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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When they sneeze and tell me they feel like they are coming down with the flu, I ignore[/quote]

When do you not ignore?

I’ve found that doctors will be happy to send me/my partner for expensive tests ‘just in case’. To me, these aren’t things to worry about, but to my partner, it means he has the *worst possible outcome* whatever that is.

Ex, a simple planters wart. Dr removes, says they are 99% sure it’s a wart but just in case, let’s send for a biopsy. To my partner this equals ‘the doctor is concerned, they ordered a biopsy and it is probably cancer!’

Now take this example and repeat it over and over. [/quote]
My friend is just like this. The Dr wanted to test something small "just to be sure" and she assumed it would be cancer. Before she even went in for the minor procedure, she researched which facility had the highest ratings and called an out of state research hospital to find out if they had openings and when they could start treatment. Then a few days later the test came back negative.

The other thing is she refuses almost all prescription medication, but does her own "research". She had surgery with stitched up wounds and refused to take the antibiotic because some alternative would be "safer". Then a few days later it got infected and she had to take the antibiotic plus something else since it got so bad.

She takes advice from "quacks" who present them selves as a Dr (and hide that it's a chiropractic Dr) and has 20 bottles of alternative medications from the health store that cost a fortune.

Reminds me of the Tim Minchin song lyric "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work?
Medicine."[/quote]

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