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I vote corporal punishment for these "Don't Know It All" idiots. Pants down - assume the position - for every stpuid statements and thoughtless comments they make. I however insist on doling out the stupidity punishment. It irks me that these guys are younger than I too - they really don't know the aches and pains I'm going through. Right after my stroke I told my MD about the general allover pain that keepme up at night. His solution - if you can't tell me exactly where the pain is - I can't help you. He assumed I was just trying to obtain pharmacy grade pian killer drugs - sooo not true. The pain sudsided eventually, by itself - no thanks to him. 

mitskev:

 Right after my stroke I told my MD about the general allover pain that keepme up at night. His solution - if you can't tell me exactly where the pain is - I can't help you.  

Sheesh! Sometimes even when you do tell them exactly where your pain is, it doesn't do any good.
True story: In the hospital, a large well-respected institution in a big city, one morning several weeks after my stroke, I awoke to abdominal pain that just would not go away. After hours of this, I looked my doctor straight in the eyes and said bluntly, "I really think I have appendicitis!" He replied, "Nah; you don't look sick enough to have appendicitis!"
After my 5' 1" 61-year-old-mother spent literally an entire day chasing this guy through the corridors of the hospital, insisting that he "do something," he very grudgingly ordered a CT scan.
My very inflamed appendix was removed a few hours later.

The cream of it was that AFTER I had diagnosed my own ailment, and my mother literally bullied a doctor a full foot taller than she into ordering the appropriate tests, the doctor still congratulated himself, telling my mother, of all people, "Aren't we glad I ordered that CT scan?"
My mother, who is not a violent person, expressed(unfortunately not to the doctor himself) a desire to cave in the man's skull.
I recovered from the appendectomy just fine, and now I don't have to worry about my appendix any more.

Make sure to say happy Mother's day this Sunday to your mom. And if your Mom's no longer here - you can just think loving thoughts in her memory. like me. Mom's are the greatest !