Health & Wellness Antibiotics

For those with young children I would recommend a book written by the late Dr. Hugh Jolly, who was the chief medical officer at a large children's hospital in London, UK. He advocates common sense and doesn't patronize parents like some other authors do.
The "Book of Child Care: Complete Guide for Today's Parents" is sadly out of print, but not hard to still find copies of.
The book excels in advice when your child is sick.

 

"Tummy ache" (abdominal pain) could be a simple cause and will disappear but "About 15% of people have a more serious underlying condition such as appendicitis, leaking or ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, diverticulitis, or ectopic pregnancy." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_pain)

Untreated appendicitis, aortic aneurysm, ectopic pregnancy can be killers - I know personally from experience as a Haematologist that a ruptured aorta needs more blood for immediate transfusion than I think a person here could collect in a month.

I await the response from some that only idiots would not know the difference between a 'tummy ache' and a serious condition - I worry about the vast number of 'idiots' (ill informed) who populate the world but will agree that we do not rush off to surgery for a mild ache. However, no-one should be too complacent as 'time is of the essence' in many acute medical conditions.

 

I am, of course, delighted that you (and your close friends) never lost a loved one, as described above, but you know that many parents do lose children - don't you???

 

yup, it is astonishing if true. i think perhaps the study was done in 2015 and perhaps published in 2018 or something like that. i have no doubt the system would have lots of effort to try to discredit it but johns hopkins is sort of the gorilla in the room in US healthcare and as far as i know the study still stands intact.

my personal takeaway would be to use your brain and good judgement in entering any healthcare system. i want to believe doctors et al. are more good than not but there is no question that the US system is driven by profit motive and all of the people in it have mortages and kids in college and poo poo undies just like the rest of us.

we are all responsible for our own health and just because you hire a doctor does not relieve you of that responsibility. one of the biggest problems is that health insurance and "universal coverage" takes your personal financial incentive out of the picture. its much easier to demand that "everything be done" if you are not paying for it. i also believe its true that the US now has more attorneys than doctors which just adds another layer for conflict.

avoiding risk in the first place is the best rule for any human activity, and expose yourself to risk only when you have no reasonable alternative.

 

I agree. A person knows his body and how it feels better than the doctor who, in many cases, give wrong diagnosis thus killing patients instead of healing them. Personally, I got hospitalized only twice in my life—when I delivered my two children on different occasions.

 

Not me but other people, my nephew for one. He was made to take antibiotics, changing them when they didn’t work. His parents finally decided they needed another doctor. Wrong diagnosis does happen because not all doctors are great.

 

Ah, you know Doctor Who I borrowed his time machine you know that small blue police box.

 

You are confusing 'box' with 'pill'.