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To: DogBarkTree

You go to another hospital, or the health department and get retested.


4 posted on 12/22/2009 8:29:16 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: WestwardHo

Bottom Line........

Stay away from the Medical Profession including Pharmacy and anything related to so called Health Care.

There is no Health Care.......it’s a total JOKE!

All they want is Dollars ........End of Story.


7 posted on 12/22/2009 8:38:46 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: WestwardHo
You go to another hospital, or the health department and get retested.

Seriously. ABout 8 years ago, I'd just adopted a 1 year old cat from a shelter and he promptly came down with a bad fever requiring hospitalization. First test for FIV came back positive, and the vet called me with the bad news, and explained that sometimes uninfected kittens can carry the antibody that triggers a positive test because their mothers had it, but at age one this effect wasn't possible. BUT they did a second, different type of test as a routine follow-up to a positive first test, and this one came back negative. The vet had never seen this happen beofre, and consulted with experts online before calling to tell me that this actually meant for sure that the cat didn't have FIV. Even though this vet hospital had never seen a follow-up test come back negative, they still did it as a matter of routine procedure.

Bottom line, the human medical care system in this country, built around government and government-regulated "private" third party payers, has devolved into a dysfunctional mess. Meanwhile, the veterinary medical system, built around direct payment from the parties wanting the diagnosis/treatment, is far superior and at much lower total cost.

8 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:09 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: WestwardHo
You go to another hospital, or the health department and get retested.

To put this in perspective, will national healthcare make this kind of thing better or worse?

22 posted on 12/22/2009 9:28:56 AM PST by D Rider (Pull the pin, toss it in.)
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