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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

You're the exception, not the rule, Marie.  And, perhaps the women you know 
are also.  However, I have found that talk around the lunchroom table is not 
necessarily what happens when folks are actually interacting with their 
doctors.

I've sat in on literally hundreds of team meetings with patients and their 
families and the over whelming majority of the people capitulate to the 
"experts."  They never even ask the "sensible" basic questions but only some 
rather off-the-wall questions or comments.

I mean, how in the world would the patient's doctor know why your 
great-aunt's uncle died 3 days after being told he had cancer?  And, what 
the heck did that have to do with the stroke your mother had?  I actually 
heard that question in that circumstance!

Also, ability to pay and having insurance is not an indicator of non-sheople 
status when it comes to medicine and one's health.  I worked radiology at a 
county hospital that got all the indiginent folks and the jail folks.  I 
worked rehab where they had the full spectrum and I worked the telemetry 
unit at a major hospital.  At least 90% but probably more, NEVER question 
anything a doctor says except to ask cost and NEVER ask the pertinent 
question such as you did with the myleogram.

#1 should be "why."
#2 should be "and if I don't"
#3 should be "what other options are there"
and then one should get another opinion along with, now that computers are 
everywhere, doing one's homework.

There is no excuse for sheople and the only explanation is conditioning. 
Sure those first 5 years are important but most of the folks in those first 
five years have been raised by sheople.  They are already conditioned to be 
further conditioned.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> I've never found it so. In fact, I recently refused a mylogram when my
> leg went numb and I started falling down, leading some to believe that
> I either had MS or a serious drinking problem. I asked the doctor what
> she would if I had a disk problem (what else would it be?). She said
> she'd send me to a physical therapist -- a course I'd already strongly
> suggested. So, she muttered some and sent me to the therapist. I don't
> think I got any points for saving the insurance company a couple of
> thousand dollars.