I think my mother fancies her doc…she’s always there. I’m glad I’m not the freak.
Just wanted to say that there’s nothing obvious about those not being actual threads.
I mean, we had a “Is semen bad for my fish” thread. That’s gotta be some kinda pinnacle.
On second thought you’re right. No way those boring and tame threads were actually from this depraved board! 
Pan fried semen does not require a doctor though…or does it?
A doctor of the head, maybe.
Which one? 
(Oh, come on, you knew that was coming!)
What’s sad is, I really, really wish I could claim I did. I wish I could say, well that was the joke, see…
It’s Friday. That’s my excuse. :smack:
My rant on doctors:
My SO has had some serious medical conditions, and if I had not demanded we change doctors, he would be dead today. Seriously.
He had a liver problem that was first diagnosed as “gas” and told to buy over-the-counter gas tablets. Then the next doctor told him about the liver disease and said he should get his affairs in order (ie he only had months to live and there was nothing they could do) and the next doctor threw him in the hospital immediately for a (relatively) new procedure called TIPS that has brought him back to perfect health.
Three doctors…thankgod we found the last one who figured out a way to save his life. HOWEVER, this same doctor has the bedside manners of a demi-god and has said often, “do you realize you would be dead if it weren’t for me?” and has proceeded in scaring the bejesus out of my SO.
I think it is time to once again change doctors as the last visit he actually asked, “have you have had liver problems?” He was pre-occupied with his upcoming Hawaiian vacation.
My lesson to everyone reading this:
Doctors are human and they can be wrong. If you don’t like what they are saying, go to another one…immediately.
And if there are any doctors reading this:
Psychology is important. Patients listen. Many a patient has lived through horrible, truly death-defying illness on a thread of hope. When you tell them they are going to die, they believe you. Hope is something you should never, as a doctor, kill. To any doctor who says, “there is nothing we can do” and walks out of the room, may you rot in hell. There is always SOMETHING you can do…to alieviate the pain, to console, to maybe suggest someone who knows more than YOU do.
Thankgod I am stubborn, or I would be writing this from a very lonely house.
And then you have my mother.
She visits yesterday and mentions that the abscess on her ankle (previously caused by the valves in her leg vein all having failed and blood pooling there) is back. Has she been to the doctor? No. Can I convince her to go? ‘Nah, not yet’.
She also has an infection on her finger. She’s impressed with this, because it’s a strange infection she’s never seen before. She’s put ointment on it and it’s still spreading (her finger is crimson to the knuckle) and she noticed the skin was a bit funny yesterday ‘so I put it in my mouth and bit at it, and it was gross - all rancid meat’.
She thinks maybe she’ll see a doctor about that next week.
I’ve said to her that if she’d really like to trade those two things for an amputated foot and finger, she can be my guest, but I personally think she’s a fucking loony not to do something about it.
Opinions noted, but not acted upon.
I think the majority of doctors are quacks. There are some VERY good doctors, don’t get me wrong, but the line to see them extends out the door, and around the corner, and call me back in 3 months maybe I can get you in.
I go the doctor when I get flu-like symptoms for over a month. It’s hard to say exactly what is making me sick, but usually a stiff dose of antibiotics straighten me right up.
I’m somewhat glad I don’t have medical insurance, if you have good insurance a lot of doctors insist you come back on a regular basis. I don’t need to take 14 prescriptions a day to feel normal, thank you.
If I ever get really, really sick, I mean like terminal, all I want is massive doses of morphine, I don’t want to drag it out any longer with tortuous experimental procedures. This way I will save enormous amounts of money on medical bills and also relieve my family from unnecessary, prolonged grieving.
Toss in “lowered inhibitions” and “pounding headache upon waking in the morning” and you’ve just described every college student’s ideal Friday night, which is hardly any reason to consult a doctor.
Yep, and also of neurological damage. There’s a reason they’re the same symptoms!
Not that the OP really mentioned anything about this, but in case new parents are reading this, or people who will someday be new parents and vaguely remember the sentiments expressed in this thread: if your baby starts showing symptoms that make you think, “Geez, that’s just not right,” call the damn doctor even if you think he’s just going to tell you that you’re a hypochondriac new parent and you need to chill out, it’s just a cold.
True story: When Whatsit Jr. was one month old, he had a really bad cold, but I was kind of dragging my feet about calling the doctor because it worsened over the weekend and I didn’t want to mess around with finding a doctor on the weekend, and I figured I was just being an overprotective new parent anyway. Finally, early Saturday evening, he threw up his third feeding in a row so I thought I’d call the after-hours nurse hotline, fully expecting to be told, “It’s a cold. Turn the humidifier on in his room, give him lots of fluids, and use the bulb thingie on his nose.”
Instead the on-call nurse, after hearing his symptoms, had us hold the phone up to his face so she could listen to him breathe, and then told us to drive straight to the ER at Children’s Hospital. Later that evening, while under observation, he stopped breathing on his own and had to be intubated. He was hospitalized for three weeks, underwent two surgeries to insert chest tubes for drainage, and nearly died. I sometimes still get chills down my spine thinking about what would have happened if I’d delayed calling any longer, and he’d stopped breathing at home instead of in the NICU.
Anyway. That’s my cautionary tale.
MsWhatsit I agree. When it comes to babies and very young children it is not safe to muck around. Get to a doctor straight away.
Everyone else should wait…ok I will wait.