Article 4: Living With a Chronic Disease
It’s a lot harder to beat depression when you are clinically sick than when you’re not.
Doctors and physicians are very reluctant and loath to challenge one another’s diagnosis. It is a dirty medical profession secret. Everyone has a lot at stake. The first opinion may be wrong and you die. The second opinion may be a better option. The physician has your LIFE in his hands – your LIFE and your SOUL and you deserve respect for that. Doctors must start coming off their high horses and start becoming more truthful. If they don’t know they don’t know. We would respect them more.
Because most cancer and other debilitating diseases can be a very clear warning of death, we tend to filter out the information so that it confirms the belief you already have. If you think you dying, you will filter out the high percentage that live. We must listen more and be open and transparent. We must learn to ask the right questions, even if you write them out at home before you get to the physician.
Doctors must empower patients – they must allow for patient participation instead of playing at being god and expecting us to swallow everything they say. A participating patient will live longer. I am so participating that I tell the doctors what is wrong and what to do now. My life is important and I want to live it the best way I can. I don’t care if the doctor does not like me – I will go to another one.
It takes one human being to make the difference between life and death. Just one human being who cares.
Cancer patients universally know they have cancer before the diagnosis.
Set aside a little time each day to relax and be at peace to allow the spirit to flow into you from God. It is like a telephone. Shut up and listen.
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