tammync
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I remember watching an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" and commenting to my grandmother what a great little town that must have been if the doctor was friendly enough to visit them right in their home. She chuckled and said that was a common thing 'in her day.' I listened to story after story my grandmother told me of how close all the farming families were to the area doctor and oh how wonderful it all sounded! Even better now that I've been sick for so many years and have to explain my history time and time again to every new doctor I meet. Harvey Cushing once said, "A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man--he must view the man in his world." That quote has come to mean a lot to me since being diagnosed with FM and having dealt with chronic illness for so long. The hardest part of all this is not being able to live my life the way I want, or even the way I NEED to live it. Now, whenever I find myself in the hands of a physcian who would rather think me lazy than "that sick", I think back to what Dr. Cushing said and lay fault on the fact that doctors have no interest in our home lives anymore. Not bing able to do much more than lie around moaning and groaning all day might not be so bad for the couch-potato type, but that isn't my world and shame on the doctor for not taking the time to understand my world. |
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