure based medical specalties.
They don’t care about finding the cause because that would mean a cure or at least lessening of the symptoms. It would cut income from big medicine and pharma and that can’t be tolerated. /sarcasm