Don't Get Sick, But If You Do...

Okay, it's rant time.

I've grown increasingly skeptical about Doctors over the last 5-10 years. I'm to the point now where I put most Doctors on the same moral platform as used car salesmen and shyster lawyers.

I believe physicians see patients as cash cows first, ready to be milked by every deceptive, unscrupulous, unethical, imaginative way possible. Then, if they happen to actually help someone now and then, well, it's good for business.

Most amazingly, as a group, they are incompetent! Look at this:

• The Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates that as many as 98,000 U.S. patients die annually from preventable medical errors.

Reword that last sentence: 98,000 people are KILLED annually by preventable medical errors!! That's equal to the entire population of a medium-size city!

Can you name one physician who was prosecuted for killing any of those 98,000 people last year? I can't.

Imagine if air traffic controllers killed 98,000 people every year in preventable mid-air collisions. Would you fly?

That's why I say, "Don't get sick. But if you do, don't go to the Doctor. But if you do, be afraid, be very afraid."