Posted on 04/07/2021 4:15:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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The writer ignores the impact of “community healthcare” whereby the doctor acts in the interest of the community and not necessarily in the sole interest of the patient. This can be done to hold down healthcare spending, ration supply, or prevent antibiotic resistant germs. The doctor can decide that your need for treatment while real, if not dire, is detrimental to the community the they may refuse to treat you.
For instance, a hospital cannot afford to have a clientele 100% covered by Medicare. They would go broke. So instead they need to limit Medicare procedures to a manageable ratio of the total.
It’s not terrible medicine you won’t die from the foregone MRI but perhaps there was a small chance that a problem was missed. Sure you will come back later in a few weeks when your not healed and then the MRI will reveal the problem but if you can afford the MRI or have insurance, why be bothered with a return trip?
Sounds as though you may have had a bout of dontknowwhentoquit disease. I used to do sets of curls with seventy pounds in each hand and did a few with seventy five but I quickly went back to seventy. Looking back I would say that sixty was plenty of weight for me. I almost never knew when an injury occurred until later, I would go to bed feeling great and wake up the next morning in pain.
Over 20 years of “if I can do it 5 reps or more then add 5 pounds cause it’s to light”. Finally decided to lose weight and dropped from 285 down to 240 and did it to fast and the injuries started. Not all from the gym. I tore my right tricep tendon GLUING A PIECE OF PVC PIPE, yes pushing 2 pipes together. Sounded like a gun shot. The surgeon told me then the heavy weights over years made my tendons stringy instead of strong ribbon like structure. Tore my shoulder and it was about 75 or 80% on the cuff and separated and tore the AC pretty good. Tore some of the bicep tendon. He fixed it and 11 months later I had cut a small tree down and had cut it up and was throwing the last branch on the pile and RIP. Tore it all again and slightly worse than the first time. This is the last time he can repair it unless I tare it the rest of the way and then I am stuck like this. I am exercising with it but nothing heavy. When the restrictions come down from covid I will get it fixed.
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