“They Trust their doctors, something I stopped doing 25 years ago.”
Oh do I UNDERSTAND that.
For me, it was bad enough just watching other people’s experiences with doctors. I was fully convinced to avoid them like the plague.
Now people talk about their colonoscopies, and their mammograms, and everything, and I ask them what that was like, and they just look at my like I sprouted another head, or something.
And since Rush has been on our minds now, I just have to mention the man I knew some 30 years ago, who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer... and beat it, without submitting to conventionmal treatment! Amazing guy. He was “disowned” by his doctors, who nevertheless tried to set his family members against him, by telling them he was on a “suicide mission”. But he persevered, and they didn’t listen, and he did a whole lot of really radical sounding things to fight the cancer, but he ended up beating it, and looking healthier when it was over than before it began! Then he returned to the doctors, the ones who had disowned him, and all they could say was that they must have “misdiagnosed” him in the first place! Uh-huh, right...
Great story. I have had my share of crappy doctors.
“You know what they call the guy who was last in his class at med school? DOCTOR.”
I have epilepsy, so I unfortunately have to go regularly see doctors.