So the incompetence of the Doctors caused you to go blind in one eye. Similar things happen all too often. It's one thing for a Doctor to say they just simply don't know, and they send you off to a specialist where you get the answers and treatment you need. With all the litigation they face, you'd think they'd have done a better job for you in the first place. And that's what it is, it's a job they do, then you pay them. Only no refunds and no recourse. I faced something similar and filed a complaint here in Canada with the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Board, and the very end result was that they are allowed to make 'errors in judgment'. End of story. Even the physicians who took over my mothers care were upset, but alas, she died from complications caused by the original Doctor. I do believe it is a mindset common among all professionals, not just MD's. I have a problem with one-shot therapy designed to 'cure' people of something like smoking for instance. As an Addiction Counsellor, I cannot see any long-term benefit (although there is for some) for the most part, because the addiction is only one part of the picture. There is a whole industry available and ready to take your money for you to buy stop-smoking aids, and if it worked as often as they say it did, they'd be out of business overnight, and the smoking aids would be down to a buck in the nearest dollar store. People are left floundering going through the agony of overcoming an addiction over and over again. I personally don't know anybody (including my husband who's constantly struggling to overcome his addiction for the past two years now) attend any form of therapy in addition to taking the patch or pill. So, like you say, no matter which direction you're coming from when you seek help for a problem, you are at a disadvantage because you do not know the history of the Doctor you are seeing. So who's policing these people? And we have all had at one time or another major issues with 'professionals' and there are those, even good ones, who have the special status of being at arms length. I clearly remember an entire class on just writing notes during counselling in case they are supeoned by court. It was an entirely different way of thinking because you had to second guess everything you thought and wrote out on paper. Not all professionals can be painted with the same brush, although all professionals can be painted with the same professional restrictions. Good people with good intent are also caught up in the mess of being held accountable, and there are those that will take advantage of that. Talk therapy as you mentioned takes talent. It is the purest form if unrestricted, to encourage meaningful exchanges between [u]two people[/u]. It is the most vunerable as well, for both parties, because to work, in my opinion, professional ego must be put on the shelf along with the clip-board, and a personal, [i]emotional[/i] committment has to be there. Not all therapists are capable of that. Many burn out. So where does that leave our abductees. If 'mainstream' is so restricted, and we've come to putting people in little boxes and treating them according to what our diagnostics and statistics manuals tell us, where do abductees fit in. I think it's pretty obvious. I worry that there is so much that can be done, but any therapist wanting to do [i]serious[/i] work on behalf of abductees is going to be in the minority for a long, long time. If only........if only........ Tim ___
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