There are exceptions BUT for the Most Part, be your OWN DOC.....don't be a slave to pharma and those who deliver the toxic drugs...... There is SO MUCH info to find and read and take Action on. Linus Pauling wasn't playing with the people..... And eat as healthy foods as one can get. All the FDA additives, bahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Doctors in many states are now not taking Medicare patients- Medicare does not pay enough.Now the Advantage plans are being picked to pieces. Every time something happens in the world, is another excuse to shrink product and make it more expensive. Companies buying up medical practices and hospitals is one thing drove many to leave medical profession. Ironic is how medical companies, drug companies, media and etc - push a long all healthy life all the while slowing killing us all with their lies, misrepresentation contaminated foods. medicines. I could go way deeper than this, but don't wanna mess up me day on the dangers of listening to others vs.to my self on health matters. I know this body way better than they do.
So far only med I take is 1/4 aspirin] cheaper than baby aspirin to cut regular one in quarters]. If BP is high I take 2 1/2mg's Amalopine, only high a few times a month. Otherwise, no meds, just diet and exercise. If I listened to dr.s I'd be on all kinds of meds for 2 stents the Frankenstein's put in me 5 yr ago. Plus blood thinners, or be on insulin for diabetes, B Been diabetic about 15 or more years now, I've never had a shot or meds except a few weeks and I quit Metformin. Berries and low carb dirt work better and of course workout. Someday I will not be able to work out or even find berries, will worry about it when it happens. Not saying doctors are bad, when we need them.
I've taken these chewable 81mg aspirin: $12.50 for a bottle of 1,000 (about 1¢ each.) Made in New York state by an American company. Available from Walmart and Amazon. Way easier (and cheaper) than cutting pills...and the chewable aspirins are the ones that benefit your heart.
I should have mentioned that the $12.50 Walmart price includes shipping, so you don't have to mess with a minimum order. Amazon is $8.58 plus $6.99 shipping, or their $35 minimum order for free freight.
That is why I mentioned in a previous post that if Medicare wants to underfund everything, they should offer incentives for hospitals to operate Medicare Clinics. That way, if your private doctor doesn't take Medicare any longer, you could go to one of the clinics. Some of the doctors who are "retiring" due to the inability to make their operating costs may be retained if they could work a regular schedule with no worries about overhead, employees, etc. The doctor I now see at the VA here recently retired form being a hospitalist at a local hospital. Hospitalists generally have it pretty good with no office, but they do have irregular shifts and sometimes pressure from administrators to do more than is humanly possible to maximize revenue, especially at the for-profit hospitals. He said the stress just got too great for him to continue. The nurse practitioner I was seeing there is now doing remote video visits from home and apparently is happy with that as well. My wife sees a private doctor, and was switched to his PA as soon as she turned 65. Apparently Medicare does not pay enough for the physician to be involved unless there are problems with her care.
No, I think after I read about it, I figured iodine was not something I wanted to mess with supplementing without getting tested first. Potassium also falls in that category.
John amd Marie, if you two have no symptoms of iodine deficiency, which I posted, then no bother but stay aware.... I had a 10 yr depression starting in 1991 and that is when I started with thyroid....info and a great D.O I had who worked with SYMPTOMS......we are NOT numbers, but medicine thinks so....they need to keep moving the drugs.
$4.57/year. Such a good deal. I had to stop taking them because after a couple of years the aspirin started to upset my stomach.
We have no problems with Medicare at all. They paid for both (each eye) cataract surgery I had in 2018. We had to pay for the new lens they put into each eye. For the two times I went to the ER, and admitted into the hospital, last year, they and our Supplement covered all but $600 that we paid for one doctor that checked on me in the hospital. $600 instead of the thousands that we would've had to pay without Medicare/Supplement.