friend of mine was pushed in to getting her apendix out. Luckily she gave my training partner a call and in turn made a call to someone a little more knowlageable.

Basically the doc said she needed them out and to come back to check again and they'd get her straight in.

The info he got was do not have the surgery without a catscan first.

She went back and insisted on a catscan. He refused so her Mum said to go to another doc.

She went to another doc who actually sent her for some tests. (blood work etc)
The results-didn't need the op!

Bet she's glad that someone doesn't blindly follow our all knowing medical heros.

I hear many stories like this too

My dad is actually missing his splean. It was mantioned in one op to be there and doing fine. Later in ops it wasn't mentioned and blood work and ultra sounds say its not there any more.....

There are GOOD docs and bad docs like there are in anything.'

However, thier training is pretty narrow minded and much of it is pushing pills. The studies and tests on the pills come from the sellers so.....

Take for example drug testing.

In general meds are tested on men NOT women.

See women are a little harder to work with since they have thier monthly cycles and hormone levels etc change accordingly.

Of course x amount y drug
taken near the end, middle, or beggining of the cycle can very well have different effets. It could be too much at times and too little at others (never mind often enough they are simple symptom coverers -symptom comes from the word signal -greek I think).

So quite logically they make it all easier by testing on men.

Then of course give them to women too. Never mind the testing on men is often not done well.

On the same thought path way we all have cycles. In fact most symptoms and even heart attacks happen at certain times of the day. Asthma attacks etc

our daily rythems have highes and lows of different hormones like cortisol and melatonin for example.

a med taken at supper and breaky can have vastly different effects.

How many times have you read in the paper about x drug taken off the market?

The drug companies job is to sell a product, make profit. Legally it is too!!

Not to help you or worry about your well being.

these industries DO have big influence on the med universities and billions is spent wining and dining your doc and mine to get them to use each companies magic pills (warning-may cause worse things than you have but we have pills for that too)