http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/health/30pati.html?ref=science
Read the article. I loved it. I think my mom suffers from this disease of thinking she can find the answer to everything over the web, or tv. She actually tried to diagnose my little brother from a show called Medical Mysteries. There are a lot of good sources of info out there, but are people taking it to the extreme. You can actually buy prescription drugs of the internet, without a prescription. There are people making self-diagnosis' and then buying drugs to treat them. It's insane. Leave the doctor to figure it out whats wrong with you, or what drugs to give you. In my opinion, i think most drugs are a load of crap anyway; i only take ibuprofen, but thats just me. If your sick please go to the doctor. They can help.
Anyone know people that play doctor over the internet? I'm sure there are funny stories, my mom actually called the doctor about what she saw on TV and told him he needed to do that to my little brother. He then let her know that the procedure often times caused more problems than found answers and he would not do it. The TV show didn't say that part about the procedure. The doctor did. The point: We aren't doctors, except Daniel..
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I personally think doctors are crock of crap. You go to the doctor, they just hand off perscriptions like its garbage. My brother in law works in construction and was working with concrete and got some lime burns from it. Which I dont even know what that is, but the lime in the concrete is what caused it. The doctor sat and told him it was a SUNBURN. Good thing he wasn't even working IN the sun, by the way. I think alot of doctors have ties with pharmacists, just like our president has ties with oil companies. I think it's all a big joke. They have to keep giving eachother business or they are both screwed so they have some kind of sick tie to each other. I had to go to the hospital last christmas because my throat was closing off and i couldnt even swallow my own spit. So they took blood tests, strep test, abses tests, oh and what did they find after $3,000 of hospital bills? Not one single thing. I never did find out what I had because all the tests came back negative, no strep, mono or abses. How can a doctor not diagnose something like that? and I have to pay all that money out of my pocket? I swear our government and everything that deals with it, is corrupt. We are all screwed.
i think doctors are a valuable part of society, look at the show what about bob? in this show, bob (bill murray) pesters his psychiatrist dr. leo marvin (richard dreyfus) while he's on vacation, because he thinks he is dying, then fakes suicide so he can get the address to leo, and bugs him in his dream home. Marvin's family loves him, but Marvin feels like bob is taking over his family, and tries to kill him. In my humble opinion, doctors are people who feed off of people's ailments, like leeches, but our society needs them for letting us know what's killing us so we can show others what not to do. What we need are not doctors, or medical cures, but what we need is people to assess the dangers of activities, and not go to online resources, or doctors to fix them.
if you look into medical history, all major break throughs in medicine were either a random coincidence (penicillin) , or complete insanity channeled into something useful (cure for small pox). First aid itself is based off of common knowledge applied. I guess the point i'm making is one chuck norris made in his book: Zen Solutions to Everyday Problems, "people are only held back by their lack of mental discipline"
i cant tell if your agreeing or disagreeing with me, mr. rebel without a pulse.
I believe that doctors are an important part of our society. Just because you have had a bad experience with a doctor shouldn't discredit all other doctors. When I was maybe 5 my father had a blood clot in his arm, when he went to the doctor to see what was wrong he was misdiagnosed. They gave his some anti-inflammatory which was definitely the wrong choice. But remember that it is called a practice for a reason, doctors don't know everything. But for the millions of things that can and do go wrong with people, they do know quite a bit. The fact that when something is wrong with you, you still go and see the doctor suggests that you believe that they can and will help you. The whole placebo effect of just believing that what they are doing is going to work actually helps.
@ lauren
i don't disagree with you, the first part of my blog i was being sarcastic at how doctors are over paid, and under worked, and the second part i was just saying that medicine is useless unless you have the will not to be sick. so in reality, i am just saying i believe that time and laughter is the best medicine.
this came to mind when i typed the last thought of my last paragraph its an old jack handy quote: my father believed that laughter is the best medicine, which explains why several of us died of tuberculosis"
Here's my two cents' worth: doctors are like all other workers; there are good ones and bad ones. Just like I've been to a bad mechanic who had no clue what he was doing when it came to fixing my car, I've been to seemingly-clueless doctors who throw pills at me or who don't listen to a word I say. But there are great doctors, too, and they can (literally) be life savers. For example, I suffer from debilitating migraine headaches and vertigo, and it took a specialist up at the Moran Eye Center to do anything that really helped me. Every other doctor just gave me pills that didn't help. My daughter has allergy problems, and it has taken an allergist to find out what she is allergic to so that we can adjust her diet (and ours) accordingly. I love that my doctor admits when he doesn't know things, and that he will look it up with me in his books or ask another doctor. I tend to lean towards a balanced approach. I would never presume to tell anyone where to get medical treatment (or how to vote, or how to pray or not pray, or how to love, etc.), but for what it's worth, I personally go to a comprehensive medical practice that combines traditional and holistic approaches. I can see an MD there, but I can also see a chiropractor or an acupuncturist, or a holistic doctor and probably a witch doctor who performs voodoo if I want (that last one was a joke). In all seriousness, I think Western medicine has become way too pill happy, but I recognize that there are medications that help people and even keep people alive, so I would never be one of those people who thinks medication is evil. Doctors aren't evil, either. You just have to find one who listens and who is willing to explore all options.
Oh, and about diagnosing over the Internet: be careful. When I first started having migraines, the web was telling me I probably had a brain tumor. An MRI proved otherwise, but I was drinking a six pack of stress a day until I saw the films. I do think WebMD and all such sites are good resources, but as Trey says, they are no replacement for trained professionals. When I was a kid, there were really popular books on TV called "The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies," and they would tell you to rub aspirin on a bee sting and rub various food products on your body and wash your hair in chicken soup or some such thing. I'm sure these books have good ideas, but again, no one should be diagnosing themselves or others.
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