Nor do I, but I pray you never “accident”ly get one. It happened to me, and all I can say is that I was not very politically correct.
This happened to a friend of ours in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Muslim MD told him he was extremely ill, would soon die, nothing could be done and that the physician would not give him any further information because he “wouldn’t understand it, anyway.”
This is a highly-educated wealthy 70-year-old. He immediately booked an appointment at Mayo with a physician who was not Muslim. The patient had spent 6 months at altitude and had elevated red blood cell count. This is natural and the count becomes normal over time as the patient lives at sea level. Otherwise, he was in great shape and the second physician had simply looked at the history and uncovered the cause of the blood count results.
There is treatment for elevated red blood count, IIRC. It is phlebotomy. Even if our friend had had his condition from a disease process or congenital condition, it could have been treated easily. It seems that it is common in the Third World to not explain anything to a patient, so as not to *upset* them. The MD remains a high priest in control of vital information by doing this.