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Is there a doctor in the mouse?
Arrogant doctors criticize their patients who go online to research ailments. But they're wrong. The best health sites are a boon to patients and doctors alike.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. [2008-01-10]

  • Again, I suggest to those who might think that the current healthcare system is so badly broken; don't use it if you feel that way.

    If you think doctors are a "leading cause of death"* don't go to them; you'll eliminate that "risk."

    If you think big pharma is ripping you off, don't buy their products.

    If you think big teaching hospitals are horrible, don't go to them.

    If you think health insurance is a dangerous ripoff, don't buy it. Save your money, negotiate your own rates, pay cash, and make all the personal decisions that you want. (This is not such a facetious idea; this is the one sure-fire way to restrain rising health care costs.)

    Otherwise, enjoy the fact that in 21st century America, we have the finest and most unimaginably advanced system of health care in the history of planet Earth.

    *Where, I wonder, would the category of "Doctors" rate on list of the "leading causes of the cure of illness" and the list of things responsible for the "transformation of diseases from incurable to curable"? Somewhere above the category of 'holistic naturapaths'?

    -- Elephantman
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    Thursday, January 10, 2008 01:32 PM
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