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ZippyDDoodah says

It’s rich to hear ellie complain about “attacks” when I was responding to a direct insult, especially when on this very thread she ‘attacks?’ me as “sadly misinformed”, “ill informed” and “short-sighted and socially irresponsible”.

It's your posts that lead me to that conclusion. The more you post, the harder it is to take you seriously.

When a patient presents with contact dermatitis, the first line of treatment is to do nothing beyond suggesting over-the-counter remedies except in extremely severe cases. Most patients (including Zippy) find it upsetting that they are not automatically given a shot of something, but 99.99% of the time dermatitis simply resolves spontaneously after a couple of days once the allergen is removed.

Except that it was explained to the 1st doctor that the rash had already persisted for several days and was getting worse. It was also explained to him that during that time, over the counter hydrocortisone and anti-itch creams were already tried and not working. His response was to speculate that it was chicken pox, even though I told him I had a bad case of chicken pox at age 5. The second Quack doctor was visited two days later when the rash continued to get worse. He was literally bewildered, pulling out a book to try and figure it out. This is not how "99%" of US doctors would have treated this same situation Nomo.

Interesting that when I explained the same thing to the medical intern at the doc-in-the-box in New York, he gave me a shot and solved it immediately.. without even having to pull out a medical book! You can't blame the exodus of better Canadian doctors to the US before Obamacare.

ZippyDDoodah says

It’s rich to hear ellie complain about “attacks” when I was responding to a direct insult, especially when on this very thread she ‘attacks?’ me as “sadly misinformed”, “ill informed” and “short-sighted and socially irresponsible”.

Are you saying ellie "I never insult anyone" mae actually does hurl insults? The next thing you'll say is she's a hypocrite. Shocking!

RayAmerica says

Are you saying ellie “I never insult anyone” mae actually does hurl insults? The next thing you’ll say is she’s a hypocrite. Shocking!

Jeez, rayray. Do you hate everyone who disagrees with you, or am I number one? Because you have to feel passionately about someone to focus on them so much, the way that you vie for my affection (or lack thereof). This schoolboy crush is kind of cute.