Rules to LiveToBe120andHealthy-Rule #2
Rule #2: Don’t let anyone else kill you.
I recall playing doctor as a young boy. I don’t recall if I initiated the game or my ‘patients’ did. Looking back this childhood experience of curiosity about the human body seem very natural.
Looking forward, we didn’t suspect that we, as a society, would be on the wrong end of the serious game of people ‘playing doctor.’
There are a lot of deadly risks in life. Not being killed by those risks is our responsibility. It might seem obvious but it is worth repeating:
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the ‘killers’ have agendas other than keeping you safe!
Imagine your role, not from the viewpoint you would normally see it from, but as the other person could be seeing it. Are you a piece of meat on an assembly line being processed, a certain number per hour, in a money-oriented business?
Consider the people sitting in the waiting room in the doctor’s office or in the hospital emergency room and ask yourself if this stockpile of human beings is evidence of the level of respect and appreciation the doctor or hospital personnel has for you and the other people.
The number of people killed in the US each years is calculated to be between 400,000 people to 1,000,000 people with some experts believing the figure is certainly at least 780,000. Those casualties are the ones that are known and identifiable. Those numbers don’t take into account the deaths that are hidden.
Folks, the odds are that you are now or will be killed by your doctors, their treatments or mis-treatments, the drugs given to you, or diseases you catch while in the hospital! Going to the doctor is like going to a casino and betting your life. When someone dies due to a medical screw-up, you will not hear, “He (or she) died of a medical screw-up.” You will hear, instead, “He (or she) died of complications of their illness.” No, they didn’t!! More than likely they died of complications from their treatment! The things that complicated the treatment are the things that killed them!
When you perceive the inaccuracy of, “My doctor is taking care of me” you will recognize that while your doctor is taking care of his medical business, it is your responsibility to take care of yourself. Let’s take the doctor’s point of view when they see someone entering their office and that person obviously doesn’t care about himself, won’t take responsibility for himself, and wants to shift the job of their health to the doctor. Why should the doctor invest his caring in such a wasted effort? If a doctor fell into that trap, the doctor wouldn’t last a year in the medical business. They would die from frustration and anger, disappointment and grief.
