From Health, American-Style:

In his new book The Healing of America, the journalist T.R. Reid employs a clever device for surveying the world’s health systems: He takes an old shoulder injury to doctors in various countries. In the United States, a top orthopedist recommends a major joint-replacement operation, costing tens of thousands of dollars. In France and Germany, general practitioners offer him the same surgical option, at little or no cost, but steer him instead toward a regimen of physical therapy. In Britain, the doctor is unimpressed with his injury and tells him to go home. In Canada, he is offered a place in line, where he will wait a year just to consult a specialist. In India, he is sent to an ayurvedic clinic, where he is treated, quite effectively, with herbs, massage, and meditation.

Well, I’m not that sure about the meditation, but otherwise…

From the book on anxiety & depression depicted here, I’ve learned that sometimes there might be physical reasons for anxiety and/or depression. However, what has Candida albicans to do with this? Is this world obsessed with Candida? Is it something to be feared as the AIDS? Heck, I suppose almost averyone must have important quantities of Candida in her or his body, pretty much the same we might all have “too much” Staphylococcus aureus in our bodies! Why are all the books trying to make us feel sick?

Back to Candida, here’s the terrifying epiphany, pp 70-71:
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…but here’s an unexpected comparison found in a book:
This only helps me to “love” doctors even more. Besides, doctors don’t think at all, as we’ve told in another book.

I am still in a bad mood because yesterday we’ve spayed out kitten Pisuţa. Spaying means ovariohysterectomy — the complete removal of ovaries and uterus — and, no matter everyone says it’s “routine pet surgery” and “the best gift for your cat”, it’s actually major surgery, and much more intrusive than castrating a tomcat. C’est affreux.

Apparently, she’s recovering normally (whatever that means). A few hours after the surgery, she was quite alert, and she was somehow able to kinda walk. She then slept for most of the time, but she was obviously annoyed and very upset because of the “strait jacket” (she’ll had it removed later today CORRECTION: she only had the bandage removed), the dizziness, the lack of coordination, and the overall weakened status.
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This applies to Romania, but the situation might be very similar in (at least) a bunch of other countries too. They get bribes, yet they don’t bother to care about you. Why not establishing some “escadrons de la mort” (death squads) to take care of them? Hey, the situation is exposed even in the New York Times!

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