Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:31:08 +0100, D wrote:
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This makes one think. How much is sickness, and how much is the belief
of sickness? It's almost as if a doctor can make things worse sometime.
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Medicare provides for a yearly 'wellness' visit and I make use of it. I
get along well with my doctor. She must have slept through Drug Pushing
101 in med school. There is a form to determine if a person would benefit
from statins and according to her the answer is always 'yes'. She would
prescribe them if I asked her to but it's not the default. At times she
can be cynical abut her profession.

What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. ;) I remember my old doctor. He operated on a push/pull methodology. If you wanted something, he would not give it to you, if you did not want something, he would push it. The reason I remember it, was that once my mother wanted something, and he tried his best not to give it to her, and then the same week I went there, he tried hard to push the same medication on me. He was fairly grumpy and an extremely heavy smoker.

I would prefer to blow my heart out on a steep mountain trail and become
food for the bears to some long drawn out affair where 'medical science'
tries to put off the inevitable.

This is the truth! After seeing my mothers cancer treatment that did not work out in the end, I agree 100%. She went through 3 years of hell for nothing. It did not help of course, that the doctor misdiagnosed her. She was in tears and filed a law suit against herself. I do not blame her, I blame the socialist system she works in, which made her over worked, and therefore more likely to commit mistakes.