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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (2870)	12/26/2005 5:41:20 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

Too many people seek "glamour, status, and cushy jobs". Untill it pays little. India and Eastern Europeans seek the same type of jobs. This work emigrate to those countries. It is getting tough to make money with the professions that tradiotnally were a sure bet. In Curitiba the medical profession had to specialize and invest heavily in technology to charge a decent fee. When someone appear at their offices, they want to make sure they do something to charge a fee An example: I had a knee inflamation 15 months ago. I went to a general doctor, our usual hospital nearby. (USD25/USD30 fee) He gave anti-inflamatory and ask me to go for an orthopedist (around USD80 fee)in case it persisted. He didn't tell me it would take a while, I can now realize. I went to a knee specialist. He sent me to MRI (USD320) and would operate on it if it wouild be of a certain degree of seriousness. Bingo the MRI says it was degree 3. Need to operate on doing an arthroscopy). My wife says: get a second opinion. I went for a second opinion with to a plain old style doctor, same usual hospital I use (USD25/USD30 fee) . Doc examines knee with two hands and says: "Your knee is 75% OK. Don't operate." "It pains if I twist and I jump" I said. He says: "Then don't nor jump on it. I exercise often and I want to keep doing it: "You won't be able to do lunge and do squats anymore, but you can use a machine to exercise the quadriceps. You will bike instead of running." Passed a year, the pain was disappearing and disappearing until I forgot about the knee. Came back to Brazil, 3 weeks ago and the school of my experiment invited me for a 'pelada'. 'Pelada' is soccer game between unfit people. You play and stop chage every 20 min. since people are out of shape, and other take the place. The more fit continue playing. I went and played for 90 minutes. Wheen I was back I remebered my knee was kaputt!!! I just forgot it was. It is now gone! Knee arthroscopy was supoosed to cost USD2.000.