tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post2810984374136562003..comments2023-11-29T02:27:42.928-06:00Comments on The Masks We Wear: Mask of MedicineAekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12183623849361560922noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-3793127885007315052011-12-09T09:38:25.317-06:002011-12-09T09:38:25.317-06:00Nice article, your insights are interesting.Nice article, your insights are interesting.top pillshttp://www.pharmacywiki.org/topills.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-70486007906145868162011-12-08T09:10:51.594-06:002011-12-08T09:10:51.594-06:00I'd like to have a body like that one, I am a ...I'd like to have a body like that one, I am a fat guy and I am trying to do exercises everyday but I can't do it as well 'cos it's so hard to improve my health and appearance.pharmacyhttp://www.quickestpharmacy.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-74599392434806824332010-12-21T23:44:15.462-06:002010-12-21T23:44:15.462-06:00Hi Aek: I come from a long list of doctors. My d...Hi Aek: I come from a long list of doctors. My dad was a doctor, my mother was a nurse, my aunt was a nurse and my half brother was a doctor and a physiologist, md, phd. They certainly wanted me to be a doc. In 1932 or 1937, I can't remember, the AMA published in the journal that the profession needed "birth control." In other words, doctors could earn more money if there were fewer of them. The AMA journal uses the term to describe it as "medical economics". My brother was outraged, so I am told, and my mom and aunt openly disliked doctors, although mom was married to one. It was crazy. I was four years old in Chicago when my dad rolled out of bed with a heart arrest. Brother Howard was in the other room. Mother screamed for him to come to my dad and he just fell asleep. Dad was dead and Mom never forgave him In her mind he killed him. She used to say that there wasn't enough money in it for him. Shortly after that she demanded Howard sign a note for several thousand dollars so he could get through North Western in his zoology major, and earn his Ph.D. Look on google these: Fluid Circuit Theory, Maurice Fisher (head of his Ph.D. committee). He was super brilliant and a polished mathematician. Back in those days I remember him taking me through his laboratory with dogs on tables and tubes inside of them, ARGH. He worked like a fiend, never a rest and had a nervous breakdown. In those days, in the 40.s it was a disgrace for a doctor, let alone a researcher and professor to fall into a sanitarium, or even get ill. So he hung himself in his hospital room. One dead dad, one dead brother (who killed my dad, so my mom thought) and two RN's who hated doctors. Wow. Howard used to give me money on my report cards. He used to explain to the family that a kid had to be political to get into med school and that he was my avenue to North Western. Between the dead dogs, the dimes in the mail and the arguments over medical ethics I was never interested. But the story just now starts. <br /><br />My mother became administrative nurse of Cedars Sinai Hospital in L.A. and ran the hospital and the entire nursing staff and even kept an eye on some doctors she thought were using, or were drunk in surgery. She waged war on the doctors. My aunt became head of nurses in Monto Sano hospital in L.A. She was less biased against doctors. Mother continued to be a very powerful person especially when cedars was becoming part of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Westwood, L.A. My mother and aunt had plenty of money and finally paid to get me a Ph.D in psychology. I wouldn't get into the battleground of medicine for anything. She was truly a kind woman to me, understood homosexuality but never wanted to say I was homosexual, loved my myriads of boyfriends and and all my lovers who came to the big house on the cliffs of Dana Point in Calif. Mom just loved gay men. She was wild and on top of this she adored queen Victoria! Loving always to me but stern with the hospitals. She found some doctors in Los Angeles that she knew from Chicago in training school. She would prescribe medicine over the phone and demand that they come to the house if we were sick. She called it medical ethics. That 's the history of my medical family. Mom forced my brother's estate and widow to pay her on the note he made him sign while he was alive. <br /><br />I think that you will find strange happenings in the family backgrounds of doctors, M.D.'s. As a patient all that concerns me now is the loss of general practice physicians. Also, the breakdown in communication between patient, specialist and GP's. <br /><br />Good luck, you have a sharp mind and you will do well. Your ideals are wonderful, keep them. CLYDEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-76669134888561434452010-11-20T11:54:08.589-06:002010-11-20T11:54:08.589-06:00Anonymous: I won't deny that radiology is ver...Anonymous: I won't deny that radiology is very important (though, I don't think I mentioned radiology in this post). I will also say that I have no intention of going into radiology. The few times I've walked into the radiology reading rooms I've felt oh-so-awkwardly out of place. I felt more out of place there than in the clinics.<br /><br />But a good radiologist is pretty nice to have. :-)Aekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12183623849361560922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-87883625398038598002010-11-20T02:39:14.712-06:002010-11-20T02:39:14.712-06:00Radiology is central to patient care and often the...Radiology is central to patient care and often the top students go into the specialty. Your view regarding it wlll change very soon. I guarantee it. <br />Plenty of patient contact , no patient bullshit<br /><br />Radiology resident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-66022334987138280652009-11-23T18:51:10.522-06:002009-11-23T18:51:10.522-06:00James: You're probably right there. :-P
Jas...James: You're probably right there. :-P<br /><br />Jason: Well, I can only really speak for myself. Of course, some of this is certainly shared amongst the next crop of future doctors.<br /><br />naturgesetz: There are people who do go into medicine and treat it as "just a job." One doesn't need to keep up with ALL the medical literature (because that's impossible), but one should certainly try to keep up with the studies most pertinent to one's own practice. It may be this screening technique vs. that one, it may be this drug vs. that one, it may be the efficacy of some vaccine.Aekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12183623849361560922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-45595391499378135702009-11-22T20:06:13.541-06:002009-11-22T20:06:13.541-06:00That it is far more than a job, that it really isn...That it is far more than a job, that it really isn't a job, is what we meant when we called medicine a profession.<br /><br />I don't know if it is possible to find the time to read all the literature in medicine, any more than it is possible to read everything in any other field, but that is something you will find when you have an established practice. Your attitude toward the profession is what I'd hope for in any doctor who treated me.<br /><br />But it is the caring demeanor that assures me I am in good hands.naturgesetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-30448319516128917942009-11-22T16:02:44.278-06:002009-11-22T16:02:44.278-06:00thanks for that post. It really gives valuable ins...thanks for that post. It really gives valuable insight into the mentality of the next crop of doctors that this nation will see. Those of you studying right now will be the doctors that treat me in the future, and I found it interesting to look into your philosophies.Jason Carwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16975866937966747732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123819319548998095.post-48398269892910089132009-11-22T04:17:25.332-06:002009-11-22T04:17:25.332-06:00In regards to "more than a job", I think...In regards to "more than a job", I think you're not just seeing a trait of a medical doctor, I think you're seeing the trait of any doctor. To really be a doctor in one's field and to care that much about a subject means you've invested much of your time and life into the field of study. It's not just a job, it's not just a career, it's a passion! It's the other lover your human lover will always have to compete with. So, in that regard, I can identify with and confirm what you're being told.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com