On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:17:08 -0500, Peter wrote:

On 2/3/2014 10:28 PM, Shadow wrote:

I retired as a family doctor, years ago. ( 35 years practice, when I
was almost perfect, I had to retire ....). In my country, family
medicine is state-run, a very corrupt state, so we have to ignore the
leaflets they hand out and study in those tediously thick text-books.
And even double check them for biased text. I don't jump to
conclusions. I just thought your choice of "high cholesterol" when we
were discussing disability was not wisely made. A stroke, heart
attack, severe liver or kidney failure, something like that would be
more convincing. FWIW []'s


Shadow, perhaps we have an English language comprehension problem?

Nothing lethal, but English is not my first language. Almost
all medical books are in English, unless you want to fool around with
acupuncture and homeopathy. I don't, so my grasp of English is
probably OK.

As a
trained doctor, surely you know that most patients who have had a stroke
or have severe liver or kidney failure are at least partially disabled.

Yep. What I said.
My original reply questioned the OP's apparent belief that anyone
merely taking prescription meds for a chronic condition met the
definition of disabled.

//"Speaking as a MD, I believe that if someone is taking prescription
medication for a chronic condition, and that condition is being well
controlled (no medication side effects and no detectable damage to any
organ system from the chronic condition), that person should be
considered healthy. (Examples might include well controlled high
blood pressure and well controlled high blood cholesterol if they were
diagnosed and managed soon after onset - among some other chronic
conditions.) "//

I did the inverse of your logic.

"Examples might include well controlled ...remove high blood
pressure..cholesterol if they were diagnosed and managed soon after
onset ."

And if they were not ? I often get patients that have had high
cholesterol for decades with little organic damage. Like I said, you
chose a bad example. Cholesterol levels are a minor factor in vascular
disease. Not what the drug companies want us to believe. GENETICS,
smoking, Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, severe alcoholism,
and sedentarism play much bigger roles. I consider stress a secondary
factor as it might cause any of the above, minus genetics.Did I forget
any ?
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