I'll risk being deleted but this isn't about politics, just MHO. Having had Prostate Cancer myself and a wife who has had 2 different types of Cancer, we're glad we're here rather than somewhere else. I had issues with my treatment but the bottom line is my PSAs have remained below 1 for several years now and my wife is cancer free. Is everything perfect here? No, but I'm not trading places with anybody anywhere.

Nestor AEgrotatus (imported) wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:07 pm Mexico may be worse, but it doesn't change the fact that America

is still terrible compared to first world countries.

Less-Evil Overlord , sorry but I just had to comment! better health care in other countries??? Taxes in the other countries some up to 50% or more of your gross income. Note in Cuba Free Health care, relatives can't get there prescriptions filled as there are very few drugs available, and ask us in the US to fill them and send them to them. And reports that they had to take there own light bulbs to the hospital also! Is that better health care?

There is not any FREE lunch!

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The last we're going to say about this topic is that America does indeed have excellent medical care and technology - BUT it is NOT for everyone. It is ONLY for a select few. Therein lies the problem.

This is a political topic, and it's done.

Any more comments about healthcare in America or abroad, and I start hitting the infraction button.

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Nestor AEgrotatus (imported) wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:07 pm Mexico may

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is still terrible compared to first world countries.

Nestor AEgrotatus (imported) wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:07 pm But it does relate to my problems, as it's awfulness impedes on my ability to get the help I need. What am I to do if I can't afford to see a psychologist, or a neuropsychiatrist or whoever I need to see?

Those who cannot afford to see a medical care provider include some people I have known who merely found a way to show up at a community-based hospital that receives payments from federal programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and the like) and made clear their need for services; and received help for which they had no way to pay. The condition you have described, what I regard as a toxoplasmosis-induced illness, would qualify for treatment at the rural area hospital in the city nearest to where I live, as would many other conditions.

Before complications from cancer-preventive surgery, done in 1986, made the work I had done at one of the larger county hospitals in the U.S. impossible, I worked for about 20 years at that hospital, one of many hospitals which cared for people who had no way to pay for their needed medical care.

Those who have no way to pay for needed medical services; people whose life circumstances may effectively make them medically indigent, can get care in the U.S.; I know this because, since I became unable to continue doing regular, full time work, I have been able to receive medical care for which I have had no way to pay. I aged out of disability income and aged into Medicare; my Archive profile correctly indicates my age.

Please note that this post is not a "political" one; it is a decently brief and accurate description of how I get needed medical care, independent of political issues. I show up at a medical care facility that accepts federal funds and I show the facility my need for care, and get such care as is available.

There can be a difficulty with infections that affect one's brain function, making getting care harder to get only because the infection affects the effort a person can make to get otherwise available care. When that happens, it saddens me.

Is it possible for me to qualify for disabilities and get this free health care?

Nestor AEgrotatus (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:20 pm Is it possible for me to qualify for disabilities and get this free health care?

From my viewpoint, as a licensed professional (bioengineering, with a strong focus on biological pattern recognition methodologies directed toward improved ways of helping physicians more accurately diagnose rare conditions), the clinical signs you have described do amount to a form of disability that properly qualifies you for receiving appropriate medical care, regardless of ability to pay.

Toxoplasmosis is a medically treatable condition, though many people recover from it without medical intervention:

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmo ... tment.html

Given that toxoplasmosis is apparently treatable, it makes serious sense to me to find a way to receive proper medical treatment for toxoplasmosis and, after toxoplasmosis is no longer a medical concern, determine whether castration remains a meaningful goal.

In the fall of 2011, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recognized that there is a transgender spectrum; transgendered people include not only those who are male-to-female and female-to-male who seek to change their bodies and their ways of interacting with others from one exclusively male way of living to exclusively female or exclusively female to exclusively male.

I happen to be of the non-binary transgender sort; I came into this world with one X and one Y chromosome and no way I have ever found to comply with social norms for being purely male or purely female; I find that I am some of each, some of both, and some of neither, and do not fit into any conventional social category. Because it costs me more than I am willing to pay to change my social gender identity, I have left that as "male" for government records purposes, and I dress in clothing typically worn my "men." I have more useful things to do with my income than paying for two (male-oriented and female-oriented) wardrobes. For other people I have known, the choice I have made regarding my social gender would be unacceptable; for me, it seems just right.

In my personal view, anyone who experiences any form of distress with any aspect of the person's birth gender and sexuality fits somewhere within the multi-dimensional realm of those who are, to any extent, transgendered. I wonder whether your understanding of the transgender spectrum might be far smaller than the spectrum actually is.

I wonder whether you live close enough to a medical school where physicians and surgeons are doing forms of medical research. The medical care I have received has often been in such places. Examples of such places (not that I have gone to them or not gone to them) include The Medical College of Wisconsin, The Mayo Clinic, The University of Chicago, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, The University of Utah, Harvard University Medical School, Loma Linda University, Baylor University, and there are many, many more throughout the U.S. The farthest I ever traveled in order to get what I thought was proper medical care was more than a thousand miles from my home.

What did I do to get the medical care I got? I simply kept describing the problem, without ever specifying exactly what I needed to resolve the medical problem, and I kept describing the problem again and again until someone actually noticed the problem and began to deal with it.

There is that old saying from horse-drawn wagon days. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." I did not need grease, I needed effective cancer-risk-minimizing medical care, and I "squeaked and squeaked" until I got it.

I have known folks who kept showing up at the nearest hospital emergency room until their continued showing up led the emergency room folks to recognize that there was a medical problem that was not going away and therefore needed appropriate treatment.

For a while (more than two years) the medical people I consulted dismissed my concerns about my inherited cancer risk. Whenever a medical care provider dismissed my cancer risk concern with a bunch of words, I paraphrased what I had been told, so that the care provider could realize that I had been listening, and then repeated my concern. Eventually, that got through to them.

Paolo wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:17 am At the risk of going political and having Riverwind smack me, the goal of the medical community is NOT to help YOU. It's to make money for THEM, at your expense. I soon found this out in dealing with Type-2 diabetes, which is one of the industries major cash cows, a medical wet dream come to life. It is not in the interest of the medical community to make you well; if they do, they are not making money in the long run. The same goes for counseling.

I have to agree with Paolo on this one. My own recent experience is that all I got was a big run around and no real help at all, and some of the so called help came from people who were just too lazy to do their job. Often it's not the system, it's the people who run and staff it.

Ok, how to I receive my disability benefits, who do I go to see to affirm that I do indeed have a disability in the first place?

Nestor AEgrotatus (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:35 am Ok, how to I receive my disability benefits, who do I go to see to affirm that I do indeed have a disability in the first place?

Why don't you start by using an elastrator so that you do not bleed to death, then, cut your balls off with a sharp knife and throw them in a running garbage disposal? Then, call 911 telling them what you did and that you did it because the &&& "bugged" your scrotum because B$%^ O#@$^% thought that you were having an affair with his wife and the 'implant' was causing you so much pain that you had to deal with it.

Then, you could tell them that O#@^%$ has had you 'drugged' with a mind altering psychotropic drug that has 'allowed' you to see that you should never reproduce.

That should be enough to eventually get you a 'entitlement' disability from SSI because of mental illness.

O.K.?

Then, come back here and tell us how it went.

Yes, I am serious. This would work.

O.K., everybody, DON'T FEED THE TROLLS, (unless you feed them SHIT, like I just did)...

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:49 am Why don't you start by using an elastrator so that you do not bleed to death, then, cut your balls off with a sharp knife and throw them in a running garbage disposal? Then, call 911 telling them what you did and that you did it because the &&& "bugged" your scrotum because B$%^ O#@$^% thought that you were having an affair with his wife and the 'implant' was causing you so much pain that you had to deal with it.

Then, you could tell them that Obama has had you 'drugged' with a mind altering psychotropic drug that has 'allowed' you to see that you should never reproduce.

That should be enough to eventually get you a 'entitlement' disability from SSI because of mental illness.

O.K.?

Then, come back here and tell us how it went.

Yes, I am serious. This would work.

A-1, you know, advising some one in a state of distress something like this is just wrong and cruel.

I would not wish anyone to meet with psychiatry, especially, if problem is not psychiatric. Considering that there is no direct methods of diagnosis (lungs? - breathe, heart? - it beats ok, head? - head is a dark matter and is not subject to examination).

When we were evaluated at work by psychiatrist (do not ask why programmers were considered a dangerous occupation and so subject to that evaluation)... well, she was not amused, when on her question along the lines of: "do you have hallucinations?" I answered something along the lines of "if it is hallucinations, how do I know it?".