So reader if you started coughing up blood I assume you'll just treat it with berries and hope?

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With water and aspirin if I was overserved the night before, probably.

If I had other inexplicable and/or long lingering internal pains, no, I'd see a doctor. I'm really a go see a doctor as a last resort guy. I've had a number of bad experiences with MDs...including one where I was going to receive treatment on the wrong body part & one where my mom was getting prepped for cancer surgery, until the actual surgeon realized that the entire procedure would have been a mistake.

And the doctor who recommended the surgery was one of the (then) highest rated oncologists in this area. I was almost homicidal upon hearing that one.


Edit: Fwiw, 25 years ago I "walked off" a broken hip w/o going to the doctor.

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When i started coughing up blood in San Francisco in March, I went to UCSF Medical Center.

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Yeah I dunno what with human life expectancy almost doubling over the last century or so I'd say most doctors know what they're doing.

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Basic public health initiatives concerning sanitation, prevention awareness, healthy food suggestions, and 60-100 year old settled science/medicine has a lot to do with that. Restless knee, boner, high blood pressure and nutso prevention pills have very little to do with that. (i.e., most of what constitutes "modern" medicine)

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I just went to two doctors recently. I tripped over a dog lead and fell into a pile of sticks backwards. Got some scrapes and cuts, but one cut wouldn't heal. Go in to get it looked at (granted, it was like three months later -- it wasn't painful, but I figured at that point if it didn't heal, it might need medical intervention.) He looks at it and says, hmmm... there's a hard tubular shaped object there... it isn't in your other arm. Let us do some x-rays. I say OK. They do the x-rays, he says yeah that is not a stick, it is just some hardening of cartilage. I could cut it out, but it is near your elbow where there are nerves and such -- let me refer you to a hand/arm specialist.

Go to the hand arm specialist. He looks at it and the x-rays and says, yes this looks like a pyogenic granuloma. Take these caustic sticks and see if it will scab over... if not, we'll go in surgically. So the thing doesn't scab over, and I make a follow up appointment, but as I'm cleaning the wound a week later, there's a dark spot of blood. I go to remove it, and it isn't coming off, so I grab a hold of it to give it a good tug -- out comes a one and a half inch stick. One week later and the thing is completely scabbing over and healing.

I personally think most doctors see what they want to see and there's a lot of get them in/get them out mentality due to the lack of qualified doctors.

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Be. Less. Clumsy.

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I agree and I'm out $500 for all this crap.

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Newper = Bryan Robinson

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Yes!

There was a Bulls player also......I can't remember who it was? Tyson Chandler?
I think that's wrong.

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I might be thinking of Boozer tripping over his "luggage".

Same thing.

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He may have some long luggage, but certainly not long enough to trip over.

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completely believable

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good dolphin has me on ignore.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Carlos Boozer.

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GO BEARS!!!