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I broke my pinky toe when I was younger. The first doctor I went to said I needed to have surgery to place a pin in my toe and then have it taken out a month la

I broke my pinky toe when I was younger. The first doctor I went to said I needed to have surgery to place a pin in my toe and then have it taken out a month later, being relegated to walking on crutches for a whole month. I was told that if I didn't get the surgery/pin then my toe wouldn't heal properly and it could hurt for the rest of my life. I went to a second, more reputable doctor and he told me to just wear a boot for a week or two and start wearing shoes when the pain subsided. My toe is completely fine now and I have had zero problems. Since then I have definitely been wary of doctors.

k-mcgrady 13y ago
I've never been a fan of the US health care system (I much prefer a public system) for ethical reasons (I think everyone should have access to free health care). I never imagined stories like yours happening in either system. With things like that happening how can anyone support a private system with no free, public alternative?
smtddr 13y ago
To pile on to this, when my daughter was born the doctors were going on and on about how her Frenulum[1] was too short and our daughter wasn't going to be able to talk properly. They brought in some Stanford research paper and everything, saying "It hasn't been approved yet, but it's Stanford." That's when my nonsense-detector kicked into overdrive and I just gave them a blank, non-smiling, stare. Of course I did not do it, and now our 3 year old daughter is talking up a storm just fine and clear to everyone. To this day, I suspect that lady(or her son/daughter in med school) just needed some test subjects for some medical research paper or something and all the medical staff involved knew they were just trying to make our daughter a test-subject. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue

k-mcgrady 13y ago

I've never been a fan of the US health care system (I much prefer a public system) for ethical reasons (I think everyone should have access to free health care). I never imagined stories like yours happening in either system. With things like that happening how can anyone support a private system with no free, public alternative?

smtddr 13y ago

To pile on to this, when my daughter was born the doctors were going on and on about how her Frenulum[1] was too short and our daughter wasn't going to be able to talk properly. They brought in some Stanford research paper and everything, saying "It hasn't been approved yet, but it's Stanford." That's when my nonsense-detector kicked into overdrive and I just gave them a blank, non-smiling, stare. Of course I did not do it, and now our 3 year old daughter is talking up a storm just fine and clear to everyone. To this day, I suspect that lady(or her son/daughter in med school) just needed some test subjects for some medical research paper or something and all the medical staff involved knew they were just trying to make our daughter a test-subject. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenulum_of_tongue