Re: Swelling while on a cruise

In article <2006Jun6.081022.17303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <jason-0506062056280001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jason Johnson <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <2006Jun5.210604.28073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <jason-0506061518330001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jason Johnson <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <2006Jun5.173704.22948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jason, imagine that you are in an unfamiliar city, and can't find an
address you urgently need to get to. You ask someone on the street
for advice.

Which result would you prefer:

(1) The person gives you detailed instructions that turn out to be so
wrong that you end up much farther away from your destination than when
you started.

(2) The person says "I'm sorry, I don't know where that is. You'll have
to find a map or someone who does know."

I would choose number 2--that's why I told the poster to go to their
doctor to find out the cause of the edema.

No, what you did was more like (1) followed by "or you could look at a map."
Bad advice is *worse* than no advice.

I answered your question so please answer my question. In the majority of
your newsgroup posts, do you try to help people or do you criticize
posters?

I try to help people, just as I'm trying to help you understand why
so many knowledgable people object to your efforts to do so.

Bad advice, even if motivated by a sincere desire to help someone,
is *worse* than no advice.

I feel sorry for people that visit newsgroup just to criticize posters.

I'm trying to explain things to you, to help you and advise you. This
is not criticism.

I have lots of respect for the members of newsgroups that try to help
people even if they sometimes make mistakes.

If you keep track of who posts what, you should have plenty of respect
for the people who you say are criticizing you, and take their good advice.

If you honestly believe that I am the only person that makes mistakes, i
advise you to do a google search on these terms:
malpractice
medical malpractice
Over the years, I have read newspaper stories related to doctors that have
done some really terrible things such as cutting off the wrong limbs and
prescribing the wrong sorts of medications that had a similar name. One of
my co-workers developed minor chest pains and the boss had his wife pick
him up and take him directly to see his doctor. The doctor did a quick
check (about 10 minutes or less as per his wife) and told him that it was
heartburn. About one week later, my friend had a massive heart attack and
died before the ambulance arrived.
His wife filed a malpractice lawsuit but is not allowed to tell us how
much money that she received from the doctor's malpractice insurance
company. Doctors make serious mistakes that cause people to die or to be
disabled on a regular basis--that's why the malpractice insurance rates
keep going higher and higher and higher. In every large city, there are
lawyers that specialize in filing malpractice lawsuits against doctors
that cause their patients to die or to become disabled. One of the local
surgeons had so many malpractice lawsuits that he now works in the local
prison since it means he no longer has to have malpractice insurance. If
you want to criticize people, criticize doctors that cause their patients
to die or to become disabled.
Jason
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