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La Flames Fan · 03-20-2006, 07:53 PM

Fotze: Maybe this isn't related, maybe it is, but this may put your mind at ease....

In December, I took the plunge and got cut. Yup. Took the sweater off, so to speak...If I can do go through that ( I hate Doctors too), you can almost go through anything...

Edit: Sometimes I look at the "Edit" button in the right hand corner of this post and cringe....

Incinerator · 03-20-2006, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by snappyk

I went in this morning and now I'm getting the boys snipped in April, he drew a bunch of pictures and made me feel really uncomfortable. It's alright to joke with your buddies and stuff about your junk but when some dude tells you with diagrams what he's going to do to the boys, it's just not right.

so I guess you won't be so snappy anymore in April eh?

Eddie Bronze · 03-20-2006, 08:27 PM

Fotze,

Not that this is going to help any, but I'll say it anyway.

My last experience with a doctor involved me having a Grade 3 Sprain/Strain Whiplash. It was very painful. He told me to put ice on it. AFTER I made it known that paramedics wanted to put me on a spinal table. Ice? The only reason I got better was because I went to a chiropractor. He had xrays done, I guess doctors don't believe in that anymore (?), and found out what the real problem was. I loathe doctors and their pill pushing ways. I won't go to one either and it's not because I'm scared. My previous experience I had pneumonia and they didn't diagnose it properly until I had it for six weeks. They're useless.

RubberDuck · 03-20-2006, 08:39 PM

I went to the doctor this past summer for the first time in 11 years. I was giving up the single life and wanted to make sure I was std free. Well it turned out that the first thing he noticed was a hernia. Not just one, but a matching pair. I didn't clue in because I was only suffering occasional discomfort, and nothing really looked out of the ordinary. Next thing I know I'm having abdominal surgery for something I didn't even know I had. Its been 5 months and I still dont feel like I'll ever be back normal. In hindsight, I think I'd rather be sitting here wondering if I have the clap instead of counting the days until I have the other hernia operated on.

Eddie Bronze · 03-20-2006, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

I think you must have just had bad doctors, clearly you must realize they all aren't bad. Are all black guys good at basketball? Probably not.

Were they walk in clinic guys?

The one after the accident involving the whiplash was a walk-in clinic.

The other one was a family doctor who also performed a surgery on my foot that had to be re-done, by a specialist, at a later date.

I realize there are some good ones out there, but they just come across to me as pill pushers.

peter12 · 03-20-2006, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

I've had my nuts attached to my sack in high school cause they twisted, so I'm not scared of surgery, just terminal things. But thanks for shedding your foreskin for me......

Jeez how did that feel?

adonis16 · 03-20-2006, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by NuclearFart

I totally agree, but I will reiterate that this is all about odds, and I am trying to put it into proper perspective for him. He is way, way more likely to die in a car accident driving to the doctor, than he is to die from anything the doctor diagnosis. Even if you incorporate all his relevant risk factors that "he didnt list", this still holds true. This is what I am trying to get across.

Modern day medicine is statistics. The Evidenced based medicine we hold in such regard, is at its very essence, numbers. Indications for screening, investigations, treatments, relative risks, sensitivity, specificity, validity - all based upon digits.

This seems to be what is being taught to most med students. Even in undergraduate immunology courses (which is what i'm currently suffering through) the major focus is on what is the most likely cause of symptoms.

From what I understand through talking to friends going through med schools in the states, US trained doctors are generally less cost concious and thus have the leeway to pursue more agressive treatments, whereas a Canadian trained physician has been trained to take the "odds" approach because our healthcare system is publicly funded.

Case in point, if you have no previous medical history and go to a canadian GP complaining of a common symptom, such as a stomach pain, its very likely to be dismissed quickly and followup treatment is minimal. In the states, a doctor is much more likely to give a battery of tests to try and diagnose the problem right away.

Please correct me if I am wrong, as i am still very new to the world of medicine, but these are my observations having volunteered/worked in hospitals in both ontario and florida, as well as personal experiences with my grandfather who complained of the same symptoms to his GP in toronto for close to 20 years and having been misdiagnosed for 20 years with ulcers, to when he finally retired to the states being immediately diagnosed with systemic amyloidosis but at a stage where treatment was no longer viable and passing away shortly after.

liamenator · 03-20-2006, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

I've had my nuts attached to my sack in high school cause they twisted, so I'm not scared of surgery, just terminal things.

Holy shat man! That happened to me in high school too! I thought I was the only one!!!!

Flames_Gimp · 03-20-2006, 09:52 PM

you know whats real fun? bleeding duodenal ulcer....well fun if you like tubes down the throat and up the a$$ at the same time

adonis16 · 03-20-2006, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

you know whats real fun? bleeding duodenal ulcer....well fun if you like tubes down the throat and up the a$$ at the same time

at least its not first up the rectum and then down the throat. This way you don't have to worry about whether or not they used the same tube.

MRCboicgy · 03-20-2006, 10:38 PM

I hate the doctor, I still go to my family doctor, but even when i go for a sports injury, it turns into lectures about lifestyle--he refuses to beleive i'm not a man-whore...I'm gonna need a new one here soon though, one who isn't a older country doctor.

Bill Bumface · 03-21-2006, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Fotze: Maybe this isn't related, maybe it is, but this may put your mind at ease....

In December, I took the plunge and got cut. Yup. Took the sweater off, so to speak...If I can do go through that ( I hate Doctors too), you can almost go through anything...

Edit: Sometimes I look at the "Edit" button in the right hand corner of this post and cringe....

What the.... why would you go and do that now?

P,S, Now your post is quoted so it lives on whether you edit it or not

La Flames Fan · 03-21-2006, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by hulkrogan

What the.... why would you go and do that now?

P,S, Now your post is quoted so it lives on whether you edit it or not

HAHAHA....Great....Actually, I was sort of crazy to do it, but lo and behold I'm like a virgin all over again....

NuclearFart · 03-21-2006, 06:07 PM

I didnt take any offense to this thread, and I hope I did not offend anyone either. I thought the sharing of opinions and subsequent discussions were great, and what forums should be all about.
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