The Nature of Truth and the Sale of Sentiment (Medicine and Maleness = not a match
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: The Nature of Truth and the Sale of Sentiment (Medicine and
Maleness = not a match)
Date: Jun 17, 2010 7:19 AM
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Yes, It is not in the nature of males
especially male-MDs to fight against the
insurance companies. They argue that
they are "too busy taking care of patients"
(like this, below) and leave the fighting
to us women, volunteer activists. They
argue this because in fact, it is *easier*
to bury their dismissals of patients and
their complaints and simply experiment on
people (ILADS.org) not knowing a thing about
the nature of Relapsing Fever and Pam3Cys
immunosuppression.
Notice that in these TV commercials about
men who have had heart attacks and survive,
the men always express that ***they never
thought they would be the type of guy who had
a heart attack.*** Invincible. Arrogant.
Not imagining such trivial things as health
difficulties - something women obvious have
to commit to, being that babies usually
require the services of hospital care - would
ever be a matter of concern to them.
The nature of a man is not to be a carer
and as such, they should stay out of medicine.
Similarly, we hear that women are not as good
as men in math and physics. Similarly, we
hear that gay men have the same mental disorganization
as women when it comes to things like "driving
and giving and understanding directions."
Similarly, we got into this state of affairs
with insurance companies ruling all of medicine,
from diagnostic guidelines to treatments, ... and
we *still* don't see the AMA suing the likes of
Kaiser-Permanente over what they do to influence
medicine because men don't care about others.
They'll sue a particular insurance company over
reimbursements FOR THEMSELVES, but the bigger
picture of care?
Seeing and acting on the bigger picture of care
for all? That is clearly not what men, collectively,
or individually do.
In the smaller picture, one has to control one's
male by treating them like a child - coaxing,
encouraging, praising them in order to get them
to do what they're supposed to do.
In the bigger picture, the WHO and the EU,...
and the PhDs of BigPharma and the FDA (together in
one campaign),... have recently stepped over the
pile left by the IDSociety.org over "Lyme Disease,"
and now they will collectively focus on neurodegenerative
diseases: Pam3Cys, LYMErix, the failed Tb and
HIV vaccines, specifically, >>> TLR2 agonists,
screwed up neuroimmunology (not the same as
inflammatory diseases), and brain infections....
Not because it is the right thing to do, but
because the rest of the sci-med world will exceed
them in the mad dash to the patent offices.
One next says to themselves:
"Okay, which wrong direction will they go
in next, care not being the primary objective,
ever?"
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/16-5
Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by MichaelMoore.com
Humiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America
by Donna Smith
Oh, the things we did not fix in the healthcare bill are shocking.
Just as seniors falling into the Medicare drug benefit donut hole
begin to get the $250 checks meant to calm their fears about our new
healthcare legislation, the rest of us would do well to remember the
abuses of the for-profit healthcare system that will continue and even
accelerate in the coming years.
Health insurance is not health care. Health insurance is a financial
product marketed and sold to protect health and wealth which may do
neither thing very well. I view it as a defective product. Yet, very
soon we will be buying more of it and helping more of our fellow
Americans buy more of it with the subsidies that support the great
health insurance bailout that is being called "patient protection."
Yesterday, I went to the doctor for an appointment I waited weeks to
secure. I am insured. I have what some would say is fairly good
insurance from one of the for-profit insurance giants. I waited
patiently in the waiting room, and then was escorted to the exam room.
There was a flurry of activity around me. A thorough history was
taken. X-rays were taken. The nurse said, "Oh, honey, are you in pain?
Those X-rays show some pretty awful deformity." I said I have been
hurting for years but that I have waited until I could stand no more
to seek treatment. Most of the time I take large amounts of OTC anti-
inflammatory medication and muddle through. It's the American way.
It's the insured American's way. It's the working, insured American's
way.
The doctor buzzed in rather quickly and began discussing a treatment
plan with me. Some immediate care to relieve some of the pain, and
some longer term non-invasive care to see if we could avoid surgery. I
was hopeful and thrilled though a bit worried about how it would feel
to get shots in the joints of my feet to help the heel spurs and the
bone pain. I've had shots in my knees, and it isn't fun.
Suddenly, as quickly as I had felt the anticipation of some relief,
the flurry of activity ground to a halt. The doctor left the room.
Another office person came in. She said, "I'm sorry Ms. Smith. Your
insurance will not cover what the doctor wants to try." Matter of
fact. She's said these words before - many times. I ask how much it
would cost to pay for it myself. She answers. I cannot pay that much.
The visit is ending. The hope is shriveling. I could feel the muscles
in my face tense as the humiliation spread through my body. This body,
just moments ago worthy of plans to relieve pain and head for some
better health, now was deemed unworthy of care. Shame. All that old
shame I used to feel before our medical bankruptcy was rising in my
gut. It hurt so badly. But I was determined not to show my anger or my
sadness.
The doctor wandered by the room and saw me. He stepped in and gave me
some soft inserts for my shoes. He said they won't help much or for
long, but that maybe it would be a little relief. He must have seen
the look on my face and felt at least a little compassion. A little. I
thanked him. But I could say little else, and I could not look him in
the eye. I felt so ashamed, and I don't even really understand why
I've been so conditioned as a patient to feel it is my failure when
these things happen.
On the way home, I alternated between sadness and anger. Clearly
someone wasn't being honest with me. Either the treatments this doctor
was suggesting really aren't a good idea (as the insurance company's
denial to pay would lead one to believe) and therefore are not
approved for coverage or the insurance company just wants to push
those costs onto patients who cannot usually afford them. Either way,
I didn't get the care I needed. Either way, I left hurting. Either
way, I lose. The doctor made some money on the office visit and my co-
pay at least. The insurance company avoided paying for anything beyond
that.
My husband sat beside me in the car, sad and angry for me. As a person
covered under one of our nation's single-payer programs and a
supplemental private policy, he has never heard the words I heard --
he has never been denied care. He felt helpless for me. As I cried
tears of rage, he sat silently.
And, so, how will any of this change under the new healthcare bill? It
won't. In fact, the pressure for insurance companies to deny more care
will grow as they are compelled by law to take more people who have
pre-existing conditions like having feet. Cherry picking the
healthiest folks will require a bit more skillful contortions for the
for-profit insurance companies, and doctors will leave more patients
sitting on the edge of exam tables like naughty little children who do
not deserve to be treated.
Healthcare is a basic human right in most of the rest of the modern
world. Only in this nation do we believe that only the richest people
deserve the best of care. It's a wild twist on the old Bible lesson
about it being tougher for a rich man to get to heaven than for a
camel to get through the eye of a needle. We've made it harder for a
working person or a poor person to get healthcare in America than for
a rich man to get to heaven. We are a sick society indeed. No Golden
Rule values herein.
Only when we finally decide that we believe in a compassionate and
just healthcare system for all will we ever have the courage to change
it. Right now we just don't believe in that sort of system at all. As
a patient, I am fodder. At least this morning I was able to turn my
outrage back on the system that left me in that exam room alone and
sucking back tears of anger. No one should go to a doctor to seek care
and leave less well. That's cruel and unusual.
I was raised to have more compassion than this for my fellow human
beings, and I think most Americans were raised with similar values.
How in the world did we get to a place where we participate in doing
this to one another? Is this the system we want to leave to our
children? Do you want to leave your child lacking care when he or she
needs it? Your grandchild? Then, for heaven's sake -- for heaven's
sake -- stand up and let's get back to work to fix this mess. There is
much to be done.
Donna Smith is a community organizer for National Nurses United (the
new national arm of the California Nurses Association) and National Co-
Chair for the Progressive Democrats of America Healthcare Not Warfare
campaign.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
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The nature of a man is not to be a carer
and as such, they should stay out of medicine.
Similarly, we hear that women are not as good
as men in math and physics. Similarly, we
hear that gay men have the same mental disorganization
as women when it comes to things like "driving
and giving and understanding directions."
Right K ---some of them actually look like weirdos when one goes on
the hospital site to check them out--Of course they use photos of
20-20 yrs ago......Every doctor my poor husband had - he got the dirty
rotten end of the stick.....And the horror story what was done to him
before he died --horrible pitiful ---I was treated like dirt as they
picked up I had medical knowledge--like dirt-never told me anything -
sassy rude---the only doctor who had any compassion and humanity was a
WOMAN doctor.....and intelligent doctor-----I believe she was from
Germany----his PC doctor the last month or so never showed his face ---
most likely couldn't look him in the eye knowing what was done --He
was involved in the cover-up........I don't know why some of these
men? go to be a doctor---no compassion - crude ---sneaky- liars--
idiots - negligent ---you can see in their eyes ---weirdos.(take a
look at I believe it is Wormser- on Under our skin who says it is a
disease de jeure) .....a few minor exceptions.in ref. to any decent
compassionate male doctors..........
Mort Zuckerman
> The nature of a man is not to be a carer
> and as such, they should stay out of medicine.
> Similarly, we hear that women are not as good
> as men in math and physics. Similarly, we
> hear that gay men have the same mental disorganization
> as women when it comes to things like "driving
> and giving and understanding directions."
>
> Right K ---some of them actually look like weirdos when one goes on
> the hospital site to check them out--Of course they use photos of
> 20-20 yrs ago......Every doctor my poor husband had - he got the dirty
> rotten end of the stick.....And the horror story what was done to him
> before he died --horrible pitiful ---I was treated like dirt as they
> picked up I had medical knowledge--like dirt-never told me anything -
> sassy rude---the only doctor who had any compassion and humanity was a
> WOMAN doctor.....and intelligent doctor-----I believe she was from
> Germany----his PC doctor the last month or so never showed his face ---
> most likely couldn't look him in the eye knowing what was done --He
> was involved in the cover-up........I don't know why some of these
> men? go to be a doctor---no compassion - crude ---sneaky- liars--
> idiots - negligent ---you can see in their eyes ---weirdos.(take a
> look at I believe it is Wormser- on Under our skin who says it is a
> disease de jeure) .....a few minor exceptions.in ref. to any decent
> compassionate male doctors..........
Girl, the reason my arms and hands are numb
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
is not because every single one of the nerves
coming out of my neck are damaged and I have
"moderately severe carpal tunnel," according to
my EMG studies copied in there, but because I
am a woman, and therefore have a Twilight Zone:
http://www.actionlyme.org/dictionary_of_connecticutisms.htm
The Center for the Study of Erections:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/ec0bd940f027fcb7/8e85dc89f5c52229?q=The+Center+for+the+Study+of+Erections&rnum=1#8e85dc89f5c52229
"There really is a Center for the Study
of Erections at Yale. It's located in
the Psychiatry Department. There, the
researchers had earlier discovered that
these two organs, and *only* these two organs,
Mr. Brain and Mr. Peanut, are connected.
"In between, these Psychiatrists
concluded, was The Twilight Zone, which
accounted for the predominance of "psychiatric
disorders" in females."
- - -
If I was a man, my brain would be connected
to something - my penis. Therefore, what
I have, is a wormhole, in between my brain
and my genitals. A Twilight Zone.
Every man would agree that a woman is a
walking wormhole, so we have no argument.
You are a walking wormhole, too, as your
husband's MDs made clear to you.
The Science of Life is settled for once and
for all.
Kathleen
http://www.actionlyme.org