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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (53336)	8/9/2009 5:34:20 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217931

I seldom have health insurance. I rely on my anti-bodies. When I get a cold. People ask: "Have you been to the doctor?" I never go. Although in Africa malaria may hit you with cold-like symptoms too. I don't go to the doctor because I am afraid of the way he use to take my money. First: he is a guy who studied to get a license to prescribe drugs. He applies on you a tactic that will make you buy drugs. I am talking about developing countries doctors. Not the sort you have in developed countries. The first REAL doctor I met, I was 33 years old. He was German. Before I have met only Brazilian butchers. Because of the butchers I am very careful to approach a doctor. I usually talk with half dozen of them and read before.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (53336)	8/9/2009 6:09:14 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 217931

How I learned not to trust a doctor: I faced death and the doctor did not see it. 1980 I was in a city near Parana River (along its margins you may get malaria.) Went to river margin restaurant for dinner of Dourado fish at night and mosquitoes bite me. I had had a cold and was not 100% fit again. I started feeling weak. I forced food down the throat even without much appetite and drunk gallons of fresh orrange juice. And kept getting weak and weaker. Went to the doctor. He said I had low blood pressure. I had a sinusitis he said. And -yes- he gave me a full bag of drugs. In 5 days I could barely walk. I went to buy Sunday newspaper. And it was heavy to carry. I laid in bed the whole Sunday and if the hotel had caught fire I would be burned alive since I had no strength to stand up. As soon as I got strong I jumped in the bus and travelled the 600Km to S. Paulo. Then the saga really begun. I wanted to know what was wrong with me. Asked company doctor. He send to a another doctor. When I asked what was wrong. He said I only have to send me to make an Xray of the face to detect sinusitis (I had a brokend nose and the septum was crooked a condition that usually leds to sinusitis). Paper in the pocket (already getting upset because I am no patient guy) went to an office to get the Xray. Waited for an hour. No people came. I took the paper. Tore it up. Went back to work. Got home and flushed the whole bag of drugs down the toilet. In about the ten days or so my strength got back. Three years later I was in Nigeria. I started feeling weak and weaker. Got Malaria. Was treated. I never felt so weak as in... BANG! the time I was near the Paraná river! I had had malaria and could have died if it was not the type that does not kill (Falciparum Vivax). The deadly one is Falciparum Plasmodium. I will never ever trust a doctor anymore. I have had a knee problem the guy wanted to operate my meniscus. Went to another took aspirin, went to Nigeria did pole climbing (climbed real towers) and the pain disappeared. Only rememebred my knee in a Moslem type toilet in Iran. My knee was bending again normally. My wife tells me: you have an expensive watch. They will always want to treat you because they sense you have money. Stop telling you work abroad! they will ask you for treatment!