Just who exactly is that patient here?
Back from the FTMHC.
First of all, the place is more monolithic, dreary, and frightening than I had remembered. Imagine is the set for the hobbit had post modernist tendencies. Ok, scratch that. Imagine the building worst suited to the mentally infirm: grey, concrete, few windows, twtisted pathways, dead ends, underground passages. Ok, now we are getting somewhere.
I met Dr. G. He was...distracted. His office had a lot of degrees mounted on the wall. They seemed to indicate that whatever he did, he had the blessing of a lot of acreddited institutions. Some of those institutions had seals. Some of the degrees had those seals on them. He had a fake persian carpet on the floor, and we sat on opposite sides of it.
He seemed bright. And interested. He took a brief oral background of my case, from me, though I found it difficult to recall my symtoms with any authority. They are so long gone and it has been such a while since i have listed them for someone. But I got my story out there, and the doctor took it quite seriously.
He was candid enough to begin by telling me that Sz is no diagnosis. That it is an umbrella under which many conditions fall. Conditions without names and without treatments. He admited that my recovery from whatever had happened was inspiring, and asked about the PTC's treatment. He admitted that allopathic medicine had a really difficult time learning about new approaches, and finding the research and treatments by smaller clinics. He asked me for a summary of resources on orthomolecular nutritional appraoches to Sz. He knew about folate thereapy, in fact the center is conducting a folate therapy pilot prgram, primitive in comparison to the PTC though. He knew about niacin, but strangely not about Hoffer, Pfeiffer, Walsh's or any of the other researchers works. This was dissapointing.
He gave me interesting information. He acknowledged that anti-psycholitcs may prevent american Szs from recovering. He bases this on the fact that 3rd world nations show a higher percentage of SZ spontaneous recovery. I have read informed writers who reached different conclusions as to the cause of this discrepancy though. He discussed with me the gene that is responsible for producing the protien that breaks down and absorbs folate. I have been asked to give blood for genetic screening.
I hate doing someone's homework for them, but he seemed genuinely interested. I have been asked to put together some resources for his reading. he also wants some case history material and stated that it is likley that he would reach the conclusion that I did not have Sz, but that without baseline information, my presence in any study would be pretty useless. I am to meet with him in a month. I hope I was not charged for this visit. I learned nothing and he learned a lot.
First of all, the place is more monolithic, dreary, and frightening than I had remembered. Imagine is the set for the hobbit had post modernist tendencies. Ok, scratch that. Imagine the building worst suited to the mentally infirm: grey, concrete, few windows, twtisted pathways, dead ends, underground passages. Ok, now we are getting somewhere.
I met Dr. G. He was...distracted. His office had a lot of degrees mounted on the wall. They seemed to indicate that whatever he did, he had the blessing of a lot of acreddited institutions. Some of those institutions had seals. Some of the degrees had those seals on them. He had a fake persian carpet on the floor, and we sat on opposite sides of it.
He seemed bright. And interested. He took a brief oral background of my case, from me, though I found it difficult to recall my symtoms with any authority. They are so long gone and it has been such a while since i have listed them for someone. But I got my story out there, and the doctor took it quite seriously.
He was candid enough to begin by telling me that Sz is no diagnosis. That it is an umbrella under which many conditions fall. Conditions without names and without treatments. He admited that my recovery from whatever had happened was inspiring, and asked about the PTC's treatment. He admitted that allopathic medicine had a really difficult time learning about new approaches, and finding the research and treatments by smaller clinics. He asked me for a summary of resources on orthomolecular nutritional appraoches to Sz. He knew about folate thereapy, in fact the center is conducting a folate therapy pilot prgram, primitive in comparison to the PTC though. He knew about niacin, but strangely not about Hoffer, Pfeiffer, Walsh's or any of the other researchers works. This was dissapointing.
He gave me interesting information. He acknowledged that anti-psycholitcs may prevent american Szs from recovering. He bases this on the fact that 3rd world nations show a higher percentage of SZ spontaneous recovery. I have read informed writers who reached different conclusions as to the cause of this discrepancy though. He discussed with me the gene that is responsible for producing the protien that breaks down and absorbs folate. I have been asked to give blood for genetic screening.
I hate doing someone's homework for them, but he seemed genuinely interested. I have been asked to put together some resources for his reading. he also wants some case history material and stated that it is likley that he would reach the conclusion that I did not have Sz, but that without baseline information, my presence in any study would be pretty useless. I am to meet with him in a month. I hope I was not charged for this visit. I learned nothing and he learned a lot.
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