It's not the number of tests, its the quality of the health care you receive!

Stupid doctors! What in the hell do they know anyways?!?

I had a dr tell me one time, as much as we'd like to think that medicine is a science, sometimes it simply isn't. I got up, told the girl at the front desk not to dare sending me a bill and walked out. No bill.

Actually, sometimes it is more of an art than a science.

Diagnostics especially. There are people who are good at it because the have the appropriate feel for it, have the breadth of experience to make the right conclusions.

But we don't need that any more. We've got politicians telling doctors what is and is not good medical care.

Nowadays all they want to do is prescibe pill after pill until they find something that cures what's ailing ya. Then of course they have to find a pill to fix the side effects of the previous pills.

I loath doctors.

^ I had a doctor that did that once. I walked in with a hbad case of hemmeroids, and the first thing he did was proscribe me medication.

He also told me that because my cholesterol was *slightly* elevated in one test that if I didn't go on a cholesterol-limiting medication I would die.

I dumped him after the hemmeroid visit and found another doctor. And, amazing as it sounds, it didn't require a politician telling me what to do.

Does this mean that a person no longer has to attend 8 years of schooling to become a doctor? Hmmm...maybe I'll go back to school. You probably still need 8 years of schooling. Only now 5 years is medicine, etc, and the other 3 years are law related (malpractice).

^ Actually, according to His Excellency Barack (Idi Amin) Hussein (boy whiner) Obama, all you have to do is lie real good, and sucker over 50% of the voters into electing you in order to determine the same thing as any doctor.

It doesn't hurt if you have ACORN stuffing the ballot box either.