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Originally Posted by jsewell
ADR seeker, sometimes you make me laugh you are so negative about our doctors. I have to tell you , i have had some bad docs and some bad complications from a world renowned surgeon, but i can't generalize like you do. 
By the way , i did have months of chiropractic care before my first cervical surgery. my chiro sent me with my xray to my spine ortho.
My USA trained surgeon did just have me stand in front of him at my last appointment.  He did in January do an amazing surgery on me to fix my fractured neck and kyphosis. It feels great and he is being very cautious with me still in a brace. He does care about me and my other health issues. He consults other specialists about my health concerns. I have had 10 surgeries in the last 4 years, a lot of them spine, # 11 on my foot tomorrow. I feel better and can stand better because of them. I have had a lot of great doctors. a few of them were foreign born, but choose to live and work in this wonderful country of ours.
I have not been butchered, just helped. the bad docs i did away with and had to report some. but they are all just people and some are in it for the wrong reasons.
Please tell us your story so we can understand where you are coming from. I really want to hear it, maybe we can even help you in some way. I will be laid up with foot surgery after tomorrow and have all the time in the world for you. Please tell, i am serious.
Judy |
In a way you proved my point. You maybe the exception that proves the rule.
I understand that there are going to be some lousy doctors I mean somebody had to finish last in their medical class but there are not just a few bad ones. If auto mechanics, or plumbers were as bad as these guys they would not be in business. Doctors are the only industry that make even more money when they screw up.
They call fusion the "Gold Standard" and they are right.. it really rakes in the gold. In fact it's a gold mine or a cow that when you milk it gives gold milk. Fusion should be a last resort after an ADR has been used. The outcomes of fusion are dismal. Even the industry numbers show that.
I advocate for weight loss surgery victims. Gastric bypass is also called the Gold Standard. It is barbaric, unethical and criminal. It kills 1 in 50 but the industry tells "patients" that it kills 1 in 200. That's a lie.
There is no regulatory agency that oversee the actions and conduct of MD and hospitals and that is why the US has the worst health care in the industrialized world.
They only care about the money. I am not saying all or even most doctors are bad although as a whole they are a greedy and arrogant bunch. I am saying that the system is set up to punish the good ones and reward the bad ones.
I, (my alter ego Fat Bastard) have a blog that I will not post the link to here that is a data base and a commentary on US health care. I liken US health care to the holocaust.