Medical Bullies

Long ago, before the Internet, it was not so easy to get information on health and diseases and how to care for a person with a disease.

To get in on the Know, you either had to be in the business, or a professional who had paid good money and several life years to find out the secrets that the elders of the profession passed down.

The innocent/ignorant of the facts patient would come, or be brought after much suffering, have some tests, get a blood pressure reading and a prescription to take to the drug store.

It was simply unheard of that the patient might not take the drug that was prescribed. They trusted the doctor. Most of them did. Doctors were used to patients trusting them.
It was pretty unnerving the first time a patient said something about that crazy Internet thing. Nothing good could be on that invention. That sort of behaviour simply had to be stopped.

That was easier thought than done.

Once something like the Internet starts, it’s soon on a roll.

Nothing was ever the same again.
The “patients” became clients and wanted answers for what they had read that they didn’t understand. Sometimes the doctor had never heard of what they were asking, but would s/he admit that?

No! It was much easier to get huffy. Some disrespectful things have been said by some doctors who would like to turn back the hands of time.
Interpersonal respect has left the office sometimes in both directions, simultaneously.
My plumber, my electrician, or my carpenter would not act so uncouthly. They’re either really nice, or they know how they get paid.

So what! You’re a heart specialist! Big deal! Yes, I know the heart is really an exciting organ that you can actually see and hear doing things. Instrument makers devised stethoscopes and all manner of gadgets and machines to profit while you pursue your interest in the heart.

However, no one’s heart is an island.

If there is something wrong with the heart, it likely started somewhere else…like your mouth where you swallowed things; foods, drinks and toxic chemicals that compromised your liver so that it could not carry out the 500 or so functions it’s supposed to process for optimum health of all parts of the body including the heart and circulatory system.
Some of us eat too much of some things and not enough of others, so that we are nutritionally out of balance and our cells become challenged due to lack of suitable sustenance.

Doctors like gizmos like stents and pacemakers. They like bypasses. Transplants excite them, too. But Statin drugs can really put them in a tizzy, especially if a client has the temerity to mention that they read on the Internet what happened to others who took those medicines.

Dear! Dear! Dear!

And then things get said that can make a polite person feel bullied.

Here’s another opinion, from a client, not a doctor. I’m not asking you to trust me.
I think it’s good to have a passionate advocate for your heart. But!

You are the World Expert on YOU. All of you, not just one organ the size of your fist.

If you fix one organ in a way that has side effects that wreck other organs, you may wish you’d either never fixed that part of you, or else you’d done it in a safer way that did not compromise the future quality of your life.

Keep looking until you find a treatment mode, or a medicine, or nutrient that you are comfortable with. Obviously the ‘keep looking’ idea is not going to work if you are having a heart attack, or some other emergency that requires immediate help.

You are the CEO of YOU. That means you get to decide what will be done after getting input from professionals some of whom may be more passionate than others.

Something to think about:
Giving in to tantrums can create, or empower bullies.

Giving in to bullies results in resentment and loss of self-respect. This sets off a negative chemical cascade in your body that further threatens your well-being. Don’t do something because you feel threatened, but don’t refuse good advice just because it was offered disrespectfully.