Yes, if one is curious about and interested in one's own real health situation and status, and isn't easily satisfied with superficial, glib 'answers' and responses to serious queries thereabouts...
...even oftentimes in the process discovering and uncovering concerning, disturbing realities thereabouts dismissed by 'the experts' on an ongoing basis as merely the product of essentially being one of the worried well, or - much worse - of being paranoid and essentially a hypochondriac...
don't be surprised if - despite your incredible discoveries long dismissed as ridiculous by the medical fraternity - they revert quickly to putting you in your place - i.e. that of being one of the ignorant proles (as - in an interesting ironic twist, as per our discussion here upon being differentiated from the medical intelligentsia - that ingenious writer George Orwell 'shorthanded' the proletarian masses in his classic 1984); who (i.e. said masses) are actually, and very fortunately - as his main character Winston Smith soon enough discovers - by this very happenstance of fate thus removed from some of the more blatant indoctrination accruing to the general population of Oceania...
...i.e. someone who knows nothing, zilch, zip about health matters in general much less one's own health situation in particular...
...one all so easily, and frequently, fobbed off not only with such, but with curt, know-it-all responses, almost indignant reactions to perfectly legitimate and reasonable enough queries and questions...
...letting you know in no uncertain terms just where you really, actually stand upon the healthcare pedestal, i.e. on the very bottom-most rung, veritably like the medieval feudal serf who must wait hand and fist upon his (or her) master - or mistress - in the vain hope that just occasionally such may happen to mercifully drop a few morsels of their God-given bounty in your particular direction...
...for which you're expected to be exceedingly grateful and put your head effectively in your hands declaring "Yes sir"/"Yes ma'am" - "No ma'am"/"No sir"..."three bags full, sir/ma'am"...
All apparently so they can maintain their esteemed position of 'top dog' upon the healthcare heirarchy.
Yes, welcome to the future, I mean, back to the - distant - past of the master and his/her slave, grateful for just a look of sympathy in one's particular direction if it so happened to suit the superior class...for, after all, are they not 'God's gift to humanity'...?
Yes, welcome to the real world of modern Western medicine, which considers itself omniscient yet actually knows a whole lot less than it cares to believe...
...though it, quite frankly, could care less...
...even oftentimes in the process discovering and uncovering concerning, disturbing realities thereabouts dismissed by 'the experts' on an ongoing basis as merely the product of essentially being one of the worried well, or - much worse - of being paranoid and essentially a hypochondriac...
don't be surprised if - despite your incredible discoveries long dismissed as ridiculous by the medical fraternity - they revert quickly to putting you in your place - i.e. that of being one of the ignorant proles (as - in an interesting ironic twist, as per our discussion here upon being differentiated from the medical intelligentsia - that ingenious writer George Orwell 'shorthanded' the proletarian masses in his classic 1984); who (i.e. said masses) are actually, and very fortunately - as his main character Winston Smith soon enough discovers - by this very happenstance of fate thus removed from some of the more blatant indoctrination accruing to the general population of Oceania...
...i.e. someone who knows nothing, zilch, zip about health matters in general much less one's own health situation in particular...
...one all so easily, and frequently, fobbed off not only with such, but with curt, know-it-all responses, almost indignant reactions to perfectly legitimate and reasonable enough queries and questions...
...letting you know in no uncertain terms just where you really, actually stand upon the healthcare pedestal, i.e. on the very bottom-most rung, veritably like the medieval feudal serf who must wait hand and fist upon his (or her) master - or mistress - in the vain hope that just occasionally such may happen to mercifully drop a few morsels of their God-given bounty in your particular direction...
...for which you're expected to be exceedingly grateful and put your head effectively in your hands declaring "Yes sir"/"Yes ma'am" - "No ma'am"/"No sir"..."three bags full, sir/ma'am"...
All apparently so they can maintain their esteemed position of 'top dog' upon the healthcare heirarchy.
Yes, welcome to the future, I mean, back to the - distant - past of the master and his/her slave, grateful for just a look of sympathy in one's particular direction if it so happened to suit the superior class...for, after all, are they not 'God's gift to humanity'...?
Yes, welcome to the real world of modern Western medicine, which considers itself omniscient yet actually knows a whole lot less than it cares to believe...
...though it, quite frankly, could care less...
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