The Men and Doctors Mystery

Now now now. Nothing in life is free.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/2046208c87718c39?pli=1

Luckily, men don’t like to waste health care money unless there are “symptoms”. Tons of screening and batteries of tests without showing symptoms wastes a great deal of money.

Because we’re MEN, dammit!

We covet the remote, we refuse to ask for directions, and we don’t go to the doctor unless SEVERAL vital parts are hanging off us.

Oddly enough, women have a higher pain tolerance. But we have bigger bladders – so THERE.

That’s easy. Pride. We don’t think we need it. We let our health go (we, meaning me) and then when we are 45 (like me) we end up having heart bypass surgery. (like I did). Hey guys…..Go get a check up!!!

Simple.

Because some of us are in good health and don’t think we need it.

Personally, I don’t trust doctors. My sister was a head nurse in two different hospitals and she bluntly said that she doesn’t trust doctors because she’s seen them make too many mistakes. It is not uncommon for doctors to make misdiagnoses. During the last ten years of my father’s life his doctors kept bouncing around diagnosing one ailment after another and none of them were correct except the pneumonia from which he died. With something as simple as blood pressure being incorrectly measured how can you trust the more debilitating illnesses to be correctly diagnosed?

I think the better question is, Why have so many people simply accept that modern medical practices are the correct way to live?

I agree with previous posters, doctors are untrustworthy, a lot of them are arrogant or are only concerned with giveing a solution not giving actual care. Lets face it, the way modern medacine checks and diagnosis anything is utterly disasterous. I have litterally been to a doctor before, faking illness and he was ready to write a perscription to me before I actually told him I had nothing at all wrong with me. He actually argued the fact that I really had the symptoms I was faking. My wife went to three differant doctors in a two month span for the same problem includeing one specialist and every one of them gave a differant answer for what the problem was.

My question is, how much longer will people accept that doctors, pills, and theapies are the only things that stand between you and instant horrific death; simply because we have been trained that is the case?

Not only that but honestly why should we feed a buisness, and don’t kid yourself that the medical profession is anything but a buisness in its current form, when there is nothing wrong with you? Yes in a small number of cases regular check ups can catch a debilitating disease early enough to save a life. However, how many cases are not caught, even when they should have been. My own mother went to every chec up, every yearly exam, always went to the clinic when she felt ill. She nearly died of breast cancer when the specialist failed to see spots on her mamogram that her primary care phyisican did notice when he reviewed the record a year and half later, after she went in for chest pains. is there really an arguement strong enough for going in constantly aside from its free? It is also free for me to peel bark off a tree and eat it, should I do so on the off chance there is something in the bark that will make me more healthy?