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so there's this young guy from my church named adam. he has diabetes and has some trouble keeping his blood sugar fluctuations to a minimum normally. the other week he went to his specialist and complained of fairly intense pain in his abdomen. the specialist told him that it was just constipation and that he should take a lacitive. so he did that...and the pain kept up for about five days until he decided to go to his family doctor who then told him that the specialist was probably right...but she didn't even check him over in any way. then, after suffering some pretty intense pain for another six or seven days, he decided to go see a naturopath...immediately this guy told him that he had a ruptured appendix and sent him to the hospital to get detoxified. his abdomen had been steeping in poison-juice for nearly two weeks. and he's been on lacitives...which didn't help the cause at all. AND his blood sugar has been fluctuating like a mad monkey because of all the poison. if the detox doesn't clear everything up, he may still need his appendix removed. that's bad news for a diabetic because it takes them a much longer time to heal.

one can imagine the outrage of him and his family towards the specialist and the doctor. so they wrote a letter to the OMA reporting the incident and returned to the family doctor to request adam's medical records so that they could switch to a different doctor. the doctor requested the fifty dollar fee and said it would take a day or two to get everything in order. she then added his file to a ten inch stack full of other people's files. all of these people were also quitting her practice.
now...how the heck does a doctor like this get a practice? adam has spoken with a fair number of people who are also leaving the practice and they've all been baffled at her lack of professionalism and her generally poor, and in this case potentially fatal, practice of medicine. doctors who practice medicine like this should not have been able to make it into personal practice in the first place. it's unbelievable.

so...i would request prayer for adam...he's not in anywhere near ideal health yet.
and i would hope for some better screening of the medical profession so that doctors like the one that nearly killed adam don't get their own practices.