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One thing everyone needs to understand is the title a person holds whether it is an Engineer, Scientist, Doctor, Chemist, Accountant, CEO, President, or Janitor is they are individuals with a variety of opinions and beliefs just like you and me. That they hold a position is more about their ambition and ability to have some skills in a certain area does not make them someone special. Their beliefs are a combination of life experiences and instruction they have received whether it is a formal or informal education.

To summarize that, I will refer to a comment my husband uses. “It doesn’t matter what a person’s title is. They all drop their pants and take a poop like the rest of us. I’ll respect the title but the person still has to prove themselves to me.”

How does all that tie in with the title?

Specialists in the medical field are quite good at what they do. I have nothing but respect for their professions and their service provided. However, there is a little detail most individuals overlook in the USA. Courtesy of some federal government regulations, competition issues, and generally laziness of the patient in tending to their own medical issues, specialists represent vulnerability in the USA medical system. The specialists have their copy of your medical records that pertain to them. Your Family Practice doctor doesn’t have the same copy unless you, the patient, have the foresight to give it to them.

IF the individual doctor stays current on the wealth of information in their field AND can get past what they were told to believe even when verifiable facts disprove a long standing assumption, then you have a good doctor. However, doctors are human too. Combined with insufficient information from incomplete medical records and generally accepted assumed practices, a Family Practice or general doctor can make a mistake that compounds issues. It happens all too frequently.

Let me give you a real life example.

My hubby has issues with his ankles like I’ve written about before. His left one causes a daily problem with a blood vessel. That in turn increases his cholesterol as the liver produces it to mend the interior walls of the blood vessels. The Orthopedic doctor knows about the blood vessel issue but the Family Practitioner only saw the blood test results and wanted to move on medication for the elevated cholesterol which was related to the ankle injury. That caused even more problems.

His father got hit with what is called the pharmacology ladder. Basically, he also had problems with blood vessels in his legs. At that time, they thought the cholesterol caused the heart issues so he was prescribed Statin. But each long term side effect of the statin was not recognized as coming from the medication so more medication was prescribed. In the end, he has far more medical issues to deal with because of the medication than he had before it. This unfortunately is becoming more and more common. The medical industry is killing the patients with the medicine. You can read more about it here, here, and here.

Thank you,

Anah