Posted by Declan on May 28, 2006, at 22:55:54
I don't want to annoy anyone with details of my privileged and unnapreciated life.
But I thought I'd share my last experience with my nutritional docor. I *think* he sees 3 (three) patients a day. He gives no guarantee that he will see you at the appointed time (unless you are first in the day) because he wants to spend as much time as is neccessary. So for my last appointment at 1.30pm I drove 200km, only to be told that he would not be able to see me that day. This would have meant that he spent at least 6 hours with the patient before me. Not therapy or anything. More like biochemistry. I didn't mind the pointless 400km round trip.....I am lucky to be able to afford this kind of medical attention. The person he was seeing may have come a thousand km. A lot of his patients are beyond normal medical help. Going blind from diabetes, cancer, God knows. When I hear people here talking about 5 minute appointments, I think of this doctor. He is reluctant to use drugs, all that sort of stuff. I just wanted you to know that this kind of medicine is being practised. Of course it's expensive, and the world is hugely unfair, but this strikes me as medicine to emulate.
Declan
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