@ Journeywithme2. I hope you'll get through this. It sounds like a very frightening situation. I hope more ppl will take it seriously and protect & serve their fellow man.
Sending you good vibes on retirement. May you arrive at that point healthy and full-filled.
@jeanne-mayell Here is an important observation I have made as a patient in the health care system: One very common moneymaking "scam" among mainstream medical doctors that I have observed again and again in the American health care system goes like this: The patient is warned that he is at risk for a future heart attack. Sometimes findings on an EKG or an echocardiogram can be used to frighten the patient so he will cooperate with a protocol that is really designed to inflate the profits of medical clinics.
The protocol starts with a "stress test" to evaluate the patient's risk for a heart attack. If the results suggest a possible problem the next step is an invasive procedure known as an angiogram to see if the patient has clogged arteries. If a suspect coronary artery is found the next step is a very expensive and even more invasive procedure known as placing a stent to open a clogged artery.
Here is what the doctors don't tell you:
1. The track record of stress tests in making the right call on a patient's heart health is not so good. You would actually do far better with a cardiac calcium scoring test or a CIMT test. Most mainstream doctors will never write a prescription for a cardiac calcium scoring test because they are not lucrative. CIMT tests are less available.
2. It has been shown in studies that stents have no significant benefit in the prevention of heart attacks. You would actually do better to focus on your diet and life style.
3. Mainstream doctors want you to believe that clogged arteries must always be dealt with thru some type of expensive and invasive procedure like placing stents. But many people have greatly improved their cardiac heath with diet and life style changes.
4. This protocol is frequently recommended and performed because it's highly lucrative, not because it's best, which it isn't in many cases.
There are many other examples of protocols that are frequently recommended and performed because they are lucrative, not because they're best.
@journeywithme2 So sorry you're not getting the protection you need and praying for your continued health!
Thank you! I will continue to self-isolate and follow steps as much as possible to minimize exposure..but.. for 2.5 days a week.. will be more vulnerable...prayers are always appreciated and welcomed. I pray we all stay safe and get to VOTE that thing out of office.
- @5leafclover. Thank you. I have felt this way for a long time with cardiologists in three different cities. Same protocol. Expensive tests , monitors etc. I feel healthcare has become a series of boxes being checked off.
Once again, the Republicans show they are the anti-life party.
If I were the citizens of Wisconsin, I would social distance regardless. Let the Republican voters go out to the bars and businesses. Let them flaunt themselves by "sticking it to the libs" and go out without masks.
Come November, it is likely we will see far fewer Republican voters. So much the better.
I'm sorry, but I am sick to death of these people putting everyone at risk and only caring about themselves. For them, there is no compromise. They want to open the economy and yet refuse to social distance, wear masks, or otherwise take precautions. Meanwhile, numerous health care workers, EMTs, and nurses die by the thousands because they selflessly put themselves at risk to care for others.
If several thousand Republican voters and protesters die from the coronavirus due to their refusal to think of others and their refusal to compromise on anything, then I say let them. Sometimes people will turn to the dark no matter what, and there is nothing we can do to change it. I'm only sorry they are dragging thousands of innocents with them. If I had my way, then every person who willfully put themselves in harm's way (such as protesting) and gets the virus should be refused admittance into all the hospitals. Why should these doctors put themselves and their families at risk for people who don't give them any consideration.
As for Republican governors underreporting the death toll...yeah, they may do it. But the Red States need the Blue States (such as California, New York, etc.) to operate, or they can never recover. So all that is going to end up happening is that, come November, the Blue states will be slowly but surely back on the path to recovery, while the Red states will barely be able to hold their heads above water (due to lack of resources and jobs that are often available in blue states).
I am in the same boat. We start opening courts back on Monday. I will be wearing a mask and gloves (as well as carry a container of antibacterial wipes). It is my own practice, so no one is forcing me to per se. However, I have many clients who are in custody, and I can't let them continue to languish in the jails. I can only pray that the security measures we put in place will be enough.
I live in the red state above you (Tennessee). Like Georgia, my area loves Trump and worships him without thought. Although there is quite a few Anti-Trump Republicans who secretly wished he would die or resign before he drags the party any lower. I can't say I blame them.
Your post belongs in a different thread and under a different topic, as it does not apply to CV19. I suggest starting a new thread under "Cope and Thrive...". @jeanne-mayell can you help move this post?
My reply also doesn't belong here, so please feel free to move it as well:
My husband has a stent. In his left descending anterior artery (aka "Widowmaker"). It saved his life. A friend of his born on the exact same day had the exact symptoms and did not seek treatment and nearly died of 2 heart attacks. He now has 6 stents and is awaiting heart transplant because huge chunks of his heart are actually dead.
I'm not going to share personal details, and I don't think this forum is the proper place to share gripes about the medical establishment that, while I agree there is a lot of fraud and chicanery, might encourage someone to NOT seek medical care before it's too late. Not everything is a scam, saying it is is science denial, which I will not tolerate.
I how Republicans are pro life and want to take away a women’s rights to her own reproductive organs. Now all of a sudden they don’t care if you live or die and they are chanting my body my choice in regard to wearing mask and social distancing.
I saw that only 45 minutes after the Supreme Court decision a bar was open and full of people.
If people don’t want to wear a mask or do any kind of social distancing they should have to sign a waver that’s they will not see any medical help. These are selfish people who only think of themselves.
I agree on the waver! However I do think there are people like that in all walks of life and not necessarily just one party. We have ppl like that as well, unfortunately;-(
Maybe carry pepper-spray and get past the crowds that way!
On a more serious note, I hope all of you who are forced into these unsafe situation will stay okay somehow.