[the OlLine Rebel]

I’ve been postulating that a truly great invention would be a mind-meld apparatus of sorts, with which doctors could FINALLY truly understand symptoms by feeling what we feel. Maybe then there would be similar apparatus for medical schools to train doctors.

Some kind of sympathetic...really, EMpathetic...system to truly understand symptoms and what it might mean for diagnosis.

Yes, I’ve been suffering a lot of problems and pains for a long time, much of which is unresolved. So, I tend to think long those lines.

[TigersEye]

I don’t think it would improve their diagnoses ... but there are a couple of doctors I would like to share my pain with. :)

[tomkat]

Seriously, though relatively articulate, sometimes trying to come up with an accurate description to convey to the doc is quite frustrating.

Ya see doc, it's less than pain but more than soreness . . .

[gnarledmaw]

That would be great. Im hoping that right after that someone comes up with a recorder so we can let them experience those extreme periodic/episodic things.

That still wouldn't address the our technology shortcomings regarding time travelling physicians. Some don't seem to understand that most of us experience time in a progressive linear fashion and our lifetimes only cover a set period of time.

For example, I had one doctor insist that a thing that I began experiencing as a child was due to something else that happened when I was an adult.

Another told me that a different issue was psychological due to all of my tours in Vietnam during the war. I suppose that this is probably a very good diagnosis. Im having trouble understanding it though because to my knowledge Im neither old enough to have fought nor have I ever been to Vietnam but, Im not a licensed physician so I probably should shouldn't question it too much until Im up to speed on these things.

I suppose that we could enact legislation that only temporal linear entities could be MDs but then they would probably just slip to whenever they are allowed to practice so that probably wont help.

I guess Im just overthinking things. We do have the pharmaceutical industry watching out for us. I had gotten a good piece of advice from a commercial the other day, "tell your doctor if you might have been to areas where certain fungal infections are common." Now I make sure to start every conversation with anyone in the medical community with that statement. Im not sure where that place is or what fungus we are worried about but I might have been there so its within reason that I might maybe have it and I sure don't want to miss out on another prescription now that I know that its available.

(Yes, in both cases I subsequently found more competent physicians.)