Ken said...
umm, well, it's thanksgiving - I'm drinking Blantons's Bourbon and my browser is hanging but I read the thread twice to hopefully understand.
It seems to me that someone who is able to afford horse competitions would be able to afford genetic tests that are not normally used by physicians because insurance or health system does not normally pay for them.
Physicians tend to use from their toolbox, the facilities and tools which are readily available to them, which they understand and have used before and local systems will pay for.
There is a lot more out there that will cost less than the maintenance of a top notch horse. I suggest that this is more important to you than the standard tools available and you may wish to insist on diagnostic tests you must pay for out of pocket that will give you additional information on the best path to proceed.
Agreed, physicians will primarily tend to sell the services people can pay for easily. Though since Hopkins appears to treat half of the population of the middle-east it may not be so true there
I asked about
OncotypeDX and BC said "no point" in fact he even elaborated to say that even the people AT OncotypeDX would say "no point" in this case. He did also mention another test that looks for a particular tumor gene expression and said we could try it but he didn't think it would tell us anything we didn't already know... I don't remember what he called it but maybe someone here knows (wasn't PCA3 I don't think). If you are anyone can point toward a test that might help shed some light here I'd certainly look into it, as I said to Proscapt, having more needles shoved up my butt isn't top of my Christmas List!
From the outside looking in it's easy to assume that people who have horses have money, because many people who have money have horses; because they are the only people who can truly afford it and own enough land to support it. For everyone else there is the expression 'horse-poor', precisely because every last spare $ they have gets shoved in one end of the horse or the other... or goes on show entry fees, vet bills, boarding fees on someone else's farm (which is why THEY are wealthy of course), insurance, transport, tack, shoes every 5-6 weeks... etc. We alas fall into the latter category
When I married my wife, that was the deal "you know we'll never have a pot-to-piss-in right, horses will always come first for me?". She is worth it; that's the price of her passion.
So... would I empty my meager 401k to pay for my healthcare - yes - because when it comes down to it, our health is the only thing that matters. I'd also hand over my last $ to save a life... and then I'd get real creative, work my ass off and make something out of nothing again until I was back on my feet (again, again).
Post Edited (Paul65) : 11/29/2015 7:24:38 AM (GMT-7)