Every time I go, My doc checks my numbers, tells me – stay healthy and I’m out in less than 5 minutes. Winning!
gatsby1219
October 28, 2018 6:23 pm
You didn’t see the word “practice” on my license did you ?
MrLiberty
October 28, 2018 6:36 pm
In nearly every state in America, it would actually be ILLEGAL for him to say any/all of that without likely losing his license to practice.
AnonymousKeyserSusie
October 28, 2018 6:38 pm
Long ago I had a retired Navy man as a client. He was half alcoholic at a minimum. Bad teeth and gums from years of lousy living and avoiding dentists. He always came in expecting the bad news of more corrective and restorative dental work on his failing dentition. He oft chided how he ‘just once’ would like to hear “Everything’s fine”. So on his next visit I lined up the entire staff in front of him and we exclaimed “Everything’s Fine”. He then named his sailboat ‘Just Once’ in our honor. It was sunk in Hurricane Ivan.
Vixen Vic
October 28, 2018 8:07 pm
I agree with that doctor’s advice. But that’s not taught in today’s medical schools. The American Medical Association and Rockefeller saw to that. They only teach drug pushing. They had all alternative medicine basically shut down at the time and it’s just now coming back. And the FDA says food can’t “cure” anything, though we know Vitamin C cures scurvy and Vitamin D cures rickets.
Vit B prevents Beriberi and maybe Spinal Bifida, Vit A prevents night blindness and helps immunity etc, Vit D a host of things, etc. I had a nightly battle with my stupid first wife who would tell our kids Walmart pizza or fried chicken was adequate food and they didn’t need no vegetables, or to know no algebra. Looking at her fifty years later proves my point.
meg
October 29, 2018 6:45 am
I’ve learned a lot about the doctor business this past couple of months. There is increasing regulation and control of medical care, while there is actually a decrease in care, in many ways.
The costs are inexplicable with prices for procedures and medications varying from visit to visit.
I was told by my doctor (when I asked for/received pain pill refill) that he is required to reduce the amount by 25% for any refills of painkillers. Arbitrarily. For me, is not a big deal since I’d already cut the dosage by half, but it still irritated me because I got sliced open from above the naval to almost the pelvis and it freaking hurts. Is a good thing I have retired military pals who live in Colorado.
Of course, if my doctor here tested me, he would not be able to prescribe me painkillers at all… using marijuana “voids” our pain management contract, he told me winking. (My old retired Navy doc sends all tests to a lab that does NOT screen for marijuana. A good doctor, but his kind will retire very soon, leaving us with the new, regulated doctor controlled by regulation and public policy.) But, I see the writing on the wall. Am glad I put about half of all my scripts away for safekeeping because the war on Opiates is about to begin just in time for the Poppy Harvest in Afghanistan.
I am pretty sure the .market for the heroin on the street will be good. As it is for the fake pills made in other third world countries.
Every time I go, My doc checks my numbers, tells me – stay healthy and I’m out in less than 5 minutes. Winning!
You didn’t see the word “practice” on my license did you ?
In nearly every state in America, it would actually be ILLEGAL for him to say any/all of that without likely losing his license to practice.
Long ago I had a retired Navy man as a client. He was half alcoholic at a minimum. Bad teeth and gums from years of lousy living and avoiding dentists. He always came in expecting the bad news of more corrective and restorative dental work on his failing dentition. He oft chided how he ‘just once’ would like to hear “Everything’s fine”. So on his next visit I lined up the entire staff in front of him and we exclaimed “Everything’s Fine”. He then named his sailboat ‘Just Once’ in our honor. It was sunk in Hurricane Ivan.
I agree with that doctor’s advice. But that’s not taught in today’s medical schools. The American Medical Association and Rockefeller saw to that. They only teach drug pushing. They had all alternative medicine basically shut down at the time and it’s just now coming back. And the FDA says food can’t “cure” anything, though we know Vitamin C cures scurvy and Vitamin D cures rickets.
Vit B prevents Beriberi and maybe Spinal Bifida, Vit A prevents night blindness and helps immunity etc, Vit D a host of things, etc. I had a nightly battle with my stupid first wife who would tell our kids Walmart pizza or fried chicken was adequate food and they didn’t need no vegetables, or to know no algebra. Looking at her fifty years later proves my point.
I’ve learned a lot about the doctor business this past couple of months. There is increasing regulation and control of medical care, while there is actually a decrease in care, in many ways.
The costs are inexplicable with prices for procedures and medications varying from visit to visit.
I was told by my doctor (when I asked for/received pain pill refill) that he is required to reduce the amount by 25% for any refills of painkillers. Arbitrarily. For me, is not a big deal since I’d already cut the dosage by half, but it still irritated me because I got sliced open from above the naval to almost the pelvis and it freaking hurts. Is a good thing I have retired military pals who live in Colorado.
Of course, if my doctor here tested me, he would not be able to prescribe me painkillers at all… using marijuana “voids” our pain management contract, he told me winking. (My old retired Navy doc sends all tests to a lab that does NOT screen for marijuana. A good doctor, but his kind will retire very soon, leaving us with the new, regulated doctor controlled by regulation and public policy.) But, I see the writing on the wall. Am glad I put about half of all my scripts away for safekeeping because the war on Opiates is about to begin just in time for the Poppy Harvest in Afghanistan.
I am pretty sure the .market for the heroin on the street will be good. As it is for the fake pills made in other third world countries.
Come quickly Lord.