LOL @Wilba32 I'm finding the medical profession has some serious blinkers on.
It's a trope that doctors bury their mistakes.
When they say I'm the expert what they mean is they're expert on the field subject to their definitions and assumptions and it doesn't mean that their field shouldn't be expanding.
The overlaps in specialties is just one issue. The tendency to make assumptions and not follow sound clinical practice is another. By definition, human expertise cannot be without fault nor does it exclude the capacity for error particularly in scope.
I'm not an anti-vaxxer per se, nor am I interested in paranoid theories. But sometimes things are more complicated than the experts would have you believe.
I take comfort that even the brilliant mind of Einstein could err. He couldn't accept the logical extension of his theories of relativity made black holes inevitable, and was challenged on this by a fellow mathematician who at the time was fighting in the trenches during WW1.
Einstein first published his Special Theory of Relativity—which describes his revolutionary ideas about light, time and energy—in 1905. He revisited the theory in this 1912 manuscript when he was asked to write several book chapters.
Imagine that for your day job and relaxation? Experiencing an existential battle in the trenches and deconstructing some of Einstein's theories at the same time. But I suppose there were a lot of quiet times as well.
As the war poet Wilfred Owen observed, war is boredom interrupted by moments of terror.
It beautifully describes working in the public service, or conducting litigation of any type.
Or holding MSB.
The trick is to stay logical, engaged, prepared to resist assumptions and detach from emotion.
As we all know, black holes do exist. This is not just theoretically, but have been demonstrated to exist by the recorded behaviour of nearby systems interacting with them.
Einstein's theories on relativity were simply far more profound and complex than he could accept and he resisted that black holes existed all his life. And this is the expert. The limitations of his theories led to the development of Quantum theory.
Doctors will also follow Occam's razor principles slavishly in medical practice as if they're absolute fact. They will tell you to your face you're imagining stuff. But they too often it seems, refuse to conduct proper examination or revise limitations to tests the same time.
I wouldn't mind, but the refusals are astonishing.
Many years ago I had a doctor telling me to not take glucosamine and chondroitin for a cartilage injury. He also said I'd probably need surgery. I took no notice and continued with the supplements. He point-blank stated that as there was no dedicated blood supply to the cartilage, it was incapable of repairing itself. (The same GP told me that viruses don't mutate. I mean seriously? They do! This was before Covid19 but I mean, seriously?)
He also failed to note that cartilage operations have a very ordinary success rate. Indeed, lack of clinical success hasn't stopped unnecessary or marginally successful operations from being performed in general.
Remunerate, remunerate, dance to the beat!
It's a bug-bear of some informed critics such as Dr Norman Swan, of the medical system overall that outdated inclusions on the Medical Benefits Schedule which are renumerative for the practitioner and of negligible or zero clinical benefit to most patients, survive. A long overdue review is being conducted.
Also there is very little in the way of widespread medical understanding of interactions particularly in immuno compromised patients, such that something that cannot survive on most humans, can survive on such patients. And that it is possible to evade detection if it's not possible to get it under a microscope without being obstructed by blood. The lab says they cannot see through the blood so it comes back with no detection.
The medical system is straining from the loss of boomer doctors, and low Medicare reimbursement fees, rising costs. It's being run by practice managers who are keen to shake off 'difficult' patients with complex medical situations. They will trivialise concerns rather than looking more deeply.
BTW l also rested the knees, and did so rather fanatically. It was painful and boring. Months on, the knees magically healed. The GP then told me I could actually take those supplements after all. I didn't bother explaining to him what I'd already done. The fact is I didn't need surgery either. My legs are fine. I don't lift heavy weights though. I changed GPs of course.
GPs and even specialists will tell you things are absolutely fact whereas they're just applied scientists, and many are not very good ones at that. Everything should be evidence-based. BUT they're running a business they don't have time for science. They over-apply otherwise sound principles and don't ask enough questions. Especially if they're making too many assumptions and not following proper clinical practice. Generally they are overworked and flying by the seat of their pants.
You just have to recalibrate and keep going. The different situation I now have is a painful and difficult skin condition but I'm finding a way.
Adapt Improvise Survive
So far it's served me well. Slowly slowly the bugs are being eliminated and my skin condition is healing. I'm using a variety of methods including varieties of manuka honey which have very high antibiotic properties, which has been documented in trials.
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