I have visited doctors over the near-40 years since that decision, but I could probably count those on one hand. The last time was 2017 following a severe back injury. Went to ER. OK...so nothing broken? OK...See ya. I'll figure out how to mend on my own. Thanks! ;) (Someone -- a physician's assistant? -- came into the room with a needle. What's that? "It'll make you feel better." I didn't ask you that. I asked you what it was...a "muscle relaxant." Yeah, no thanks. She left, and I never saw her again. LOL. I'd rather lay there dying in pain than have someone just stick me with something.)
Part of my reasoning way back when was this sense I had that these doctors did not -- could not -- believe in God and act the way they did. That was also off-putting to me. I felt way too uncomfortable being in the same room with someone who believed I was a "disease factory" just waiting for them to discover it. (Jon alluded to this, as well, in this piece.) Just too weird for me. Gives me the creeps.
I think this cohort's behavior throughout the conjob-19 has vindicated us all. (Not that I was looking for it.)
It took me a little longer than you to stop going, but I did the same. They bullied me because I said no to their tests. Done with that crap.
I have visited doctors over the near-40 years since that decision, but I could probably count those on one hand. The last time was 2017 following a severe back injury. Went to ER. OK...so nothing broken? OK...See ya. I'll figure out how to mend on my own. Thanks! ;) (Someone -- a physician's assistant? -- came into the room with a needle. What's that? "It'll make you feel better." I didn't ask you that. I asked you what it was...a "muscle relaxant." Yeah, no thanks. She left, and I never saw her again. LOL. I'd rather lay there dying in pain than have someone just stick me with something.)
Part of my reasoning way back when was this sense I had that these doctors did not -- could not -- believe in God and act the way they did. That was also off-putting to me. I felt way too uncomfortable being in the same room with someone who believed I was a "disease factory" just waiting for them to discover it. (Jon alluded to this, as well, in this piece.) Just too weird for me. Gives me the creeps.
I think this cohort's behavior throughout the conjob-19 has vindicated us all. (Not that I was looking for it.)