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From: craig@pyuxv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: placenta previa
Message-ID: <146@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 14:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 14:23:26 1985
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Organization: RB Craig @ Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
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>> >I am 15 weeks pregnant, and... learned that I have what's called 
>> >placenta previa. From the little I've been able to read on it
>> >[some text omitted] it sounds very bad.  My doctor did not spend
>> >much time with me...

The lady who posted the original item had read books and discovered that
Placenta Previa was a "very bad" complication of pregnancy. (see above)

>> It is unfortunate that your Dr. [OB/GYN?] is keeping information
>> about your condition to her/himself. If he/she is not more
>> [more flames about bad doctors & malpractice suits]
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
My response did not characterize doctors as good or bad.  I do know that
the Med School graduate at the bottom of the class is given the title
'Doctor', so I assume there are good ones and some not-so-good.

>That's a pretty information-free posting, Craig. If you can't answer the
>question hit 'n' instead of 'f'. Or at least hit 'r'.

Good advice. I might add that the daSilva response was somewhat devoid of
answers to the real question in the original posting.

To paraphrase, the crux of that question was... my Dr. charges me for
"information-free" advice about my condition. But I would like to know:
How should I amend my life style to best cope with this complication...? 

Who would be the best authority to answer that query? Shall we post a
list of dos and don'ts without knowing the circumstances in detail, or
should the patient insist on more information from her personal physician?

I think the responses, Peter's and mine, arrived at the same conclusion:

>       "See doctor immediately "


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..!ihnp4!pyuxv!craig (RB Craig @ Bell Communications Research)
                                 Piscataway, NJ  08854-1300
"Bound for the rainbow's end..."

Rhetorical question: Is this news group net.med or net.meddle?