Comments on: This is the kind of guy who gives doctors a bad name http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KnoxMom http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-2902 KnoxMom Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:24:16 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-2902 Is your pediatrician accepting new patients? :-) Mr. Koster: My insurance is major medical only, which has made me much more aware of what I'm getting for my dollars, even though when I had a PPO it cost more per month for the premuim than what a bill for a well-child visit costs me now. Is your pediatrician accepting new patients? :-)

Mr. Koster: My insurance is major medical only, which has made me much more aware of what I’m getting for my dollars, even though when I had a PPO it cost more per month for the premuim than what a bill for a well-child visit costs me now.

]]> By: Gregory Koster http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1241 Gregory Koster Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:42:06 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1241 Dear Ms. Granju: First it is likely that you are on an insurance plan, so you are only paying a fraction---a small fraction---of your doctor's time. Next, the overbooking you speak of is an attempt to keep waiting times down. Or perhaps you haven't had to wait a month for, say, a physical exam. Next, you are quite right that Dr. Schmidt's style is irritating. Perhaps he is cranky from having to deal with one too many patients like Dave, who mistake the chips growing out of their shoulders for stars, concluding that they are generals giving orders to everyone while they exercise the brains God gave them as part of their postlapsarian state. I'm a bit puzzled at your objections to his conducting medicine in part on the views of physicians he knows. Scientific? Perhaps not to the highest degree? Care to tell us how many doctors views you know of? Is that number big enough to constitute a scientific sample? You are right to say that vaccination is great in the mass, but individuals may have trouble. But you don't specify what vaccines trouble you beyond mentioning rotavirus. How about diptheria vaccines? Are they troublesome? Without specifying what vaccinations trouble you, it's tempting to say that you object to all vaccinations except polio. I must say this seems rash to me, using the brain the devil gave me. Perhaps you could expand on your complaint. More likely not. Sincerely yours, Gregory Koster Dear Ms. Granju: First it is likely that you are on an insurance plan, so you are only paying a fraction—a small fraction—of your doctor’s time. Next, the overbooking you speak of is an attempt to keep waiting times down. Or perhaps you haven’t had to wait a month for, say, a physical exam. Next, you are quite right that Dr. Schmidt’s style is irritating. Perhaps he is cranky from having to deal with one too many patients like Dave, who mistake the chips growing out of their shoulders for stars, concluding that they are generals giving orders to everyone while they exercise the brains God gave them as part of their postlapsarian state. I’m a bit puzzled at your objections to his conducting medicine in part on the views of physicians he knows. Scientific? Perhaps not to the highest degree? Care to tell us how many doctors views you know of? Is that number big enough to constitute a scientific sample?

You are right to say that vaccination is great in the mass, but individuals may have trouble. But you don’t specify what vaccines trouble you beyond mentioning rotavirus. How about diptheria vaccines? Are they troublesome? Without specifying what vaccinations trouble you, it’s tempting to say that you object to all vaccinations except polio. I must say this seems rash to me, using the brain the devil gave me. Perhaps you could expand on your complaint. More likely not.

Sincerely yours,
Gregory Koster

]]> By: Dave http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1214 Dave Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:15:05 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1214 Hah! On the contrary Joe, my physician *is* my personal medical consultant. That's his job! His whole reason for being in his career is so that he can serve people's medical needs. Perhaps you're happier being a herd animal, where the farmer (doctor) comes through, pokes and prods you, listens to your lungs, then injects you with something and puts you on your way. I, however, prefer to exercise the brain that God gave me, and ask questions. If my doctor doesn't want to answer my questions, then I'll find a new doctor. Whether I have the same questions as everyone else is immaterial. Hah! On the contrary Joe, my physician *is* my personal medical consultant. That’s his job! His whole reason for being in his career is so that he can serve people’s medical needs. Perhaps you’re happier being a herd animal, where the farmer (doctor) comes through, pokes and prods you, listens to your lungs, then injects you with something and puts you on your way. I, however, prefer to exercise the brain that God gave me, and ask questions. If my doctor doesn’t want to answer my questions, then I’ll find a new doctor. Whether I have the same questions as everyone else is immaterial.

]]> By: Joe http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1213 Joe Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:03:30 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/25/this-is-the-kind-of-guy-who-gives-doctors-a-bad-name/#comment-1213 Give me a break. Your physician isn't your personal consultant about all things medical. It really is wasting his time explaining to numskulls like you over and over and over again why you're being so stupid with the pretense of being open-minded. God gave you a brain; use it. Give me a break. Your physician isn’t your personal consultant about all things medical. It really is wasting his time explaining to numskulls like you over and over and over again why you’re being so stupid with the pretense of being open-minded. God gave you a brain; use it.

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