It’s thundering right now. I’m sick as heck, and Mykala just got back for the evening. She was kind enough to make me an absolutely delicious late dinner.
Today, a doctor was extremely disappointed with what I had done with my crown preparation. Their exact words: “What were you thinking?” I did not appreciate hearing this, nor did I appreciate the way they had handled the entire appointment. I wanted to say this to the doctor: “Look, there are two possibilities. Either I messed this up on purpose, just to bother you. OR, I am still learning, and had I had a little more guidance, I’m sure the final product would have been well within your range of ideal. Now give me a break.”
Dr. Oz, on learning to treat patients once you become a doctor:
When I went into medicine, I assumed, by the time I was
done with medical school, I would understand it all. We
think that if we study hard enough, we’ll understand how
the whole body works. Then you go into practice and
someone sits across from you, very sophisticated, smart
person, and they haven’t read the book you have read.
They have symptoms, and problems, and complaints that just
don’t fit what you’ve actually learned seems to be how the
body works. So you have two ways of dealing with that —
you can assume they’re crazy and ignore them, or you can
say “you know what, I think there’s something else going
on out there.” So, now, there are a lot of physicians who
seem to believe there is something to it [acupressure].
