Listen To People - They Tell You What They’re Thinking
Yesterday I took a water sample to my pool shop to check the chemistry. The woman at the counter ahead of me was rubbing the base of her neck. When it was my turn, I said, "You've got a neck problem." She responded, "How do you know?" I told her I was a chiropractor and could see her neck distortion and how she rubbed her neck. When I suggested seeing a chiropractor, she responded, "They just want to crack your neck. No way!"
A lady behind me piped in, "I once went to a chiropractor, and he told me he would fix my neck. He proceeded to "crack my neck". "After that, I had a migraine for a week."
While I may not have wanted to hear those negative stories, I came to realize there are many times we don't listen to others. Doctors are particularly notorious for not listening. I have also heard this about chiropractors. This often results in patients being discounted, and it's not unusual for a patient to be told, "It's all in your head".
One of the first things you are taught—or should be taught—when taking a case history is listening to the patient. It can not only give you valuable information, but it establishes rapport. When patients aren't listened to, it can set the stage for lawsuits. This actually applies to many walks of life.
I know of someone who had purchased a car and had bought an extended warranty. You guessed it; the transmission went on the vehicle a few days after it expired. The repair was quoted at $9000. Management refused to reconsider their position. Emails were sent to the head office, and with no response. All this did was cause an angry client who was posting very negative details about the dealership. Car dealers have the flexibility and leeway in these situations where a warranty has expired by a few days.
In the medical world, we have countless stories where people aren't listened to. The doctor may hear something but is not actually "listening". Now I wonder where this has happened in recent times? Oh yes, the Covid shots?
How many people who have sustained vaccine injury have not been listened to? "It's just a coincidence." "It's all in your head." These are statements discounting a patient instead of thoroughly investigating or reporting an adverse vaccine reaction.
Society is not listening and, in fact, refusing to see what is happening. Something is happening that is very troubling. People, including athletes, news presenters and even some politicians, are suddenly collapsing, yet no one is even investigating.
If a doctor ignores or minimizes a patient's symptoms in close temporal proximity to vaccination, they, in effect, are not really listening to the patient. Governments, health bureaucrats, and family physicians have been guilty of this in the age of Covid.
Perhaps they all think it will just go away if they ignore it. All it does, of course, is lead to the deterioration of trust. You now have a situation where many have given up on the medical profession. Some of the trust may never be regained. Remember the phrase, "The customer is always right". It certainly applies here.
An excellent piece.
In my case, I have lost trust & faith not only in medicine but just about every British & international institution that I might previously have respected in some way. Governments as a whole are corrupt, the police are just a bunch of thugs & bullies in uniforms, lawyers and 'the law' will do anything but only if someone is paying them, the BBC & MSM in general are propagandists & so on. The UN/WHO are as bent as a nine bob note, education at all levels has become an indoctrination system and so it goes on.
In theory, Britain is supposed to have left the EU which has, again, shown itself to be corrupt beyond belief - although TPTB seem hell bent on having us rejoin officially. I certainly don't trust *any* of the many Sir Humphreys who actually run the country.
Saddest of all, I have lost faith & trust in the British people. Previously shared values seem to have been trashed in one generation. I am in my seventies & don't recognise the country in which I grew up.
We have but one MP (Andrew Bridgen) who would get my vote - ONE MP out of 600+. He, of course has been neutralised, thrown out of his party & literally left to speak to an empty chamber. Doubtless he will be replaced in due course by a horse's arse wearing the right coloured rosette. The same thing is happening in Oz, where I see Gerrard Rennick getting similar treatment.
I no longer trust anything or anybody.
It is a shame how the world is still so biased in our thinking, we so need good critical thinking. Thanks for you Ely!!