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i put nothing past the psychopaths in charge of nations including our own.

do you not suspect them as well?

No. But I'm naive and I don't follow politics or understand duplicity, so I'm not the one to ask.

I haven't read anything about it and I don't watch news.

I'm not defending anyone or anything.

I just don't have the bandwidth to deconstruct human behaviour, especially when it's nefarious.

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No. It's possible, of course, but I don't find it particularly probable.

In situations like these, conspiracy theories/scapegoating can have very severe consequences.


How often do you get colds?

I haven't had a cold since my stroke in 2015. I started paying attention and keeping track at that time, for some reason.

I did have bronchitis last year though.

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Quite rarely, unless someone at work infects everybody Even so, I take some pains to keep my immune system in good shape and manage to escape it sometimes.

How do you feel about hospitals and doctors?

I should point out that I'm a pretty reclusive person and I don't work any more, so that's likely why I don't catch colds.

Hospitals and doctors are generally great. I have a lot of respect for doctors. My only issue is that they are usually clueless about autism. For example, when I had my stroke the emergency doctor thought I was drunk or stoned, and wanted to send me home even when the tox-screen was negative for intoxication. I was presenting with bizarre but not uncommon effects from the brain damage (uncontrollable laughing known as Pseudo Bulbar Affect), and I think in general he could tell I was "different" because of my autism. He treated me like a subhuman addict. It was a nurse who insisted I get an MRI, which found my stroke. I could have sued them to bits. Likewise I hate all the "Oh, you must be high functioning!" nonsense that I hear from some of them.

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I feel hostility toward our entire medical care system. My doctor seems more interested in running un-necessary tests on me and getting me to participate in esoteric studies than in addressing the things I see him for.

For instance, there's this growth on my back that I want checked and/or removed, but all he is interested in is scheduling a colonoscopy for me.

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Can you see a Dermatologist without referral from your GP? I'm not sure how it works there, but if you can go straight to Derm they will remove it. If it's a suspicious growth I wouldn't waste time, either.

^^ definitely worth kicking up a stink over. Are you able to ask for a second opinion at your doctors practice to get referred to the appropriate specialist for it?

I quite like doctors: quiet places where you get talked to slowly and clearly.
Currently into the twelfth year of chronic sinusitis though: because I never feel like it’s worth bothering them until it’s too late for quick solutions to work.

How do you feel about dentists?

No opinion. I'm not scared of them. I'm like my elder son in that--

if I make up my mind I can get through any physical discomfort. for example even at big injuries he doe21snt cry much or at all. He is about to or does momentarily then he has his stiff upper lip mode.
I do the same but not to that degree
He's so heroic


How is the weather where you are, today?

Despite BEING a doctor or maybe because of it my mom feels as u do. In fact after her brain tumour operations she felt even more strongly about it as a lot of unethical things were done as u say unnecessary tests but not the requisite.. Not telling patient stuff or just preparing them after major surgery how to get by.. Not believing things delaying.. Not giving referrals as they said they wd..needing to be reminded many times.. Etc


My dad flew her to Saudi multiple times n London instead bcuz she was so distraught from this way of doing things but often found it to be similar just less.

She has seen the samr with my elder n if it werent for her alertness n intelligence they were essentially sending him home with bacterial pneuomonia n refusing yo do tests..

She was convinced it was bacterial n she had a list of symptoms he fit but they didnt believe it

she knew the reason was she believed hr had contracted a virus that was going round then and from that he vomited at XHs home and aspirated was her guess n they ignored until i got XH to say the exact thing then they tested..

She said the exact protocol they shd do n she said IV was urgent bcuz of his GSD but they ignored it..till what i wrote (listening to XH who himself was ignoring at first for 2 days).

N my mom was correct.. If they had delayed any further..


He had been being sent home several days by them n was so weak n afterwards we read news articles about ppl in perfect health dying overnight frm some virus ...

My dentists are great. It's a Muslim father-daughter practice but the father is a professor and seldom there. The daughter and her staff (all Muslim women) are lovely people. They go above and beyond. One of their oral surgeons is Iranian and she is the kindest professional I know. She even gave me her cell number at my last procedure in case I had problems. She will see me on off-hours for emergency care at no extra charge (in fact none of these people charge me at all -- I have insurance at 80% but they don't take the other 20%). I've never paid anything to them.

The only bad dental experience I've had was with an oral surgeon last autumn. They hired this man for a few months and he was so terrible I had a meltdown while there. They have dismissed him now.

I love going to the dentist, getting my teeth cleaned, or even having a root canal because it takes away pain. I love the heavy xray vest too.

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Isabella my mom said to me that usually the worst or inexperienced doctors end up in Emergency.

That or they are fine but the shifts for doctors and nurses both, is so inhuman and unsustainable that it messes with anyone's train of thought.

He was really rude and dismissive. He was trying to send me home as a drunk because I had slurred speech, I couldn't stand up, one eye was shut, and I was laughing like a hyena because of the Pseudo-Bulbar Affect. Believe it or not I had my stroke in front of my GP, with family members present, and she sent me by ambulance. Even with my GP saying "she's had a stroke", the emergency doctor didn't want to give me MRI or clot busting medicine. He treated me like a freak show even as my family implored "THIS IS NOT NORMAL. SHE IS NOT DRUNK." Thank goodness for nurse Jamie. She argued loudly with the doctor for my MRI. Without her, I could have died. So much for the adverts about seeking medical care within "the golden hour" after a stroke. This douchebag wasted about 2.5 hours testing me for alcohol and drugs, and tried to send me home.

Did you ever have Chicken Pox?

I quite like my dentists too: they’re mostly Eastern European, very nice and explain everything they’re going to do, agree hand signals for if I start feeling too much pain. I like the calm, clean orderliness of the dentist as well.

My last dentist in Yorkshire was Muslim: very stern with me! Which was what I needed to tbh: by the time I remembered registering with a dentist was a thing I should do I needed £600 of fillings: it took him several sessions over a period of three months to sort my mouth out!
One time he did four at once and I had so much novocaine I didn’t come down for the rest of the day

I had chicken pox. Twice!
I can remember running away from my mum when she wanted to put the lotion on the sores... (I think I enjoyed scratching them)

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Yeah, we’ve had several strikes over shift times in the NHS over the last decade: doctors & nurses unions maintain their fatigue levels are a danger to patients.