Assay, Assay, Assay

[clivealive]

A man attends his doctor's surgery to find out the results of his recent serum B12 test which was 141ng/l (140-910ng/l) so the doctor said "That's fine".

"But what about all my symptoms - numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, difficulty walking, muscle weakness, irritability, memory loss etc. etc.etc?"

The doctor smiled and said "I can't treat you as you are in range. You need to increase the amount of animal products in your diet. I have just the thing here"

He reached down and produced a long strip of leather from a drawer in his desk.

"All you have to do, whenever you "feel the need of a boost" is to chew on this leather thong and then come back in three months and we'll test you again".

The man left the surgery bewildered but thought the doctor must know what he's doing and so started chewing.

Three months later the man staggered back into the doctor's surgery and was asked "And how are you today?"

The man slumped into a chair and said:

"The thong is ended but the malady lingers on"

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[GavinUK]

/insert suitable groaning emoticon

Sounds like he was lucky to be in an area to have a low level as high as 190 in the first place though!

[clivealive Forum Support]

Is the moral of the story that we should "eschew" an ignorant doctor's advice?

[JMN2017]

clivealive My apologies, but I've only now seen this and find it hillarious, so thank you so much. I'm going to print it out and give a copy to my GP

I'm fairly sure he'll find it funny even though he and I disagree on many things, especially B12 deficiency. He doesn't feel I'm deficient, so says he can't prescribe it!!!

I self inject, which he knows about, accepts and is pleased I feel so much better with B12. In spite of that, we do have a good relationship still and he'll enjoy a good laugh

[clivealive Forum Support in reply to JMN2017]

"Laughter is the best medicine" an adage from the old "Reader's Digest" magazines, That was always the first article I turned to in those far off long ago days

[JMN2017 in reply to clivealive]

Oh, I did enjoy those old 'Reader's Digest' magazines. I read some fantastic and fascinating stuff in those.

I can appreciate how 'Laughter is the best medicine' was your fist 'go to'

Hmm, I'd forgotten about those magazines. There was often one or two copies in waiting rooms, I seem to remember, particularly the dentists!

[clivealive Forum Support in reply to JMN2017]

As I had my cyanocobamalin B12 injections at 10.30am every fourth Tuesday back then I had plenty of opportunity to "catch up" with my reading the surgery copies.

[JMN2017 in reply to clivealive]

Yes, I can imagine!!! All that reading helped make you how you are now

[JMN2017 in reply to JMN2017]

Oops! Just noticed, 'how' in the last sentence, should be 'who'

[clivealive Forum Support in reply to JMN2017]

Both "how" and "who" make near enough the same sense.

It reminded me of an old motto I "borrowed" from Rudyard Kipling when I was the Business Management Systems Administrator, responsible for writing working procedures for the Company's BSi Quality Assurance accreditation before I retired. It reads:

I keep six honest serving-men

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

These are the sort of "interrogation" questions needed to be asked of an employee or working practice to ascertain whether they are "fit for the job"

You can always edit a post by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the "Like" box.

[JMN2017 in reply to clivealive]

Excellent!

Edit? Now, why didn't I think of that, instead of writing a new post??? D'oh ... Thanks for reminding me 'edit' is there