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To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 6:44:32 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217936

Re doctors. I first has a serious back problem in the USA, had good insurance, and saw all sorts of really high powered medical professionals. In truth, the first time I was fixed by accidently falling out of bed. 2nd time (in UK) I saw lots of doctors who made the problem worse. Finally I met a controversial guy who helped me fix the problem without having to have an accident. Very rare doctor though. Sometimes (most times) you can trust them, some times you can't. Just like everyone I suppose.

To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 10:23:36 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 217936

My wife tells me: you have an expensive watch. your wife understands consultants, those that borrow your watch to tell you what time it is....its the ultimate slight of hand. A gimmick employed as routine, against people caught off guard or distracted by some circumstance in thier lives.

To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 3:45:31 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217936

"flushed the whole bag of drugs down the toilet" Don't do that, (at least close to where you or your kids will possibly live, haha). For example antibiotics, as well as many other drugs, produce resistant bacteries, etc wherever that stuff will go and stay. Unluckily lots of the drug-stuff is nothing like "biodegradable", instead produced for a maximum "shelf life", although not as perfectly stable as DDT. All the antibiotica which has been produced, lots of it "flushed down" is already a problem, as is the part which goes the same way after passing the body of the patient. Note, I'm not just talking about the sewage treatment plants of the most industrializeed world, but they have to watch out as evolution is "accelerated" in their plant.. PS You are right about the "immunity sysem", should not be overloaded, nor have nothing to do, especially at an early age. Another "western" mechanism is probably lots of "complicated chemicals" which acts as hormones, antibodies, etc,etc. The chemical, plastic industry is and has been busy changing their production in "silence". Another thing which has not been "proved" until recently is that pregnat women actually turn genes on and off in the fetus. That blows another set of big hole in the US "Genius, Heroic, Virtuous DNA-gene-debate" as well as health- and other care for pregnant women, continuing to maternity leaves, etc,etc.. (statistically proven by old mortality statistics, church books and agriculture-weather cycles in northern scandinavia where the pool of genes was very constant until appr 100 years ago)

To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 4:00:53 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217936

When will you all get to the topic of "sperm count" in the industrialized world?? (Sperm Count Collapse??) PS Plus the banana plantations of Chiquita, the "west" moving chemical plants and problem waste to the cheapest third world country, etc. (watch out if it says "health care" or "hospital" waste on the containers) Personally I think it is too much banana-hormones which causes USA to have only two parties, the maximum allowed by a banana-brain filled with hormones and pestizides (before the banana-age there were locall multiparty systems in USA, then that too ended) Probably something similar with all the home-sprayed-pestizides against cockroaches, termites, etc.. Kids at a certain important braindeveloping age tend to function as "wet vacum cleaners" where ever they crawl. As you mentioned, where we in the north just left the house cold for two-three weeks in the winter, repeated after a month or two for those eggs which survived. The spring here is different than more to the south, everything is not either poisonous nor dangerous to touch, full of spikes "from birth", or "little seedling". But still our sperm counts has deteriorated during the last 10 years although not to the levels of the worst chemically agricultured (like Denmark, etc)

To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 5:09:40 PM
From: Gib Bogle	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217936

I got malaria in Indonesia. By the time I got to Singapore I was in very bad shape, hot and cold fever, I thought I was dying. Went to the doctor, he took one look and said "Malaria". Put me in hospital, dosed me with drugs, and in a week I was cured, although it took quite a while to get my strength back. In eastern Turkey I was becoming very weak, went to the hospital in Trabzon, the doctor took one look and said "Hepatitis" (picked up in Afghanistan). Back to hospital. I like doctors, they have done good things for me. I like decisions made on the basis of scientific knowledge.

To: elmatador who wrote (53351)	8/9/2009 8:00:00 PM
From: loantech	Respond to of 217936

<Only rememebred my knee in a Moslem type toilet in Iran. My knee was bending again normally.> I prefer the American toilet to a pit hole in the ground. If I want a pit toilet here in the USA to remember the smell all I need to do is go to a low improvement campground in the Mt. Hood Nat. Forest close by. LOL. Too bad the Moslems hate the west so much instead of learning a few basics in engineering.For being the inventors of geometry and a lot of math, astronomy, etc. they have stayed a bit backward in my opinion but then again I may be the backward one. Is it the same in Brazil? Tom