12-08-2018, 04:29 PM
I've had great experiences with Dr. Mitchell. She's bright, methodical and experienced. She recently saw me on very short notice when acute care diagnosed me with Deep Vein Thrombosis after a looooong airline flight. That can kill you pretty quickly and I don't want to die that way. (I want to die in the arms of a gifted 18 year old Mexican male with an inexplicable desire to make an American pay for the wall).
She carefully eliminated DVT as a diagnosis, correctly determined it to the muscle spasm and gave me something for it that made it bearable and also made it go away.
As for condescension I'm of the school that it is almost completely irrelevant whether a professional is nice or not. If you hire an attorney, do want a friend that will charm you over coffee and work on the case with casual indifference or do you want a frigging bulldog who will maul the other side and give you a good result while telling you your shirt or blouse is ugly?
Get the bulldog.
The state of medical care in America is dismal. And I'm sorry she is having a tough time making a go off it. We should do what we can to support good medical care in Hilo.
Meanwhile I had a weird purple mark on my lip in Mexico. I went to see a "consoltorio". He diagnosed with a bruise that broke the skin which he opined came from having been kissed way too hard the night before. The bruise got infected. The price was for his services was three dollars. He walked me next door to the pharmacy, I picked up the prescription and the offending mark disappeared almost the next day.
She carefully eliminated DVT as a diagnosis, correctly determined it to the muscle spasm and gave me something for it that made it bearable and also made it go away.
As for condescension I'm of the school that it is almost completely irrelevant whether a professional is nice or not. If you hire an attorney, do want a friend that will charm you over coffee and work on the case with casual indifference or do you want a frigging bulldog who will maul the other side and give you a good result while telling you your shirt or blouse is ugly?
Get the bulldog.
The state of medical care in America is dismal. And I'm sorry she is having a tough time making a go off it. We should do what we can to support good medical care in Hilo.
Meanwhile I had a weird purple mark on my lip in Mexico. I went to see a "consoltorio". He diagnosed with a bruise that broke the skin which he opined came from having been kissed way too hard the night before. The bruise got infected. The price was for his services was three dollars. He walked me next door to the pharmacy, I picked up the prescription and the offending mark disappeared almost the next day.