Everyone has heard to always get a second opinion.
I’m here to tell you the more opinions you get the more confused you will be when concerning your health or that surgery you’re contemplating.
I recently not only had a second opinion, but a third opinion, then decided to go one step further with alternative medicine, and was even more confused. Every opinion I got was conflicting.
Where do I turn? Dr. Google? Most PCPs and specialists dislike when their patients turn to Google. Your doctor may have graduated and interned 20 years ago, whereas Google is updated 24-7 seven days a week on all kinds of information from celebrity gossip, sports and vital medical information.
Why do doctors frown on Google? They want your business, and your money, and do not want to be outsmarted by a search engine after spending thousands of dollars and time on med school. The doctors will tell you much of the info is false and listed by quacks. This may be true, but it is there for us to decipher. There are also doctors that are great and those that are quacks. It is for us to interpret.
Just a reminder: It’s easy, simple, and costs nothing to type into the Google search engine and ask any question you would ask a doctor.
Whenever I have a question about my medical health I turn to Dr. Google, and sometimes I even ask Siri.
Another thing to remember: It’s like changing your answer on a final exam. When confused, they say 95% of the time your first answer was the correct
answer. Therefore, I have found my first doctor in almost every case I have gotten multiple opinions wound up being my final choice, and even more trusted than Google.
The main thing is to stay healthy. A healthy diet is essential.
The current trend these days is to have plant-based food. Fast-food restaurants even have plant-based burgers and chicken. Panda Express now has its famous orange chicken in a plant-based, veggie-style format, made out of beets, called “Beyond Chicken,” and Burger King has its world-famous Whopper called the “Impossible Whopper” made out of soy protein.
This got me thinking: Why not invent meats that taste like vegetables? A hamburger that tastes like mushrooms and calls it “Impossible Mushrooms” or chicken that tastes like kale and call it “Beyond Kale?”
Bottom line;
Follow your gut, follow your instinct, and as the expression goes, “Grasshopper, heal thyself.”
Getting old may not be fun, but keeps you on your toes, and sure is funny; that is, if you can remember what you’ve done!
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James “Kimo” Rosen is a humorist and photographer who lives in Kapa‘a with his dog.
