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In honor of British MPs calling for an end to NHS funding for homeopathy, please allow me to present the following:




Apologies to anyone who really believes rocks and distilled water are useful medicines. And to make up for it, let me sell you some fabulous quartz crystals!
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Laid up as I am temporarily, with two days to go until the move, it occurs to me to wonder about medical services in the South bay. I'll still be under insurance, so I can afford to ask-

That is, does anyone have a GP that they would recommend to me for when I come up? How about an optometrist? I'll need new glasses soon. And a dentist- just in case.

Sing out people- does anyone have medical people they'd care to share?
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So I went in, and got scanned...amd the whole procedure was over quicklyand boringly.

No convulsions, no coma, no fillings exploding out of my mouth.

"House" has betrayed me.

*sigh*
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"Mildly annoyed" is my having to interrupt making dinner to go to the Rite Aid pharmacist, because we forgot to pick up RXM's birth control pills after work.

"Ready to Kill Furious" is getting back from the pharmacist, and hearing RXM saying "These aren't the right birth control pills."

The fumbling excuse for a pharmacist at Rite Aid who really needed to retire years ago got the prescription wrong and gave us the low dosage pills. This wasn't a difficult prescription to fill; one comes in a brown case, and the other in a purple one. Woords cannot described how screwed up that is.

We are NEVER going back to Rite Aid- we'll go down to Tijuana before we get any sort of prescription filed from that place. Screwing up contraceptives is bad enough; I hate to think of what would happen if he had gotten the dosage wrong on something life-threatening.
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So, since I'm going in tomorrow for an MRI of my sinuses (to see what terminal nose warts I may have), it's a good idea to review what I can expect when I go into the clinic.

1) There is a 75% chance that when put into the MRI, I will start convulsing violently. Lord knows what it is about the MRI that causes convulsions- why do they even still have those things?

2) Fortunately, there will be a highly-trained staff of neurologists just standing by ready to find out what is wrong with me.

3) Unfortunately, their first two guesses as to what's wrong with me, will be wrong. And at least one of the treatments they give me will send me into convulsions or a coma.

4) The final treatment for me will be something cheap and easy to do, so I will be out f the hospital in no time. Unless of course I have rabies, in which case I'm toast.

5) There is a fair chance that the oh-so-severe-but-hot hospital administrator will stop by my room. Unfortunately, I will be too sick to appreciate that event.

6) There's a better chance that the crusty yet straight-shooting lead neurologist will stop by to talk to me. I will not find this comforting, for some reason.

7) Oh yeah- for some reason, I will lie. Don't ask me why- evidently something about the hospital will just cause me to lie whether I want to or not.

And there- I'm all ready to find out what's going on in my sinuses. I should be back in a month or two.

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