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To: one_less who wrote (204355)	9/26/2006 12:56:59 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

I don't want to diss the medical profession; they mean well, and the docs are taught to restore a person's health to their norm. That's good; ignores preventative medicine, but that's a whole other issue. But, when you go to the doc, they want to tweak you back to good health. They do blood work. Something is too low, so they give you a pill to get you back to the norm (May not be YOUR norm; but it's THE norm for the entire population. If you happen to live normally 3 standard deviations from that norm, you are seen as having unhealthy values; sodium too high or low, glucose, whatever). So there is a pill to correct that. But nothing really changes in isolation, so now we find that has thrown off your potassium or your chloride or calcium or something, so here's a pill to correct that, which, unfortunately, has changed your fluid balance, so here's some Lasix, which has changed your blood pressure so here.... If you don't go to the doc, you won't worry your level is off, you'll have no meds, and your bod will keep it's own balance. Memo to docs...the 70 KG Human only exists in textbooks.