Agreed. I was having a lot of sleep issues when I first started college. Either not being able to get to sleep, or waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. I also was having issues staying awake in classes. I managed to graduate, and same issues with my job. I was getting enough sleep at around 8 hours/night, and while my nutrition wasn't great, it wasn't horrible either. I was also taking a general multivitamin.
I gave in and went to see the doc, he ran the standard tests (cholesterol and thyroid) and everything came back that I was perfectly healthy. So even with being athletic, and low weight, no apparent physiological issues, my doc wants to put me on sleep meds (ambien). I didn't want a fscking bandaid, I wanted a reason. He didn't want to run a sleep study, and I was unwilling to take meds with an increased incidence of sleep walking/driving.
I gave up with the doctor route, and started taking a low dosage B-complex vitamin which I discovered through my own research can help if you're having sleep issues. Surprisingly, I started feeling a little better, but was still having sleep issues. So I upped the dosage to an extended release B-100 complex. Lo and behold, my sleep issues were almost nonexistent within a couple of days.
So people, don't rely solely on your doctor to solve your problems. Do your own research (from legitimate sites like webmd) and see what you can come up with. Too often these days, doctors just don't care and are just looking for the quick fix to get you out of their office.
**On a side note, I'm currently working over 80 hours/wk at 2 full-time jobs (one is overnight IT shift). I have weekends completely off, still manage to find time to get to the gym, have a decent family life and still feel relatively well rested. Yay B-100!
If it was financial data I might agree with you, but this guy destroyed medical records. How would you feel if all your medical records were destroyed? Especially if you were right in the middle of chemo, or radio, or treatment for AIDS? The thing is, it's not the actual medical records that would have been destroyed, it's the medical INSURANCE records that would have been destroyed. The destruction of insurance records, while causing possible monetary issues for the hospital, insurance company (Medco), and/or patient wouldn't likely cause an interruption of critical services. By the way, I work in IT for an HMO that used to work with Medco.
It also appears that there may be some sort of drug interaction database that also would have been lost, but any doctor with half a brain in his/her skull would be able to deal just fine without a database to tell them what drugs interact with others.
I say to bring back the punishments of olde, like public stoning, public whipping (cat of nine tails), etc.
Give people something to actually FEAR if they're going to consider committing a crime (premeditated). It's pretty obvious that our current methods of punishment aren't effective, so why not go back to something that we all know worked...
Granted, many will say it's a 'human rights violation', but when someone knowingly plans to violate the rights of another, then tough beans! You chose your path, knowing the consequences if you were caught, no one else made that decision but you.
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Agreed. I was having a lot of sleep issues when I first started college. Either not being able to get to sleep, or waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. I also was having issues staying awake in classes. I managed to graduate, and same issues with my job. I was getting enough sleep at around 8 hours/night, and while my nutrition wasn't great, it wasn't horrible either. I was also taking a general multivitamin.
I gave in and went to see the doc, he ran the standard tests (cholesterol and thyroid) and everything came back that I was perfectly healthy. So even with being athletic, and low weight, no apparent physiological issues, my doc wants to put me on sleep meds (ambien). I didn't want a fscking bandaid, I wanted a reason. He didn't want to run a sleep study, and I was unwilling to take meds with an increased incidence of sleep walking/driving.
I gave up with the doctor route, and started taking a low dosage B-complex vitamin which I discovered through my own research can help if you're having sleep issues. Surprisingly, I started feeling a little better, but was still having sleep issues. So I upped the dosage to an extended release B-100 complex. Lo and behold, my sleep issues were almost nonexistent within a couple of days.
So people, don't rely solely on your doctor to solve your problems. Do your own research (from legitimate sites like webmd) and see what you can come up with. Too often these days, doctors just don't care and are just looking for the quick fix to get you out of their office.
**On a side note, I'm currently working over 80 hours/wk at 2 full-time jobs (one is overnight IT shift). I have weekends completely off, still manage to find time to get to the gym, have a decent family life and still feel relatively well rested. Yay B-100!
It also appears that there may be some sort of drug interaction database that also would have been lost, but any doctor with half a brain in his/her skull would be able to deal just fine without a database to tell them what drugs interact with others.
I say to bring back the punishments of olde, like public stoning, public whipping (cat of nine tails), etc. Give people something to actually FEAR if they're going to consider committing a crime (premeditated). It's pretty obvious that our current methods of punishment aren't effective, so why not go back to something that we all know worked... Granted, many will say it's a 'human rights violation', but when someone knowingly plans to violate the rights of another, then tough beans! You chose your path, knowing the consequences if you were caught, no one else made that decision but you.