A life of medical testing

[moi621 (imported)]

Spend a day with a GP then upload. Or not.

A teacher makes better money considering the hours and benefits then a GP.

Insomnia, I am well experienced.

"Best" life style approaches are disputable.

I cannot sleep on an empty stomach yet the latter is the prevailing advice.

My GP friend and I will share a meal and then with the ice cream and milk, refer to the Dairy Blackout. Similar to warm WHOLE milk with a little sugar / Equal and a drop or seven of Vanilla.

Posa brand Naturale from Mexico recommended. Only found at grocery stores in Mexico. The best Vanilla.

Turn off stimuli such as most lights, computer, TV, music a period before bedtime.

Melatonin, plain, not loaded with stimulating B vitamins.

Or give in and occasionally take a Halcion 0.25, my fav, with a 5 mg Valium as to create your own effect Ambian. Trick is not for several nights straight or beyond thirty pills a month in the event of double or triple dosing.

The "restless legs syndrome" medicine Requip is generic Ropinirole and quite cheap. I have 0.5mg tabs and plan on three tabs an hour before bedtime. Different pharmacophysiology then Halcion / Valium. No cross addiction as with alcohol or barbs (that cannot be obtained )

G'luck.

YOU are in the drivers seat. Take control!

Moi

And please spend a day with a GP

Question: WHY is YOUR health insurance company making profits ?

Another evil GP doctor plan. <snurf> <gurgle> <indescribable evil sound effect>

[BossTamsin (imported)]

Spend a day with a GP then upload. Or not.

A teacher makes better money considering the hours and benefits then a GP.

Bull. Shit.

[chemcast scot (imported)]

There is no way a teacher is going to make more money than a GP

[Glasgow_kiss (imported)]

I did get over my sleeping problems through use of sleeping pills and an improved sleeping routine amoungst other stuff (including cutting out alcohol for the time being). That wasn't the point I was getting at, I knew I had to do a lot of things myself and I went to my GP for advice and I got prescribed two weeks of sleeping pills with no other advice other than "TAKE THESE EVERYNIGHT" now he may not be a mind reader but you know yourself that's not the right way to go about it. You may see the same Doctor everytime you go but on the NHS that doesn't happen, you get whoever is available. Oh and Zopiclone isn't a Benzodiazipine.

I live in the UK so I have the National Health Service, so I don't have any insurance plans or anything, I do think it's a good thing that I everyone chips in through taxes so no matter how rich or poor everyone gets world class heathcare without worrying about cost. Doctors generally do get good money here as they pay them around about the same as what they would get if they went private to keep them within the NHS. I'm not saying it's not stressful work but they do get a lot more than teachers.

[curious_guy (imported)]

Spend a day with a GP then upload. Or not.

A teacher makes better money considering the hours and benefits then a GP.

I searched for "physician salaries" on Google. The first page I found:

http://www.cejkasearch.com/compensation ... survey.htm

said that the median salary for the LOWEST paid specialty (Geriatrics) is $187,602. The second lowest paid specialty (Family Medicine) is $208,861.

I searched for "teacher salaries" on Google. The first page I found:

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All ... ers/Salary

said that the median salary for the HIGHEST paid specialty (Special Education Teacher, Secondary School) is $44,168.

208,861 / 44,168 = 4.72878555

[A-1 (imported)]

There is no way a teacher is going to make more money than a GP

Go here (http://www.indystar.com/data/government ... arch.shtml) pick a university, I.U. at Bloomington for example, and look at the top salaries.

Then, CLICK HERE (http://www.healthcaresalaryonline.com/f ... alary.html) and read.

While what you think may be true on the average, there are cases where physicians are employed or where they just have a small practice or perhaps a rural practice where they do not make as much a somebody in a top teaching position.

Generally, in education, professionals are expected to teach their profession for LESS than they could make practicing it. There are some who do because of the regular hours, vacations and perks that one could NEVER get running a private practice on a 24-7 basis.

So, as moi observes, there are physicians who make less than teachers, although if you want to make the most money, being a physician is the way to go rather than teaching.

In teaching, however, if you rise to the top, you can make PLENTY with writing books and being a teacher who is an 'expert' in his field. Then you can usually get into administration in teaching, if you want to make money, but that is another sort of nightmare.

Let us NOT talk about M.D.'s who decide to teach. Then, they are expected to get a phD in addition to their M.D. There are good reasons for this, and they are philosophical as well as practical.

O.K.?

[gareth19 (imported)]

That should explain it very clearly. There was the event. Traditional medical care began immediately. The curandero began the next day. Traditional medicine and the curandero went in parallel. Relief began immediately with the curandero.

What it clearly explains is that you do not understand the distinction between temporal correlation and causation; this type of thinking is what logicians call the post hoc, propter hoc fallacy. Another term for it is superstition.

[nullorchis (imported)]

Pain, cancer, real health problems will drive us to try anything, everything, and spend our money til we are dry.

But if you are feeling fairly good, eg. good enough, the best way to find out your are healthy is to let it be known that you have no money or insurance.

You won't be spending any time getting lab tests or return visits to the Dr.

For a test free fairly quick castration, just have yourself a little farming accident; something that severs the whole package nice and clean. Some lidocaine injections in advance might be helpful. But afterwards they have to sew you together, minus your parts (which you can be clever enough to put in a zip lock and hide in the freezer and if they can't be found afterwards, well, er the dog must have run off with them). The money saved by not having lots of tests and Dr visits will be more than enough to pay for the patch job to repair your "accident". It only hurts at first; just make sure you are pretty close to emergency medical care and that your "accident" is done in a reasonably verifiable way, or they might throw you in the looney bin.

Well one can dream. Really, don't do this. Just a fantasy.

[BossTamsin (imported)]

If I may nitpick for a moment....

While anyone heading up a class at a university may technically be considered a 'teacher', most eschew the title, preferring one of the higher designations such as 'professor', etc.

I doubt moi is likely to elucidate exactly what portion of that profession he was referring to, but generally speaking the term 'teacher' seems to be strictly applied to those who operate at a level below post-secondary education. In which case, I damn near defy you to provide even one case of a practicing GP making less (considering hours and benefits) than any elementary or high school teacher out there.

[A-1 (imported)]

If I may nitpick for a moment....

While anyone heading up a class at a university may technically be considered a 'teacher', most eschew the title, preferring one of the higher designations such as 'professor', etc.

I doubt moi is likely to elucidate exactly what portion of that profession he was referring to, but generally speaking the term 'teacher' seems to be strictly applied to those who operate at a level below post-secondary education. In which case, I damn near defy you to provide even one case of a practicing GP making less (considering hours and benefits) than any elementary or high school teacher out there.

I,

Coaches are teachers.

Should we go there?

I know a doctor who runs a free clinic in a rural area. What he makes there is less than a 30-year tenured teacher with a Master's degree and what is called "a sixth year" teaching anywhere in the state in which I live.