Re: Fw: [pdnews] another question

[Guest guest]

You know, I was always under the impression that doctors cared, that they

would do research on patients, tests, etc and when they found out what a

patient had, try various treatments. Since being on this list, and also

doing some realizing of my own, I am of the opinion that dr's don't do much

of anything. They see a patient, say yes, you have to have therapy, and once

a patient is in the hospital or nursing home, they forget about them, do

nothing--don't flat care. As long as they get the money from insurance and

medicare, etc, they are happy to claim the patient. There is so much

information on this list that is easily accessable to dr's, but seeing all

the people in nursing homes, I just know in my heart that the bare minimum is

being done for most people. Very disheartening.

[Guest guest]

Just one other idea on research that may not have been

discussed previously:

The internet is a great source of research and many have used metacrawler

or google or other search engines to look for MSA related articles.

But more is being added to the Internet daily. Here is how to

monitor it daily for free. Go to this site,

http://www.peacefire.org/tracerlock/.

It allows you to enter a search or search terms and then it will search

the internet daily and send you websites via e-mail. I have set up

a search on Shy Drager and get a few articles every day.

Hope this helps.

At 08:49 AM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:

>You know, I was always under the impression that doctors cared, that

they

>would do research on patients, tests, etc and when they found out

what a

>patient had, try various treatments. Since being on this list,

and also

>doing some realizing of my own, I am of the opinion that dr's don't

do much

>of anything. They see a patient, say yes, you have to have

therapy, and once

>a patient is in the hospital or nursing home, they forget about them,

do

>nothing--don't flat care. As long as they get the money from

insurance and

>medicare, etc, they are happy to claim the patient. There is so

much

>information on this list that is easily accessable to dr's, but

seeing all

>the people in nursing homes, I just know in my heart that the bare

minimum is

>being done for most people. Very disheartening.

>

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