[Pc_Support] Re: Conspiracy... What conspiracy? -- adouble-standard?

[Phil Barnett]

On Monday 17 October 2005 09:40 am, Damien McKenna wrote:

> Last year I was given one drug for asthma by a doctor.  Shortly there
> after I developed a nasty ailment, had several visits to the same doctor
> and specialists to work out what the ailment was.  I finally realized
> the ailment was a reaction to the drug I was given so I stopped taking
> it.  A month or so later returned to the doctor with more asthma
> problems and was given *exactly* *the* *same* *drug*.  Needless to say I
> didn't take it and I've not been back to that doctor since.

It's your duty to inform the doctor that you are allergic to a medicine. If 
you had new information and didn't update the records, then you are part of 
the problem. If you had all those problems with a prescription that your 
doctor gave you and you didn't inform him, that's whose fault???

Doctors are not a panacea. Generally, they work from much larger knowledge 
base than we have in our heads, but with the internet at our hands, we are 
not only capable, but are clearly part of the process.

Stop fearing the doctor and treat him like a partner. Communication is the 
key.

With that in mind, I'll once again relay what an old friend of my father 
advised me when I was very young.

"Always hire an old lawyer and a young doctor."

-- 
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the 
world. it's the only thing that ever has.