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Home › Money

Liz Smith | 04/05/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith to Play Doctor?

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In response to: What medical tests would you like to have the option of doing in the privacy of your own home?
Liz Smith
I’d like to be able to do all of them.

Read more about: Doctors, First Response, Health, Money, Pregnancy Test, Science

4 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

katywon LA..

The days are gone when the Doctor drove to your home in his horse and carriage.  Oh those were the days.  It was nice but a lot of people didnt make it staying at home.  The tests now are too complicated.  It takes a village of medical people to interpret them correctly.

It was nice when the doctor did make house calls and delivered babies at home .  I was born in an old Victorian house built in the `1880s. Small town, we knew the doctor all his life.

But there is a serious side to this hospital business.  the secret to getting better quickly from an illness or surgery is going home from the hospital as soon as safely possible.  There are too many infectious bacteria and viruses running amok inside most hospitals if not all.

They do all they can and things are getting better but they are running out of effective meds while the bugs are constantly changing and becoming resistant to the illnesses.

Hospitals are absolutely necessary but don’t stay too long. Perhaps if you are a billionaire you can get the same treatment at home and buy all the necessary machines. I dont know too many of them.

 

 

By katywon LA.. on 04/06/2009 4:52 am
Laura Ward
How come Dr. McCoy’s (from Star Trek) medical gadget still hasn’t been invented after being introduced in 1966? We really need PAINLESS and less embarrassing doctoring.
By Laura Ward on 04/06/2009 12:31 pm
Juanita Ward
No LIz, we are Texas women someone could get the wrong idea.
By Juanita Ward on 04/06/2009 2:13 pm
Paula Forman

I would LOVE to test at home for EVERYTHING!!  Years ago I worked on a project for a not-to-be revealed pharma company who dreamed of self administered tests for women GLOBALLY that included  STD’s, basic pap and of course pregnancy…  and I can’t remember all the rest but I thought the idea was sensational… it would open the door to early detection- treatment and save lives.  What was interesting about the early research was that it revealed that women’s relationship with their doctors was very culturally driven… in some cultures the doctor was "dad" — who would take care of them without "upsetting them" with the details— and of course, some women really wanted the control that self testing would allow—

There were years of my life when I needed a CBC every two weeks- just a routine red blood cell count and it was infuriating that I couldn’t do it myself… 

Self testing is emancipation and you don’t need to be from Texas to love that idea!

By Paula Forman on 04/06/2009 4:46 pm