Lack of ethics in the Medical Profession

I knew that doctors were in the back pocket of the drug companies.  I knew that because my doctor is always trying to shove meds on me.  But today, while looking for a job, I was on one of the job boars.  There was two ads soliciting doctors to furnish patient information to this drug company.  One ad was requesting that doctors have their patients fill out surveys and they would pay doctors $150 each for these surveys.  This is not ethical.  This is disgusting.  And a dermatologist I saw when I was having a severe reaction to blood pressure meds has raided his patient files to try and solicit participants to his research labs.  There is no other place he could have gotten my name and address.  And I can't stop him.  That is what is so infuriating.  Patients have no rights.  We are at the mercy of these doctors and these doctors are only out to make money.  I want socialized medicine and I want doctors paid a set amount of money and to be held accountable for patient information.  By selling your patient's personal information, these doctors are violating the right to privacy laws.  But they are unstoppable because we have a congress that is in the same boat.  If a business or and individual gives them enough money, then that business or individual gets whatever they want no matter if it is against the law.  Our country is in pathetic shape and the populace is like sheep.  They will do whatever a politician tells them to do.  We are on the verge of seeing religion take over our government in spite of the Constitution expressly forbidding it.  We will be no better than the Middle East.

Tired of politics

I am really tired of the politics of this country.  I am tired of seeing people defend the illegals.  They are criminals coming here to steal and how anyone can defend that I just do not understand.  My guess is that their way of life has not been corroded by them yet.  However, it will happen. 

I am tired of the politicians espousing religion.  Religion does not belong in government.  Nor does it belong in schools.  One of the reasons we work is because we have kept religion out of our government.  And our Constitution forbids it.  I also feel that any church that meddles in politics should lose their non-profit status and be forced to pay taxes retroactively.  The taxpayer supports the churches of this country.  We have to take up the slack for the taxes they don't pay.  I am tired of that too.  Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that churches do not have to pay taxes.  There is no reason for them to be exempt.  And those offering sanctuary to the illegals, close them down, sell off their assests.  This is a violation of our laws and no church is above our laws.  It is time we took back our country.  The crazy has overrun common sense. 

Second round with blood pressure meds

So I got off Ziac in 20009.  Within 1 month of getting off it, I was losing weight, the swelling in my feet and legs was gone.  I felt great for the first time in years.  Fast forward to 2013.  I went in for a physical.  The doctor told me that my blood pressure was a little high and needed controlling. Nope, been there, done that.  Well, we have one that is simply a diuretic.  It is nothing like what you took before and has none of the same chemicals in it.  Really, you need just a simple diuretic.  I had no swelling, no shortness of breath, and was losing weight.  So like an idiot, I agreed.  This time I was put on Triamterene and Hydrochlorothiazide.  I started this in December, 2013.  By January, 2014, my arms were a mess of oozing and bleeding rash, I was having trouble with irregular heart beat, and tightness in my chest.  I delt with this for 4 months.  I told myself that it was being in the cold weather.  No.  It was a more severe reaction the damn meds.  So in April I called the doctor.  I went in and when he walked into the room, first words out of his mouth were "Oh, you really can't take these meds."  So I got off them.  The oozing rash did not clear up.  I then went to a dermatologist.  He gave me a steroid sprat, Topicort, I think.  He gave me a sample so I could get started and gave me a prescription to fill.  This was on a Monday.  I used the spray once.  I started having trouble breathing,  I started retaining fluid.  I called the doctor on Tuesday morning.  I told the nurse that this was not working, it was making it worse.  She called me back that afternoon after I had picked up the prescription.  I had read the literature and it specifically stated not to use it on open wounds.  My arms were nothing but open wounds.  The nurse told me that he said to double up on the usage.  I tried to tell that no that was not the problem.  That I was having trouble breathing and packing on fluid.  She repeated that the doctor wanted me to use it 4 times a day instead of 2.  I quit.  This is Tuesday.  On Wednesday, I was in real trouble.  I called the doctor again.  She would get back with me.  As Wednesday rocked along, my breathing got worse, my arms kept bleeding and oozing, and the fluid retention was gradually getting worse.  By Thursday morning, I was in real trouble.  I again called the doctor.  She would get back with me.  I called my GP.  He could see me on Friday at 4pm.  So Thursday night I had popped on 25 pounds of fluid, I could hardly breathe.  I spent the night sitting up and wrote my son a letter telling him what to do in the event I did not survive.  I was afraid to go to the hospital.  I was afraid of them killing me.  By Friday morning, I was a little better.  I could breathe at least.  My GP's office called me and told me not to come in, that there was nothing else he could do for me.  Talk about a slap in the face.  Then on Friday afternoon, the dermatologist's office called.  He wanted me to come in on Monday.  I have just spent the week from hell and could not get to see a doctor.  I went in on Monday, got a statement to return to work, tried to tell the PA about the problems.  His answer," Well you should have called us if you were having trouble with the meds."  I didn't even bother to answer. 

I finally found a dermatologist that treated me as a burn patient and cleared up the mess.  I have no faith in the medical profession.  I think the majority of the doctors are stupid and practicing medicine dictated by the pharmacy companies.  And I think the majority of them should be disbarred.  Medicine is not medicine anymore.  It is a racket and we are the losers. 

Doctors

Having been on the receiving end of lousy medicine over the last 15 years, I have no respect for doctors.  As far as I am concerned, they are the new Mob.  They take millions from the drug companies to hand out the drugs like candy.  They do this without any idea what these drugs are capable of doing to their patients.  My story:  After my husband died in 1997, one week after, my doctor decided I needed medicine for high blood pressure.  I had not even had time to process the changes in my life.  So he convinced me to take something called Ziac, a combination of a beta blocker and hydrochlorothiazide.  So I took that for 11 years.  No blood work was ever done.  I kept asking "do I really need this?"  The pat answer was "Oh, it's low dose.  It won't hurt you."  In March 2003, after 6 years of being on Ziac, I developed huge pustules on my hands.  They would break open and bleed and hurt so bad.  Then I developed dying fingrernails, swollen and itching hands with them just cracking open and bleeding.  I went to 5 doctors, 3 Gp's, 1 dermatologist, and one allergist.  The first GP sent me to what I was told was a dermatologist.  He did some testing and told me I was allergic to industrial chemicals and I would have to quit my job.  From there two more GP's who didn't have a clue.  All this time, I am asking could it be the blood pressure meds. Oh, no they won't hurt you.  Finally, when my arms and legs erupted in a really nasty, itchy rash, I was sent to an allergist.  I had to demand that he do a biopsy to rule out fungal, bacterial, or cancerous problems.  When I showed no allergies even to the industrial chemicals, he was done with me.  And the so-called dermatologist kept harping on I needed to get away from my job.  I hung on for 4 years with no improvement.  At the end of that 6 years, I took early retirement, giving up a lot of money in the process.  My hands did not improve.  So them I was told that my immune system had become sensitized to any chemicals. This was in 2007 and they kept me on the Ziac.  I kept gaining weight, had trouble breathing.  I was told that I needed to just get on a diet and lose the weight and the trouble breathing was because I was overweight.  I couldn't lose the weight.  In 2009, I made a trip to my son's home.  He was going TDY for the military and I was house sitting.  I was in such bad shape I could not walk across the room without stopping to catch my breath and my feet and legs were really swollen.  I came home, looked all this up and found I had the symptoms of the beginning of congestive heart failure.  So I called my doctor's office.  I wanted to know how long I had to put my affairs in order.  The nurse, after asking questions, told me that it was the blood pressure medicine.  To come in and the doctor could confirm it.  Needless to say I was boiling mad.  All I got from the doctor was we need to get you on a new medicine.  No.  I am off all of it.  How do I get off Ziac.  Oh you can just quit.  It is low dose and won't hurt you.  The info said it could cause a heart attack if stopped suddenly.  I left and called the pharmacist.  He told me how to step down off the meds.  If I had stayed on that medicine, I would be dead now. 

And the crowning insult, the dermatologist I thought I had been seeing, not a dermatologist.  Scott and White had needed a dermatologist and did not have one, so they put a GP in as one.  I had never seen a dermatologist. 

Involvement in the Middle East

I keep reading the war hawks demanding we put boots on the ground again in the Middle East to stop IS.  I don't see any of them volunteering to do the job nor do I see any of them offering up their kids to go.  They want to send our troops because they have no skin in the game.  I do.  And I do not want my son back in that sandbox for any reason.  Those countries can defend themselves.  The whole Middle East is a sewer.  Saudi is arming the terrorists with our weapons that we have sold them.  Well, I think we just need to sit back and let them kill their own snakes.  At no time has any of those countries stepped up and taken any responsibility for the mess they have.  At no time have any of those countries committed any troops to help the West.  At no time has any of these countries put up any money to pay for us taking care of them.  We left Iraq with a stable and viable country.  They could not get their noses out of the 11th century long enough to run their own damn country.  And the army we trained.  They ran.  They ran like scalded chickens.  They don't deserve a country.  They make no effort to defend their own country and cry for the rest of the world to do their dirty work.  Sorry, I am all out of give-a-damn.

State of our country

In my opinion, the country is going to hell in a handbasket.  We have criminals demanding citizenship and no one making an effort to stop the.  We have several churches giving them sanctuary and no one stopping them.  We have the religious right demanding that they be allowed to force the country to live by their beliefs.  And we have the rest of us.  All we want is to be left alone, have our Constitution enforced, and every damn illegal deported from this country and force those countries to pay for the deportations of their citizens along with reimbursing the taxpayer for everything the illegals have cost us.  If they won't pay, freeze their assets in this country.  It should be the worst crime on the books for stealing from the taxpayer and yet it is done with impunity and no one says a damn thing.  No one tries to fix it either.  The illegals have more benefits and freedoms than we the citizens do.  As to those churches, revoke their non-profit status and make them pay retro active taxes.  I see no reason churches should be a tax free business anyway.  No where in the Constitution does it state that churches be tax free.  Time to take back our country and restore common sense, but I am afraid there are not enough of us out there with common sense to accomplish this.  The billionaires are screaming for more H1-B visas so they can hire Indians to fill the jobs that should go to citizens.  Their reasoning is that they can't get qualified citizens.  Well, hell  no, not at the third world salaries they want to pay.  Here is an idea.  If they want to bring over all this trash, let them post bond for each one they bring over along with any family members that come.  Allow them to be imported for, say, 1 year.  At the end of that year, they leave.  If they don't leave then the businessmen forfeit the bond and the bounty hunters are turned lose.  Bet we would see some very mute billionaires then.  Same for the businesses that hire illegals.  Arrest, fine the hell out of them, prosecute them and confiscate their business and sell it to pay deportation costs. 

Next we need to allow HHS to identify illegals and refuse benefits to them.  If they are going to the ER, they have to have a voucher from their embassy guaranteeing payment of the bill.  If no voucher, no medical treatment.  This would stop those from coming over here, dropping their anchor babies and stiffing us for the bill.  But this is a pipe dream.  There are no politicians with balls.  There is not one that would do this because it would piss off all their business donors.  It is all about money with our politicians and the Constitution is toilet paper.  This is one fed up United States citizen.

Politics

I keep trying to avoid any news.  It makes me so mad at how our congress behaves.  They are owned by big business and are not shy about it either. I never thought I would see my country in such sad shape.  And there is no respect for our elected President all because he is black.  He is hated because he is black.  We are overrun with illegals just walking into our country.  We now have to worry about imported terrorists among us.  Our economy is in the toilet.  We have the lowest minimum wage of any developed country.  Hell, we have companies coming here to open factories because they can pay less and offer no benefits.  Don't think so?  Check out Ikea.  They opened a factory in Tennessee, paying $8/hr, no benefits, manditory overtime without notice.  In short, they opened a sweatshop here in the United States.  In their home country, they pay $19/hr, paid medical, paid maternity leave, long paid vacations.  And they come over here and treat us like a third world country.  Why?  Because they can.  Our middle class is all but extinct.  All our safety nets go to the illegals.  Most of the jobs go to illegals as well.  Businesses make no bones about hiring illegals anymore and congress sits on their welfare butts and just gives their blessings.  Then they turn around and blame the President.  We need to put congress on an incentive pay scale.  If they do their jobs, we pay them, but not what they are making now and no benefits.  We keep a check off schedule.  If a congressman or senator does not make standard, not only do not pay him, but fine him.  This is our money and our lives they are dickin with and we the people just sit back and allow it to happen.  It is so easy to see why Hitler could rise to power.  He told the populace what they wanted to hear.  Case in point:  right-to-work law.  On the surface, it sounds like it is to protect the worker, right?  In essence, what it really does is give the employer the right to fire you without cause anytime he wants and with no notice whatsoever.  He can destroy your life and you have no recourse and the sheeple voted this in.  Why?  Because businesses told everyone unless they voted for this law, they would be forced to join a union and pay huge union dues.  People have got to be the dumbest creatures on this earth.  They are the only creatures that will shoot themselves and thank businesses and politicians for telling them to do so. 

Every illegal in this country gets free schooling for their brats, free food, WIC, tanf, and the biggie, free medical care.  Hospitals have reps for the insured, the medicaid patients, and the undocumented.  They do not even ask the undocumented how they are going to pay.  Try going to an ER and getting seen without producing proof of insurance or proof that you can pay for it, or a medicaid card.  You won't be seen, but those illegals will be seen, on your dollar.  And our congress has made this possible.  Not your President.  This was decades in the making.  Congress.  It all comes right back to congress.  And we have the dregs of our society in congress.  Not a lot of hope for our once great country.

Moved on

Well, we have moved on from the invasion of illegal immigrants.  The people were outraged.  The politicians paid it lip service and the taxpaying citizens got screwed again.  They have been moved on into the country, given free medical, food stamps, WIC, tanf and of course, free education--in their own language.  So who has rights in this country?  Not the taxpaying citizens.  Seems that the illegals and the filthy rich are the only ones with rights.  Sounds like Mexico, does it not?  We have become the United States of Mexico.  We no longer exist as a country.  And my father crawled through the jungles of the South Pacific to help preserve this country.  He would be so ashamed of it now.  I'm glad he is not here to see what we have become.  We will have to rake and scrape to get my grandchildren through college.  It will take a collective effort from all the family, but those illegals will go free.  I think Mexico should be forced to reciprocate.  We citizens of the United States should be able to go to Mexico and get free everything including a university education in our native language and the Mexican citizenry should be required to pay for it.  Seems only fair to me.  I would say that maybe we need to invade this country, but we really don't want it and if we invaded, we would be stuck with it.  Maybe it could not be any worse.  We are already supporting it and if we invaded, we would have all their natural resources including their oil  Something to think about. 

The mess the world is in

First I heard and saw people trashing our president because he did not immediately pull all the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Then he was trashed because he would not jump into the Syrian civil war.  How dare he not help the rebels.  Now he is being trashed because we haven't mobilized all our troops and sent them back to Iraq to destroy those very Syrian rebels that they wanted to arm. 

We do not need to get involved in another war in the Middle East.  It is up to the Arab League to take care of their own problems and if Saudi Arabia would cut the funding from these terrorists, they would not have the money to operate.  They are using weapons given to them by Saudi Arabia that were bought from us.  The Saudis stand behind the curtain and stir the pot, then look to us to stop their mess and clean it up.  Time we told them to clean their own damn house.  Not our circus, not our monkeys.  As to them coming here and causing trouble, when they do, no trial, just and execution.  To any who cause us trouble. 

It would be in our best interest both security wise and financially to deport all those illegals.  I realize this will not happen because Mexico does not want them back.  They are Mexico'sGDP.  Without the money sent from here stolen by the illegals, Mexico would sink.  So we are Mexico's welfare program and we are the retirement program for the rest of the world.  You would think that our politicians would feel some shame for what they have done to our country.  Nope. And my congressman is one of the worst.  Bill Flores.  But that is another post.  This is about the Middle East.  As to the two journalists that were killed,  they were there of their own free will.  I can't muster a lot of sympathy for them.  They chose their course.  Troops are a different matter.  And just look at all the politicians that do not have any skin in the game.  None of them have kids in the military.  Biden's son went to Iraq and did his duty as a reservist.  Ted Cruz has never served and yet he is one of the most vocal trying to get us back into the mess.  As my dad said just before he died,"Drop me and a bunch of politicians behind the lines and I can promise you that I will come out and they won't."  Dad had no use for politicians.  He was a WW11, UDT vet. 

I am trying really hard

I am trying really hard to just ignore the news.  I find it hard to do.  I just read today that "since the economy and construction have picked up, more money is being sent home to Mexico to the tune of $1.9billion last month."  We have kids that are going to bed hungry every night.  We have 35 million homeless school children.  We have several million children in the system.  We have thousands of homeless vets.  And we are supporting Mexico.  How ironic is that.  We sacrifice our own citizens to support another country.  How do these politicians look at themselves in the mirror every morning?  How dare they allow this to happen!  How dare they just give our country away! We count for nothing, nothing.  And when the middle class is extinct and the illegals control the country, then it will be too late and we will truly be a third world country with the rich and the rest in poverty and we are headed that way at warp speed and Washington sits on their well padded welfare rears and just  lets it happen.  This is disgusting.  I find both parties equally to blame and all those damn politicians should have to live in the trenches and try to make ends meet like the rest of us.  I have never been as disgusted with our politicians as I am now.  This is obscene.  They get free medical care, free schooling, food stamps, WIC, Tanf, SSI, and God knows what else.  Oh, and now they have protection from discrimination through the Labor department.  Just this week a company, was hauled on the coals because they told their green card holders that they had to present a green card that was not expired.  Well, you can't do that.  That is discrimination.  Really?  Where does it stop?  I guess a better question would be will it stop?  I don't think it will.  I live in Texas and we are overrun with illegals and they just pretend they have a right to be here and they drive without a license, cause accidents and nothing happens to them.  My country is lost.  And unless the citizenry forces the elected officials to clean it up, nothing will happen.  I am damn tired of paying taxes so those thieves can have a life that my own grandchildren cannot look forward to.  Now I will write my congressman, my two senators, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority leader and the White House and voice my complaint.  I do it every day and so should every other citizen before we become the illegals.