Yet another profound and interesting idea just hit me. For years, we would go to the dentist and after he performed some kind of examination he would tell us whether or not we had cavities that need to be filled. He might give you an x-ray showing where the cavities are, but if you’re like me, those things are close to indecipherable. You basically take his word for it that you need further dental work.

Of course, we’re now in an era of instant communication. The last time the dentist showed me an x-ray of my teeth it was a digital image on a computer. I posit that someone should start a dental vetting service. Either the victim, er, customer or the dentist himself would pay for a third-party service to validate the dentist’s findings. The dentist would do the x-ray and send it off to his third-party who would give an unbiased report.

As a result, dentists might once again be seen as trustworthy individuals, and we would no longer have sayings like, “I trust that motherfucker about as much as I trust my dentist!” (Note: this saying is an example of sarcasm.)

I’ve spent the past couple weeks on this blog posting irrefutable evidence that all doctors are incompetent, evil and retarded. As a kind of coup de grace to any argument opposing my point of view on this, I offer the following story. A story of a man who, upon receiving no help from his doctors, resorted to eating parasitic worms found in the feces of a young Thai girl to cure his stomach ailments.

One day in 2004, a 29-year-old man with a terrible stomach problem stepped off a plane from the United States in Thailand. He wasn’t there for the sights, or the food, or the beaches. He had traveled thousands of miles for worms — parasitic worms whose eggs he intended to swallow by the thousands.

His doctor back home had told him his idea was crazy, that infesting himself with parasitic worms wouldn’t do anything to help his ulcerative colitis, and in fact could make him very sick. The gastroenterologist had told the man if he pursued this course of treatment, he would refuse to be his doctor anymore.

How could worms become healers? There’s some science behind it.

The patient became more and more convinced worms could help him. Behind Weinstock’s study was this observation: Inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis affect nearly one in 250 people in the United States, but are extremely rare in underdeveloped parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa.

Some experts believe parasitic worms might be part of the reason. When underdeveloped areas become developed, parasitic worms, also called helminths, become less common, and diseases such as ulcerative colitis become more common.

In the case of this patient, the worms did cure his health issues. I repeat, WORMS helped him, when no doctor could.

It really makes you wonder about this mixed up society we live in. Doctors are respected, looked up to and even fawned over by gold hungry trollops. Meanwhile, it is the lowly worm who really toils to make the world a better place. Until we elevate the worm to the status of the much vaunted doctor, until dozens of nubile whores are eagerly offering themselves sexually to parasitic crawlers, I feel we can not view ourselves as moral or just.

Yaaay, Worms!

The evidence that doctors are incompetent retards keeps on coming. Study Finds No Progress in Safety at Hospitals

Efforts to make hospitals safer for patients are falling short, researchers report in the first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care and to track it over time.
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It is one of the most rigorous efforts to collect data about patient safety since a landmark report in 1999 found that medical mistakes caused as many as 98,000 deaths and more than one million injuries a year in the United States. That report, by the Institute of Medicine, an independent group that advises the government on health matters, led to a national movement to reduce errors and make hospital stays less hazardous to patients’ health.

I recall reading a story about a doctor who accidentally dropped his car keys into a patient while performing lung surgery and then sewed the patient up with the keys still inside. When he realized what had happened, he went to the patient’s house, sliced open her chest with a scalpel, pulled the keys out and left her bleeding to death in her own hallway.

What is it going to take for you people to realize that doctors are scum?

Today, after just recently posting a blog complaining about the incompetence of doctors, I come across this article.

One in every seven hospitalized Medicare patients are harmed by treatment mistakes, according to new analysis by the Department of Health & Human Services released Tuesday.

The report cites a variety of “adverse events” or causes for treatment errors, including excessive bleeding after surgery, urinary tract infections linked to catheters and incorrect medications. Researchers estimate that these types of adverse events contribute to 15,000 deaths per month or 180,000 deaths each year, according to the report.

Some patient-rights groups are calling these findings alarming.

“The country is in a patient safety crisis,” said David Arkush, the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division in a statement.

I’m reminded of an Oprah episode I watched about a year and half ago. That Dr. Oz guy was telling viewers who may be going in for limb surgery that they should not only use a felt tip pen to mark the correct limb the doctor should operate on, but they should also use the pen to indicate that the incorrect lamb should not be operated on. The idea being that if a doctor chooses incorrectly, he would never see anything you’d written on the correct limb, since he would never look at it.

It’s like, I’m sorry, but if the doctor operating on me is such an incompetent moron that I need to mark which fucking limb he’s supposed to cut off then I don’t want to be anywhere near the guy, much less have him waving a scalpel at me.

I vaguely recall reading a story about a doctor who mistakingly sewed his own scrotum on to a woman’s face. And when she woke up and started crying, he just laughed at her and called her “gobble head.”

These are the kind of people we’re dealing with, folks. Real sickos.

I’m often linking to stories that point out that many things thought of as being bad for you — alcohol and caffeine in particular — often turn out to be good for you (in specific amounts.) On a related note, I have to chuckle at this story about a nutrition professor who lost 27 pounds on a on a diet which included a copious amounts of Twinkies. The secret was that even though he was eating garbage, he was eating a low calorie count of garbage, and his body burned more calories than it took in. Not only did he lose weight but…

Haub’s “bad” cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his “good” cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

There is one disturbing thing about the story. There’s a picture at the link of the professor post diet, and he still looks about 20 pounds over his ideal weight. At 47 pounds overweight, he must’ve been a real fatty. And yet he was a nutrition professor? I would think kids were were walking into his class and wondering — from the looks of him — how much the guy could know about his topic .