Height/Weight: Re: [geeks] quiet

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Mike Meredith wrote:

> Do you *really* want to gamble with your daughter's future health that
> you're right and they're wrong ? You may be right, but if it was me,
> I'd want to be *damm* sure that was the case before rejecting the
> advice of a health care professional who should know more about it than
> myself.

You would think, huh?  Let me tell you something - I've learned to check
around and talk to as many professionals (Western, Eastern, and
Naturopathic) as I can find.  If I hadn't, I'd:

A) Have taken for a longer term a drug that causes heart attacks and was
pulled from the market.  When I identified the concerns I had, the
Speacialist said "It's a fine drug."  A month later it was off the market,
but I had already taken myself off of it.

B) Be suffering from major stomach problems still, as the same
"Specialist" told me that my problem "just happened" and to stay on
Prilosec.  Turns out there was a cause, and the Prilosec was not helping,
it was aggrivating the issue.

C) My index finger would be fused.

D) I'd *still* be walikng around on a broken foot, as the first *two*
Dr.'s to look at it didn't see anything wrong other than my shattered
toes, and never took an MRI to look at why the TOP of my foot hurt...

... and the list goes on ...

I'm not saying that all doctors are bad.  Far from it, most of the ones
I've worked with have been quite good.  But, just like any profession
(especially Dentists), there are a lot of "add-ons", and sometimes very
little medicine.

-Pete