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To: RON BL who wrote (134421)	4/1/2001 12:13:52 AM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ron: But when you are fasting you can't eat.:) Little joe

To: RON BL who wrote (134421)	4/1/2001 4:04:57 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769670

Ron, I think it's worse than that, at least in the situations I have seen and discussed with people. I some percentage of cases, the treatment regime seems to be: 1) Question the patient about the symtoms. 2) Assume they have the '90%' chance diagnosis. Usually, it is untreatable; a virus, or FUO (fever of unknown origin). Don't test for less likely, those potentially more serious, maladies. Instead, wait for some specified period of time. Usually, it goes away. 3) If it doesn't go away, go back to 1. Continue to diagnose the problem one potential problem at a time. Unfortunately, what happens is that when someone is REALLY sick, they usually don't have the '90%' chance problem. By the time the doctors have weaved their way down to the problem serially, the patient has really suffered and possibly gotten much worse. Happened with my wife, who was misdiagnosed several times with acute pain that turned out to be gall bladder. It was removed, and she was fine. She has since talked to several other woman, each described the same symptoms. The other women would describe their symptoms, and before my wife knew what their doctors said, she would respond "Sounds like gall bladder". One woman was astounded; it took her doctor 1 1/2 years to make the diagnosis. Talk about frightening...