My Life and Very Hard Times with Lousy Doctors

By Alan Scott

It was Alan Scott's mother who emphasized the notion that doctors were the same as God; one healed the body and the other the mind and soul.

Believing that until he got older, he soon came to realize that some in the medical profession were vacant of honesty, sense, warmth, or understanding.

This was learned through unnecessary pain, poor diagnosis, poorly mannered doctors and staff members.

We are being over-medicated and over-tested. When the public sees ads about medications (especially new ones) that are more negative than positive, why is the FDA passing them through in the first place?

You will find many of the problems and complaints in this book as well as what people can do to counteract them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514478790

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Copyright © 2016 by Alan Scott.

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ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5144-7881-3

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CONTENTS

Prologue

Doctors, God And Me

All I Have Is A Cold! Just A Cold!

A Medicinal Interlude

A Good Primary Doctor?

I Don't Believe It! I Just Don't!

My Son! My Son! The Saga Continues!

Justice? Oh, Yeah, There's Justice!

Epilogue

OTHER BOOKS BY ALAN SALOP SCOTT

The will of Our Times

Three Trends on Cue

Forever With the Veiled Lids

Dust and Clay

Welcome to Kindergarten (with Elise Scott)

Though Youth is Gone

Rest Area

Silence

Lament for Then and Now

Dearie and the Peppermint Party and Dearie Y El Partido De Mento

School Shadows

Dearie Goes to the Opera

Dearie Goes to the Dentist

Reaching Eighty-5

Dearie Goes on a Cruise

My thanks to Edward and Rosalina Hom for being there when I asked medical questions and were answered with knowledge and love.

For Sue, Walter, John, Paul and my other friends who have grown up and never asked; now realizing that medical people don't have all the answers.

They all have learned to ASK! ASK!

TALK! TALK!

AND IF NEED: YELL! YELL!

I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal.

Alexander the Great

PROLOGUE

As one looks back at the doctors I have gone to, laughter and tears are combined. As a young boy, I listened to my parents and of course the doctor; never questioning them even when they misdiagnosed or caused me to have more pain than was necessary.

It was my mother who emphasized the notion that doctors and God were the same. Most things that my parents told my sister and I were told to them. Lies and misconceptions were repeated until there was total belief. It was easier to nod in agreement than to argue. If one argued with my mother for too long a period, there was the final whack! that ended it all.

That was until I got older and I learned that in some cases, some in the medical profession were vacant of honesty, sense, warmth or understanding.

What I learned through the years with twenty six operations and procedures, was to open my mouth and simply ask when something was not clear. After all, it was my body that was involved in all of it. We patients are not expected to know all about the medical profession, BUT the doctors ARE expected to be able to tell their patients (in simple and understanding terminology)what their condition is all about and how they will help them; not with the