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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> but I suppose my having attended a public school for 8 years
> has destroyed my mind, and I'm probably not capable of seeing the deep
> meaning here. 

Maybe.  But would say this:  people going along with some really invasive 
treatment just because the doctor said so (putting their brain in park, as 
you 
say) is a function of indoctrination which they picked up in their government 
school sojourn.

The person I mentioned who died from the radiation treatment for his lung 
cancer, when I asked him which type of cancer he had, he said he didn't know. 
 
Not out of an incapacity to understand it, he was a pharmacist, but out of an 
attitude that all that was strictly up to the doctor.

When Denise was pregnant with our first, a coworker of hers was also pregnant 
and was very fearful of delivery, especially of enduring preclampsia.  Denise 
showed her the documentation that preclampsia is a function of protein 
deficiency and 100 grams of protein a day almost always prevents it .... and 
you 
could insure yourself of that much by eating two eggs and drinking one quart 
of 
milk a day (the Brewer diet). At least mention it to your OB!

She brushed it aside and said there was no reason to consider it nor mention 
it to the OB, if there were anything to it, the OB would have volunteered it 
on his own.

She had a very bad bout with preclampsia.  Denise did not.

Government school conditioning works to dissociate our involvement in such 
decisions and place blind total trust in 'experts'.  Don't get me wrong, when 
there' s an important decision to be made, I consult the experts, but only 
from 
a standpoint of informed inquiry.