my personal experience has been that there are 'standard causes' to every ailement.
"do you smoke'?
"you're overweight"
If either apply then the doctors pretty much stop looking. They consider it to be self inflicted and aren't very interested until you're fit as a fiddle...in which case you no longer need to see a doctor.
I'm only half joking.
regarding BP meds...I considere them to be the prime cause of all my health problems...and they were mandated by the government in order to bring my BP down from "normal for my age" to 'artificial low set by regulation'.
Things went down hill from there.
I heard that! My BP is typically around 95/73... at my age, that's pretty good. The problem I had was that "croaker" that dispensed pain meds stressed me out so bad it was 120/95 so they put me on meds I really didn't need. My BP would get artificially low and I'd pass out. It was bad, I'd get up in the morning and fall flat on my face.
damn.
mine was 140/something.
140 used to be considered normal for middle age...then they wrote a regulation saying that was bad...
suddenly BP meds were in high demand.
Funny how that works! My heart doc that I'm going to be seeing is the guy that told me about salt and BP. He said that the whole thing was based on 1 study that was debunked in the 70's, but they ran with it anyway. He said: "You have to eat salt- your body is made of salt too, if you don't eat it, you die!"
yup.
I find it highly disturbing when I know more about something than the specialists I pay on that subject.
Have you noticed that almost all doctors now days are children?
they look like it anyway.
also cops...
I suspect that patting them on the head and saying 'there, there' is contra-indicated.
I've noticed! Another thing is that none of them are American (doctors). The VA hospital here in AR is all foreigners few of whom even speak English!
I got pulled over a few years ago because my brake light was out. The cop looked like he didn't even shave yet! He also had his gun most of the way out of its holster. I remarked about to a friend on the force and he said that's how they're training them now... it's the Us vs Them mentality- makes it difficult to support the boys in blue!
I fear the boys in blue.
the fact that there are so many boys.
and so few men
is one of the reasons.