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fishonjazz said:
No, I said cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, etc. Like all of the above. (Basically flu symptoms )

In other words, lots of **** to where you feel like you are gonna die and can't even go to work.
Then they say it's just a virus so you need to drink fluids and get rest. Thanks for the obvious advice. Here's my money.
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I already know that's what they'd say, so I wouldn't bother. I only go to the doctor when I want to buy some drugs. I've never had any serious health issues, but I'm sure I'd go to the doctor if I did. But I don't go when I have a cold or a stomach ache.
 
Siro said:
I already know that's what they'd say, so I wouldn't bother. I only go to the doctor when I want to buy some drugs. I've never had any serious health issues, but I'm sure I'd go to the doctor if I did. But I don't go when I have a cold or a stomach ache.
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I listed lots of stuff. None of which was cold or stomach ache.
I wouldn't go for that either.
 
Siro said:
I already know that's what they'd say, so I wouldn't bother. I only go to the doctor when I want to buy some drugs. I've never had any serious health issues, but I'm sure I'd go to the doctor if I did. But I don't go when I have a cold or a stomach ache.
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Also this is kind of my point/pet peeve.
We can send people to other planets. We can make phones that run our lives. Cars that drive themselves.
Hell if you want to look like a cat or snake or something you can go to a plastic surgeon and they can do surgery on you to make you look like a cat or a snake or something.
I have heard you talk about how we may soon be able to create a liveable "planet" (can't remember the proper word) in space to colonize.

Sooooooo much science and technology has been discovered and learned in so many fields. Including the medical field.

Yet if you have a runny nose or stomach ache (or your child does) and you no longer want to have a runny nose or stomach ache then there isn't any way to eliminate it (though you can hide the symptoms temporarily with medicine of course) even though those ailments are extremely common and have been around forever.

Break your forearm? Have to just immobilize it and wait for it to heal. Just like we did 100 years ago.

Or, like myself currently, your neck is jacked up (pulled muscle maybe)?
Just wait for your body to recover.

Just weird to me that we are helpless when it come to these ailments that have been around since the beginning of time despite all the technology we currently have in the world.
 
Maybe the body is just really freaking complicated and there's a myriad of reasons for why it gets sick, and it's very difficult to pinpoint just one of them.

And just call up a physical therapist and say you'd like to be seen. Call up the for dr right away. If you have the flu, why go to the dr? You know it'll pass.

Here's the thing, you have to take care of your body if you want it to work and be fixed easily. Eat healthy, workout, that goes a long ways.
 
fishonjazz said:
Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last century yet when I visit a doctor my condition only gets better due to my visit like 1 in every 10 or 15 times. Yet I have to pay them every time I see them even if they dont actually fix anything (in addition to hundreds of dollars per month for insurance)

Rotator cuff issues/pain? Cortisone shots to hide/mask the pain. Nothing actually fixed. I know the pain will return and I will be no better off. In fact, might even be worse off due to the cortisone injections.

Plantar faciitis? Have to see (and pay) my family Dr so he can refer me to a foot doctor so he can tell me to stretch my calves and roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. (**** I could have just googled) have to pay him too. Foot still ****ed up.

Throwing up all day? It's a stomach flu or food poisining. Just gonna have to wait it out and let it pass. Have to pay him to tell me that. Nothing fixed.

Have a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose or whatever. It's a virus, just have to rest and wait it out. Have to pay him. Nothing fixed.

Back goes out on me. Go to my family doctor. Pay him. He refers me to someone more specialized. Pay him. He simply refers me to physical therapy. Pay them to tell me stretches/exercises to help it. Coulda googled that ****.

Right now my neck is messed up. Bad. Can't turn my head either way or look down. (I can only look up) extreme pain. Yesterday I took a couple of ibuprofen 800, used a heating pad all day, took a muscle relaxer, and drank some whiskey. Today its worse. I have only taken alieve today.
My wife wants to take me to the Dr but what's the point? I will pay my family Dr so he can refer me to someone else so he can refer me to a physical therapist and in the end I will just have to wait for it to get better on its own with some stretching and heat and stuff.

I don't think I should have to pay for Dr visits if my ailment doesn't get fixed by them or at least significantly improved.
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I don't go to the doctor ever. I recently fractured or broke at least two metacarpals and one cuneiform bones in my foot and smashed up my big toe pretty bad. It's been 3 months and the blood still hasn't grown half way out of my toe nail. My entire foot and toes were dark purple and swollen about 50% the size of my other foot. The cuneiform bone of my big toe stood up 1/4 - 1/2 an inch. Everyone kept telling me to go to the doctor but why? I could still walk and he couldn't do anything about it anyway.


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franklin said:
I don't go to the doctor ever. I recently fractured or broke at least two metacarpals and one cuneiform bones in my foot and smashed up my big toe pretty bad. It's been 3 months and the blood still hasn't grown half way out of my toe nail. My entire foot and toes were dark purple and swollen about 50% the size of my other foot. The cuneiform bone of my big toe stood up 1/4 - 1/2 an inch. Everyone kept telling me to go to the doctor but why? I could still walk and he couldn't do anything about it anyway.


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[MENTION=1]Jason[/MENTION] I tried to upload a picture from my computer but I'm getting an error saying I'm exceeding the allowable limit by x amount of MB even though the file is nowhere near that large (KB).
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My wife actually has 2 broken toes right now lol. Sucks. Just have to deal with the pain.

If she wants to surgically have her tongue forked and teeth and brow and eyes altered to look like a snake then she could that though. At least there is that.
 
JustTheTip said:
Maybe the body is just really freaking complicated and there's a myriad of reasons for why it gets sick, and it's very difficult to pinpoint just one of them.

And just call up a physical therapist and say you'd like to be seen. Call up the for dr right away. If you have the flu, why go to the dr? You know it'll pass.

Here's the thing, you have to take care of your body if you want it to work and be fixed easily. Eat healthy, workout, that goes a long ways.
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How do you know if you have the flu?
How do you know your stomach ache isn't more serious? (My father in law died from cancer. Started as a stomach ache that he didn't go to the dr for until it was too late. Cause you know, stomach aches are not Dr visit worthy )

Sometimes so many of us won't go to the Dr cause we don't want to waste our money for something that is probably nothing.
That nothing could be something though.

Plus like with my daughter I don't know how serious something is and definitely don't want to risk her life so a few weeks back she had a high fever. I take her to the dr and they check on everything. Charge us for the visit, send us home and tell us to wait it out. Nothing they can do.

You might be right about the body being complex and hard to understand. I guess that weighs into my point /pet peeve.
We have so much technology yet 90% of the time I go to the Dr there is nothing that can be done. Maybe I'm the only one who sees that as a negative. I'm ok with that.
 
I agree with you. It is so frustrating that there are few answers to anything medical. Spending tons of money for nothing is frustrating, but ignoring something until it is life-threatening is poor judgment. It's hard to win.
 
Boris said:
you sound like a character from 50 shades of grey. I refuse to bow an scrapelike you so willingly do. Have fun pleasing your sadomachistic dominatrix. Yes dear sorry dear.
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I will absolutely have fun with that, to the tune of about 200 times per year. Enjoy your time with "baa-baa" and "ol' righty".
 
fishonjazz said:
Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last century yet when I visit a doctor my condition only gets better due to my visit like 1 in every 10 or 15 times. Yet I have to pay them every time I see them even if they dont actually fix anything (in addition to hundreds of dollars per month for insurance)

Rotator cuff issues/pain? Cortisone shots to hide/mask the pain. Nothing actually fixed. I know the pain will return and I will be no better off. In fact, might even be worse off due to the cortisone injections.

Plantar faciitis? Have to see (and pay) my family Dr so he can refer me to a foot doctor so he can tell me to stretch my calves and roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. (**** I could have just googled) have to pay him too. Foot still ****ed up.

Throwing up all day? It's a stomach flu or food poisining. Just gonna have to wait it out and let it pass. Have to pay him to tell me that. Nothing fixed.

Have a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose or whatever. It's a virus, just have to rest and wait it out. Have to pay him. Nothing fixed.

Back goes out on me. Go to my family doctor. Pay him. He refers me to someone more specialized. Pay him. He simply refers me to physical therapy. Pay them to tell me stretches/exercises to help it. Coulda googled that ****.

Right now my neck is messed up. Bad. Can't turn my head either way or look down. (I can only look up) extreme pain. Yesterday I took a couple of ibuprofen 800, used a heating pad all day, took a muscle relaxer, and drank some whiskey. Today its worse. I have only taken alieve today.
My wife wants to take me to the Dr but what's the point? I will pay my family Dr so he can refer me to someone else so he can refer me to a physical therapist and in the end I will just have to wait for it to get better on its own with some stretching and heat and stuff.

I don't think I should have to pay for Dr visits if my ailment doesn't get fixed by them or at least significantly improved.
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And this is why I never go to the doctor. I HATE going to the doctor only to be told there's nothing to be done. Makes me feel like a *****. I literally have to be on the verge of being hospitalized. Last time I went to the doctor was when I had cellulitis. They told me if I had waited another couple of hours, they would have sent me to the hospital.
 
Siro said:
I already know that's what they'd say, so I wouldn't bother. I only go to the doctor when I want to buy some drugs. I've never had any serious health issues, but I'm sure I'd go to the doctor if I did. But I don't go when I have a cold or a stomach ache.
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I had a pain in my arm that was off and on for a couple of years, it would flare up but usually after like a strenuous event, or a ball game or something. I brushed it off since I was busy with school. Turns out it was a tumor. Almost killed me. I get the point being made about medicine, but it is exactly for the knowledge they have that can save us from the weird **** that we pay them for the mundane **** too. And it is for fear of the weird **** that we go in for the mundane as well.
 
franklin said:
[MENTION=1]Jason[/MENTION] I tried to upload a picture from my computer but I'm getting an error saying I'm exceeding the allowable limit by x amount of MB even though the file is nowhere near that large (KB).
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Will you email me the pic? admin at this website...
 
I work in a hospital and i hate doctors.

Back to pet peeves, why does it feel like i spend a good third of my waking life waiting around for the woman, to get ready, make a choice, show up on time! Its endless.
 
fishonjazz said:
Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last century yet when I visit a doctor my condition only gets better due to my visit like 1 in every 10 or 15 times. Yet I have to pay them every time I see them even if they dont actually fix anything (in addition to hundreds of dollars per month for insurance)

Rotator cuff issues/pain? Cortisone shots to hide/mask the pain. Nothing actually fixed. I know the pain will return and I will be no better off. In fact, might even be worse off due to the cortisone injections.

Plantar faciitis? Have to see (and pay) my family Dr so he can refer me to a foot doctor so he can tell me to stretch my calves and roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. (**** I could have just googled) have to pay him too. Foot still ****ed up.

Throwing up all day? It's a stomach flu or food poisining. Just gonna have to wait it out and let it pass. Have to pay him to tell me that. Nothing fixed.

Have a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose or whatever. It's a virus, just have to rest and wait it out. Have to pay him. Nothing fixed.

Back goes out on me. Go to my family doctor. Pay him. He refers me to someone more specialized. Pay him. He simply refers me to physical therapy. Pay them to tell me stretches/exercises to help it. Coulda googled that ****.

Right now my neck is messed up. Bad. Can't turn my head either way or look down. (I can only look up) extreme pain. Yesterday I took a couple of ibuprofen 800, used a heating pad all day, took a muscle relaxer, and drank some whiskey. Today its worse. I have only taken alieve today.
My wife wants to take me to the Dr but what's the point? I will pay my family Dr so he can refer me to someone else so he can refer me to a physical therapist and in the end I will just have to wait for it to get better on its own with some stretching and heat and stuff.

I don't think I should have to pay for Dr visits if my ailment doesn't get fixed by them or at least significantly improved.
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I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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White Chocolate said:
I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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I missed work yesterday due to the pain in my neck. My wife convinced me to go to the dr even though I knew it was pointless but she was worried about meningitis or something cause I was also getting headaches and had pins and needles and numbness in my neck and shoulders.

They said there is nothing to be done other than heat and ice (stuff I already have been doing) and that it should get better after about a week. Charged me 25 dollars for nothing really. (On top of the hundreds I pay each month for insurance) Oh and I had to wait a half hour past my scheduled appointment to be seen.
 
fishonjazz said:
I missed work yesterday due to the pain in my neck. My wife convinced me to go to the dr even though I knew it was pointless but she was worried about meningitis or something cause I was also getting headaches and had pins and needles and numbness in my neck and shoulders.

They said there is nothing to be done other than heat and ice (stuff I already have been doing) and that it should get better after about a week. Charged me 25 dollars for nothing really. (On top of the hundreds I pay each month for insurance) Oh and I had to wait a half hour past my scheduled appointment to be seen.
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That's another thing! They tell you to come 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork yet you'll still be waiting 30 minutes past your scheduled appointment time to get seen.


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White Chocolate said:
I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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$225 for painless walking? Sounds like a bargain to me.

Labor is expensive. A car mechanic is going to be at least $90/hr. So it would make sense that a body mechanic would charge a bit more than that, don't you think?
 
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