Why should I support someone else?

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Registered: 12-27-2006
Why should I support someone else?
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Sat, 12-30-2006 - 1:24pm

Let me start by saying that I"m new here so this may have already been discussed, but this has come up in my office several times and I wanted to get some other views of this.

I do payroll for a rather small company so I know most of the workers and their wives (most of the workers are men due to the nature of our business). There are two in particular who's wives SAH. These two are up to their eyeballs in debt. I have bill collectors constantly calling for them. That part is really their business, it is annoying but I enjoy being rude back to the bill collectors, lol.

The part that bothers me is that both wives have been in the office wanting copies of X amount of check stubs so that they can go and get public assistance (I know because they told me that is what it is for)! Why should my tax money go so that these women can SAH? I know that not all families that one parent stays at home are like this, but I know lots that are. Heck, growing up we were always broke because my mother refused to work, but we weren't on any public assistance.

So, why should I pay for a woman to SAH? Why can't she go and get a job to support her family just like anyone else?

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:30pm

You cannot answer if you think a obgyn should be giving out medications for mental illness?

Then like i said to you eons ago, you really should research the subject.

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:40pm
I already told you im done talking in circles.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:48pm

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Not in the general sense, no.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 12:58pm

There isn't any circle, there hasn't been any discussion on the topic for there to be a circle.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 1:37pm
I have to disagree.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 1:47pm

not me that is why i have a internist.
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Registered: 11-03-2006
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 10:20pm
They shouldn't be any more than my internist should be prescribing heart medications.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 02-27-2007 - 11:56pm

I got the whole person thing from my naturopath and the MD she worked with, and from my family physician. My gyn looks beyond just "his specialty" but I wouldn't particularly describe him as a whole person kind of doctor.

I was surprised that LEGALLY an gyn could prescribe phsyciatric drugs. Of course an gyn could take an interest in their patient beyond specific body parts, but I thought there were strict rules about who was licensed to prescribe what.

Of course, since mood disorders sometimes accompany pregnancy, infertility, miscarriage, menstrual cycles (PMS) I can see how the AMA might (or whoever is in charge of deciding these things) might say that gyns can prescribe meds for mood disorders. I just always assumed that a gyn would have to refer you to a pychiatric health care worker to get pschyc drugs.

So if a podiatrist had an intereset in the whole patient, could they prescribe heart pills ?

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Wed, 02-28-2007 - 11:21am

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Honestly I don't know, that's why I was hoping that the author of this subject would bring some facts and/or something to the table so their could be some meat behind this discussion, because I think its an interesting topic.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 02-28-2007 - 12:57pm
I don't have aproblem with an OB/Gyn prescribing medicines for PPD as they are the primary doctor a women sees shortly after giving birth. I think they should be trained to recognize it better. Pediatricians and family doctors should too.

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