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Keyser Soze

On 3/23/17 11:47 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:28:11 -0400, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:25:54 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:44:46 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

When I was in DC I spent a lot of time around doctors, some of the
best in town. (My ex was the senior "lay" person in a big DC hospital
administrative staff) I found the surgeons to be the most skilled.
They have a trade that requires physical ability. They actually fix
things. The rest just throw pills at you and hope the problem goes
away.

Naive to the point of absurdity.

OK what do non-surgical doctors do to cure you? You get pills,
injections, creams or something you shove up your ass.
These days that choice seems to depend on the sales pitch and freebies
they get from the drug salesman as much as anything.

My guy, an internist, has found things that he didn't treat, but he did send me to the right guy for
treatment. The abdominal aortic aneurysm was the most significant of his findings. The surgeon who
repaired it called him a miracle worker for finding it.

You got lucky. There are plenty of quacks in the medical profession.
They told my wife she needed an emergency appendectomy. This was not
the laparoscope deal, it was a cut you open and look around thing. She
ended up with a scar that looks like she lost a sword fight and it
took a year of rehab.
They did not find anything wrong. oops sorry, but good news, your
insurance covered it. (back when insurance covered stuff)
I have already told you all about the easter egg hunt they went
through my insurance coverage on for my wrists, turns out nothing
there either. (One PT session where the girl told me to do what the
doctors told me not to do)
Doctors seem to just keep doing stuff as long as your insurance will
pay.

My GP sent me to an orthopedic surgeon, a damned good one, to further
investigate my wrist problems. He was very careful with tests and
x-rays, and also sent me to a good rheumatologist for co-consult, and
who ran a series of different blood tests. They concurred on carpal
tunnel rather than a couple of immune diseases and while they were
deciding, I took some steroids. I had one wrist/palm done and then the
other, first class surgery, and I've enjoyed a great recovery. I'm sure
my health insurance was hit hard, but my out of pockets were limited to
$10 for each doctor's visit and a total of $400 for both surgeries.
That's why I pay for the good insurance. Oh...and the insurance covered
OT afterwards for both wrists.

I trust my doctors.