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To: THE ANT who wrote (62763)	4/14/2010 7:42:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218538

Thanks. I've never looked at it under this perspective. I have found docs that take what is standard procedure and apply it without much judging. And then take the money. Luckily I like to talk with doctors. Saved me a USD5K bill and an operation on my knee. (My wife´s relatives are most of them docs.) Doc wanted to operate my knee. After looking to a USD200 MRI. Wife said. Hang on lets talk with an orthopedist known to the family. I went there. He even looked to the MRI. I said: It hurts a lot when I do this or that. He said: Then don't do it. I looked puzzled. He said to me: If you were stupid. You would have gone to the pharmacy, told you knee hurt and they would have given you an aspirin. If it pains. Just do that. How about putting a bandage on it? He said it only remember you the knee is there. I sarted liking the doc. How about the MRI? He told me the tool of the orthopedist is his hands. Let me ask you a question the old doc went on: If you hear a growl the other side of a wall, you would think there is a lion in there. Would you climb the wall to look at it? Ok. let's say, you do it. You see there is a lion indeed. Are you going to jump inside to take closer look? Let's say you do. Are you then climb on top of the lion, pull some hairs from his many to assure your self that is a lion? I went to Nigeria. Did pole-climbing (Real pole climbing went up the 30m towers as exercise to see my movements were OK.) Pain started to subsidize but knee could not flex fully. One day in Iran (about half year later) I moved to a flat that had a Moslem toilet. I discovered the knee had flexed fully and was OK.

To: THE ANT who wrote (62763)	4/14/2010 12:30:38 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218538

Inflation already here. Instead of overall price increases, across the board, inflation is in commodities and currencies. Then percolates to all sectors of the economy. BRL is expensive, Sing Dollar has just increased in price and “Currencies across Asia rallied as investors bet governments will switch to fighting inflation from stimulating growth, after oil, copper and aluminum prices jumped more than 60 percent in the past year.” Because everybody use oil and steel, inflation has been hitting everyone as costs are passed to customers

To: THE ANT who wrote (62763)	4/14/2010 9:10:07 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218538

Your comment, "many MDs who do well in cramming info into their brains have little frontal lobe/judgment and that can't be learned" is very true in my experience, and it applies to a lot of professions. Psychologists believe roughly 80% of the human population relies primarily on concrete thinking, while only 20% primarily rely on abstract rational thinking. Concrete thinkers excel at memorization, but you want an abstract rational thinker as a Doctor. Unfortunately due to the screening process, in my experience, abstract rationals are under-represented among Doctors - which is very unfortunate. There's a higher than normal percentage of rationals among M.D.s who go into research. If there's a well-developed decision-tree to lead to a correct diagnosis a MD who is a concrete thinker can get you to the right conclusion, but beyond that they're out of their depth. They usually can't see the next logical step, unless it's been previously presented to them in that manner. At least it's easy to recognize a rational thinker when meet them . . . if you share that personality trait. I've discovered to my surprise that the 80% who are concrete thinkers most often chose their Doctor because: they're popular, good looking, recommended by friends, has a nice office, advertised, etc. I've also found that Doctors who rely on concrete thinking often dislike rational patients because they don't follow the regular program and ask questions, which is just as well. There's a lot of things concrete thinkers are good at, but medicine is not one of them. .