"doctor" means teacher

[miriam_e]

I just looked online for some information for a friend who had a brain scan in an attempt to find an explanation for her terrible headaches. Apparently she has a lesion in her right basal ganglia. Now that area is a fairly large and complex part of the brain so it could have many possible effects. I was trying to learn more about it and found a site called Medcyclopedia. It had some tiny thumbnail images that looked like they might be of use, but unfortunately I would have to register in order to view the full-size images. I always find this compulsory narrowing of audience annoying, but annoyance turned to disgust when I found that in order to register I had to "prove" I was a professional by clicking the aortic lumen in the image presented, only to find that the page was so incompetently designed that it didn't work on any web browser other than Microsoft's awful and dangerous InternetExplorer, which fewer and fewer people use these days.

What is with medical groups that they are so loathe to disseminate information to the public at large? Don't they know that the word "doctor" originally meant "teacher"? Everywhere around the world there is a shortage of medical doctors. And the doctors themselves generally would like to be able to spend more time with their patients and less time on trivial things. They also bemoan the rise of nutty strains of "alternative" medicine, such as chiropracty or homeopathy, but they seem utterly opposed to disseminating the very knowledge which would drive back such superstitious beliefs.

Sometimes I think the medical profession is its own worst enemy.

Comments

Re: about chiropracty

[xxclovergrrlxx.livejournal.com]

hah, i never heard of that photo trick, although we did learn this same thing in school. now i'm kinda curious to see my face lol

yeah, i know that people have differences but not everything is caused by genetics. i broke my ankle at one point and now one leg is shorter than the other. it could be genetics, it could be from the break during my teens...who knows. the point is that i do experience a certain amount of pain due to the asymmetry. the body will always compensate in one way or another, but that doesn't mean it won't cause problems. having one arm longer than the other is not likely to cause any problems, but on weight bearing appendages like the legs, it does cause a shift in the hips which then causes a shift for the spine. well, this is my guess anyways. massage is kind of cool because i sometimes feel like a detective, lmao. in my form of massage, you take the patient's complaints and combine them with what you see in their bone structure, their lifestyle and a few other factors... and then you form a map of what may be happening. and regardless of whether or not you're right the first time, they're going to get a certain amount of relief and benefit. it's often a "let's try and see" type deal.

when i was working on my mother for her carpel tunnel, i was still in school. my first inclination was to work on her wrist/hand, of course. she didn't really receive much benefit from that, however. it wasn't until we studied the neck and i began working that on her that she received results. it became my opinion that the impingement on her median nerve was not caused by true carpel tunnel, but was actually related to the scalenes in her neck. could i be wrong? sure! did she stop getting horrible pain/tingling sensations and avoid surgery? yep! so who cares, haha.