From the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, 2008
SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
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And just what would your Doctorate be in to give such worldly advice? I kind of find your tone condescending here.....sorry if that's not the way you meant it....but that's the way I took it!
Sounds to me like after 19 years of doctors and I am sure a lot of tests....he probably has all of the above without very many questions.
Hey Tjburk
I don’t need a doctorate to be skeptical about the sorry state of the medical profession and the all too high risk of someone being misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder instead of finding out what's really wrong.
In fact, the risk of being injured (or possibly dying) due to a medical error is now even greater than a car wreck. Just Google "Medical Malpractice Lawsuits" and you'll see the magnitude of the problem. On this note, here’s an article on the sorry state of the health care system: :shakeshead:
www.sfgate.com/.../article.cgiwww.sfgate.com/.../viewwww.sfgate.com/.../article.cgi
It’s becoming more convenient for doctors to just slap a psychiatric label on the patient rather than take time to do a legitimate diagnosis.
And when it comes to “compassionate care”, HMOs and their doctors view the patient with the moral equivalent of just another junk car to be run through the scrap metal shredder:
www.youtube.com/watch
Dolphin 2
And just what would your Doctorate be in to give such worldly advice? I kind of find your tone condescending here.....sorry if that's not the way you meant it....but that's the way I took it!
Sounds to me like after 19 years of doctors and I am sure a lot of tests....he probably has all of the above without very many questions.
Hey Tjburk
I don’t need a doctorate to be skeptical about the sorry state of the medical profession and the all too high risk of someone being misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder instead of finding out what's really wrong.
In fact, the risk of being injured (or possibly dying) due to a medical error is now even greater than a car wreck. Just Google "Medical Malpractice Lawsuits" and you'll see the magnitude of the problem. On this note, here’s an article on the sorry state of the health care system: :shakeshead:
www.sfgate.com/.../article.cgiwww.sfgate.com/.../viewwww.sfgate.com/.../article.cgi
It’s becoming more convenient for doctors to just slap a psychiatric label on the patient rather than take time to do a legitimate diagnosis.
And when it comes to “compassionate care”, HMOs and their doctors view the patient with the moral equivalent of just another junk car to be run through the scrap metal shredder:
www.youtube.com/watch
Dolphin 2
