ms_canada:

Happy Maple Leaf Day!

YES! Tonsils out (the most I've ever had done)...pick a good local Dr. Anything major...pick a good Dr. at the best hospital. Not all hospitals have the proper equipment for certain treatments. When it comes to loved ones, I'd travel far and wide to get what is considered the best.

Thankfully, St. Lukes is just a hop, skip, (and a life flight) away. I think they are a most excellent hospital for hearts. KC Med is great for trauma. The furthest I've traveled for a specific hosp. was to UCSF.

I have a friend who makes regular trips to Houston for her little one. Heartbreaking! They are down there so much that she is considering moving there. She is at the end of how much time she can take off w/out being fired. Ironically, she is a nurse.

crazyks i had to laugh-when i first glanced at your post, i coulda SWORN it said "if you were only having a mole removed, staff04, you can have that done at your OFFICE"!!!! i wondered if there was some sort of fly by night mobile mole removal service available...

my mind truly is a strange place to be. :)

If it's something relatively pedestrian, then I'll stay local. If it's something really weird, then I live half an hour from what has been ranked one of the better research hospitals in the nation, so I'll stick with that.

But in general, I do my best to avoid hospitals as much as I can.

Hello Jonas,

House is compelling, not because he is snide & gets all the good lines, but because he looks real. I long ago spotted the show's MO: Find something obscure in the PDF & then work backwards to get your story. And if you watch the credits, it's clear the show is a 60 minute infomercial for GE & various other equipment & drug manufacturers. So somebody thinks there's something real about the show.

The majority of us know fake doctors better than we know any real ones.

DaveR:

You, errr. . . do know that Dr. Gregory House is a fake doctor on a formulaic TV drama on Fox, right? I don't know if you want to use him as the basis of comparison, especially after posting a huge amount on a type of medicinal practice I would guess large numbers of folks view as plain superstition. Me, I try to keep an open mind about such things, but on the surface it doesn't sound good, ya'know.

Maybe do the doctor's chart too. See what kind of day he's having.

The insurance company dictates many of my medical decisions, but at least my coverate doesn't require referrals anymore, much to my doctors' delight.

This is an elective operation?

I wouldn't normally post the following in a public forum, though it ought to be shouted from the rooftops:

You get your time, date & place of birth. You set up your astrological natal chart. You find a way to read it for the medical condition you have. Yes, this is rocket science, but it can & should be learned.

You look at the planetary positions for the date of the operation. You follow the rules on page 609 of H.L. Cornell's Encyclopaedia of Medical Astrology (1933, many reprints).

The No. 1 rule, which has been known & observed for more than 2000 years: You do not operate when the moon is in the sign ruling the part of the body to be operated upon.

Surgery is somewhat better now than it was a century ago. Trivial operations rarely go bad, even when planetary energies are against it. On the other hand, if you're checking out various hospitals, then maybe your operation isn't so trivial.

So, for example, I would avoid elective heart operations on Sunday, July 15, and Monday, July 16, 2007, as the moon will be in Leo both days. Since elective operations rarely happen on weekends, the day to watch out for is Monday the 16th.

Around 28 days later, and every 28 days after that, the moon will again spend around 30 hours in the sign of Leo, which, in medical astrology terms, represents the heart. Aries is the head, Taurus the throat, Gemini hands & arms, Cancer the chest, Virgo the stomach, Libra the kidneys, Scorpio the genitals, Sagittarius the legs, Capricorn skin & bones, Aquarius (where the moon is today) blood & ankles, Pisces the feet, but this is only a sketch.

As for Dr. Cornell, he had this to say:

"In my years of practice as a physician, I have, by the use of Astrology, been able to very quickly locate the seat of the disease, the cause of the trouble, the time when the patient began to feel uncomfortable, as based on the birth data of the patient, and this without even touching or examining the patient, and my intense desire to get this knowledge and wisdom before students and Healers in a classified form, is the reason for this Encyclopaedia." (pg. 502)

Think about this the next time you watch Dr. Gregory House flail about. It's your life the doctor is playing with, after all.

Why does the insurance company get to decide? Because they have monopoly and get to control everything? Which are they going to control -- costs or quality?

It makes a big difference which doctor you get and good doctors are only at certain hospitals. KU Med is good in some areas -- but not all such as heart conditions (major lawsuits in the 90s and lawsuits which were not frivolous with people getting really hurt by some poor service). I would go to Kansas City and pick upon reputations which have been earned over a long period of time.

Nurse case managers that you talk to at companies do not advise on quality, but instead advise on who they are friends with or that their company use. They do not really know.

Reticent_Irreverent, I thought that was pretty funny.

Have a good day.