gipper
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WHATEVER!I do not. Neither have I before denied they believe that.Good Lord, must you?I did post the word 'many', not ALL.
I do not trust doctors and I know there are many like me.I did post the word 'many', not ALL.
Okay...Ummm....How does that have any bearing on my remark? My comment has to do with the doctors, not the "many people" who naively "think doctors are only looking out for their best interests."
Are you saying, in refutation of my comment, that the many people who believe their doctors are only looking out for their best interests" are not "flat out naive" in so believing?many Americans firmly believe their doctors are only looking out for their best interests.Well that's just flat out naive. I have my doubts about whether even all parents are so singularly altruistic toward their kids and whether all spouses are so singularly altruistic toward their partners. I know damn well doctors are not that altruistic toward their patients, monetary gain notwithstanding.
I believe MANY doctors are not to be trusted. That is clearly what I have posted.
That does not mean ALL doctors are untrustworthy. Get it?I believe MANY doctors are not to be trusted. That is clearly what I have posted.
One need only expand the above series of quoted posts to see that what you originally wrote and what you've subsequently stated you believe are not the same things.
If you didn't mean what you initially wrote as it is written, that's fine; mistakes like that happen. But don't sit there and claim that what your errant phrasing means something other that what it says.
- First you wrote about what "many people" believe about their doctors.
- Now you've attested to what you believe, and assert that is what you initially wrote.
Many people DO believe their doctors are honest and forthright. Do you deny this?