Have you ever gone to your doctor to get a serious concern of yours put to rest? I have. I have gone to several doctors and just like going to any other professional for their opinion, I have had good doctors and bad doctors. The good doctors seem to care, show genuine interest and have a great knowledge base. The bad doctors don't care, have no interest, are concerning with just getting you out of their office so they can get paid, have a shitty knowledge base due to a lack of care and inexperience and are pill pushers. I have gone to the doctors for some serious concerns and they always seem to want to just fix everything with a pill instead of checking me out and looking at my problems or at my blood test.
The only thing these "doctors" seem to do now a days is look at your weight and tell you, "you are obese and need to lose weight" then to add insult to injury they tell you that because your chemistry numbers don't fall into a predetermined varying range of numbers that you must take a pill in order to get back to that fucking pointless and sometimes made up range of numbers. My resentment for doctors has only increased over the years because there is a group of words I don't want to hear from someone that I depend on for life and death situations and that group of words is "I don't know...". It makes me see red when I hear a trained professional who is getting paid at least six figures that they don't know what is wrong with you or why you feel ill. I know they aren't mind readers but goddamn it they don't seem to try either. The only solution they have to almost everything is, "I am giving you a prescription for something you cannot pronounce and is far from even being natural. It is going to make you depressed and not want to have sex, but you have to take it because your chemistry numbers indicate that you are out of range and that isn't good."
When are people and doctors especially going to realize that you cannot pidgin whole everyone into one category of numbers? We are different breeds of people depending on what area we come from. We are animals. Dogs and cats have breeds, we treat them differently depending on where they are, but when it comes to humans there is this fake idea that we are all physically equal which is horribly wrong. This is not about being racist at all, this is about realizing and accepting that we ARE indeed different physically. There are a lot of genetic studies that are done that prove this otherwise there wouldn't be statistics like, "Black males are more prone to heart disease." Why do you think that is? Because the black breed of people are built differently than everyone else. The same concept applies to people from the middle east, they are also prone to having heart disease and high cholesterol. However for some breeds of people this has got to be normal. I want to believe that is because they live in hotter climates and their blood is constantly heated which is why it probably won't affect them too badly because it keeps their blood thin. Moving over to the polar opposite, look at how well Russians live in cold weather, that isn't a mere coincidence that is like that for a reason. They were bred and adjusted to cold climates. I am guessing that they are stark white to match their surroundings. Eskimos have naturally high cholesterol because they live in freezing weather all of the time and they are fine, they aren't on cholesterol medication. However if an Eskimo went to an American doctor, that doctor would damn that Eskimo to hell because his cholesterol and weight are elevated.
I am going to equate the modern day General Practitioner to a drug pusher. I am not the first to make this comparison and I won't be the last. I also think that the modern day General Practitioner's job can be replaced by a robot or a trained monkey which ever is cheaper. I already aired my complaint about them above, but again they look at your numbers and stupidly say that you belong in a poorly constructed range of numbers; then they prescribe you drugs to get your numbers back into that pointless bullshit range.
I have been doing everything in my power to work out and eat right. I impress people with my dedication, but I have a thyroid problem which means my metabolism doesn't work well enough. I am hot all of the time and I sweat a lot. I have been taking Levothyroxine (most commonly known as the brand name Synthroid) to correct this because I decided it was a good idea. I refuse to take these pill pusher's cruddy and unsupported advice at face value. I did my research and I ran my own tests. I have lost about 40 pounds and I have lowered my chemistry numbers down to what I think is acceptable with diet and exercise. My cholesterol is elevated, but guess what, my cholesterol has ALWAYS been elevated even since I was a child. So the doctor's predetermined bullshit range of numbers doesn't fit me because I am not bred that way. I am also considered obese. I am tall, have big feet and currently weight 213 pounds. I constantly have people telling me I look fine for my size, skinny even. When I tell the my doctor says I am obese their mouths hang open. So all of these things, little things, amount to one giant case against "traditional" bullshit drug pushing medicine.
Finding a doctor is difficult which is why I have pretty much become my own general practitioner. I advise my self to go to the correct specialist after research.
The hospital is a whole other area of disgust to me, starting with the nurses and ending with the bastard doctors who should be ashamed to call themselves doctors. They apparently know NOTHING because all I ever hear out of them is "I don't know...". I have watched people die because they "don't know". I don't trust doctors. Fucking drug pushers. Mother fuckers charge you 80 bucks for a single goddamn Tylenole. All of these doctors are guilty of over charging insurance companies because they are price gougers, thanks to them they increase our premiums and make things are stupid as they are. Trust my, I am not defending insurance companies they are just as worthless as the doctors who scam them. Ever get a scope shoved up your nose? Apparently that is considered surgery and you pay the surgery price because of it. Stupid shit like that pisses me the fuck off.
One of the industries I hate the MOST, possibly more than the drug pushers is their lovely suppliers which are correctly named drug companies or the euphemism "Pharmaceutical Companies". These bastards are the drug makers, they make all of the trash that these so called doctors push out to their users. Now don't get me wrong some of these drugs are useful, I use Claritin on a regular because I have a dust-mite allergy and it can be debilitating at times, but these bastards make drugs for things that don't even make sense sometimes. A lot of these drugs are probably responsible for many cancers that people get. These bastards just like the insurance companies don't give a flying fuck about anyone. They just want money.
I don't care if they have large student loans to pay off, no one forced them to be doctors. Just like I don't give a shit if an aspiring actress or actor has two jobs to fund their dreams, go fuck yourself you don't HAVE to live like that you CHOOSE to live like that. I wanted to be an artist, but artists don't make much money so instead I became an engineer to make ends meet.
Lastly, just to state what should seemingly be fucking obvious: OBVIOUSLY not all doctors, nurses, drug reps, insurance reps etc. etc. fit the bill I described above. I do have some doctors and etc. that have treated me right. However it is not okay that there are people in this important profession that act as drug pushers.
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