Sunday, July 30, 2006
There is no such thing as a medical miracle
Often charlatans (and lawyers) prey on the fact that medicine is inherently uncertain:Over the next few weeks, Trevor did indeed begin to gain consciousness, an improvement that Debbie took as proof of Dreamhealer's powers. "The doctors said that he wouldn't recover, so to me, that's a miracle," Debbie said. "It's a miracle that he's still alive." Yet of course medicine is not an exact science; doctors can only go by the patient's condition at the time of the evaluation, which may change at any moment. Patients may get better or worse for any number of reasons. Doctors' prognoses are often at least partially wrong, so the simple fact that that Trevor defied one doctor's expectations and came out of his coma is hardly a miracle.
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No one preys on the fact that medicine is uncertain like physicians. They want you to praise them as miracle workers when things go right, and then bear no responsibility when things go wrong. After all, they're not miracle workers!
Oh yeah, and they want to be paid a little more for things that they claim to have no control over.
Oh yeah, and they want to be paid a little more for things that they claim to have no control over.
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: 10:33 AM
: 10:33 AM
We don't want praise from you...the days of physicians actually wanting or caring about anything regarding you ingrates are long gone. We just overtest you and then do unnecessary procedures and interventions on you (catheterization, stress test, colonoscopy, endoscopy, cystoscopy, biopsy)...had any of those yet? If not, get ready...
# posted by : 3:51 PM
: 3:51 PM
THe smarter ones among us leave the profession so you can be treated by FIlipino and (hopefully more) Lebanese Docs who don't even speak english but the risk is a hell of alot better then where they come from. I guess there is something worse then you lawyer scum: Getting hit by missiles for your trouble.
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