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Author Topic: Going to the Dr. is AWESOME Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 09-15-2004 01:43 AM                        I went and got a check up today. Other than the fact that you might think I went to see a shrink... Nope I didn't. I saw a local clinic Dr., The kind that feel you up... (no not this time) It's so great to get my blood taken. (supposedly my blood runs fast so the deed was done quick) What was more funny was my MOM was in the room when the doc asked me... "Are you pregnant? Are you sexually active? Do you take birth control?" ... Yes a Dr. is supposed to ask those questions but Jeez... having my mom there wasn't fun. Anyhow... here's my question for you all. Do you go get check-ups? Or just go whenever you're sick? & Are you the one who sticks it out and tries to get everyone else sick?  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2004 04:26 AM                     quote: Jennifer Pan "Are you pregnant? Are you sexually active? Do you take birth control?" What was the answer to #2 and #3?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2004 04:37 AM                     Actually, depending on her answer to #1, we may not need to know 2 or #3.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-15-2004 06:23 AM                     My doctor asks me the same exact questions!! But to answer your question, I only go to the doctor if I'm sick. But since I currently have no medical insurance, if I get sick, its too bad for me.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-15-2004 07:17 AM                     I'd rather do just about anything than go to a Doctor. If it's something minor it'll get better on its own; if it's something serious it'll kill me, and then I won't need a Doctor anyway. I've had strange abdominal pains for about a week now, and sometimes they're pretty bad, but I just put up with them. I did have to go to the Doctor a few months ago, for the first time in years, I was in great pain at work, and they insisted on sending me off in a Taxi. I had to sit in the waiting room for several hours, when the Doctor saw me he couldn't tell what the problem was, it might be an infection, it might be kidney stones, he couldn't be sure. He took a urine sample, sent it off for tests, which showed nothing abnormal. Eventually the pain went away, I still don't know what it was. I've been to several doctors during my life, sometimes with many years between visits, and I don't think anything very useful has ever come out of it. I hate bodies, and everything to do with them; I'd rather not even think about what goes on inside. Keep it out of sight, and out of mind.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-15-2004 08:51 AM                        quote: Brad Miller Actually, depending on her answer to #1, we may not need to know 2 or #3. If the answer to #1 is yes but no to #2, then that would be interesting to say the least... Like Jeremy, I take an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach to doctors. I haven't seen one (professionally) for years, and hope not to have to for many years yet. Actually, though, come to think of it, I am a doctor: but given that I became one by writing a 150,000 word thesis about old films, I would not advise Jennifer or anyone else to see me if they are pregnant or would like their blood taken!  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 09-15-2004 11:07 AM                        Haha... you guys are funny. Even though I knew I should have written my answers earlier, I wanted someone to ask . To honestly answer those questions, no I'm not pregnant, no I'm not sexually active, and no I do not take birth control.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 09-15-2004 11:28 AM                    Good for you!  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2004 11:29 AM                     Like Jeremy, I too have no insurance. I limit my trips to the doctor as much as possible, and even though I'd like to get a check-up, that's not economically possible right now. For the record my last visit to a general practioner was in 1998 for a head injury, but I did see an audiologist in June to have excessive wax removed from my ears. I usually have to do that once a year since I graduated college and it runs about $40.00. I'd like to question the Brits on the forum as to the lifestyle of medical doctors in the UK. I've heard rumors that becoming a doctor is not a popular career choice among the native-born British since they're not paid very well given socialized medicine. Is this true? If so, then what are the more prevalent countries-of-origin? In America many of our doctors are foreign born. Is that the case on your islands as well?  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-15-2004 11:55 AM                     at FSU, we have free Doctors apts and whatnot as long as you are a full-time student. Although...whenever a girl does go in there and she is sick...they ask those same three questions. It's a joke around campus that you have to tell them you are not pregnant before you go in so they can actually diagnose you  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-15-2004 12:05 PM                     I have no idea what they earn. Many of our doctors are of overseas ethnithicity, if I can put it that way, but many of those have lived in this country for most of their lives, often for decades. I would say that the Indian Sub-Continent is the most common area of origin  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-15-2004 12:53 PM                     I rarely get sick and if I do then I stick it out. The sickets I've ever been was last winter for about a week, I was on my death bed for a couple days but then back to normal. There's not much that'll keep me from getting to work if there's projectors involved. And I've not been to the doctore since I was born, however, sometimes random people ask me if I'm pregnant, sexually active, taking birth control...I'm not sure why...  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-15-2004 01:34 PM                        To start with, in Britain we have a state-run (i.e. paid for directly out of taxation) healthcare system called the National Health Service (NHS). Only a very small proportion of the population have private health insurance, and the private sector probably accounts only around 5% of consultations, treatments and operations at the absolute most (at a guess). There are some illnesses which have a significant waiting list for NHS treatment, but these are almost all non-life threatening (e.g. hip replacement operations), and in such cases people occasionally pay cash up front for the specific treatment (as against buying insurance cover). But as a general rule, everyone uses the NHS, which is free at the point of delivery. The basic doctor's qualification is a five-year full time degree, at the end of which you're a junior hospital doctor earning around £25-30k (US$40kish, I'd guess). You then need to do a lot more training and exams to specialise in a given area (e.g. cardiology, psychiatry etc.), and those who stay in hospitals rather than go into general practice can expect to make it to consultant by their mid-40s, roughly speaking. Hardly any doctors work exclusively in private practice: most are senior consultants who do a small amount of private work on top of their contract with the NHS. The most senior hospital doctors usually end their careers on £70-100k. So, basically, they're among the highest paid public servants in the country; but a doctor will still earn significantly less than someone with equivalent professional skills in the private sector (e.g. lawyers or airline pilots). But a doctor who has followed an average career pattern is likely to be earning at least twice as much as a teacher, civil servant or armed forces officer by their 40s. As against which, the training takes longer, so they're likely to graduate with a lot more debt; junior doctors' working hours are absolutely stupid; and they carry a lot of responsibility. A hospital doctor who makes serious mistakes that cause the death of patients might end up in jail as a result, but a teacher whose pupils all fail their exams does not run that risk. The problem I've heard with doctor recruitment (I've got several relatives who are or were doctors, on both sides of the family) is that a disproportionate number of junior doctors want to go into general practice rather than hospital work, as it's less stressful and the hours are lower and more predictable. As a result there's a rapidly growing shortage of hospital doctors in a number of specialisms, especially those involving surgery. Apparently the number of specialist transplant surgeons coming through the system is now so low that there are fears that donor organs may go unused because there won't be enough surgeons to 'install' them. I haven't heard of us importing significant numbers of doctors from overseas, but this is happening with nurses; this being mainly because their pay is insultingly low, given their skills and the cost of living in Britain.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-15-2004 01:38 PM                  quote: Jennifer Pan To honestly answer those questions, no I'm not pregnant, no I'm not sexually active, and no I do not take birth control. Jen, Again, we have more in common! I answered those 3 questions EXACTLY the same way! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2004 01:47 PM                     I just had a check up and everything is normal. I thought I needed a check up due to my recent weight loss. My doctor refrained from the embarrassing questions. Actually I think we talked about bird watching  |  IP: Logged

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