Reserve high expectations for yourself since it's
perfectly all right to expect yourself to rise to
occasions as needed but avoid at all costs hanging
those expectations on the shoulders of others
in particular those who hang stethoscopes over
their shoulders as a proud statement of a long
tradition of pride in giving comfort and aid when
required to those in need. Ah, but we live in an
entirely different era now, gone the time when
medics shared the trenches with those soldiering on
through illness and disease. Where once MDs
were skilled in general medicine and light surgery
they focus now on noting symptoms for accurate
diagnoses to enable them to shuffle patients off
to the eventual attention of specialists. And good
luck on both fronts; accuracy of diagnoses and
specialist appointments. Where once your general
practitioner set fractures, gave stitches and shots
of critical vaccines, in the age of COVID it is the
neighbourhood pharmacy to turn to. Where once
an appointment to 'see' one's family doctor was a
routine practise, a reservation is now required for a
telephone consultation, full stop. Where once a
doctor insisted on seeing a patient before committing
to diagnosis and prescription, it can now all be done
remotely. Your cardiologist won't hesitate to send
you for a routine EKG and if you balk at exposure
the telephone 'consultation' reservation is cancelled.
Nothing to see here folks, time to move on....for
whatever it is ailing you it will either resolve itself
by natural means or simply put, nothing will avail.
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