From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019010712094383766-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > odd thing today, talked to three of my friends on the phone this morning.   
   > each and every one was either coming home from, or going to, a doctor.   
      
   I much prefer Independence...particularly from Zombies!!!   
      
   > thoughts that ran thru my head ...   
      
   > in the past, if someone was going to the doc, it'd be for a reason ...   
   > some real issue, cold, infected finger, something tangible.   
      
   That's 'old school' ;)   
      
   > Now it's to check this ache, or required to get some prescription renewed   
   > ( statins come to mind ).  My reaction to this is, play around whinning to   
   > doctors long enough and they will find a way to kill you with some   
   > unnecessary operation or medication. It's just how the system works.   
      
   If they don't whine to their doctors, they whine to their bartenders, or   
   anyone else.   
      
   > If  it aint' broke, don't fix it .. applied as ... if they can't really   
   > cure old age, why are you letting them try on you ?   
      
   "Old age" doesn't need a cure, only DETERIORATION does!!!   
      
   > Oh well.  One " friend " told me " just wait till you get sick ... then   
   > bla bla bla ... you'll be going to the doctor too ".  Can you guess what   
   > chick singer I work with told me that :-)  ?   And what high ( very very   
   > high dollar ) statin she's off to get a renewal on ?   
      
   My reply is to NEVER get (that) sick.   
      
   > Had a friend years back, a few years older than me, retire.  When we   
   > talked, he was all about this or that guitar, or amp, or piece of   
   > recording gear. Until he got old enough to go on " free " government   
   > health care.   
      
   I simply don't trust Non-Thinking Zombies enough to want Their so-called   
   'health care'!!!   
      
   > Before that, he had some private plan, but he had to pay some tiny   
   > percentage himself. Once it was " free " he started going to the doc, any   
   > doc, about once or twice a week. Different ones, as many as he could find   
   > an ache to relate to.   
      
   I'll Never do that - I was born afraid of doctors ;)   
      
   > It took about two years for the medical profession to load him up on so   
   > many meds he couldn't keep up with reading all the side effects.   
   > Seriously, he and I fell out because I finally got tired of him calling   
   > and wanting to discuss the side effects of some pill he was taking. or how   
   > it might react with some other pill.  He started having mini strokes, (   
   > high erractic blood pressure ) along with whatever else they could find a   
   > maintance drug the government would pay for .....   
      
   Now THAT's a hobby ;)   
      
   > He's probably dead now, based on the trajectory he was on. His family as   
   > sick  ( ha, a joke ) of hearing about his health also, probably stuffed   
   > him in a home somewhere.   
      
   Kind of almost somewhat suicidal, isn't it?   
      
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   > It's just an age thing.   
      
   And since I'll Always be a big kid, I'll Never have anything to do with it!   
      
   > my cousin ( talked today on his way home from a totally unnecessary scan   
   > of his hip that hurts a little ) told me that yeah, the medical profession   
   > is all about fleecing the elderly. Said old cars need more parts. He's   
   > retired teacher, platinum gold plated insurance, goes to some doc at least   
   > every week. Talked about being in the Carolinas at a doctor there ( he   
   > just came back from a month vacation there ). Said doctors office there   
   > looked like pudding day at the retirement home.   
      
   And one day, when they have suicide centers like in one of one of my very   
   favorite movies, Soylent Green, no doubt they'll be into going to those   
   places too - but of course, it won't be more than once ;)   
      
   > Scan revealed  ..... nothing actually wrong with his hip. Some minor   
   > inflamation ... of course he got a prescription pain med.   
      
   The word WIMP comes to mind.   
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   > god forbid I get sick after all the bad thoughts I have about doctors.   
   > This may sound unbelievable, but I'm almost tired of this life.   
      
   As soon as I noticed how much it really SUCKS, I got tired of it too, so   
   long ago, I can't even remember precisely when, only that my trippin' 'round   
   the sun, birthday odometer, chronological age was still in the single   
   digits.   
      
   > If hanging around a few more years meant spending 2 or 3 days a week going   
   > to various doctors, I'd rather just die.   
      
   That's another reason I want Nothing to do with doctors!   
      
   > My youngest brother is a survivor of a bad cancer. He says he's not go   
   > thru that treatment again.  Would he fold and do it if it came to that ?   
   > I don't know. I know one of my uncles didn't.  When my uncles cancer came   
   > back, he ask the doc what would happen if he did nothing. Doc said he'd   
   > have about 8 months of noticing nothing, then get real sick all the sudden   
   > and die in a week or so. That's just what he chose, and what happened.   
      
      
   ----   
      
   JimD   
      
   That's what happens as a result of 'treating' rather than CURING it!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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