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Thread #48321   Message #724974
Posted By: Art Thieme
07-Jun-02 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why don't people trust doctors?
Subject: RE: BS: Why don't people trust doctors?
I do trust doctors---until they prove to me that they do not know what is correct for my particular set of symptoms. By then though it is too late to correct their wrong guesses----educated or not. But when they get it right, they get it right. About 50% of the time, where I've been concerned, they did get it right. Somehow I'm not comforted by the fact that, in baseball, the guy would be batting 500. When I am the patient, I look for a better average than that. When I am that patient, just the word AVERAGE where a physician is concerned---especially my physician---scares the hell out of me.

Art Thieme