The medical profession

Doctors need to be held accountable.  They need to be held accountable when they cause a patient's death, a patient's dependency on pills.  Here is what has happened to me.  1997, August, my husband passed away after a long illness.  For 10 years, I took care of him, raised 3 kids and worked a 60 hour workweek.  Within one week of his passing, my doctor put me on blood pressure meds.  I trusted him.  He had taken good care of my husband.  So I am put on something called Ziac.  This is a combination of a beta blocker and a thiazide.  In 2003, my hands began itching and swelling and breaking open and bleeding.  I went to the doctor.  It is an allergy to newsprint.  He sent me to someone who was supposed to be a dermatologist.  He was an MD and Scott and White needed a dermatologist so he was tagged.  He did nothing for me.  And in the meantime, my arms, legs and face broke out in bloody, pus covered skin.  I looked horrible.  I would not have been allowed on a plane.  They would have called CDC on me.  This went on from 2003 through 2012.  I retired from my job in 2007.  My condition did not improve.  Then in 2012, I made a trip to my son's home in Denver.  I could not walk across the room.  My feet and legs were very swollen.  When I got home, I called the doctor's office.  I thought I was going into congestive heart failure.  It was the damn blood pressure med.  No one bothered to check the symptoms in all those years.  I was on it for 12 years.  So I got off it and I felt great.  Well, in 2013, I let this doctor, a different one to who put me on the meds in the first place, talk me into taking another blood pressure med.  He assured me it was nothing like what I had taken.  I started it in December 2013.  By January 2014, I was in a worse mess than the first time.  In March, I went back to the doctor.  The first words out of his mouth when he walked into the room were "Oh, you really can't take that medicine."  The bastard had put me back on the same damn thing that had almost killed me once.  I got off, but this time it had made me pre-diabetic and I have never recovered from it.  I will be seeing my doctor tomorrow to get on insulin shots because now, because of all the blood pressure meds, I am full on diabetic.