Posted by IOWA NORTHEAST on May 13, 2010 at 06:26:28 from (206.72.18.89):
In Reply to: doctors posted by DeltaRed on May 12, 2010 at 20:16:46:
Old is my buddy, but I differ from his opinion of the VA. In my opinion, the doctors don't get a kick back from the meds. No other doctors probably don't have that option.
The days of magic pills and snake oil is over for the most part.
If you don't believe in pills, just don't take them and complain in the next world. Or better yet, tell a sick loved one to stop using the modern medicine, and doctors. As with all folks, doctors included have different opinions.
Seems we are living longer nowdays ---yea I know your grandpa smoked and drank and lived----bla bla bla. But if it wasn't for modern medicine and doctors etc. you would not live long enough to complain.
The medical profesion is not perfect, neither am I, but overall they are making life better. Heck my great grandmpther layed in bed for either thiteen or eighteen years with a broken hip. My mother was standing the next morning after hip surgery.
In my childhood I recall kids that died from some pretty minor problems when mom and dad believed if they prayed enough it would all go away.
My grandma told of her as a child taking coal tar and honey for a cough, and sometimes kerosene.
I hope your wife gets better, but I'm a thinking her odds are better in the modern medical world than if she choose not to use the new (but not perfect) options.
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