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The New-Patient Appointment (Part II)
So I’m sitting in the treatment room on my first visit to Dr. Suzanne Lamanna and the almost-an-LPN has just told me that this appointment is “just a meet-and-greet,” then she tries to take my blood pressure. She fails to manipulate the … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, blood pressure, doctor, Dr. Suzanne Lemanna, habituate, Health Care, Licensed practical nurse, LPN, Medicine, meet-and-greet, Patient, patients rights, physician, power
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How to Know If Your Drugs Are Hurting You
My mother was in her eighties when she became constipated, so she started eating whole wheat bread and drinking prune juice. It didn’t help. At her next regularly scheduled physician’s appointment (after you develop chronic illness, they tell you … Continue reading
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Tagged Abilify, arthritis, Constipation, diabetes, Diagnosis, doctors, drugs, drugstore, Family Circle, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Gabapentin, Good Houskeeping, headache, Health Care, kidney disease, manufacturer's insert, Medicine, menstrual bleeding, Neurontin, pain, patients, PDR, Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacist, Pharmacy, physician, Physicians Desk Reference, side effects, Symbicort
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Men, Women and Doctors
The sun has risen on a skiff of snow covering the houses and hills outside my window. My home and I are quiet this morning. James Taylor’s “You’ve Got a Friend” accompanies tea. Rainbows are dancing off the prism … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Ativan, bipolar, Bipolar disorder, bully, complaince, Conditions and Diseases, Disability, doctors, Drug, drugs, God, Health Care, Lorazepam, Medicine, men, MS, multiple sclerosis, patients, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, physician, physicians, power, psychologist, relationships, sex, side effects, sleep, sleep apnea, Sleep disorder, spirituality, therapist, Values | Tagged antidepressants, women
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Doctor-Controlled Diabetes
During the drugging years I had been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, type II; the doctor had said, “Over weight and over forty.” It was diet controlled, that is, I progressively kept eliminating from my diet all the things that were pushing … Continue reading
Posted in doctor, drugs, patient, physician, psychiatrist, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged American medical industry, blood sugar, celiac disease, control, control freak, diabetes, diabetes mellitus, diet, dietician, doctor, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, drugs, endocrine, Glucophage, Glucose, Health Care, health care system, insulin, Joslin Clinic, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, pharmaceuticals, power, powerlessness, sickness care system, side effects, stress, Upstate Medical Center, Values | Tagged carbohydrates
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