January 12, 2007

Nobody Likes A Know-It-All

I usually reserve this tag for political entries, but it's just so appropriate for the story I'm going to relate.

I was talking with a co-worker a few days about about the new-and-improved diagnosis, and pointed out that PT never had a chance of working given the nature of my injury. Said co-worker immediately chimed in with "I completely disagree." My first instinct was to blurt out, "Since when did you get your MD?" but I was polite and explained the situation again. It became obvious to me that I was getting nowhere and completely failed to convince her, so I cut the conversation short.

Now, I need to point here that this co-worker believes exclusively in homeopathy -- even the pets unfortunate enough to reside with her go to homeopathic vets. I also recall a conversation that ended with "allopaths (that's her word for medical doctors) don't cure their patients." Color me skepitical, but if you have a disk injury that is beyond the body's ability to repair itself, it stands to reason that no amout of herbs, or massage, or any other alternative medicine will be effective in treating it. But there's no reasoning with this woman. She's so convinced that her brand of medicine can fix anything, she's trying to get me to go to her PT specialist, because, you know, "he can like fix anything."

So much for the opinion of one of DC's top ranked neurosurgeons. I suppose I should call him and let him know that my coworker thinks all the work he does is crap and he should immediately disband his practice.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i used to remind my p.a. when he was being snarky that "allopath" means "other suffering".