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Misdiagnosing the Problem
By L. S. Su
A few months ago, my daughter had
this nagging cough that would not go away. So after about four
weeks of this, my wife said that it was time to get this checked
out. However instead of going through the normal and long process
of getting an appointment at our pediatrician's office, my wife
took my daughter to one of those nearby no appointment walk-in
clinics. Our doctor's office is about an hour round trip in
driving and unless it's an emergency, it takes a few days/weeks
to get the first available appointment. Then the beauty of all
this, once you get there, the doctor never sees you immediately.
I'm going to say the average wait time in the waiting room is
about 45 minutes. So this new clinic, and I've noticed many
of them popping up, makes it far more convenient and faster
in getting the problem diagnosed. However, the Physician's Assistant
(PA) at the clinic misdiagnosed the problem.
After seeing the symptoms, the
PA diagnosed the problem as asthma.
"Really? Asthma?", I
replied to my wife.
My daughter has played competitive
sports throughout most of her life. Now that she's not playing
a sport, she develops asthma? So my daughter was prescribed
a steroid and some additional type of medicine that had to be
dispensed through an inhaler. Our family's health plan has a
very high deductible. Since our family has never met the annual
deductible, which I admit is a good thing, we basically just
fork over the money every time we go to see the doctor or the
pharmacist. I remember the pharmacy bill in excess of $400.
When the problem is misdiagnosed,
the cure will be off. This is logical right? In the end it will
waste time, money, and caused unnecessary suffering (e.g. my
daughter couldn't sleep because of this cough). However, the
PA's treatment did alleviate the symptoms for about the first
week, but then the coughing got worse. So after a night of coughing
through the night, we finally took our daughter to see her doctor
that has been seeing her since she was a few days old. After
listening to my daughter's lungs through a stethoscope for about
3 seconds, he said, "You have bronchitis."
Bronchitis is a bacterial infection.
The treatment for it is very different than a person suffering
from asthma. After purchasing a $12 bottle of this pink stuff
call amoxicillin, my daughter's cough disappeared within a few
days and has not returned. So my wife and I learned several
good lessons here, but the main one was that misdiagnosing the
problem leads to an ineffective cure. Or in this case, no cure.
Another example of misdiagnosing
the problem has to do with children and teachers. I've got two
sister-in-laws and one brother-in-law that work in three different
elementary school systems. Two are teachers and one is a guidance
councilor. The kids they tend to talk about are the problem
ones. It causes all of them to spend an inordinate amount of
time on them, and because of lack of time ignore the good students.
This issue has apparently gotten worse over the past few years,
one of my sister-in-laws wants to retire early.
She says it's not because she doesn't
enjoy teaching kids, because that's what drew her into the field
in the first place. It's because of the administrative and law
enforcement duties that are constantly getting heaped onto her.
Imagine that, a teacher entering the field with the desire to
teach. One example that I was given was this anti-bullying campaign
that is going on through our school systems. The school systems
didn't get any additional money or staff to administer the campaign.
Now whenever there is an "incident" that might be
construed as "bullying" like getting shoved in the
lunch line, it's about 8 to 12 hours of additional of administrative
paper work, meetings, and follow up work that gets spread to
multiple employees in the school system. Apparently she entered
the teaching field with the desire to teach. Imagine that? But
her position, at least in her school system, has shifted towards
administration and preventing problem kids from harming other
kids.
My sister-in-law has made it clear
to all of us that the least attractive aspect of her vocation
is the need to deal with the parent(s) of kids with behavior
problems. I was told that most of these parent(s) behave in
a similar fashion to their child with anger, hostility, and
lack of respect for authorities.
"The apple never falls far
from the tree," commented my sister-in-law.
A great majority of these parents
act as if their kids' behavior problems is from lousy teachers'
or school system. So the symptoms of total lack of respect for
teachers is of course going to cause a learning disability.
It's obvious to me prescribing some type of treatment for the
child is a kin to only treating the symptoms. In particular
cases, the cure to the child's behavior problem requires treating
the parent. You want a better and more respectful kids, improve
the quality of the parent.
"We're not allowed to do that,"
was the general consensus of all three of them.
I thought to myself, this is another
example of misdiagnosing of the problem. You just want to treat
the symptom (i.e.a cough, a rebellious child)? But the root
problem from my perspective isn't the child. Bad behavior is
a symptom. In many cases, the root problem is coming from the
parent in the form of poor parenting (or totally lack of). So
of course whatever treatment you administer to treat the symptoms
going to be costly, time consuming, and usually not that effective.
But yet they try and spend an inordinate amount of time documenting
incidents, because it's these same parents who are most likely
the ones to bring law suits the school system.
But this issue of misdiagnosing
the problem is very common in our society. It's not just in
our health and education system. It pervades our legal and political
systems. Misdiagnosing the problem even pervades our marketing.
"Marketing?" you ask.
Yeah the very thing that drives
commerce. The very thing that allows people to engage in the
exchange of products and services, which in term allows people
to thrive.
Remember this guy named Bernie
Madoff? So far in the 20th and 21st century, he has broken all
records for the amount of recorded money stolen from individuals
and institutions. I said, "recorded" money, because
there are current and former heads of state who stole far more
wealth from people than Mr. Madoff. But since these leaders
also control the media, the talent, property, and resources
they stole from people are/were not made public. So officially
it never happened; but its two common symptoms to see that people
are getting fleeced are: inability of citizens to thrive and
high inflation.
Mr. Madoff was a talented marketer.
Does anyone doubt this statement? Your marketing skills need
to be way above average before people with above average intelligence
hand over $17.5 billion dollars for you to manage.
The amount of money he stole is
so large that I think most of us lose perspective on the magnitude
of the amount. It's like our national debt, what's another zero
at the end of an already big number? Let's put it this way.
It takes less then 263 million one dollar bills, place end to
end to go around the equator. Bernie stole more one dollar bills
from people that if placed end to end, it would lap the Earth
more than 66 times! Or another way to comprehend the magnitude
17.5 billion is to realize that last year, the average American
citizen contributed $49,844 to the gross national product (GNP)*.
Bernie and his crew, basically stole a year's wages from 351,000
people. Or roughly a day's worth of wages from 40% of the population
of the US.
A 150 year prison sentences is
treating the symptom correct? Keeping Bernie incarcerated does
prevent him from selling more stuff to us, but the sentence
itself doesn't actually address or fix the real problem with
him right? It's a kin to giving my daughter a steroid when she
has bronchitis. Doubling the prison sentence or the dosage of
the steroid is not identify or fix the problem right? It's because
the problem has been misdiagnosed and therefore the treatment
is off.
So what is the root of Mr. Madoff's
problem? What caused him to behave this way? Can you answer
this question?
A level of greed and selfishness
that is far superior to the norm? Love of money? Love of comfort?
Low self esteem? A need for accolades? A difficult childhood?
Some type of mental sickness? What is the root problem here
in Bernie's case? In order to treat the problem effectively,
it starts with an accurate diagnosis. So doctor, what is Mr.
Madoff's root problem? What is the root problem of millions
of men and women that they willingly and knowingly break laws
that we have put in place?
If you could identify the root
problem, then maybe we could treat it correctly. Because building
these multi-million dollar prison facilities, incarcerating
a sizeable chunk of our population, and then paying five figures
a year per person we incarcerate doesn't seem to be a good treatment
for the problem. It only keeps people who behave really poorly
away from us. Plus it's really expensive. It's a kin to the
expensive steroid and this inhalation device I purchased for
my daughter and doesn't do squat to address the problem.
I think if we could diagnose the
problem correctly on why men and women engage in evil would
greatly help us in coming up with an effective treatment. But
I don't even see that we attempt to diagnose the problem.
However, there is one book that
correctly diagnosis the problem correctly and accurately. It's
the same book we have people put their hand on in court and
ask them to make an oath. In the case with Mr. Madoff and millions
of others (including ourselves), the root problem isn't that
he's sick. The problem is that he's sinful.
Wow, when is the last time you
heard or you yourself use the word "sin"?
It's a word that seems to be departing
our language. I don't think I've seen or heard the word used
in court, in the news, or even in our newspapers. The Bible
is the only book I know that accurately diagnosis the root problem.
But as our society becomes more secularized, we remove words
like "sin" and "God" from our vocabulary.
How is an effective treatment going to be found if you remove
words like "bronchitis" or "infection" from
the health field? Like an infection, sin at its core is very
destructive. Sin destroys purpose. Not only does it harm the
individual, it harms innocent people around them.
The Bible is the ONLY book on Earth
that accurately diagnosis the root problem with man. Since the
Bible is from God, I can also say that God is the only person
that has accurately diagnosed what is wrong with us. The first
five books of the Bible, which originates from the Jewish Torah,
clearly defines what sin is, its origin, and its penalty. The
later part of the Bible, what is called the Gospel (i.e. Matthew,
Mark, Luke, John), provides the cure for sin.
Whether you are religious or not.
I want to encourage your to read the most published and translated
piece of literature in human history. If what I'm saying is
correct that sin exists, then read about the only cure for it.
Sources:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-by-state/
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/03/09/2015-05437/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration
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