Post by rialvestro on Apr 13, 2010 19:00:40 GMT -5
This topic is kinda late but needed. Partly based on the fact that they're trying to make a law REQUIREING people to get medical insurance but it's a wider topic than that.
If you have medical insurance you hope that you never need it but there are some people who never would use it even if they had to. Forcing someone to get insurance is one thing but actully forcing them into a hospital or even to follow a doctor's instructions is another.
And if you really think about does health insurance even make sense? Rather than playing for medical care when you actully need it you're paying for medical care when you don't need it. Insurance pays for your medical care but you're paying for the insurance so exactly how does this help you save money?
If you really wanna save on health care, move to Canada I hear it's free up there as it should be.
Now exspanding the topic beyond insurance into actual health care issues... there are many ligitimate reasons that you should ignore your doctor.
1. Doctors are still human and no matter how long they spent in medical school they are capable of mistakes just like everyone else. Read the lables on any medication perscribed to you to make sure it doesn't interfer with medication you're allready takeing and do your own research on any proceedure your doctor wants to do before concenting to it.
My great grandmother was taking several medications that counteracted with eachother and she didn't even know it. My grandmother was staying with her for a while and sorted threw all her medication throwing out anything that counteracted with something else. My grandmother is not even a trained doctor but as it turned out this exstended my great grandmother's life exspectency by 4 years.
2. Trust your own instincts. No one knows your body better than you do. Your doctor has no way of feeling the amount of pain your in and there are other factors that a doctor can not find durring an exam unless you ask for spicific tests. Doctors do have a habbit of telling people they don't need the tests done, if this happens find another doctor.
A doctor actully thought that my aunt Laurie was a tumber. I don't know how a pregnant woman can be mistaken for having a tumber but yeah.
3. Use self motivation. If you're ever in a situation where a doctor says you'll never <insert thing you should be able to do here> again don't believe it. Just because the doctor says you can't doesn't mean you won't.
My mom was in a car accident with her first husban. He died in that accident and she was told after multiple surgerys that she would never walk, speak, or have children because her legs, vocal cords, and reproductive organs were so damaged from the accident. The doctor wanted to amputate her legs but my grandfather wouldn't let them. She walks just fine, can talk just barely abouve a wisper, and had 2 kids.
4. Things that just don't make sense. Imunizations are supose to prevent you from getting an illness by injecting with that verry same illness. WHAT? Now I saved this one for last because it'll take a little more than a couple short paragraphs to exsplain.
The logic behind this is that if you're injected with the virus then your body can start to build up an immunity to said virus which is great that part makes perfect sense. But if that's all it's doing then why are we getting it under the guise of avoiding the virus? That's not avoiding that introduceing and if that's all it is then why am I trying not to get sick?
If you're avoiding people who have the virus, washing your hands offten, eating healthy foods and all that good stuff chances are you won't get sick but all of this becomes pointless if you're going to go have the virus you're trying to avoid injected into you.
The entire thing just seems counter productive. If it's better to avoid the virus alltogeather than don't get the vaccine because the vaccine is the virus. If you're going to exspose yourself to it to build up your ammune system then don't have healthy habbits and you can get your vaccine without the pain of a needle.
The other part of that doesn't make sense is how can you tell when you're ammune? Well if you were ammune you wouldn't be able to get the virus naturally but you could still get it threw injections because it goes directly to your blood stream. This means that at some point continued vaccines would weaken your ammune system rather than strengthen. Sort of like if you put a better video card in your computer and fry your power supply.
Personally I have only had the flu vaccine once in my life. And right after reciving said flu shot I ended up missing a week of school because I had the flu, and mind you before this I hadn't had so much as a cold. Skipped the cold went straight to flu. Never got one again and had the flu one other time in high school, nearly 10 years later, but the second time it gradually grew from a cold that I wasn't really taking care of.
Getting to the finnal point. I think most people make the mistake of getting medical care they don't really need while I on the other hand may of turned down alot of medical care I actully do need.
There are apperently advantantages and dissadvantages to recieving or not recieving good medical care. So do you think there's a middle ground? Are you the type of person the just automatically believes everything your doctor tells you or are you like me and don't trust doctors at all.
What do you think the middle ground is?
If you have medical insurance you hope that you never need it but there are some people who never would use it even if they had to. Forcing someone to get insurance is one thing but actully forcing them into a hospital or even to follow a doctor's instructions is another.
And if you really think about does health insurance even make sense? Rather than playing for medical care when you actully need it you're paying for medical care when you don't need it. Insurance pays for your medical care but you're paying for the insurance so exactly how does this help you save money?
If you really wanna save on health care, move to Canada I hear it's free up there as it should be.
Now exspanding the topic beyond insurance into actual health care issues... there are many ligitimate reasons that you should ignore your doctor.
1. Doctors are still human and no matter how long they spent in medical school they are capable of mistakes just like everyone else. Read the lables on any medication perscribed to you to make sure it doesn't interfer with medication you're allready takeing and do your own research on any proceedure your doctor wants to do before concenting to it.
My great grandmother was taking several medications that counteracted with eachother and she didn't even know it. My grandmother was staying with her for a while and sorted threw all her medication throwing out anything that counteracted with something else. My grandmother is not even a trained doctor but as it turned out this exstended my great grandmother's life exspectency by 4 years.
2. Trust your own instincts. No one knows your body better than you do. Your doctor has no way of feeling the amount of pain your in and there are other factors that a doctor can not find durring an exam unless you ask for spicific tests. Doctors do have a habbit of telling people they don't need the tests done, if this happens find another doctor.
A doctor actully thought that my aunt Laurie was a tumber. I don't know how a pregnant woman can be mistaken for having a tumber but yeah.
3. Use self motivation. If you're ever in a situation where a doctor says you'll never <insert thing you should be able to do here> again don't believe it. Just because the doctor says you can't doesn't mean you won't.
My mom was in a car accident with her first husban. He died in that accident and she was told after multiple surgerys that she would never walk, speak, or have children because her legs, vocal cords, and reproductive organs were so damaged from the accident. The doctor wanted to amputate her legs but my grandfather wouldn't let them. She walks just fine, can talk just barely abouve a wisper, and had 2 kids.
4. Things that just don't make sense. Imunizations are supose to prevent you from getting an illness by injecting with that verry same illness. WHAT? Now I saved this one for last because it'll take a little more than a couple short paragraphs to exsplain.
The logic behind this is that if you're injected with the virus then your body can start to build up an immunity to said virus which is great that part makes perfect sense. But if that's all it's doing then why are we getting it under the guise of avoiding the virus? That's not avoiding that introduceing and if that's all it is then why am I trying not to get sick?
If you're avoiding people who have the virus, washing your hands offten, eating healthy foods and all that good stuff chances are you won't get sick but all of this becomes pointless if you're going to go have the virus you're trying to avoid injected into you.
The entire thing just seems counter productive. If it's better to avoid the virus alltogeather than don't get the vaccine because the vaccine is the virus. If you're going to exspose yourself to it to build up your ammune system then don't have healthy habbits and you can get your vaccine without the pain of a needle.
The other part of that doesn't make sense is how can you tell when you're ammune? Well if you were ammune you wouldn't be able to get the virus naturally but you could still get it threw injections because it goes directly to your blood stream. This means that at some point continued vaccines would weaken your ammune system rather than strengthen. Sort of like if you put a better video card in your computer and fry your power supply.
Personally I have only had the flu vaccine once in my life. And right after reciving said flu shot I ended up missing a week of school because I had the flu, and mind you before this I hadn't had so much as a cold. Skipped the cold went straight to flu. Never got one again and had the flu one other time in high school, nearly 10 years later, but the second time it gradually grew from a cold that I wasn't really taking care of.
Getting to the finnal point. I think most people make the mistake of getting medical care they don't really need while I on the other hand may of turned down alot of medical care I actully do need.
There are apperently advantantages and dissadvantages to recieving or not recieving good medical care. So do you think there's a middle ground? Are you the type of person the just automatically believes everything your doctor tells you or are you like me and don't trust doctors at all.
What do you think the middle ground is?
