From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-Doctor
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:54:39 -0500
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.