Letters to the Editor
Elephantman
Published Letters: 1312 Editor's Choice: 15
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You gotta love this...
[Read the article: Is there a doctor in the mouse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there a doctor in the Mouse
A clever title, however, Doctor RKP.
Under the present regime in Washington DC in which Fascist propaganda is constantly streaming from government sources, any patient with an IQ above that of an Avocado will hasten to not trust what they will see as government lies and this group of elected and appointed officials, which have the credibility of Alberto Gonzalez, will further taint an already tarnished reputation as an honorable profession gone outlaw.
Meanwhile bright men and women will continue to encourage patients to keep in mind the attempts by this government to do everything possible to stuff lies into the faces of critics and the knowledge that doctors cling to the Hun in Washington as their savior from lawsuits, which do the job a good attorney general and the AMA should have done, but failed to do. Medical schools need to be more selective about IQ and character and doctors need to dump the insurance companies the AMA and the drug companies as silent partners (drug companies are averaging $13,000 + per doctor in "bribes' lunches, trips cash and other perks for passing out samples and prescribing.)
When doctors rebel against insurance companies calling the shots, when they are more open with their patients and they clean out the 30% or more who are quacks and dunces, several of which I and friends have encountered, maybe people will take them more seriously. What some hubristic and defensive-medicine doctors seem to forget is that there are 10 times as many Mensa members out there than when they grandfathers practiced medicine and that a large segment of their own ranks are unqualified intellectually and morally to be practicing anything more taxing than emptying bedpans.
I could quote you forever on hubristic abuses by doctors, the latest from a colleague who needed to have a hemmheroid banded and the doctor her new physician recommended refused unless she submitted to a colonoscapy. This patient, a brilliant professor, is adverse to invasive testing and rattled the doctors cage with a bevy of evidence; no history of any cancer in her family, two people she knew had serious repercussions to the action one dying, and the last reality, she did not visit him to find out if she had cancer, or polyps, she came to get, her hemherroid banded. He still argued, she walked out of his office got on her cell phone contacted a colleague who directed her to his doctor, went up one floor and down two doors and had the procedure done an hour and forty-five minutes later.
Another colleague, a brilliant young musician was beginning to suffer arthritis in his hands and went to a specialist who did some tests and then prescribed a drug, giving the patient some samples as well. The patient asked if they were a cure or a buttress, the doctor replied the latter, there are no cures. My colleague went to the library and read everything he could about the drug and then online to research more about the disease. He tried the drug for a time and had a series of unpleasant reactions which were worse than the pain of arthritis in his mind and scheduled another appointment. He told the physician about the reaction and asked about an infrared lamp therapy. The doctor looked indignant and threatened and then asked if he had been roving the Net for solutions. Now it was the patient who took offense at the tone of the question. The patient, my colleague had at least 25 IQ points on the doctor, whom I know fairly well, got up and left and began his own regime of infrared, in the face of the massive advertising on cable and TV for the drugs. Four years later, he has NOT had a serious flair-up since and his treatment regime is simple and cost free.
Many people today see the medical profession as tainted by unwarranted egotism, insurance firms and legalized corporate Drug Dealers peddling far over priced, dangerous drugs of questionable value. The next time a drug sales person enters your office through them out bodily and begin campaigning for what your propagandists call” Socialized Medicine" and maybe extremely bright and well educated patients will read this column and give it something more than, "He wants to do a Big Brother in white to us."
-- ProfessorEmeritusPeterB
So, what you are saying is that in treating your paranoia, the medical profession has let you down.
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Hey, everybody, let's get back to this business of the autism-thimerosol junk science.
[Read the article: Is there a doctor in the mouse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon, it turns out, has been a big ennabler of Robert F. Kennedy and his merry band of eco-warriors.
If you do a search on Salon of "autism" and "vaccine", you get these results (link bleow):
http://search.salon.com/results/?query=autism+vaccine&breadth=salon
Not a very good record of discerning science on the part of Salon. Sort of that philosophy that if there is an opposing view, it gets equal time, no matter how "fringe" the opposing view may be, or how unempirical or unsupportable it may be, or how nonsensical it may be. If your name is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the publication is Salon, there isn't much professional peer review to be done, apparently...