StarDance Low 'health literacy' widespread

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Hi Stardance: Tell us about your nightmare! There's allot of very knowledgeable

caring folks outthere helping folks who were not getting help by going to the

doctors. Yes I agree in what you wrote. I've been a advocate of patient rights

for years and not well like because of it. Doctors think they are Gods and have

great fear of patients with any knowledge of medicine. Today what you do not

know could and does kill allot of people who trust when they should be

questioning everything connected to modern medicine. Good for you!

 

You think regular MDS are bad try getting to the bottom of anything in a

military hospital like the VA system. Scary at best.

 

Walt

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mystardance

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:17 AM

Re: Low 'health literacy' widespread

 

 

, " lobrien "

<lobrien@a...> wrote: Very scary statistics. Thank heaven for

groups like this that have helped educate me on health matters

beyond what traditional medicine thinks I should know. The cynic in

me says that Big Pharma and the medical establishment wants to

> keep us ignorant and intimidated so we won't question

their 'authority'. LO

 

 

Hi,

 

Yes, that is a big issue and they want it to look like it is the

patient's inadequacy. I am one of those college educated patients

and I have been dropped as a patient for asking questions. Doctors

can have big egos, but at the end of the day I'm the one who gets to

live with whatever I decide to put in my body. It's not just asking

the questions, but being willing and able to find another doctor for

an ongoing medical condition when one gets insulted you and drops

you. Eventually, it gets old and most of us just walk away from

the " big drug/operation racket. " It's pretty sad though because

the people most impacted by this are the ones without internet

access or transportation to a library or even the willingness to

consider something other than what their doctor is saying. Oh, yes,

it's big business and it has little to do with literacy and

assertiveness deficiencies. I'm just glad to be here not wearing

rose colored glasses clawing my way back to where I was before my

medical nightmare began.

 

Jumping off soapbox,

msd

 

P.S. Moderators: Thanks for having this group and for everyone

posting such informative and helpful information.