My favorite is the SSI fraudsters that use a cane or this little wheeled scooters to hold one leg up. They never seem to use that cane right to actually keep any weight off the foot.
It’s called ‘doctor shopping.’ And unfortunately this by-and-large true–if one is determined to get labeled with a disability, and are willing to ‘shop’ long enough, you can find a doctor willing to sign off on pretty much whatever you want (for the right price of course).
On a related note, doctor-shopping is also the way many healthy men end up on TRT.
Doctors are caught in a bind. Patients expect us to do something quick-and-easy (read: in pill form) to make their lives better. If the physician refuses, many pts will slam the doc as incompetent/uncaring on the myriad doctor-rating websites, or even complain to the medical board. Example: You wouldn’t believe how irate and vindictive pts get when they come in miserable with a viral condition, and the doc declines to prescribe them antibiotics.
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I hear ya. We’re in the same boat as police. People expect us to do what they want when they want it and get mad when we don’t… But they complain on us either way; it’s just part of our job.
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Question for you ED. With all of the environmental, pollution and behavioral stuff that lower mens’ Test levels is TRT really an issue? Our dads and grandads didn’t have to avoid foods, lift, sleep 8 hours etc… and their test levels were higher than ours now (population wise).
So if a guy feels like garbage at 400ng/dl and would prefer to be at 800ng/dl where his grandad was at that age with the exact same behaviors (often even worse: smoking, low fat)… where’s the harm?
I know a 25 year old man who has never worked a day in his life, has 3 kids with separate women, and claims full time disability.
His morbid injury you ask? AD-fucking-HD.
Absolute waste of oxygen.
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that’s really sad. It seems the case that often a lot of people forget that it’s actually a pretty major surgery, with potentially serious complications (the most serious of which being what happened to your BFF’s wife).
When I hear really overweight people talk about the surgery they always seem to gloss over how serious the surgery actually is, although my experience with bariatric patients is admittedly very limited.
Sorry to hear about your friend’s loss.
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I’ve thought about this for some time now. It’s important to keep in mind that lower levels are on average and not across the board. Perhaps improvements in automobiles, medicine, and an overall reduction in risks, which in the past would have resulted in much larger numbers being removed from the population, have left a large number of inferior people in the population. Maybe nature lowering the levels of those men is it’s way of attempting to remove their seed; survival of the fittest and all. Just a thought.
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Another form of doctor shopping that is probably more common is fat people getting a doctor that won’t bring up the fact they are fat as a health concern, but do everything but that. Anything the doctor does that implies they are overweight and need to do something about it is “offensive” so there are doctors that just ignore this fact, usually the same ones who do a lot of prescriptions as that is the only alternative if fixing the root of the problem isn’t an option.
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I had a guy who was about 40 (and drunk) tell me he was on disability because he had antisocial disorder. Then he added, “basically, I have a problem with authority.”
So my takeaway was he doesn’t like being told what to do… and no one does. It’s simply part of life–not everyone gets to be the boss. But this guy’s solution was to be a belligerent drunk and get fired and somehow comes out on top with disability…
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Eugenics can’t be morally justified, but it works in all honesty.
Easy there Margaret Sanger.
You guys might like to read about xenoestrogens. I thought all that “BPA Free” stuff was hippy nonsense. Turns out a great deal of the chemicals in our environment screw with hormones big time.
The craziest study was one where the fish above a wastewater treatment facility were normal and downstream they had a huge amount of “intersex” (tranny) fish. They believe it was from all of the birth control, parabins and dozens of other chemicals that can bind to androgen receptors.
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A relative of mine had bariatric surgery. The change in him is truly wondrous; he’s still losing weight, he’s regained energy and mobility, is sleeping properly, he’s in work, and he’s getting married. This after years (decades) of being a shut-in with various psych problems, terrible sleep apnea (both caused by the weight and contributing to the psych issues), a kitchen full of takeaway menus and uncollected rubbish, and nearly dying of kidney problems linked to the weight. I really wouldn’t knock it.
Apparently there are some metabolic changes that aren’t particularly well understood, that contribute to the effect. But it was really startling, having thought for years how complicated his problems were, to see just how central the obesity was to them.
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Quick question : How do you tell if a fish is a Tranny?
Not a biologist. I think they had deformed gonads or ovaries. Or both types.
I do think some kind of chemical or hormone used in industry has had a effect on kids and adults such as the Xenoestrogen case you mention. Something funny must be in the water to make the sheer amount of mental illnesses in kids nowadays and the huge spike there has been, not just better testing to detect it.
Confession - I find this discussion interesting because I avoid doctors, put my first wife through med school, my brother was an ER doctor (he passed in 2001).
Confession - I’m not sure the rest of this thread is appropriate in this forum.
Reminder - flame free Bitches!
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I’m still suffering from Breaking Bad withdrawal.
Bitch!
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Respect the Chemistry Bitch!
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