# This is why I hate going to the doctor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253 "2014-08-22T23:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/301 "2014-09-02T01:57:44Z")
> [@7e42](#): > > Because the other brand, Nature Made did nothing at all And the case for Regression to the Mean continues to build. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/303 "2014-09-02T17:09:34Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > And the case for Regression to the Mean continues to build. Or the fact that most ongoing conditions tend to be cyclical in nature. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/304 "2014-09-02T17:16:45Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Or the fact that most ongoing conditions tend to be cyclical in nature. Anything that is cyclical in nature is going to show regression to the mean if you plot its cycles on a bell curve. So, we agree and the “Or” isn’t necessary. It’s kind of annoying when teachers, of all people, don’t understand regression to the mean. They say things like “Praising students for a good performance makes them lazy, because they almost always do worse the next time, but punishing them for doing badly is really effective, because they nearly always improve.” A normal student would improve after a bad performance, and do worse after an exceptionally good one, no matter what the teacher did. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/305 "2014-09-02T17:19:23Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Anything that is cyclical in nature is going to show regression to the mean if you plot its cycles on a bell curve. So, we agree and the “Or” isn’t necessary. Good point, and I claim immunity from not picking up on that due to caffeine deficiency. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/306 "2014-09-02T23:58:58Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Good point, and I claim immunity from not picking up on that due to caffeine deficiency. 😃 No harm, no foul. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/307 "2014-09-03T03:28:28Z")
Banned? Or death by fish oil? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253/308 "2014-09-03T23:43:47Z")
> [@7e42](#): > > They get paid nice money to > > 1. Tell you what you don’t want to hear > > 2. Tell you they don’t know what your medical issue is or what caused it > > I had joint pain in the knees and hip and could not walk at all and was very concerned. Do you know this dumb doctor suggested I get some Tylenol??? Is that her idea of resolving a issue a patient has? I had to find my own solution to the knee and hip pain which turned out to be FISH OIL. So again what the hell is the purpose of a doctor? To take money out of your account and tell you they don’t know what’s wrong with you? Tell me about it. Well, to be honest, they weren’t taking money out of my account, it was taken from the State insurance I had, when I worked for them. I had a horrible rash on my chest and neck (where I always sprayed my cologne). It kept me up at night, scratching endlessly, and I thought that I was going to develop scarring, since I could find no relief. The doctors, to a man/woman, asked me if I had changed colognes. I said ‘no’. They gave me prescriptions, which my insurance didn’t pay for, for lotions, creams, sprays, etc… and told me to get non-perfumed detergents, Eucerin, Neutrogena, etc… Finally, I got some Noxzema, and that stopped the itching almost immediately, and the rash diminished within about a day and a half. Then, I quit spraying my regular cologne. Never had the problem again. Apparently, the doctors never considered that I could \*become \*allergic to my regular cologne. These are people who had been to, what, 12 years of college, and had treated how many people?? Scary. Since then, my respect for ‘medicine’ has depreciated considerably. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-hate-going-to-the-doctor/696253.md?page=15)