Posted by SLS on March 25, 2012, at 4:43:50
In reply to new pdoc says there 'are no answers', posted by raisinb on March 24, 2012, at 9:01:20
What is meant by the word "answer", anyway?
I have been so blessed. My current doctor has always had answers, even though most of them proved ineffective. In other words, my doctor never gave up on the idea that he could get me well. He always strove to come up with an idea for something different for me to try, even if it meant using an old drug in a new way. Sometimes, one of his answers was a simple "yes" when I asked him to try one of my answers.
The question that my doctor did not answer was the one I had learned not to ask.
"Will I ever get well?"
I believe that it is rarely true that there "are no answers". However, it is true that there "are no guarantees".
It is rarely true that one can guarantee that there will be no answers.
It turned out that one of my doctor's "answers" has produced a marked improvement in my condition that has lasted several months. Of course, there is no guarantee that this therapeutic response will continue. The only thing that is certain is that as I write this last sentence, I feel wonderful.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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