Two stories about medicine that trouble me.

[Edwina's Secretary]

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As a society we tend to take the easy route when we are confronted with a problem. The days when we’d “suck it up” are going, now we rely on a pill, surgery or technology to take care of or ills, all in the name of convenience.

Why is that wrong?

If there is a pill or a surgery or technology that makes life better/easier/less painful....is it better to suffer..to suck it up....to take the tougher route?

Still doesn't make sense to me....unless you are into some kind of alternative lifestyle that values pain and suffering.....

(and you are welcome....I have left you all sorts of alternatives to make jokes instead of answering the questions...)

[RICHARD]

Why is that wrong?

If there is a pill or a surgery or technology that makes life better/easier/less painful....is it better to suffer..to suck it up....to take the tougher route?

Still doesn't make sense to me....unless you are into some kind of alternative lifestyle that values pain and suffering.....

(and you are welcome....I have left you all sorts of alternatives to make jokes instead of answering the questions...)

I guess I like the humility of man.

What is pain and suffering?

I guess it's not an option to rise above and conquer pain or suffering?

Or do we just take a knee and pray, instead of meeting a problem head on?

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About May of last year I coded a case where a resident surgeon cut the hepatic artery of a man that was in for a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal). The guy bled out on the O.R. table.

Oops!

A very simple operation to make his life better?


The scapel can only change the physical.
We haven't invented anything to cure the soul.

If I am ever stuck in the theoretical foxhole and have to choose my buddy,
I want the person who has cleaned a rear end, wiped up puke or smiled and said to someone with gangrene on their foot, "everything will be O.K...."

I like liars with heart, They seem to stick around try to help.
The truth tellers run away to find help.

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I'd rather trust a countryman than a townman,
You can judge by his eyes, take a look if you can,
He'll smile through his guard,
Survival trains hard.
I'd rather trust a man who works with his hands,
He looks at you once, you know he understands,
Don't need any shield,
When you're out in the field.
-G

[Edwina's Secretary]

Okay...so you think pain and suffering is noble and romantic.

I think it is pain and suffering.

And I think parents who do what they can to save their child from pain and suffering are noble.

So next time you are in pain...please no aspirin, no medicine, no surgery...just your humility. Rise above your pain and suffering.

And let the child be in pain and suffer for they too can rise through humility and transcend the pain.

No thanks.

[TamanduaGirl]

About May of last year I coded a case where a resident surgeon cut the hepatic artery of a man that was in for a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal). The guy bled out on the O.R. table.

Hardly an elective surgery my father would be dead if he hadn't had his out.

[RICHARD]

Hardly an elective surgery my father would be dead if he hadn't had his out.

There is a difference between elective and emergency GB surgery.

Some docs will wait for the "itis" to go away and do it as an elective.

[Lobodeb]

There is a difference between elective and emergency GB surgery.

Some docs will wait for the "itis" to go away and do it as an elective.

Or preventative! No one in my family is buried with a gall bladder. I was having pain in the area, but they couldn't find any stones. The doctor said, "well, given your family history, I should just take it out now and spare you the whole ordeal!"

I'm leaving now to go knock on some wood.

[RICHARD]

Or preventative! No one in my family is buried with a gall bladder. I was having pain in the area, but they couldn't find any stones. The doctor said, "well, given your family history, I should just take it out now and spare you the whole ordeal!"

I'm leaving now to go knock on some wood.

Same as elective.


Shave the wood down and make a salad?

Fiber helps!