What do we do about doctors after we have proven our point?

[Guest guest]

> When I went to the other allergist, who had seen it before, he knew

right away how all the

> symptoms fit together.

> I haven't decided wether to have the new " good " doc send him a

report to rub his nose in

> his failing to diagnose a serious medical condition, or just to

forget it.

>

Historically, doctors who have consistently demonstrated their utter

incapacity to respond in a meaningful way to an unfamiliar phenomenon

have escaped any censure, review, questions of misconduct or

competence or scarcely even an unkind word.

Unlike almost any other line of employment, in which proven

incapacity, unprofessionalism or incompetence has consequences,

doctors can freely spend a hundred years ignoring the exclusionary

evidence regarding stress causality of ulcers, Tuberculosis, PMS,

Chemical Sensitivities, and an almost endless list of other senseless

mistakes. And when their scientific failure is revealed, and

their " psychologizing " of patients is shown to have been a struggle

against the truth, doctors simply start charging people in accordance

with their new belief system.

This complete lack of review of a doctors capacity to respond using

the scientific method has led to the absolutely incredible and amazing

situation in which doctors who formerly charged patients to tell them

that mold illness is totally impossible can suddenly become " mold

experts " and charge for advice concerning the complete opposite

without a single word of explanation for their failure to respond to

evidence in a scientific manner to all the patients who told them the

identical story.

I don't wish to make life difficult for doctors who have finally

corrected their views to correspond with reality, but at the same

time, any hope you had that doctors may feel the slightest pinch for

their years of abuse and denial is dashed.

Either they retire without ever changing their views, or they simply

switch sides without a word.

Either way, you get no justice.

So I'm in favor of at least a mild rebuke for doctors who were slow on

the uptake but are making an effort. To escape the deserved

remonstrance and reproof for a stance that has creatd great hardship

for their patients, they may deomonstrate the earnest nature of their

desire to correct this injustice and stop their denier colleagues by

adding their voices to the call for a means to educate doctors

that " In the face of obvious abnormalities, skepticism is

inappropriate " -Dr R. Shoemaker.

For the thoroughly intransigent doctors, get Mold Warriors and slam

them with the facts until they beg for mercy.

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