And she does NOT realize that demographics..sm

Posted By: seemingly trying to stir up the pot?...SM on 2006-09-16
In Reply to: hospitals are LOADED with all kinds of illnesses--sm - nn

Subject: And she does NOT realize that demographics..sm

Demographics have TONS to do with that - I remember in 1980 - where I live had TONS of elderly (now deceased) so the first years of me doing MT work, the very elderly are usually in hospitals with these kinds of problems. But now where I live, median age is 38!!!

Hence, it doesn't fit the bill any longer, and demographics have changed so drastically in the USA the past 30 years and especially the last 10 years that these statements of hers aren't cutting it.

Oh well, with the cute icon popping bubble gum of hers and it is a very cute emoticom, a grown woman in her 40s-50s-60s I do not think would usually choose an emoticom like that one - perhaps she is very, very young, and we cannot fault her for being a baby. She'll grow up one day and realize it all on her own, IF she opens up her eyes.

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Metapropol for Diabetes - me
- if you are following this whole thread....(sm) - mac
  - I have been IN this thread since it started--sm - nn
- Whoda Thunk 3 little words - mac
- maybe dictator meant to say....nm - Metformin?.....diabetic drug.......nm
- Metoprolol - Kathie
  - metapropol - lp
  - sorry Kathie - I beg to differ - I have diabetes...sm - and run low BPs always 120/70....sm
    - So far so good for you, then. - kathie
      - Thanks! Conscientious diabetics LIVE LONG!!!..nm - and run low BPs always 120/70....nm
  - not ALL diabetics have hypertension..sm - nn
    - hospital experience tells me otherwise - kathie
      - hospital experience tells me otherwise - Just me
      - Even if that were true, then it would only prove - Misha
      - Hospital experience as what? a doctor? a nurse? Or are you speaking of hospital experience as an - MT? Whatever your
        tis true but sad - blanket statements...sm - and run low BPs always 120/70....nm
      - FYI - sm
- heard of this for BP, but not diabetes. nm - kps

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