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<DIV>> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, spike <<A
href="http://us.mc815.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=spike66@att.net"
ymailto="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</A>> wrote:<BR>>> Sure
isn't. I would counterpropose that we pay the<BR>>> price another
way. We<BR>>> make most medications over-the-counter accessible,
without<BR>>> a doctor's help<BR>>> if the prole chooses to go that
route<SPAN class=312042122-15072010>...</SPAN><BR>><BR><BR>### Users do not
have to read the manual - they can call the IT<BR>department, and the smart ones
do it before they spend money or monkey<BR>around the BIOS. Same applies to drug
users. No need to have a<BR>Department of Safe Software, making sure nobody gets
to use programs<BR>except ones verified by indifferent programmers hired on
governement<BR>money to check things they don't care about, like the FDA.<SPAN
class=312042122-15072010>..</SPAN>Rafal</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=312042122-15072010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks Rafal.
The opinion of an actual doctor is worth more than others. I like your
approach.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=312042122-15072010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I had a friend who
lived along the Kern River, adjacent to an Indian Reservation (Indian with a
feather not a dot). The tribe had a medicine man, but he didn't do
anything with the traditional remedies, the local plants or incantations and
such. He had formal training in pharmacology, so (had he maintained a
license) he would be a titled a pharmacist. He used all standard drugstore
medications as far as I could tell. He couldn't help you if you had some
oddball condition, but he was really good at helping his tribe in all the stuff
that he saw nearly every day. His patients tended to
have the classic problems: alcoholism, flab and diabetes, the ones
that are eating up the rest of the US population at an ever greater rate.
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<DIV><SPAN class=312042122-15072010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Interesting aside:
medics are debating genetic based medicine, where they take into account the
genetics of the patient. I wonder how it would help if all of
the medicine man's patients are closely related? The Kern River people
were all more or less genetically related, having descended from a very
small core group. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=312042122-15072010><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Where the Kern River
medicine man was really good was knowing when he could prescribe something he
had in his own shop and when he had to recommend the patient go on down to
see the white man's doctor.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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