glad you are facing up to health needs @TAB
Sorry mate @PeppyPatti I can’t agree with, choosing to stick with the doctor as equal to health. It just hasn’t added up that way for me, all my life.
doctors are too variable and the science and personalised health is too complicated. I couldn’t afford much complementary health care but tried to learn from their insights. Still I put doctors on a pedestal like most folks, cos we are vulnerable and need them.
I made good health choices most of my life, Eg buying whole food and legumes from food co-op at uni, exercising, yada yada.
when I was 11, a dipstick arrogant doc jeered at my father for being a malingerer, in front of us little kids, and didn’t even know or care that he died that night, from pneumonia. My brother started research into it, but I followed it up, with coroner’s report etc.
since then, I have sat in Melbourne uni medical library, researching my Grief thesis. Too many deaths in my family that may have been avoided. Long story.
about 4 years ago, my recent Gp betrayed my trust by gaslighting, and having big performances in the office in the clinic. I diagnose NPD. She boasted online in her vanity publishing that she was so focussed on her writing she wasn’t listening to her patients. I had hoped to have a discussion with her about cortisol and chronic stress. Best I stick with judicious use of the internet.
So now, I definitely do not see her, I am minimising contact with the profession. Not quite no contact.
nup, mate, doctors get far too much social kudos and dosh, and need to be held accountable. I am currently dealing with a dreadful attention seeking badly behaved psychiatrist in a music environment.
of course, there are many good ones. I am grateful for them, but they are being paid to do their job. Sorry, I cannot totally collude with a system that is very variable but very powerful.
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