Mednet Hysteria!
Ever look up an ailment or two on the internet and scare yourself into oblivion?
-
-
Diggin' This Blog?
-
-
KTBS 3 News- Bowman critical of long Shreveport council meetings
- Road buckles due to heat
- High gas prices felt in many areas
- Defense attorney rips ex-wife, sheriff over his arrest
- Home phones vs. cell phones
- Statement of Barksdale commander
- Statement of Barksdale commander
- Father and son busted for burglary
- Shooting victim drives himself to safety
- Congresswoman expecting first child in December
May 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
oblivion defined: “the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown” Think I am there whether on the net or not?
ok… this one I can relate to! I am pretty good about not taking things face value… cause if I did, I wouldn’t be able to function (then again not sure I am at times).
Sher, what did you look up that scared you?
May 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
HIPAA Privacy Compliance doesn’t allow me to discuss that, G. I might sue myself.
I’ll search every tiny thing to avoid going to the doctor. By the time I could have gone, I’m convinced I have Malaria or something.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
sign a waiver to give yourself permission… but if you feel the need to protect yourself from yourself then I will go with the understanding that you hysterically have “something”.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
i looked up night sweats once and thanks to the power of the internet i convinced myself i had full blown AIDS. needless to say it at least motivated me to go and do something we should all have done by now…get tested. it also taught me a very powerful lesson: don’t look up medical information on the internet!
May 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
It’s not just the internet. Notice the drug company commercials where they tell you to take some pill, then they tell you it might cause a heart attack or you might grow 7 more fingers or another head. All information must be looked at with an open mind, especially when it is something you might put into your body. The big drug companies of course want to sell you a pill for every breath you take and most people run to doctors as if they are Lords, when the actual facts are that Doctors kill a large percentage of patients. People have lost the ability to discern and to think or reason. Common sense needs to be taught in kindergarden, even though I am sure some people will never learn anything no matter how much they read or view or experience. It’s called genetics. People have becom little children dependent on government to tell them what to think and why to think it, how to think about and if it is really thinking. Just like the politicians they parade before us, all are their choices, not ours. It’s like going to McDonalds and being offered a cheeseburger, a cheeseburger, a cheeseburger,…….we really are not given any different choice. YOU WILL EAT IT AND YOU WILL LIKE IT, they say. Stupid people go along and are good little robots.
That’s why America is falling and falling fast, there are no more brains in this country that have the ability to make an independent thought about anything, without checking with some higher authority of the politically correct government baby-sitters who spy and distort reality about everything.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I checked my medical condition on Wikipedia. I suffered for years with it. It started in my early teens, and lasted till I was in my early 40’s. From my 40’s it started to go away slowly. The severity decreased a little ever year, till now in my 50’s it hardly bothers me at all.
It never scared me though. Yes, I suffered from the dreaded Priapism syndrome. Both wives were sympathetic during the early years of marrage but soon grew weary of my condition, although I was not allowed to seek treatment outside of my home.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Russ… I totally agree! My looking up stuff didn’t happen til recent and it was due to a family members diagnosis. Looking to get myself ed-jumuck-ated on what was bout to happen. Lots of good out there with the bad when it comes to others experiences.
Waiting for Russ’s take on all the ED advertisements!
May 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
What’s even worse…being diagnosed with something and THEN looking it up on the web!
DON’T DO IT! Because if you weren’t dying before, you are now!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Hello G, I read everything and in fact I am probably full of information overload. Yeah, the ED ads are funny. Viva Viaga makes me laugh. I get ten million of those things in my email junk folder. I think they would sell us our own urine if they got the idea. I mean think of this: Many people pay a buck for a bottle of water. For God’s sake, how stupid have people become? You know how it goes, once they see they can get away with it, they never stop and the price only goes up. Americans must learn to stop falling for continued sales pitches. Wally world has run everyone out of business and they abuse their workers and pay them peanuts, but Americans just keep flocking to the warehouse.
I think Americans have become trained consumers and they are like addicts on meth or something, not wanting to get off. The companies cater to people’s senses and desires, then sell you snake oil or anything they can get away with selling. As we see later on, many of the things they packaged and sold Americans, were bad for us and killed people…or were simply worthless. We need to get back to simplicity and honesty, but that’s a long ways off…due to people now days not paying attention and allowing media to rule their lives and raise kids too. That’s why I keep calling everything cultural communism. They have effectively induced a sort of psychological path that Americans see as normal…..as the old apple pie and base ball. Unfortunately it’s leading us all down the wrong path.
I stay away from Doctors as much as I can. I hope I can remain away from them for the rest of my life. I think common sense is the best medecine one can have…and judgment that is even. Most Americans are of the mentality that they must run to papa government, doctor, etc …whenever a crisis comes.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
….i once knew this dude who thought he had bed bugs after lookin up a “bite” on his neck and ear …turned out it was most likely a fireant bite….he lost a girlfriend over the bed bug internet diagnoses….up side he got a new bed in a bag ….comes with sheets pillow cases every thing!!!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
…i know this dude who had squirrels in the attic….hes better now thanks to cuttin back on the sodas and tea
May 17th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Yes Russ (aka FatAlbert)… the “expert” has squirrels in his attic… I am off to ride my bicycle & exercise my squirrels (and I am actually HAPPY bout that)