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Boris said:
you sound like a character from 50 shades of grey. I refuse to bow an scrapelike you so willingly do. Have fun pleasing your sadomachistic dominatrix. Yes dear sorry dear.
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I will absolutely have fun with that, to the tune of about 200 times per year. Enjoy your time with "baa-baa" and "ol' righty".
 
fishonjazz said:
Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last century yet when I visit a doctor my condition only gets better due to my visit like 1 in every 10 or 15 times. Yet I have to pay them every time I see them even if they dont actually fix anything (in addition to hundreds of dollars per month for insurance)

Rotator cuff issues/pain? Cortisone shots to hide/mask the pain. Nothing actually fixed. I know the pain will return and I will be no better off. In fact, might even be worse off due to the cortisone injections.

Plantar faciitis? Have to see (and pay) my family Dr so he can refer me to a foot doctor so he can tell me to stretch my calves and roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. (**** I could have just googled) have to pay him too. Foot still ****ed up.

Throwing up all day? It's a stomach flu or food poisining. Just gonna have to wait it out and let it pass. Have to pay him to tell me that. Nothing fixed.

Have a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose or whatever. It's a virus, just have to rest and wait it out. Have to pay him. Nothing fixed.

Back goes out on me. Go to my family doctor. Pay him. He refers me to someone more specialized. Pay him. He simply refers me to physical therapy. Pay them to tell me stretches/exercises to help it. Coulda googled that ****.

Right now my neck is messed up. Bad. Can't turn my head either way or look down. (I can only look up) extreme pain. Yesterday I took a couple of ibuprofen 800, used a heating pad all day, took a muscle relaxer, and drank some whiskey. Today its worse. I have only taken alieve today.
My wife wants to take me to the Dr but what's the point? I will pay my family Dr so he can refer me to someone else so he can refer me to a physical therapist and in the end I will just have to wait for it to get better on its own with some stretching and heat and stuff.

I don't think I should have to pay for Dr visits if my ailment doesn't get fixed by them or at least significantly improved.
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And this is why I never go to the doctor. I HATE going to the doctor only to be told there's nothing to be done. Makes me feel like a *****. I literally have to be on the verge of being hospitalized. Last time I went to the doctor was when I had cellulitis. They told me if I had waited another couple of hours, they would have sent me to the hospital.
 
Siro said:
I already know that's what they'd say, so I wouldn't bother. I only go to the doctor when I want to buy some drugs. I've never had any serious health issues, but I'm sure I'd go to the doctor if I did. But I don't go when I have a cold or a stomach ache.
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I had a pain in my arm that was off and on for a couple of years, it would flare up but usually after like a strenuous event, or a ball game or something. I brushed it off since I was busy with school. Turns out it was a tumor. Almost killed me. I get the point being made about medicine, but it is exactly for the knowledge they have that can save us from the weird **** that we pay them for the mundane **** too. And it is for fear of the weird **** that we go in for the mundane as well.
 
franklin said:
[MENTION=1]Jason[/MENTION] I tried to upload a picture from my computer but I'm getting an error saying I'm exceeding the allowable limit by x amount of MB even though the file is nowhere near that large (KB).
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Will you email me the pic? admin at this website...
 
I work in a hospital and i hate doctors.

Back to pet peeves, why does it feel like i spend a good third of my waking life waiting around for the woman, to get ready, make a choice, show up on time! Its endless.
 
fishonjazz said:
Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last century yet when I visit a doctor my condition only gets better due to my visit like 1 in every 10 or 15 times. Yet I have to pay them every time I see them even if they dont actually fix anything (in addition to hundreds of dollars per month for insurance)

Rotator cuff issues/pain? Cortisone shots to hide/mask the pain. Nothing actually fixed. I know the pain will return and I will be no better off. In fact, might even be worse off due to the cortisone injections.

Plantar faciitis? Have to see (and pay) my family Dr so he can refer me to a foot doctor so he can tell me to stretch my calves and roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. (**** I could have just googled) have to pay him too. Foot still ****ed up.

Throwing up all day? It's a stomach flu or food poisining. Just gonna have to wait it out and let it pass. Have to pay him to tell me that. Nothing fixed.

Have a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose or whatever. It's a virus, just have to rest and wait it out. Have to pay him. Nothing fixed.

Back goes out on me. Go to my family doctor. Pay him. He refers me to someone more specialized. Pay him. He simply refers me to physical therapy. Pay them to tell me stretches/exercises to help it. Coulda googled that ****.

Right now my neck is messed up. Bad. Can't turn my head either way or look down. (I can only look up) extreme pain. Yesterday I took a couple of ibuprofen 800, used a heating pad all day, took a muscle relaxer, and drank some whiskey. Today its worse. I have only taken alieve today.
My wife wants to take me to the Dr but what's the point? I will pay my family Dr so he can refer me to someone else so he can refer me to a physical therapist and in the end I will just have to wait for it to get better on its own with some stretching and heat and stuff.

I don't think I should have to pay for Dr visits if my ailment doesn't get fixed by them or at least significantly improved.
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I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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White Chocolate said:
I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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I missed work yesterday due to the pain in my neck. My wife convinced me to go to the dr even though I knew it was pointless but she was worried about meningitis or something cause I was also getting headaches and had pins and needles and numbness in my neck and shoulders.

They said there is nothing to be done other than heat and ice (stuff I already have been doing) and that it should get better after about a week. Charged me 25 dollars for nothing really. (On top of the hundreds I pay each month for insurance) Oh and I had to wait a half hour past my scheduled appointment to be seen.
 
fishonjazz said:
I missed work yesterday due to the pain in my neck. My wife convinced me to go to the dr even though I knew it was pointless but she was worried about meningitis or something cause I was also getting headaches and had pins and needles and numbness in my neck and shoulders.

They said there is nothing to be done other than heat and ice (stuff I already have been doing) and that it should get better after about a week. Charged me 25 dollars for nothing really. (On top of the hundreds I pay each month for insurance) Oh and I had to wait a half hour past my scheduled appointment to be seen.
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That's another thing! They tell you to come 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork yet you'll still be waiting 30 minutes past your scheduled appointment time to get seen.


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White Chocolate said:
I'm with you 100%. November of last year I went to a podiatrist to remove an ingrown toenail on my big toe. I let it get pretty bad and it would hurt bad every time I walked or if something barely brushed it. It was really a painless and quick process thanks to numbing shots.

I have insurance and with it I had to pay $70 for everything (the procedure and the chemicals to make sure it doesn't grow back). I was under the influence that $70 would cover everything and I'd be fine.

June comes around (7 months later) and I get a bill in the mail for $158 for this. Apparently I haven't reached my deductible for my insurance. It's just dumb and I totally feel you. $225+ just to remove an ingrown toenail?


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$225 for painless walking? Sounds like a bargain to me.

Labor is expensive. A car mechanic is going to be at least $90/hr. So it would make sense that a body mechanic would charge a bit more than that, don't you think?
 
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