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Originally Posted by Cybersprings
My apologizies (very seriously) for minimizing your career and your benefits to medicine. If not thing else, maybe this thread gave you an opportunity to share a small glimpse of your accomplishments that we should be appreciative of. Too be honest, I still don't know specifics, but thank you for your contributions to the medical community and our benefit.
You say, "You cannot hunt for rare exceptions and hold that up as a standard." I believe that is EXACTLY what you are doing regarding chiropractors. Is only one of us held to that standard?
And I did not hunt for a rare exception. I googled what an audiologist did, I saw the Mayo clinic as the first result and assumed that would be a reputable source (but what doctors can you really trust???  ) and posted the result which contradicted your emphatic statement. I didn't try to match my medical knowledge and experience with yours, I used the medical knowledge and experience of what most people think is a reputable institution. |
Looks like responses "crossed in the mail" again. Mayo Clinic is a great place, but their structure, protocols and procedures are not the mainstream. They may have glorified audiologists with more capabilities than Podunk, Iowa. But I assure you they would be few and far between. Additionally, how many audiologists do you think even want to take on the responsibility of managing a new, undiagnosed vertiginous patient?
An example---Sloan Kettering is a great oncology institution, but everyone there is on an "experimental" protocol (I did a month rotation there). Unfortunately they almost killed the 23 year old daughter of my mother's friend years ago. Why? She had stage 3B Hodgkin's lymphoma, which had at the time a 96% CURE rate with traditional chemo regimen and mantle + extended Y external beam radiation. Instead they put her on some weird protocol that was ineffective. Fortunately she responded to salvage therapy but had an unnecessarily rough time of it.