About 20 years ago, a doctor (not my regular family doctor) saw several white spots on my lungs on a routine chest xray and went berserk. He diagnosed it as metastastic lung cancer and ordered every test known to the medical profession that even remotely applied.
I said, "Wait a minute!" I talked with my family doctor, who was also a water skiing and deer hunting buddy. He contrived to look at that xray and said all it looked like to him was some scar tissue from a previous infection of some sort. He asked me if I cleaned a lot of chicken houses as a kid, 'cause chicken manure contains ammonia. He said let's wait 90 days and take another xray and see if anything changes.
I sweated out 90 days and Doc took another xray. The spots didn't look like they'd changed. He then poked through his files and found another chest xray he'd taken 12 years before. Identical. The only way to tell the difference between the two was by the dates imprinted on them. In his own dry way, he said, "Well, I still don't know what those spots are, but I guess if they were anything to worry about you'd have been dead a long time ago".
Then it dawned on my. The clinic the first doctor worked in was in the process of a major remodeling. All that bone head wanted was to milk me and my insurance company for every nickel he could to help pay for the remodeling. And if anyone had called him on those spots he could have always said he saw them and was just playing I safe.
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