Re: Why socialized medicine is inevitable

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:10:05 -0500

sinister wrote:

>
> All you're saying is that you're smarter than many doctors. That doesn't
> establish that patients are smart enough to seek care that will benefit them
> in the long term.

Since I can take steps in that direction, so can any one else. I am not
special. I have benefrited in the long term because I have learned the
modalities of health maintainance (self taught of course) and I keep up
with the latest developments in treatment and diagnostics. I even know
how an MRI machine works which most of the MRI technicians do not know
(spin relaxation, a quantum mechanical effect).

Bob Kolker

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