Guest guest Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Greetings, I appreciate your point of view, but for me, a great doctor is one who realizes that all humans are not exactly the same, we are not machines. Our bodies react to things differently. I had a great doctor in my twenties, DR. Marner in Edmonton Alberta. He even made house calls, when really needed in the deep of the winter. I am alive only because of his fine doctoring. He believed in letting the body heal itself, in trying everything natural before reaching for the prescription pad. And most important, looking for causes. He wanted to know why you were sick, he didn't just treat the symptoms. He was thirty or more years ahead of his time. He would rearrange your diet, get you to try going vegetarian and understood how to do it. But also realized that some of us will die on that diet. He wanted to find what worked for each patient, and knew we were not all exactly the same. But, what I really love the man for, he read the research on aspartame when it first came out and warned all his patients that it was poison. He said, give it twenty years and the horror stories will surface. I am so grateful I listened. Bright Blessings, Garth & Kim On 1/13/2011 2:11 PM, Gammill wrote: > What makes a great doctor? " Great " is such a vague term. I am sure that > many people have assembled a list of attributes to characterize a great > doctor. My great grandfather Sterling Price Gammill was often considered > the greatest physician in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains. It was said that he > could deliver a baby better drunk than any other doc could while sober. > Hmmm. Dual skills. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Garth and Kim, You are reminiscing about a doc from a different time and a different place -- a world where some of the practitioners' sense of responsibility came from the heart. If he were to teleport into the US in 2011, he would have to pay a fortune in liability insurance, half his time would be spent filling out paperwork, he would be mandated to practice stand-of-care formulary medicine or the state medical board would take his license. Re: [ ] A great doctor Greetings, I appreciate your point of view, but for me, a great doctor is one who realizes that all humans are not exactly the same, we are not machines. Our bodies react to things differently. I had a great doctor in my twenties, DR. Marner in Edmonton Alberta. He even made house calls, when really needed in the deep of the winter. I am alive only because of his fine doctoring. He believed in letting the body heal itself, in trying everything natural before reaching for the prescription pad. And most important, looking for causes. He wanted to know why you were sick, he didn't just treat the symptoms. He was thirty or more years ahead of his time. He would rearrange your diet, get you to try going vegetarian and understood how to do it. But also realized that some of us will die on that diet. He wanted to find what worked for each patient, and knew we were not all exactly the same. But, what I really love the man for, he read the research on aspartame when it first came out and warned all his patients that it was poison. He said, give it twenty years and the horror stories will surface. I am so grateful I listened. Bright Blessings, Garth & Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Having been a Group Insurance Specialist after my tenure as a Government Agent, I have a working knowledge of the wall ‘good doctors’ are up against. I know a couple of ‘good’ doctors and yes, they have to be concerned with State Boards. Understand this, however, these boards are headed up by Medical Doctors and the Gold Standard or Standard of Care is made up by doctors for doctors to assure the system works exactly how they want it to work. It is not some Government conspiracy it is pure and simple, Medical Economics............in favor of The Medical Industry of course. As for Mal-Practice premiums? I do not know how they arrive at the numbers but you can be assured it is a function of Insurance Company profits coupled with actual Mal-Practice. I often use: ‘The reason there are so many mal-practice suites is because there is so much mal-practice’. Some have reported that in states where Mal-Practice suits were limited, mal-practice premiums did not get reduced. Seems like standard Insurer shenanigans going on. None of this is new to most list members however, I am sure many new people are beginning to learn about the much heralded profession that has gain its primary function whether or not it benefits the patient. Gain/Profit are not bad terms but the kind of commercialism we are not facing goes beyond good practices with much of it nothing more than hype with little benefit. Whether it be the TV adds running 24/7 or the Internet barage with a new potion every two weeks, we face a daunting task to get some bang for the buck. Joe C. From: Gammill Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:52 PM Subject: RE: [ ] A great doctor Garth and Kim, You are reminiscing about a doc from a different time and a different place -- a world where some of the practitioners' sense of responsibility came from the heart. If he were to teleport into the US in 2011, he would have to pay a fortune in liability insurance, half his time would be spent filling out paperwork, he would be mandated to practice stand-of-care formulary medicine or the state medical board would take his license. Re: [ ] A great doctor Greetings, I appreciate your point of view, but for me, a great doctor is one who realizes that all humans are not exactly the same, we are not machines. Our bodies react to things differently. I had a great doctor in my twenties, DR. Marner in Edmonton Alberta. He even made house calls, when really needed in the deep of the winter. I am alive only because of his fine doctoring. He believed in letting the body heal itself, in trying everything natural before reaching for the prescription pad. And most important, looking for causes. He wanted to know why you were sick, he didn't just treat the symptoms. He was thirty or more years ahead of his time. He would rearrange your diet, get you to try going vegetarian and understood how to do it. But also realized that some of us will die on that diet. He wanted to find what worked for each patient, and knew we were not all exactly the same. But, what I really love the man for, he read the research on aspartame when it first came out and warned all his patients that it was poison. He said, give it twenty years and the horror stories will surface. I am so grateful I listened. Bright Blessings, Garth & Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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