By using statistics and data. Does everyone who smokes cigarettes get cancer? No, but you're at a much higher risk to get cancer of you smoke. If the data does not support something causing cancer, there's a good chance whatever it is, isn't causing cancer.
Yeah I need that guilt and depression postpartum. He got a 36 on the ACT.
Well, heading home today. Partial small intestine blockage and an infection. Was tough watching the game and not yelling a few times last night!
Breastfeeding. Yeah no one tells you how hard it is but the world does shame you if you don’t.
Worst of all worlds with oldest, I gave him my breast milk from a bottle. He had low glucose when born and they gave him formula from a tube in his nose. He would never latch on after that. All the lactation experts come in and grab your boob to show you what to do and baby is still all like, why should I work that hard? I am gonna get food the easy way. He was in NICU and was like a baby giant in there at 7 lb., 6 oz. I spent 8 months pumping my milk and giving it to him in a bottle. So always pumping, always messing with bottles. They warned us repeatedly of an association between low glucose and developmental disabilities.
Other four all took to it easily but was still working with the next two and back then, where I worked, that was very far from easy. More like stressful. I think our highest maternal death rate in the developed world statistic includes through 42 days postpartum. The stress of breastfeeding depressed me. It’s not all sunshine and cuddles, it’s work.
The Canadian wildfires weren’t real positive for environmental quality. When there is a continual haze for a long time you know you are sucking in those carcinogenic fumes.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. However on one point, just to be clear, I was not frustrated with my medical team as I totally understood why they wouldn't/couldn't commit to a cause. I was merely using that as the premise of the paradox.
I completely agree. But, those positions are established long after consequences of profitability. They're 'causal' statistics. But, we still can't disregard that the initial 'publicized' position was that they were not harmful. In fact, they were marketed as 'beneficial' to your health initially. Question for you: do you think the tobacco industry knew of the statistical harmful consequences?
Some medical providers just have a routine that they prescribe to everyone. A local NP will put every woman over 60 on 2-3 calcium pills a day. She also has been sending a lot of them to specialists to see why their calcium counts are high. Guess what the specialist tells the patients, maybe cut back on the calcium pills. My MIL was in the hospital for a week for extremely high calcium toxicity, took until the last doctor 2/3rds of the way through to stop the calcium supplements and she started to improve dramatically. The local NP left the calcium pills on her list when she went back to the care center. My wife had to call the last hospital doctor and have him override the NP.
There isn’t a single thing wrong with this statement but part of the reason we don’t talk about stuff like that is that the average American really struggles to make these kind of distinctions and you get into territory that “if everything can cause cancer” then it excuses extremely risky behavior.
Of course I agree on your last statement. But I don’t understand your overall point, and I don’t think that the truth of your statement means we should change anything about how we currently operate as a society.
So here’s the thing with stories like this. Unless the NP was telling you with 100% sincerity that she puts every woman over 60 on calcium you have no way of knowing. If that is actually true that individual shouldn’t be practicing medicine and you shouldnt be going to them.
You mean listening to dolphin sex doesn’t magically make your ruptured Achilles heal faster?
Throw everything out the door when dealing with the elderly, they are an entirely different population set that you can’t base any actual medical trends on except for that specific age group.
You mean listening to dolphin sex doesn’t magically make your ruptured Achilles heal faster?
Mercy hospital had the reports and the script never changed for the MIL until the last doctor came in and the family asked why she was still on calcium supplements. Doctor looked and ordered them to be removed.
