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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (148993)	6/5/2019 12:53:16 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By elmatador Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218163

As long as you have insurance, what you call "koolaid talk" is routine healthcare experience, at least in Los Angeles. Any time I've had any problem, the best of the best is available within a couple of weeks if not immediately. I get the distinct sense that my parents and my brother and his family get less good care in the San Francisco Bay Area, but that's primarily because they choose Kaiser insurance where everything comes without deductibles or significant copays, but every Doctor is effectively a cost control official - at least in my perception. It doesn't help that the bunch of them are "natural" oriented so resistant to healthcare. Neither my sister or I would tolerate that. My Mom's dad was a surgeon and GP and you'd think she had been raised by Christian Scientists who shunned Doctors. There's nothing she doesn't believe can be cured with a change in diet - which she tortured my Dad with - but he was on board with. Essentially at 91, although he's still fit and can still run as he always has, he doesn't always get enough blood to the front part of his brain due to a combination of small vessel disease a sort of vascular dementia and aplastic anemia (meaning a low red blood cell count). So regular injections of Procrit gives him the red blood cell count to think better and be more active. He's fortunately moved into a care facility where he's now free from my Mom's bizarre diet strictures per Bredensen and every quack diet book available, so he enjoys eating what he wants and has more freedom in his daily life. Based on his genetics it's clear to me he doesn't have Alzheimer's disease, but that doesn't stop his Doctors from prescribing Alzheimer's drugs. I've never seen any difference in him whether he's taking those meds or not, but no one there seems to specialize in critical thinking. At least the weird diet shit is behind him.