That was sweet of you, Daffodil...
To take so much time to reply to my "GB" whine. Your thoughtful comments are most helpful. The thread responses were great, and as you say such anecdotal evidence is an important offset to the stodgy medical views.
It’s funny that you mention the thyroid. I’d forgotten that many years ago my GP told
me he could feel a nodule on my thyroid gland, on my throat. He tried to show me where it was, but I could never find it. He sent me to a surgeon, and it took him five minutes to find it.
He was amazed at how the GP ever found it. He didn’t think it was anything, but he took
a biopsy anyway, and that came back negative. That was that.
It turned out later that my GP was involved in a multi-million dollar thyroid nodule scam
ring. They were bilking HMOs for all these unnecessary nodule removals, and then selling the
nodules in the Far East, where thyroid nodules are highly prized as aphrodisiacs. The GP
lost his medical license and was ordered to make restitution of the nodules, but in the end
very few victims ever saw a single nodule.
All right, I’m making things up again, about the second part. But who is to say it might
not have happened? All I know is that if I have this operation, I am going to insist that
they show me all the parts they take out. My AAA magazine says that you should always
do that, that it is your right to take a look at them to be sure they were faulty.
Thanks for the good wishes, and I do have every intention of continuing to whine about this on the Sauna.
:-) JC |
