The Risks of Self Medicating

When we’re sick, we take the medicine. We know the routine.

This habit can make it tempting to self-medicate. If experienced doctors sometimes make mistakes large and small, how much more vulnerable are we?

Even persons who are knowledgeable about medical practices can take their limits for granted.  One so-called medical insider, but not a certified doctor, stepped into his chummy doctors office and asked for a particular medicine to treat his respiratory condition before a major talk before 1500 persons.

He nearly fell unconscious before his less than impressed audience. He had self-medicated.

One reflexologist spent a fortune on supplements, only to feel like she was dying. When she finally talked to a doctor, he told her to discard all her cherished supplements.

Within a few days she returned to vibrant health.

We have compelling reasons to consult experts, communicate freely and listen well while asking questions and contributing to a wholesome medical partnership between you and your doctor and staff.

I used to be impressed when people said that they don’t see doctors, naively thinking that they were in near perfect health.

How sad I was to discover that my buddy was discovered dead on his living room floor two weeks after rigor mortis had set in. He lived alone, and isolated from doctors. How tragic.

Instead of having great health, he had stubbornly refused to see doctors despite his alarming symptoms, neighbors belatedly diverged.

A former neighbor made good money pouring iron at a foundry. When his boss invited him to take a lesser paying job away from the toxic fumes, he refused the offer, saying that he can take it.

I was so shaken that I couldn’t even attend this super man’s funeral.

How about the bloke who is afraid of doctors. Sure, we all get it. There is a grave risk with medical apartheid in this country.  Read the book by the name Medical Apartheid and see for yourself if you happened to have missed it.

But not all doctors are gunning for you.  We have to trust others.  Take your best shot, no pun intended. Step up to the bat. Take your medicine.  Stay healthy and live.