And where did the government get this guideline from? Doctors. Face it, your friend's Grandma probably was too old to endure cancer treatment.
We all die.
"My doctor's openly admit they don't like engineers, because engineers provide reasoning and seek cause-effect relationships. Doctors do not. They do not care what is the cause, they treat the symptoms."
Precisely my experience. Plus they seem happy to slice a problem into tiny parts so they can send you to specialists, one per part. In the meantime, you lose the relationship between the parts and no specialist will acknowledge the existence of the other parts or their interaction between each other.
Yup, the complexity of the digestive system is mind-boggling. The simplistic approach modern medicine takes to any abdominal issue is alarming.
For example, the staggering ignorance about the appendix...
I have this point of view: the heart beats about sixty times a minute. Sure, if you're very fit like I used to be, you can get down to 45 beats per minute at rest. Tachycardia can get you up to maybe 200 beats per minute.
Point is, the magic word is "minute". You can grab a stethoscope and listen to the heart and listen to the valves. (Do doctors still stoop so low as to listen with their own ears or do they prescribe an MRI to get a temperature?) Or you can get hooked up to an EKG in five minutes and get a complete idea of what's going on. Worst case, you get strapped with a Holter and record daily activities.
In the morning, the heart pumps blood. At noon, the heart pumps blood. At suppertime, the heart pumps blood. In the evening, the heart pumps blood. At night, the heart pumps blood.
In my opinion, the digestive system "beats" once per day. A complete cycle of eating your meals and excreting yesterdays' waste is about that, 24 hours, or about 1400 times slower than a heartbeat, yet we expect to solve abdominal issues with the same five minute timeframe of the typical doctor's attention span.
About the appendix, modern medicine seems to think the appendix only has one possible disease state and that it's detected with 100% certainty in an emergency department. Every other organ in the human body can have dozens of illnesses, but not the appendix. They should study this organ and find out why this is.... Hint... it's not true.
Not science as a whole, but parts of it, yes. Take for example stomach ulcers. In the 1980s of course ulcers were caused by stress (how?) and spicy food (even though billions of people eat spicy every day and they don't get stomach ulcers.)
And this "science" was so thoroughly accepted that no questions were asked when pills were prescribed by the barrel to control stomach acid. Congratulations, you have tools that can modify the inner workings of the human body that so far was able to digest food on its own nicely without pills.
They even went so far as to sever the vagus nerve that controls acid production, with the end result that the ulcers are gone but now you have many, many life-long complications.
https://www.healthline.com/health/vagotomy
Comes along a doctor who thinks that a bacteria is living in the stomach lining and is causing the tissue erosion. Of course, doctors being the arrogant narrow-minded petty narcissists that they are, quickly mocked him. Because how can a bacteria live in stomach acid? (This was around the same time we were discovering about tube worms and extremophiles living near volcanic vents on the sea floor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
He had to swallow the bacteria himself to cause ulcers before the stubborn medical community would listen.
Eventually he got there, but doctors and scientists are just people....
They know how much I weigh and how often I change underwear? I swear it's not my fault, the washing machine broke and I had to push the limits of modern fabrics!
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and use it to pay for school for everyone anyways, thereby eliminating a bunch of inefficient middlemen...
And where did the government get this guideline from? Doctors. Face it, your friend's Grandma probably was too old to endure cancer treatment. We all die.
Oooh is that true? Please email me!
Don't worry, software will bloat along at the same pace!
"My doctor's openly admit they don't like engineers, because engineers provide reasoning and seek cause-effect relationships. Doctors do not. They do not care what is the cause, they treat the symptoms."
Precisely my experience. Plus they seem happy to slice a problem into tiny parts so they can send you to specialists, one per part. In the meantime, you lose the relationship between the parts and no specialist will acknowledge the existence of the other parts or their interaction between each other.
Pompous, arrogant, paper-proud idiots.
Yup, the complexity of the digestive system is mind-boggling. The simplistic approach modern medicine takes to any abdominal issue is alarming.
For example, the staggering ignorance about the appendix...
I have this point of view: the heart beats about sixty times a minute. Sure, if you're very fit like I used to be, you can get down to 45 beats per minute at rest. Tachycardia can get you up to maybe 200 beats per minute.
Point is, the magic word is "minute". You can grab a stethoscope and listen to the heart and listen to the valves. (Do doctors still stoop so low as to listen with their own ears or do they prescribe an MRI to get a temperature?) Or you can get hooked up to an EKG in five minutes and get a complete idea of what's going on. Worst case, you get strapped with a Holter and record daily activities.
In the morning, the heart pumps blood. At noon, the heart pumps blood. At suppertime, the heart pumps blood. In the evening, the heart pumps blood. At night, the heart pumps blood.
In my opinion, the digestive system "beats" once per day. A complete cycle of eating your meals and excreting yesterdays' waste is about that, 24 hours, or about 1400 times slower than a heartbeat, yet we expect to solve abdominal issues with the same five minute timeframe of the typical doctor's attention span.
About the appendix, modern medicine seems to think the appendix only has one possible disease state and that it's detected with 100% certainty in an emergency department. Every other organ in the human body can have dozens of illnesses, but not the appendix. They should study this organ and find out why this is.... Hint... it's not true.
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2012/07/13/a-story-of-a-burst-appendix-and-its-owner-who-lived/
Yes, I think doctors are idiots...
Not science as a whole, but parts of it, yes. Take for example stomach ulcers. In the 1980s of course ulcers were caused by stress (how?) and spicy food (even though billions of people eat spicy every day and they don't get stomach ulcers.)
And this "science" was so thoroughly accepted that no questions were asked when pills were prescribed by the barrel to control stomach acid. Congratulations, you have tools that can modify the inner workings of the human body that so far was able to digest food on its own nicely without pills.
They even went so far as to sever the vagus nerve that controls acid production, with the end result that the ulcers are gone but now you have many, many life-long complications.
https://www.healthline.com/health/vagotomy
Comes along a doctor who thinks that a bacteria is living in the stomach lining and is causing the tissue erosion. Of course, doctors being the arrogant narrow-minded petty narcissists that they are, quickly mocked him. Because how can a bacteria live in stomach acid? (This was around the same time we were discovering about tube worms and extremophiles living near volcanic vents on the sea floor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
He had to swallow the bacteria himself to cause ulcers before the stubborn medical community would listen.
Eventually he got there, but doctors and scientists are just people ....
Someone thought they could run a company that does what my phone does out of the box... really? Taking notes and saving them to my google drive? Wow.
They know how much I weigh and how often I change underwear? I swear it's not my fault, the washing machine broke and I had to push the limits of modern fabrics!
guess that youthful idealism turned into middle-aged "I got mine, do no good"