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Re: Attitude

Written by Ivan at 23 May 2003 16:34:23:

As an answer to: Re: Attitude written by obvious at 23 May 2003 15:39:17:

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>>Just fyi, I went to the doctor and asked for this procedure. I have a very good doctor with whome I have discussed all the options available to me.
>So why don't you go back to your nice doctor and ask him the same question you just asked here? Maybe he will have some options for you.

Come on now, let's not be too mired in suspicion. Bob may have gone to the doctor for help, actually several by his account, and gotten poor advice. It is not hard in the US, or for that matter probably in other countries, to find a number of doctors who don't know beans about foreskin care. In non-RIC countries, they also don't see many foreskin problems because they really are quite rare; some doctors in their routines would not think to treat a foreskin problem as a skin problem, but instead would only think of the one unique procedure which applies to the male foreskin - ballooning, no, I mean circumcision. There is a very wide range of skill, knowledge and dedication amongst the practitioners of every profession. It could just be a poor draw, or maybe he was going through an HMO, NHS or whatever applies where he's from.

So he finally went under the knife, and isn't too pleased with the result. He has the feeling that while he brought up what he could, he should have been informed of more options. It can be awfully difficult to get doctors to take the sort of time it takes to truly consider all the alternatives, especially when they are insisting the options have already been covered. Add to that the embarrassment most of us have talking about our privates (except when we have used the wrong side of the ruler), and a person can get led down the primrose path very easily, perhaps with no fault on either his part or his doctors' (except their lack of awareness of the less intrusive methods of helping a guy with his foreskin). Now he needs to know about the healing process and ways that he can avoid having his willy bobbed any more.

I will agree that soem of Bob's comments are fishy, such as the problem getting 'cream' prescribed/dispensed. Most doctors have a bin of samples they draw from to give patients when the approach is not contraindicated. A sample tube of betamethasone properly applied would probably last months and have fully solved the problem on its own, unless there is an infaction ongoing. But perhaps the problem with getting the 'cream' was a communication gap. We can help him learn all the terms and options that he, and others, need to know so that he can properly either tend to the matter himself or communicate properly with physicians to get the optimum care.


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