March 3, 2006, 2:05pm

The blood test said the things tested are normal...

Then, tell me why I have pain in my knees and elbows. They said, if the pain continues next week, I have to go back to have further tests.

Well, that is, to pay for another test or tests.

So many times I'm so frustrated about the biomedical approach. If you're interested, read:

Comaroff, J. (1982) “Medicine: Symbol and Ideology”, in Wright, P. & Treacher, A. (Eds.) The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP

Lock, M. & Gordon, D. (Eds.) (1988) Biomedicine Examined. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Medicine has its assumptions and it is not truth. Yet they present themselves as the almighty and they know what to do.

As I'm going through this joint pain for years, I begin to feel like seeing the doctors are like seeing witches. Most of the time they keep talking about the physics such as levers and weights. Well, yeah, you can create glorious stories like Greek mythologies to explain life.

Yet biomedicine has to not given me anything that helps at all. Pain killers ruin my stomach. Ice made my knees numb for days and I couldn't walk normally for three days last week.

What is negative blood test mean? Just like going to the temple and shake the bamboo can of sticks. Yeah, I got a stick of average fortune.

I really want to go back to LSE. Science has to be critiqued, not followed all the time. I don't know why I'm here learning statistics to present to be objective... The sad thing is, I got good grades in statistics. Why?