Ed, > The others had me go through all these tests and give up > all sorts of foods (caffeine? garlic? why not just kill me > now?)
I think that the majority of doctors aren't keeping up with the areas of medicine that they need to so that they can be truly effective. Steve's flesh eating bacteria took several days to diagnose. He's alive because he started early, a surgeon in the ER recognized his symptoms, and his cardiologist just happened to be in the hospital at the time he was there. They were about to treat him for a heart attack and give him meds to lower his blood pressure, and that would have killed him because the infection lowers blood pressure to the point that it is deadly. Mortality rates are so high for conditions that are rare. And when you think about it, there are so many rare conditions that each of us are going to know people that have rare conditions. Kristyne McDaniel http://www.mcstyles.com http://www.emryldlife.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
