Get well buddy.

Pal MD; i’ve always wondered what that phrase meant, “not afraid to tell the truth” – i am a firm believer in respectfulinsolence’s credo: “a statement of fact cannot be insolent.”

Take care of your knee. I hear there is some great research going on in Utah (i think) for people with knee issues, using stem cells or some such. Good luck!

Here is a link with some interesting videos: http://barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/4BiomechanicsofFootStrike.html

Aside from whatever ails these patients, it is inherently wrong, seemingly criminal, that the doctor seems to be intentionally diagnosing these carpet fibers as foreign creatures.

What a straw man! You think you can throw out the whole investigation because some crackpot puts a spooky spin on it? It’s a simple case of doctors mentally torturing patients, and Strickler was probably paid to obfuscate it.

A patient complains of an itch. It could be a drug overdose, it could be an allergy, — heck, it could be a damn sex-feeling for all we know. A simple skin lotion could take the itch away, but that would leave the doctor feeling like only a physician, instead of a god. So the doctor refuses to acknowledge that the itch exists. The itch gets worse, and the patient scratches more and more. The doctor refuses to acknowledge that the scratches exist. The patient, driven by the ever-increasing itch, makes bigger and bigger open sores, and lint and dirt get stuck in them. And eventually, after years of being refused treatment — voila! a massive unknown infection!

And do we hold the doctors responsible for driving the patients crazy? NOOO it must be the lint. Send the lint to the CDC to look for spooky parasites.

This is a blog, not your private scrapbook.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

“But if I felt let down by the medical profession and turned to quacks, eventually I might.

It’s a sensation started by nothing physical, yet something physical ends it. People with formication find relief by scratching. They get open sores, and fibers, or even parasites, get into them. There’s nothing strange about that; people with gunshot wounds probably fare a lot worse.

The question is how did the itch progress to the point that the patients scratch themselves raw? Perhaps because, given their mental instability, doctors had refused to prescribe an analgesic. They had instead assumed that since the itch started without physical cause, nothing physical can stop it either. And they prescribed an anti-psychotic, which did no good because it wasn’t a psychosis at that time. Rather it became a psychosis later because of repeated obstinance from the doctor. (If not for their mental instability, they would’ve left that doctor and filed a lawsuit.)

All this is caused by the assumption you expressed on SBM, that honesty and compassion are opposites. And the possibility that something physical is happening to the patient’s nervous system to cause the formication hasn’t been addressed, even though it’s well-known that alcohol can cause formication. And the CDC report even states that many patients were addicted to alcohol, and also that many were frequently exposed to solvents.

And to top it all off, someone pointed out a math error in the CDC report, and I just downloaded the PDF from Plos, and the error is still there.”