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Leibling, now I am very curious. What are the attitudes in general, of doctors towards patients over where you are?
Here in the US doctors often treat patients, (no matter what
their economic status) like this, "I am the doctor, I have all
authority and nothing you say is important or relavant" My
natriopathic doctor is not like this. But many regular doctors
are. It has been one of the frustrating things with our system.
Here is an example.
No, the doctors would not say like that. They only do is recommend us to do... It's up to us as patient either we want to hear their advise or ask other doctor for second opinion. It's our responsible if we don't want to listen our doctor's advise/recommendation.
I take care of my elderly mom. Since I have been doing this
she has had 4 surgeries. Because she has a mechanical heart
valve she is on a blood thinner called coumadin. When she has
had surgeries in the past they gave her another short term
blood thinner after the surgery at the same time as restarting
her coumadin. This was supposed to be a saftey prevention
because coumadin takes a long time to build up in the body.
I told them she was reacting differently, (she was bleeding
through early and hemmoraging before her blood levels of
coumadin reached safe levels) I showed them research but
no one would listen. (a common problem here) She almost
died after each surgery. On the fourth surgery, (she got knocked
down by our goat and broke her arm) they had finally decided
that I was correct. She sailed through the surgery no problems.
I am very sorry to hear about your mother. I am glad that you searched positive how to help your mother. Why can't you check with other doctor for second opinion? We often do that... if we feel unsure either our doctor are right or not... We searched and visit other doctor for second opinion. If their opinion are equal then I accept...
Also with all the tax and fees and private ins taken out of your
check do you actually get to take any money home? Can your
two parent families afford to have one parent be a stay at home
with the children? Technically we shouldn't be able to afford
for me to stay home with a family of eight and less than $35,000
per year. (I do a lot of creative financing and bartering) But
is important to both my husband and I that one of us be home
to homeschool our brood. One thing I have noticed is that
it is difficult to get info about what really goes on in other
countries. Thanks
I work full time and my hubby work part time (I work from 7.30 am to 4.00 pm and my hubby work from 4.30 pm to 10.00 pm) The reason we use different time because of be there for our boys.
Yes, obligation taxes and social insurances are being removed from our monthly wage automatic.
We receive EUR 154 per child a month from Government, no matter either I have a job or not. I have 2 boys which mean is I receive total 308 EUR per month until my boys get job with their income limited (their monthly income should be under 800 EUR per month... I will lost child allowance if my boys's month earn over 800 EUR... Child allowance remains until my boys finish with their univerisity or to age 25.
You have 8 person in household? How many children do you have? Do you have child allowance in America?
We need to go work to keep our house survive and support our family life. It's impossible to keep our house survive if one of us are out of work.
I thought Americans work to pay taxes to federal government, don't they?