Older and Better with Shelly

  Doctors are required to take the Hippocratic Oath. Or are they hypocrites? I love all my doctors and they’ve all proven themselves to be just what they’re supposed to be. Now there are many other people out there professing to know what’s best for you. I’m not here to argue with any of them I’m just stating my case. If only half the things that they claim were true, we’d have a real healthy America. I don’t have an opinion about CBD oil. I know what the claims say but I don’t have any personal opinion because I’ve never tried it. They say it’s better than sliced bread. A recent advertisement I got for a health newsletter claims to have inside secrets to things that everybody needs to know. I’m not even going list all the claims they say will help you. I do believe there is a time and place for alternative medicines. No hate mail please. Did you know you have to take your blood pressure in both arms and if one is 10 points different than the other, you could be havin...

Have you noticed how much the medical field has changed in the last 50 years? I know all the surgical techniques and cancer treatments have improved, but the quality of our care? Not so much. Do you know a doctor that makes house calls? When my kids were little we only had one car. My husband took our car out of town on a business trip and one of our kids got sick.   Our pediatrician said “no problem I’ll just swing by on my way home from work”. Do you know a pediatrician today that’s going to swing by on his way home from work to see you? Even in an emergency, care isn’t what it once was. You’re lucky if you can get a doctor to see you at all. And that’s after you call and punch 1000 buttons. You may be dead before you get a live person. Like having your calls screened, now every doctor has to run you through a process before you get an office visit. You damn well better have a serious illness for the doctor to see you the same day you call. O...