by SuziQ on May 12th, 2009, 12:20 pm
This thread is absurd. There was actually a poster who FALSELY calculated that the risk for getting **S in a lifetime is the same as for MS. WTF? Um, that would be a big FAT LIE. Of course, he was drunk when he wrote it.
Any of us who work in hospitals can attest to the fact that, statistically, FAR more people get dx'ed with MS than **S. In 20+ years in the clinical realm, (and I've been in both the acute AND chronic settings,) I've had a handful of **S patients, but thousands of MS patients.
I will never understand the tendency for some people to disbelieve their own physicians, yet take the word of strangers on the internet as gospel. I even saw a physician RIGHT HERE on this board give VERY sound clinical advice on a thread recently, but the recipient completely ignored it and asked another poster, (a LAY person who merely reads articles and journals,) his/her opinion. Again, I ask WTF?
If the REAL live, in-the-flesh experts and physicians who SEE and DX this condition every day; if those who have examined you, themselves aren't worthy of your trust, why trust some chump on a message board? Reading medical journals, doing online research, even going to the doctor and asking him/her questions does NOT make you an expert on **S. Sorry, kids but that's reality. If you want to be a doctor, go to bloody medical school. Don't pretend to "play one" on the internet. It's infuriating! This board is not a forum for wanna-be physicians to show-off their paltry medical knowledge and their cheap online research skills. Nor should ANYONE trust ANYTHING these posers have to say. If you want them to be your neurologist, why don't you ask them to write you a prescription, or perform your next EMG? Wouldn't that be fun?
Sorry, I just really needed to get that off my chest.
As you were.
Blessings,
Sue
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