Dr. Grumpy: "You been doing okay since I last saw you?"
Ms. Cerevisiae: "Um, I had a really bad yeast infection, you know, in my girl parts."
Dr. Grumpy: "How have your migraines been?"
Ms. Cerevisiae: "It was REALLY bad. I mean, it climbed from down there all the way up though the connection into my stomach, then to my ears, too."
Long pause.
Dr. Grumpy: "I've, uh, never heard of that."
Ms. Cerevisiae: "That's what all the other doctors tell me, too. Anyway, my migraines are better."
That's taking "listening to your body" a little too far.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone should review basic hand washing techniques with this chickadee.
ReplyDeleteNot tonight dear. I have a headache.
ReplyDeleteThe airhead needs a fill up!
ReplyDeleteIt's the slick coat and propeller on that Pseudomonas! It can travel everywhere!
ReplyDeletethe head bone's connected to the tail bone...
ReplyDeleteWhile at a follow-up visit for sciatica this morning, I was thinking about the heel of the shoe found in Dr G's office, and envisioning Mr Clean or the FlyLady or some other radio or early television cleaning product advertisement personality flitting about Dr G's office after each client, as suggested in one comment for that story.
ReplyDeleteBut, now, I don't know what to think.
What does an educated person do? Take the time to explain or just go on? The level of misinformation, disinformation, irrational thinking is quite alarming. Who has the obligation to set this right?
Pharmacists can tell stories 'til the cows come home about customers that come up to the counter asking this that or the other and when the pharmacist gives the straight answer, the patient turns around and buys the box of dubiousness advertised on TV because their neighbor told 'em so.
It starts at the top, I'd say. Today, we hear about a high paid lobbyist nominated to head the Department of Education. Have we come to this? At least, before, when people with lower levels of education didn't know things, they were willing to listen, learn and understand. We have a lot of people that insist on misinformation and irrationality.
Well yeast does cause things to rise , right?
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ReplyDeleteMaybe she meant she suffered a bit of nausea with the migraine and a bit of head spinning dizziness, too.
ReplyDeleteClinically, I cringe frequently when well educated in other domain friends and acquaintances, even those of remarkable ages, create the most un-clinical pathways and explanations for every known or projected illness or health event for themselves and various degrees of family/friends. The mistaken conclusions are at times amusing, but more often slightly (sigh) left of the mark. As in not on the target. I would not design stadium seating because I attend sporting events, so am always amazed when engineering/architects spout medicine "realities",etc. (*this is open season, teachers, accountants, lawyers.. field is wide open ). With the immediate opinion of nameless sources at electron speeds... only getting worse. I do now only dissuade the most worrisome or egregious theories to prevent immediate harm.
ReplyDeleteThe battle is real.