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(Original Air Date: 04/08/08) Imagine having your doctor on speed dial to answer your questions 24/7. Here's your chance, because The Doctors (link to: /shows/page/TheDoctors)  are back! Dr. Phil welcomes OB/GYN Dr. Lisa Masterson, family therapist Dr. Tara Fields, pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears, plastic surgeon Dr. Andrew Ordon, and E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork. Join their conversation and hear their valuable insights on the hottest medical topics of the day, including actor Heath Ledger's untimely death and the rise in breast augmentation surgery. Next, meet Jennifer, a wife and mother who's so afraid of her family getting sick and dying from germs, that she won't handle cash or mail, she wears three different pairs of shoes each day -- a pair for in the house, one for out of the house, and one for in the car -- and won't even greet family members from out of town until they've come in and showered! Is Jennifer's house as germ free as she thinks it is? Dr. Phil sends a microbiologist to find out. Then, meet a woman who got married and was ready to start a family only to find out that the man she fell in love with was making her physically ill. And, meet a couple who are at odds over a serious medical dilemma involving their 3-year-old son. Should they amputate his legs? Plus, is there a medical question you're dying to know the answer to but are too embarrassed to ask? Be there when The Doctors answer viewer questions on topics ranging from breastfeeding to penis enlargement, and then talk about the show here.

Find out what happened on the show.


 
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July 23, 2008, 3:06 pm PDT

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I am just wondering where the xxxx people get the notion breast feeding and intelligence would possibly have anything to do with intelligence.  This is so ridiculous!

I have to admit that when I heard that comment, I was floored! I have never heard of such a thing. And I don't for one minute believe it. That was out of left field! I was never breast fed yet I am a Mensa member and have a very high IQ, not to mention a lot of common sense. Actually, I find common sense to be of much more importance that book knowledge. You can be very bright when it come to book knowledge, but if you don't have a shred of common sense then you are basically screwed. I happen to know a lot of people who have very high IQ's but with a deep lack of common sense, they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag to save their life!
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:07 pm PDT

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I think I joined many people watching about this little boy whose mother wants to amuptate his legs.  My first reaction was  "What is wrong with this woman?"  I think she needs counseling to help her work through her problems, for indeed she has a few.  She stated that it was a lot of work to care for the child;  if he has no legs, the work will increase.  She appeared to be an inflexible person, wanting only what she wants and not what's best for the child.  She reminds me of a child throwing a temper tantrum for not getting their way.  OR...could be she wants the child to be permanently disabled so she can get the sympathy of others.  Seems to me she needs to pay attention to how the child uses his legs, which he does.  Can't you get the child affiliated with March of Dimes or St Judes to provide him with therapy and equipment to help the legs strengthen and eventually walk?  I think the potential is there, and it would be well worth the time and effort on everyone's part.  The other thing I thought about when I watched this segment of the show was....who actually wears the pants in that house?  I HOPE that Dr Phil's show will follow up on this child.  He deserves a better chance than his mother wants to give him.

Jaya's mother seemed awfully hard-headed to me. Even after the doctors told her what was in his best interest. I don't think she'd given the consequences of this surgery enough thought. Surely, with his legs amputated at the knees, he'd require a lot more care.
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:13 pm PDT

You must not have payed attention!

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 Hasn't anybody on the show seen The Day the Earth Stood Still?  Earth had just gave up hope when the aliens started dying.  What killed them?  GERMS!  Germs that the earthling had anti-bodies to fight them.  The aliens had not devoloped those anti-bodies.  If the child grows up in a germ-free home how is she going to react to the outside world?  Why wasn't that mentioned?

That WAS mentioned on the show! I believe that it was Dr. Phil himself that brought it up. He made the exact statement that if the immune system is not developed by contact with germs, like the boy in the plastic bubble, then as the child grows up and gets out into the world, they will have no immune system to fight back. How did you miss this?

 

P.S. This was discussed between Dr. Phil and one of the other doctor's.
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:21 pm PDT

His legs, His choice

I just watched the episode with the three year old boy with a birth defect preventing the use of his legs and the mother wanted to amputate his legs. I think that is horrible. His legs are causing no physical harm to him or his life, just because they are of no use to him is not a good enough reason to cut them of. That should be his choice and only his. And should not even be considered until he is old enough to make an informed decision. If they were a threat to his life that would be different, you do what you need to do to save your child's life. I feel like amputating his legs under these circumstance would be a violation of his personal rights. You don't know what the future holds for him and the medical community
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:25 pm PDT

Bacterial Girl.

Since Jennifer is so obsessively-compulsively germ-phobic, I wonder if she lets house-quests use her bathroom. And, how many times she cleans it after they leave. Anyway, it isn't good to use strong anti-bacterial agents all the time. Because bacteria mutate into more resistant strains.
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:28 pm PDT

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I have to admit that when I heard that comment, I was floored! I have never heard of such a thing. And I don't for one minute believe it. That was out of left field! I was never breast fed yet I am a Mensa member and have a very high IQ, not to mention a lot of common sense. Actually, I find common sense to be of much more importance that book knowledge. You can be very bright when it come to book knowledge, but if you don't have a shred of common sense then you are basically screwed. I happen to know a lot of people who have very high IQ's but with a deep lack of common sense, they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag to save their life!
You are very right.  That doctors blanket statement was wrong, rude and insulting.   
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:47 pm PDT

herpes outbreak

I believe I have had herpes for about 10 years now, a blood test revealed it from my doctor, however, I have never had an outbreak until a couple of months ago.  The leasions or warts or sores whatever they are will not heal and disappear like I have read and researched they should after a couple of weeks.  I have had these leasions for a couple of months now, I have tried apple vinegar on them, and hydrogen peroxide, nothing is working.  Please help me get rid of these leasions...thank you.
 
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July 23, 2008, 3:52 pm PDT

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I have to admit that when I heard that comment, I was floored! I have never heard of such a thing. And I don't for one minute believe it. That was out of left field! I was never breast fed yet I am a Mensa member and have a very high IQ, not to mention a lot of common sense. Actually, I find common sense to be of much more importance that book knowledge. You can be very bright when it come to book knowledge, but if you don't have a shred of common sense then you are basically screwed. I happen to know a lot of people who have very high IQ's but with a deep lack of common sense, they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag to save their life!
I doubt breast milk makes any appreciable difference in a child's intelligence. And, can actually hinder  children's intellectual development, if their mothers are drug abusers. Such children ingest these drugs, which can cause serious brain damage, through their mothers' breast milk. Breast milk isn't better, if it's full of drugs.
 
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July 23, 2008, 4:06 pm PDT

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 Hasn't anybody on the show seen The Day the Earth Stood Still?  Earth had just gave up hope when the aliens started dying.  What killed them?  GERMS!  Germs that the earthling had anti-bodies to fight them.  The aliens had not devoloped those anti-bodies.  If the child grows up in a germ-free home how is she going to react to the outside world?  Why wasn't that mentioned?
I've seen The Day the Earth Stood Still on TV quite a few times, but don't remember any aliens dying. War of the Worlds, of which I've seen two versions, does have the aliens stopped in their tracks by germs to which humans were immune. And, the doctors did say that Jennifer's excessive use of germicidal agents would keep her daughter's immune system from developing.
 
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July 23, 2008, 4:34 pm PDT

Should Jaya have an amputation?

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As a woman who was born with a serious orthodpedic birth defect, I went through more operations than even my mother remembers (I started with the whole business at 9 months old when I fell shortly after I started walking - the  bone didn't heal and the condition was diagnosed).

 

My condition is different than Jaya's, and now the treatment is more efficient (although essentially the same, I was just one of the first children to have the op that got me walking in the right direction).

 

But my gut feeling is that Jaya might well have have a happier childhood if his legs are amputated than if he has to go through years of surgeries. And, from what I noticed from my own childhood is that scars and limps make a bigger target for the cruelty of children than prostheses.

 

Many, many hugs and hope to this child and the family.

 

By the way, the first major op I had that got me walking was at Sick Kids in Toronto. I lived in the USA at that time, and they still weren't doing that kind of op anywhere in the United States.

 

My love to Sick Kids and Toronto, Canada forever!!!!!!!

 

I have an 18 year old with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. She has had 47 + surgeries and procedures. Many of them orthopedic.

When I saw Jayas legs on the show it reminded me of how my daughters legs looked. However, I would strongly oppose such a surgery. It was never given as an option, nor was it ever thought of by myself.

The two disabilities are greatly different I do realize that. That being said, Jayas legs are part of who he is.

 

I wish there way a way that Jayas mother could meet my daughter Heather. She gives me hope and faith. She gives me courage and strentgh. I love her unconditionally for who she is. She is a very independant person, with a big heart. She is always smiling.

 

I feel that her legs have never been an issue, primarily because we have never made them an issue.  She has had third degree burns on her feet, made worse by her not feeling the pain of it. She has constantly scraped up her legs and feet, from crawling. BUT considering the risk of any surgery, I would not change the scrapes and gouges. They are no different in my eyes then if my youngest fell off a bike and scraped her knee. The only difference is Heather cannot feel the pain.

 

I have been there and seen my daughter on life support, almost dying from septic shock caused by infection post-surgery. This was not even an elective surgery. I have also seen Heather have a grand mal seizure that almost killed her after a surgery. It is scary, to think that your child will not wake up, and more scary to watch the situation unfold. It is so much easier to deal with the legs, then the thought of what could happen. To put a child in that situation, I would not do it. It is NOT worth the risk. In my opinion it is almost considered child abuse. It is elective and in my opinion it is very unnecessary.

 

My daughter has grown into a beautiful young woman.  I do not see disability when I look at my daughter, only ability.

 

My love to Sick Kids in Toronto as well. They have saved Heathers life many times! Thank you just doesn't seem to cut it.............I owe them so much more.

 
 
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