A great article, and so true. I received a call from the VA last week threatening to drop my local VA clinic if I didn’t have a visit. I agreed; it had been 4 years. The nurse tried to get me to do labs in advance of the appt, but I told her I didn’t need them, I am healthy. She persisted and I resisted. At the appt a couple of days ago,…
A great article, and so true. I received a call from the VA last week threatening to drop my local VA clinic if I didn’t have a visit. I agreed; it had been 4 years. The nurse tried to get me to do labs in advance of the appt, but I told her I didn’t need them, I am healthy. She persisted and I resisted. At the appt a couple of days ago, the doctor briefly greeted me and then asked to see my labs. I told him I didn’t have any and I didn’t plan to get any as I felt fine. He didn’t like that answer and told me he couldn’t do his job without labs. I asked him if I was just an engine that needed samples. He really didn’t like that. He told me he couldn’t be my doctor anymore without labs. Hahaha. He hadn’t been my doctor for 4 years anyway. He walked out and so I left happily knowing I wouldn’t be told I need statins or some other BS drug. The back story is every previous lab review we had done several years ago and up until COVID shut down VA clinics out of ridiculous fear, this doctor wanted to put me on something. I wouldn’t ever do it. My experience is at least in the VA, there are no doctors, just drug dealers. They probably make money off the scripts, although I can’t confirm that. They definitely ask no questions about anything relative to good health and fitness. This doc asked me exactly zero questions other than do you have your labs. We are in a sad state with doctors. The irony is that they do so little that they will be replaced by machines. Any well programmed machine could have reviewed my labs and told me to take this or that. Resist unless you are dying. Then maybe continue to resist.
A great article, and so true. I received a call from the VA last week threatening to drop my local VA clinic if I didn’t have a visit. I agreed; it had been 4 years. The nurse tried to get me to do labs in advance of the appt, but I told her I didn’t need them, I am healthy. She persisted and I resisted. At the appt a couple of days ago, the doctor briefly greeted me and then asked to see my labs. I told him I didn’t have any and I didn’t plan to get any as I felt fine. He didn’t like that answer and told me he couldn’t do his job without labs. I asked him if I was just an engine that needed samples. He really didn’t like that. He told me he couldn’t be my doctor anymore without labs. Hahaha. He hadn’t been my doctor for 4 years anyway. He walked out and so I left happily knowing I wouldn’t be told I need statins or some other BS drug. The back story is every previous lab review we had done several years ago and up until COVID shut down VA clinics out of ridiculous fear, this doctor wanted to put me on something. I wouldn’t ever do it. My experience is at least in the VA, there are no doctors, just drug dealers. They probably make money off the scripts, although I can’t confirm that. They definitely ask no questions about anything relative to good health and fitness. This doc asked me exactly zero questions other than do you have your labs. We are in a sad state with doctors. The irony is that they do so little that they will be replaced by machines. Any well programmed machine could have reviewed my labs and told me to take this or that. Resist unless you are dying. Then maybe continue to resist.