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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-Doctor
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:28:02 -0800 (PST)

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

A doctor who shushes is one to avoid. If you are going to go to a doctor at
all the first thing to do is to find one who first listens to what you have
to say. That way you can balance the doctors knowledge with your own and
together decide what works best.
Van Dell




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