Yank fellow was talking to a bunch of young folk at the coffee shop just now and said "The AMA (presumably American Medical Association) is currently working at getting rid of the notion that everything usually goes away by itself so people in future will believe that you have to visit your doctor immediately at the first sign of anything amiss ... so there has never been a better time to be a G.P. It's going to make us all very, very rich." and then he snickered, assuming the others would snicker along with him, but our guys all looked a bit shocked.
I'm guessing that young HK doctors - and I'm assuming they were - aren't big into medicine for the money as are almost all Yank doctors!
So that's my choice for the week:
THREATDOWN
Americans encouraging the whole world to
GO THREATDOWN at every opportunity!
GO THREATDOWN at every opportunity!
I actually saw a program on TV called "The Fragile Human Body" and the ads were running that "humans have immensely fragile bodies that need constant medical attention." It made me so cross.
WE HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEMS, PEOPLE!!
... although ... I have a friend, no names, whose three now-adult children have recently discovered they have no immune systems. Their mother - and you know who you are - never allowed them to play outside and took them to the doctor at the first sign of anything and almost perpetually had them on antibiotics ... and it turns out that she effectively gave her kids AIDS and they will now die the first time anything goes wrong. And there are so very many mothers out there doing the same thing.
Who needs the AIDS virus to wipe out your immune system when you have perfectly good mothers to do it for you!
My mother used to always say "Children need to get sick, get dirty and fall out of trees." and now, according to recent medical discoveries - and isn't it strange how two of these scientists who made this breakthrough used to know my mother? ...
1) getting sick as a child (taking an illness through from start to finish without intervention by antibiotics) means the body is able to create T-cells, which are the Rambos of the immune system
2) spending lots of time romping around and getting dirty when you're young gives you an immunity to auto-immune diseases
3) jarring your bones when you're young keeps away all the oesteo-type problems.
So I guess, what with playstations, hours spent watching TV and on home computers - the mainstays of fussy over-protective on-the-leash parenting - people growing up now won't develop healthy rambunctious immune systems and maybe the AMA has a point and people will indeed have to visit their doctors the first sign of something wrong, since they have indeed given themselves "Fragile Human Bodies".
My father was a doctor and, as an old man, used to say "After practising medicine for 50 years I came to the realisation that we are the real problem. The simple fact is WE DON'T NEED DOCTORS!"
Who needs the AIDS virus to wipe out your immune system when you have perfectly good mothers to do it for you!
My mother used to always say "Children need to get sick, get dirty and fall out of trees." and now, according to recent medical discoveries - and isn't it strange how two of these scientists who made this breakthrough used to know my mother? ...
1) getting sick as a child (taking an illness through from start to finish without intervention by antibiotics) means the body is able to create T-cells, which are the Rambos of the immune system
2) spending lots of time romping around and getting dirty when you're young gives you an immunity to auto-immune diseases
3) jarring your bones when you're young keeps away all the oesteo-type problems.
So I guess, what with playstations, hours spent watching TV and on home computers - the mainstays of fussy over-protective on-the-leash parenting - people growing up now won't develop healthy rambunctious immune systems and maybe the AMA has a point and people will indeed have to visit their doctors the first sign of something wrong, since they have indeed given themselves "Fragile Human Bodies".
My father was a doctor and, as an old man, used to say "After practising medicine for 50 years I came to the realisation that we are the real problem. The simple fact is WE DON'T NEED DOCTORS!"
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