| Show ip i 1 Dr Brady Says Diseases Dont Don't Alter Course To Coincide With Beliefs I By Brady MD M.D. Whatever is is What you may think it is does docs not change the I facts If a cat has kittens in ann an oven n you may think of them as biscuits if you to but they u are e kittens nevertheless nev nev- If you have cancer of oft t h c stomach Dishing r and believing be be- lieving that you have merely an ulcer has no ef effect ef- ef T feet whatever on the cancer Dr Brad If you have pulmonary tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- and it pleases you to think that you are merely overworked or tired the effect of your conviction conviction con con- is not registered on the tuberculosis Physical diseases do donot donot donot not change their character to toI coincide with ones one's convictions or I beliefs If a child chUd has a low grade rheumatic rheumatic rheumatic rheu rheu- matic fever and the parents are arc convinced that the thc child is suffering suffering suffering suffer suffer- the ing from growing pains child has rheumatic fever never never- A disorder which one may conclude amount to anything anything any any- thing may actually be the beginning beginning be be- ginning of a very serious malady Ignoring a disorder does not dispose dispose dispose dis dis- dis- dis pose of it If you have something the matter with you it makes no do difference whatever what you think about it Diseases of physical physical physical phys phys- ical nature arc not influenced by thought Ridiculous Ideas Idea A patient who goes to a doctor with the conviction that he the patient understands the cause and nature of his ailment aUment is al almost almost almost al- al most invariably off his rocker locker Many any persons conceive e a certain mechanism one mechanism one which is perfectly perfectly per per- simple to 10 them them to to be in involved involved involved in- in in their disorders and are aie very cry quick to explain their complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint in these terms to the doc doc- tor Very often their ideas are arc ridiculous even if pathetic Thus it is common for a patient patient patient pa pa- tient who thinks he has a cold to explain in some detail to the doctor that he was chilled or got into a a. draft That's what he thinks The patient with a arousing arousing arousing rousing bellyache takes tales up a lot lotof lotof lotof of time to explain to the doctor that he loves knackwurst and ate too much of it That's what he lie thinks The patient who sprained his arm tells the doctor it is useless useless useless use use- less to have ha an X-ray X there is no fracture That's what he thinks The patient with a bowel obstruction obstruction obstruction ob ob- ob- ob figures all aU he needs isa isa is isa a good physic That's what he thinks The man who is getting gelling deaf figures fig that everybody is whispering to him That's what he thinks The diabetic concludes that he lie can cat eat all aU the honey he wants wants wants-as as long long- longas as it is not sugar That's what he thinks And thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of assume that their disinclination to work their headaches headaches head head- aches their aches and pains in i general are caused by poison which can be routed by taking laking a laxative which either cither works quickly quick quick- ly or works while they sleep That's what they think Look A At t It This Way ar arOne One could go on endlessly with this list My point in mentioning it is this When one pauses to consider consider con con- sider that the most highly educated educated educated edu edu- and accomplished physicians men men who have spent their entire lives Jives in the practice of medicine medicine live live a life of relative anguish because of full fun appreciation tion of their own ignorance what chance does the amateur the novice novice novice nov nov- ice have of trying ti to understand his own disorders Or anybody else's Many any disorders are simple things to thousands of persons Nothing is simple to a physician A person will best service his own I interests b by not having very strong medical opinions about any any- thing The man who wouldn't dream of poking into inlo the mechanism mcchan- mcchan ism of a television apparatus has no hesitancy whatever in diagnosIng diagnosing diagnosing nosing a disorder in a mechanism a million times more involved involved- the human body |
