   Doctors aren't all that great.
  In order to explain why I dislike doctors I must explain why and what started this. At University our cafeteria had no criteria for what good food actually was, it was good food in the sense that it tasted good but for all other purposes it was garbage. So much infact people who had 6-paks left with giant pot bellies, people who are athletic and did hour runs a day lost lots of stamina, and after eating the food you felt as if it drained you. Many of us by the end of the year would have 2 hour naps after each meal because it was tiring us out just eating it.I myself had severe lack of energy from the food and rashes. I had an awful rash on my back and an infection like the same on my back but on my scalp. I had gone to the doctor the first time and I was perscribed Tetracycline HCL which is a general anti-biotic which cleaned up my back. However at that point my scalp was itchy as hell and my hair was falling out steadily. (hair stays out due to genetics, so mine will return when the infection goes away.) But this medication did nothing for my scalp, so I went back again and I was perscribed the same thing including a topical which smelled like rubbing alcohol. (it probably was) Still after another bottle to T-HCL and a carefully followed instructions on the topical still nothing only now it was more itchy. This lasted until the last month when I started to use nizerol myself literally everyday to stop the inflamation (stopped the itch for a few hours a day).I go back to Newmarket for another appointment and he perscribes this other medication, so I order it and wait a month to later find out the manufacture doesn't make it anymore! I go back and get another perscription for Celbrax (it's spelled something like that) which is the same formula as the one perscribed. So I use that in my daily morning showers, but yet again it still does nothing. At this point my hair is really thin and I've been having this itch for 10 months. 10 Months ....I honestly believe that most doctors are completely and utterly useless, because this isn't the first time they've perscribed something that didn't work or was a misdiagnose. The thought of booleans comic flashes in my head, but I'm just tired of going to doctors. I've also tried vinegar, Nizerol, Polytar, anti-bactoerial soap, and am about to try rubbing alcohol, poly sporine and just 40% alcohol. From what I gather the reason behind the infections that they're told me is fat from my diet is clogging the pores on my scalp (and back) and causing the area to swell and become irritated. (I can take a guess why ...)(Also on a side note I work in an office enviroment where my father works, and he's not bent on the idea that I want and need to shave my head. Another friend on mine had the exact same thing, and he got rid of it quicker this way. I'm really being driven nuts and I'm almost at my limit.)Does anyone else find that doctors are completely useless like I do?   
  Why don't you just stop eating the food?   ;  I am, I live in Newmarket now eating good healthy food. It was the 8 months at University that I was eating prision food (the company also caters to over 700 prisions in North America apparently).   ;  Which university did you go to? Were you staying in residence on a meal plan? If so, that may well have been your mistake. :sAnd yes, doctors do suck, so let us diagnose you instead. BTW, you have cancer. :)   ;  My university uses Sodexho. They lace the food with laxatives so that you crap the stuff out before the crap in the food can mess with your health.I stay far, far away from college food.   ;  this is why you shouldn't live in Canada.   ;Quote:Original post by capn_midnightthis is why you shouldn't live in Canada.My university food and family doctor are top-notch.Just out of curiosity, who outsources your university's food, PP? Perhaps you should start buying and preparing your own food -- it really doesn't take that much time out of your day!   ;Quote:Original post by capn_midnightthis is why you shouldn't live in Canada.Yeah, but going to the doctor doesn't require I sell my house. See, there is never a win-win in life, we all lose in the end, and the worms win.   ;  Doctors, like any other people, can be good or bad at what they do. The fact that medical colleges are so selective and difficult to pass and yet still we get these people should tell you two things: First, medicine is a hard subject, and second, be damned glad that more people aren't practicing medicine! Because they'd suck at it even worse than the doctor in your example did. The real problem is that most people can't really tell if a doctor is good or not. About all you have to go on are friends' recommendations, and if all your friends are healthy, or don't go to doctors, or do go to doctors but have trivially-curable problems, then you won't get useful recommendations. What I'd recommend is to ask the doctor to explain the reasoning not just behind your ailment, but also behind the cure. It really helps to have some knowledge of biology here, not to mention physiology, but a good doctor should at the least be able to explain in mostly-lay terms why what he's doing is the right thing.   ;Quote:Original post by TalrothQuote:Original post by capn_midnightthis is why you shouldn't live in Canada.Yeah, but going to the doctor doesn't require I sell my house. See, there is never a win-win in life, we all lose in the end, and the worms win.incidentally, health insurance, especially government subsidized health insurance, causes the incredibly high price of health care.   