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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> I can't begin to recount how many times I've been prescribed conflicting
> medications...by the same physician - sitting right there in front of me,
> consulting his dog-eared edition of the PDR...

I watch my mother's doctors do that all the time. They look up the symptoms, 
give her a medication, then 2 more to counteract the side effects. She has 
total trust in doctors and doesn't ever question anything they do. She just 
had a  radical mastectomy because they found one tiny nodule...they removed 
it in a biopsy, and it was cancerous, to they took the whole breast, even 
though nothing else showed up in a mamogram or MRI. I guess they  figured 
that at 92, she didn't need the breast anymore.  I tried to question it, but 
was roundly 'shushed' by the doctor and my mother.

I take a lot of responsibility for my health; I just don't go to  doctors. I 
know my blood pressure and blood sugar. I have a family history of diabetes, 
so I've already adopted a sensible diet and exercise program before it 
starts...my grandmother didn't show any signs of diabetes until she entered 
a nursing home at 97 years old and ate the crap food there.

I like the principles of Chinese medicine, and just this week found a (sort 
of) local practitioner...if I need help, that's where I'd go. Their holistic 
approach appeals to me so much more than Western medicine's approach.

Lynn Wigglesworth