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Kabin

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Doctors are, in today's economy, overworked and squeezed for time. There is a serious medical crisis looming on the horizon as students who are interested in medicine realize the scope of the over regulation and paperwork required to practice today...nevermind the insurance companies frequently fighting to deny adequate and proper treatment. This is especially true if you happen to have a medical condition for which the treatment is expensive and long term. Lack of insurance means people must do without care and some inevitably die because they could not afford the insurance much less out of pocket medical care. Fewer and fewer medical students are opting to follow the family practice pathway because the financial rewards are dwindeling every year while malpractice insurance increases and the regulations, paperwork and frustration of trying to practice quality medicine in a hostile environment increase. It seems possible that day most of us will be relegated to self diagnosis via internet and a hunt for medications via internet simply because the supply of doctors is so short. For some, like myself, this would equal a death sentence as I have a rare chronic illness for which there is only one very expensive treatment option. I am blessed to have 2 excellent docs and insurance. Many are not so fortunate.

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What everyone has said is right on. Kenneth, seriously consider this advice in addition to what was already said: Get rid of the commercial dish detergents. They're petroleum based. Find a natural foods store, like a co-op and get some fragrance-free natural dish liquid. Check out the natural and green cleaning recipes on this website, too. They're great and will save your health and your skin. I speak from experience. I've had the worst eczema anyone has ever seen on my hands. I'm allergic to latex gloves, too. I've had eczema that started out as the biggest blisters possible on the heals of my hands in the past. Since I made all these changes and did the switch over with the dish detergent, my hands don't get the extreme eczema. Get natural shampoos and conditioners and try using olive oil on your hair, scalp and skin. It'll really help a lot with all the dry skin that goes with the territory, too.

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Right on Marie!

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Also to Carl, your wife could benefit from trying acupressure with a therapist who understands abuse and trauma issues. I am a Jin Shin Do Acupressurist and many of us specialize in this compassionate care--you can find a practitioner in your area by looking at www.jinshindo.org or look on www.aobta.org for Asian Bodywork Therapists. This could help with her fibromyalgia. I would like to add--How fortunate that your wife has such a wonderful husband--good for you for loving who she is!

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Kenneth, speaking of looking things up on the web--try checking into dietary allergies and eczema. The medical doctors are highly unlikely to mention this common connection. Dairy and gluten protein are the most common culprits and it would cost you nothing to eliminate them from your diet to see if it makes a difference--if it does not then you can simply go back to eating them! Be careful to look for all sources of gluten and casein as they can be hiding if prepared foods(also people with dairy allergies often cannot eat beef but can eat bison). If diet does not help have you looked for any clinics in your area for low income people? There is one in my city that has volunteers to see people who do not have insurance.Good luck!

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I feel researching your symptoms on the web helps save lives. Who knows our body better than we do? better safe, than sorry, right?
Doctors should really listen more closely to their patients health complaints and concerns.

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Although I agree that some of us (myself included) occasionally overdiagnose from the internet, I also know it's necesary to be informed about your health. Ask any woman and she'll tell you how doctors generally act as if we're making things up, or that "it's all in our head". Unlike men, we know our bodies, and we know when we don't feel right. And, the days of the doctor being perceived as the expert are gone.

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My wife has self-diagnosed both of us and has been 100% on the money accurate each time. She has a long history of bad experiences with medical care professionals. When she was a little girl, she was slightly chubby and her doctor acted as though she weighed 400 lbs. He paraded her naked in front of boy patients while he and my wife's mother openly talked about her body infront of everyone. This horror led her to dread going to the doctor for anything. She could not have a cold and they'd bring up her size. When she showed me a photo of herself from back then I almost died. She looks absolutely average size!!!!!!!! Her mother put her on all kinds of diets that screwed up her metabolism. She tried to commit suicide twice as a teen. Finally, she ended up discovering size acceptance and has been a Health at Every Size activist for the last 23 years. She's a proud woman of size. But her trust in doctors was not redeemed. She has been misdiagnosed by doctors who wouldn't even look at her case, but assumed because she is plus size all she needed to do was lose weight and all her problems would magically go away. Turns out she has severe fibromyalgia. Meanwhile, she has NO high blood pressure, no high LDL, no low HDL, no high blood sugar, no high triglycerides, etc. We eat 100% natural, and use chemical free shampoo, soap, etc. If it were up to these doctors, she would be on pain and sleep medications and she'd know nothing about chemicals, parabens, etc. Thank goodness for the web

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Doctors have become, plainly, drug pushers...and it's pretty obvious they are purposefully slanted away from more natural and harmless approaches to rebuilding and retaining optimal health!
The best examples of how incomplete > warped > dangerous their opinions and treatments can be is the following:
1) They readily prescribed/administer ANTIBIOTICS and never mention the need for PROBIOTICS TO RE-BALANCE OUR MAIN IMMUNE SYSTEM, THE GUT!
U N A C C E P T A B L E !
2) Doctors also need to see pharmaceuticals, at best, as short-term therapies for people in a corner! Otherwise, they usually lead to another drug prescription...and do not address the root causes of illness and disease!
2) They then need to educate their patients on the horrors of our food supply... as well as alternative medicinal herbs and food grade herbs that can optimize health over the long haul instead of deteriorating it with food-additive-laced foods and those highly questionable drugs.

Doctors would be better prepared to actually bring health back to their patients if they were educated properly about the dangers of pharmaceuticals ... the advantages of avoiding processed, chemical-laden foods ... and how the body actually works! It's an idea! Some are and do, but all need to be able and be willing... to leave pharmaceuticals in the background for a change!
http://thinkscapes.com
http://thinkscapes.com/FoodSupplyIssues.html
http://thinkscapes.com/FoodSupply.html
http://mercola,

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