How many times have I heard "If you can't say something nice..."??? Hmmmm...
Sometimes we SHOULD say "not nice" things. If the truth hurts, tough. It's the truth. And if you don't tell the truth, well, that's called lying.
I've had people recently question my hard stance against the medical industry and it's lackeys. I believe that a person's health is too important to worry about "feelings". If you look objectively, you can't help but see that 99% of medical industry employees are simply functionaries. Just following the rules and procedures laid down for them by their "superiors" (usually corporate "C-level" officers with no actual real-world medical knowledge, or insurance company bean-counters). I have literally had a medical industry employee tell me they had to try and get me to agree to certain things or note my refusal to fill in the blanks on their forms so the people at "the office" wouldn't say they didn't do their job. It had nothing to do with actual "healthcare", it was just . . . business.
Personally, I don't think "business" has any place in "healthcare".
I'm old . . . when I was little, we had physicians. Men and women with training and knowledge who actually looked at and touched their patients. In the 1980s, I found that the physicians were retiring and being replaced by doctors. Well trained, super-educated men and women with incredible technical knowledge, often specialized. In fact, so specialized that it became difficult to find a General Practitioner. Now, I find that the doctors seem to have been replaced by technical functionaries. They don't really do anything. The nurse takes the patient information and basic readings like blood pressure, O2, etc., notes them on a computer, and leaves. The "care-giver" then enters, looks over the computer and goes; "hmmmm...", then usually orders tests . . . then a "technician" reports the findings back, and the "system" prescribes the "treatment" called for. The actual "doctor" (or "nurse practitioner") really has no say. And god forbid they actually diagnose something based on observation and experience!
The truth about all of this is that your "care-giver" probably doesn't care about you, your health, or anything else other than how many billable hours they can generate from you. I realize that is a pretty harsh claim, but think about it in terms of Observation and Experience. My medical industry employees told me that I was being "too aggressive" dealing with my T2D diagnosis. They advised me to go slow and easy. I made rapid progress controlling my T2D and dropped my A1C from 8.8 to 5.7 in three months . . . they wanted to increase my medications!!!! Three months later, and my A1C was 5.2 and they proclaimed me "not a diabetic anymore"!!! The crazy part was that everyone I came into contact with at TWO offices told me that they, too, were diagnosed either pre-diabetic or with Type 2 . . . and every one of them also said they didn't have their numbers under control and were on several medications.
They couldn't control THEIR diabetes . . . but they were supposed to tell ME what to do . . . and they ended up asking me what I was doing! Some "experts", huh? With all of their training and knowledge . . . with all the pretty papers hanging on their walls . . . and I apparently knew something they didn't. Think that through.
Does your medical industry employee have their diabetes under control?
