This is brilliant - (“technological-sanitationist despotism”) !! I’m going to try and use your term sanitationist the way people use Christian, democrat and republican. Maybe the word will help them snap out of it? This new medical religion is a cult, there’s no discussion, no explanation, no nuance, just fear.
This is brilliant - (“technological-sanitationist despotism”) !! I’m going to try and use your term sanitationist the way people use Christian, democrat and republican. Maybe the word will help them snap out of it? This new medical religion is a cult, there’s no discussion, no explanation, no nuance, just fear.
I was discussing a new Rx with my Mum (former nurse) that Dr wants her to take, which is truly unnecessary in her mind and even her friend and nurse navigator is vehemently against, but I can tell she thinks she has no choice.
Mum to Dr “why do I have to take this, my numbers are excellent for my age and trending in the right direction, can we wait and see how labs are in 3mo? “
Dr:“ No, because you’re special and we don’t want to lose you”.
She has the right to reject her doctor's advice. Perhaps her generation thinks that docs are always right after all they went to many years of school and are smarter than me. That was typical, but now we know better. Just take a look at the side effects of any pharmaceutical. Help her stand strong and say NO!
Thanks, I’m trying. She was a nurse for 50y and hates the side effects of statins and this is for a statin, her Cholesterol is only 226 and coming down with diet and exercise. She’s a breast cancer survivor and takes zero Rx because she’s healthy. But her Dr’s fears have her confused and scared. It seems like Rx is required these days, even if it’s not in your best interest at the time.
My wife worked for a lipid group in the Texas Med Center and those docs became very cautious about statins only rx-ing them when numbers really demanded it.
Most doctors are very expensive drug dealers. Statins will have terrible side effects. My cholesterol was a bit high one time and the doc immediately wrote me a prescription for statins and said I'd be on them for the rest of my life. I did not take them. I started using non-fat milk instead of cream in my coffee. I went back to see him in 3 months and my cholesterol was normal levels. He never even suggested that I try anything new in my diet. He did say to not eat eggs, which is also total bull! Eggs are good for you. Anyway. If her numbers are coming down with diet and exercise. I'd stick to that and say no to the drugs. Just my opinion of course and I'm not a doctor, but we all have to make these decisions for ourselves.
This is brilliant - (“technological-sanitationist despotism”) !! I’m going to try and use your term sanitationist the way people use Christian, democrat and republican. Maybe the word will help them snap out of it? This new medical religion is a cult, there’s no discussion, no explanation, no nuance, just fear.
I was discussing a new Rx with my Mum (former nurse) that Dr wants her to take, which is truly unnecessary in her mind and even her friend and nurse navigator is vehemently against, but I can tell she thinks she has no choice.
Mum to Dr “why do I have to take this, my numbers are excellent for my age and trending in the right direction, can we wait and see how labs are in 3mo? “
Dr:“ No, because you’re special and we don’t want to lose you”.
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She has the right to reject her doctor's advice. Perhaps her generation thinks that docs are always right after all they went to many years of school and are smarter than me. That was typical, but now we know better. Just take a look at the side effects of any pharmaceutical. Help her stand strong and say NO!
Thanks, I’m trying. She was a nurse for 50y and hates the side effects of statins and this is for a statin, her Cholesterol is only 226 and coming down with diet and exercise. She’s a breast cancer survivor and takes zero Rx because she’s healthy. But her Dr’s fears have her confused and scared. It seems like Rx is required these days, even if it’s not in your best interest at the time.
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My wife worked for a lipid group in the Texas Med Center and those docs became very cautious about statins only rx-ing them when numbers really demanded it.
Most doctors are very expensive drug dealers. Statins will have terrible side effects. My cholesterol was a bit high one time and the doc immediately wrote me a prescription for statins and said I'd be on them for the rest of my life. I did not take them. I started using non-fat milk instead of cream in my coffee. I went back to see him in 3 months and my cholesterol was normal levels. He never even suggested that I try anything new in my diet. He did say to not eat eggs, which is also total bull! Eggs are good for you. Anyway. If her numbers are coming down with diet and exercise. I'd stick to that and say no to the drugs. Just my opinion of course and I'm not a doctor, but we all have to make these decisions for ourselves.