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In the 20th century!?Some groups fought regular hand washing until it became vital for survival.
Some doctors would say that your TSH is normal, but your T4 is low. This suggests that your pituitary might not be functioning correctly.Today I saw the Endo and was told my TSH 1.5/FT4 0.90 are now normal after 6 weeks on Levothyrixine.
I think a good reply to that (which I would not have thought of at the time) would be to say, in an equally nice voice, "I understand that you did not study supplements and cannot really say anything about them".She also bashed (in a nice voice) my use of supplements, she can't realy say if they maybe are making me feel worse.
In the 20th century!?
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis[Note 1] (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) (born Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis) was a Hungarian physician of German extraction[1] [2] now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "savior of mothers",[3] Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.[3] Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%–35%. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847[3] while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success. In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed
What are all the univerisites researching these days ?
When I was in hospital I asked this question to the doctors, there answer?They see hundreds of people they can't cure, yet they continue to do the same thing over and over. Surely they want to help people. Surely they know better. What gives? Whats the motivation behind sticking their head in the sand? or giving out diagnosis that they can't back up with the slightest bit of science?.
When I was in hospital I asked this question to the doctors, there answer?
Just doing my job. It's not our job to look at journals or research or tests that you've read about in studies. They were unanimously disinterested in such things.
Remember, they aren't paid to think beyond their boundaries. One retiring GP recently told me he sleeps well at night knowing he's done routine tests.
It's just a job to most of them. I'm guessing that they go home and forget about work. I'm not saying they don't sympathise what so ever when they see you but lots of bad things happen in the world and you're not their problem. Even if they read about non-routine tests & treatments, they rarely want to stick their necks out on the line, after all you're just one patient out of thousands.
Edit: Nurses have told me they could lose their job just for putting me in contact with someone who was willing to administer b12 injections. This is in the UK.
In the 20th century!?
I hold the CDC directly accountable for the decline of my condition for many years.
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Your hypothesis is entirely logical, whether it occurred that way or not is another matter requiring lot of research, but the ludicrous view of the System is that "getting rid of a disease = GOD MODE!" and has no downsides, which is bullcrap
we live in a real very complex world, practical biology is so complex it makes physics look like playing noughts and crosses
The whole battle is going on again. In the 50s, I INSISTED that the orthodontist wash his hands right in front of me before working on my mouth. They rarely did in those days. In the 80s and 90s when we were doing office audits and reviews of office cleanliness, including sterilization of instruments and hand washing, there wasn't enough washing. RIGHT NOW part of the big campaign to control MRSA is, you guessed it , hand washing between each patient.
It's sooo true. To be honest, two of the doctors I've either met or have read a lot online that are dealing with methylaton are doing it BECAUSE they are looking for ways to help folks. And they found something that is working for some people and they dug deeper to figure out the why.
I think most of them care, but if the EXPERTS (Ha) claim that our best treatment is antidepressents; they can't afford the malpractice insurance that would result if the don't follow the experts advice and something goes wrong. As long as they follow the standardized treatment, they can't be sued. The minute they step off the path - they are at risk of lawsuits.
It doesn't matter what words are selected if someone has ever had an Axis 1 diagnosis like, Bipolar Disorder.
It does not matter what I say or what materials I present - I am considered delusional. It does not matter that I do not have any symptoms, nor if I do not need to take psychotropic medications. My insistence that Bipolar Disorder was simply symptoms of larger underlying metabolic problems, falls on deaf ears.
My diagnosis will be Bipolar Disorder the rest of my life. Shame on them....