[stylist] Writing

[Shelley J. Alongi]

Please guys keep the subjects to writing. I may be unsubscribing due to the 
side conversations.
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updated Dec 7, 2008
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] helping doctors with blindness


> Judith,
> it doesn't work to think you can just avoid the people who are 
> paternalistic.
>
> I've seen my Endocrynologist doctor for several years, she's a very good 
> doctor: good at her job and a person with good attitudes.
>
> but when considering the two insulin orders for me, she nearly opted for 
> slightly less effective meds with more side-effects if I hadn't  queried 
> her about  her choice.  she was so concerned about my confusing the two, 
> the short-acting and the long-acting insulins, that she chose  more 
> potential weight gain and slightly less effective.
> she deals with people who have lost their sight due to diabetes.  I am not 
> her first blind patient.
>
> the two boxes are identical, and the "flex-pens" look identical to the 
> touch.
> the long-acting I simply marked with a  line cut into the lid of its box, 
> they sit next to heach other in the fridge.
>
> if I weren't such an onery cuss, I would have gotten  lesser meds because 
> she was trying to figure out something for me.
> jc
> Jim Canaday M.A.
> Lawrence, KS
> At 02:26 PM 3/27/2009, you wrote:
>>Let the good ones strive to help kids, or adults, recover some vision. 
>>For the steno doctor who feels they have  to look like they know what 
>>they're doing by writing scripts and giving false hope, retire.
>>----- Original Message ----- From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:20 AM
>>Subject: Re: [stylist] helping doctors with blindness
>>
>>
>>When David worked at the hospital, they gave him the Eye clinic to cover.
>>Doctors have no idea what to do when a person loses his sight.   They are
>>focused on fixing you.   When they can't, they give up.   A doctor 
>>actually told
>>David's mother he wouldn't amount to anything because he was blind, and 
>>she
>>ought to let doctors experiment on him.
>>Lori
>>
>>In a message dated 3/26/09 12:58:40 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps we should be sending this thread to doctors. As medical
>>>professionals they are committed to saving as much sight as possible.
>>>According to this thread some of their treatments and procedures are 
>>>wrong.
>>>Do any of us have the right to tell them not to do what they strive to 
>>>do?
>>>Judith
>>
>>
>>
>>
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