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Great, now being "macho" is BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH, per the metrosexual mafia.

BTW: I don't see Shrimp Stallone as being a Macho Man. As for John Wayne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I

1 posted on 08/11/2009 9:34:18 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
Guess “macho” means not being a paranoid hyperchonder.
2 posted on 08/11/2009 9:36:24 AM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Clemenza
Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care

That might be because those of us men who have traditional beliefs don't go through menopause.
3 posted on 08/11/2009 9:36:28 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Clemenza

As much as we all “love” ye olde prostate check....You do it for the ones who depend on you to be around. If you have no one around then go ahead...don’t see a doctor.


5 posted on 08/11/2009 9:38:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Clemenza

I don’t like going to doctors because they scare the crap out of me. Too many are pill pushers and have killed or nearly killed about half of my close relatives.


6 posted on 08/11/2009 9:38:54 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
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To: Clemenza
To the authors of this study:

Men don't like to go to the doctor for every little thing? No sh*t, Dick Tracy.

Take care of yourself or not, either way you will eventually die. Yes, the "quality of life" issue is always trotted out but the way I see it your "quality of life" should be fairly good until the massive coronary event ends it.

7 posted on 08/11/2009 9:39:17 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: Clemenza

I go to the doctor when I NEED to. I don’t when I have a boo-boo, or a cold, or am “feeling icky”.


8 posted on 08/11/2009 9:40:53 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: Clemenza

These guys visit Dr. Ben Dover weekly.

9 posted on 08/11/2009 9:45:32 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Clemenza
Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care

On the other hand "men" who aren't as devoted to traditional beliefs and are accustomed to having another man force his hand up their bodily orifices actually look forward to "routine medical care".

10 posted on 08/11/2009 9:48:39 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,)
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To: Clemenza

so be sure to feminize your growing sons for the good of our National Healthcare System...


11 posted on 08/11/2009 9:53:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Clemenza
I saw the Alen Spector town hall this morning. He said some of the "savings" that would pay for universal health care is coming from people getting annual checkups. Obama has said the same thing. Then I read this:

http://www.thirdage.com/medical-care/diagnosis-annual-checkups-overrated

"There is very little evidence, if any, that doing [comprehensive] exams yearly on patients without symptoms is good for anything," said Dr. Ned Calonge, chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which does not endorse yearly physicals.

But we'll ignore actual research, and do unnecessary annual tests on everyone (soon to be mandatory under penalty of law), because it makes us feel good.

Freedom means being able to make your own rational choices, not have irrational ones forced on you.
12 posted on 08/11/2009 10:03:54 AM PDT by RFH (Obamacare results in rationing of health care!)
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I'll admit that I'm pretty bad about this... I HATE going to the doctor, and typically won't go unless I'm bleeding profusely or something's fallen off...

A bit over a year ago, I felt like there was something in my eye. It was irritated and red, and nothing I did seemed to take care of it. After about 4 days, one of my co-workers told me that she couldn't stand talking to me, because by that time, my eye was completely blood red. So I went to one of those "urgent care" walking places at a local mall, to have them look at it. While checking in, the nurse took my blood pressure and walked out of the room without saying anything. She came back in with another woman, who took my blood pressure again, and she told me that my blood pressure was critically high, and they needed to get me to the emergency room immediately. I don't remember the numbers, but the first one was about 210. They told me that they needed to call an ambulance, and that I was in danger of a heart attack or a stroke at any moment. Anyway, I didn't want to leave my car at the mall, so I drove myself to the hospital, where I waited in the ER waiting room for well over an hour... Anyway, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, and put on medication, and now my bp is under control. But it had been about 3 years since I had seen a doctor. Oh, and the problem with my eye was a torn cornea, which was fixed with some eye drops after about 2 weeks.

And just a few months ago, I wasn't feeling well, I was really tired, and my foot was a bit sore and swollen. By the end of the day, my foot and leg were inflamed to just above the ankle. By the next morning, my leg was really sore, I felt REALLY tired, it was all I could do to stay awake and keep from going back to bed, but my leg was now inflamed to past my knee. So I called a "dial a nurse" and they told me to get to an ER right away. So I drove myself to the nearest hospital, and they took a look at me and got me right into the ER. My blood pressure was 70/45, and I was so drowsy I could hardly make sense. It turned out that I had a terrible case of cellulitus, and the infection was really severe. I wound up in the hospital for 6 days on IV antibiotics, and my white blood cell count still hasn't made it back to normal yet. I was told that had I not gotten myself to the hospital, I would have passed out, and would have died of the infection. So I'm going to be better about going to seek medical help before terrible things actually happen.

14 posted on 08/11/2009 10:08:39 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Clemenza

I don’t see the doctor unless I have a specific problem I need help with. If I went to the doctor today for a check up, he’d put me on 3 different prescriptions. Those 3 prescriptions would have side effects that would lead to at least 2 additional scripts.

My wallet would be drained while the chemical tinkering with my body would leave me a mess.

No Thanks.


15 posted on 08/11/2009 10:11:28 AM PDT by brownsfan (The public schools and the SRM, they are killing us.)
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To: Clemenza

Macho was always a negative word in America, we always used the word masculine to describe men’s behavior, macho was used to describe that weak, ugly, unmasculine behavior of some men in Latin countries, think quiet, self-effacing, gentlemanly cowboy hero and the cavalry soldiers being “masculine” while the Mexican bandido camp is full of “macho” males, mistreating and beating their women and acting overtly and exaggeratedly male.

The feminist movement and the media started using the ugly, foreign word “macho” in the 1970s as a derogatory, replacement for the words “masculine” or “manly” as a way to degrade the image of positive manly traits.


22 posted on 08/11/2009 11:24:33 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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