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frequently asked questions about dr leigh’s belief system
By | February 2, 2010
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in shots?
A: Dr Leigh believes that shots exist. She is sympathetic to folks who are leery about them. She does get shots herself. She can’t afford to buy them or give them.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in fibromyalgia?
A: Dr Leigh believes that fibromyalgia exists, helps care for many folks with it, and hopes it will soon have a better name. She would propose bringing back the term “neurasthenia” which is rather elegant. See also Dr Leigh’s campaign to rename another chronic illness at this link.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in mammograms?
A: Dr Leigh believes that mammograms exist. She is somewhat conservative about screening tests in general, and likes to closely assess a person’s risk factors, and carefully delineate what would happen in the event of a positive or negative test, before embarking. She can tell you a funny story about how she came to take this approach.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in medical marijuana?
A: Dr Leigh believes medical marijuana has existed in the State of Oregon for at least 11 years. She has noticed quite a few people improving from chronic and terminal illness, reducing their need for narcotics, antiseizure meds, migraine meds, and antispasmodics, and getting better glaucoma control, by using medical marijuana. She has also seen quite a few folks unable, by law or preference, to use it while driving, or during their workday. She believes that as the laws change, Oregon will become a research leader, out standing in this field (ha ha!). Her recent particular interest is that most pain patients, using this medicine, draw a stronger distinction between pain and suffering, than do those using narcotics – they actually develop a different analysis of the nature of their pain.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in doctor-assisted suicide?
A: Dr Leigh has had her belief system too overcrowded with shots, fibromyalgia, mammograms, medical marijuana, and whether the city water is or is not fluoridated, to start adding doctor-assisted suicide to the mix, at this time.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in consumption of dessicated animal glands?
A: No.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe, however, in fish oil?
A: Yes.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe in home birth and breastfeeding, family bed, intact boys, and no hitting?
A: She not only believes, but she can totally prove, by indicating her own family, that these exist.
Q: Does Dr Leigh believe that family doctors have adequate training and resources to provide a full basket of services to a heterogeneous and often challenging all-ages population of insured, underinsured, and uninsured patients, in the context of a true medical home?
A: Yes. Plus: Like all primary-care physicians, Dr Leigh also gets by with a little help from her friends.
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