AI in Benign Professions | Arthritis Information

This article reports on higher incidences of RA among benigh professions. It seems to echo what I've noticed on the board. The last paragraphs are the most telling.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Rheumatology/GeneralRheumatology /tb/6818

Pip

Thanks Pip. That was an interesting article.

Andrea

Very interesting. I guess those occupations aren't really so benign after all, are they?

Well, it makes sense to me why elementary teachers get this - children are nothing but petrie dishes with legs. LOL I know, I have one and was constantly sick when she was.

What's weird is the splits - like not waitresses and waiters but yes for short order cooks. Odd.

Pip

True, and as for the teachers, I was always under the impression that they get sick a lot in the first couple of years but then build up a resistance and end of healthier as a result, but if your immune system is out of whack, I can see how the constant aggravation of multiple exposures could cause a problem with triggering AI diseases. interesting article- to bad waitressing and nursing didn't cancled eachother out.

Very interesting Pip, and yes, young children are petrie dishes...they scare me the most.

Jesse..I have heard that too, but I don't know if I agree with it. I think teachers as a whole learn to go on with illness more than the general public because it is an absolute pain in the tushey to get sub plans ready and remember everything when you are sick and should be in bed.

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What's weird is the splits - like not waitresses and waiters but yes for short order cooks. Odd.

Pip

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Short order cooks handle raw foods, servers do not might or might not be a clue.

I began my nursing career in the mid-1960's as an ER nurse, moving to life flight nurse, then to gerontology, and then a slow segue into the other end of the spectrum midwifery and well-women practice and finally transitioning into dermatological surgery.

I am quite certain that the first twenty years of nursing greatly impacted the rest of my career and was the breeding ground for the alphabet soup diagnosis that has been created by AI.

As has been noted before, anecdotal pools form the basis of a theory and perhaps a treatment...or not.Yeah, so I'm reading this article thinking that again I just don't fit the usual criteria. Then BAM!! People that work with animals???? 28% higher death rate for people with RA and WORK with ANIMALS. Maybe I should find a different job.[quote=© 2004-7 MedPage Today, LLC. All Rights Reserved] In addition, because teachers and nurses tend to have good health insurance coverage...[/quote]
Now, I must be in the minority as "good" insurance was the exception rather than the rule for me. My spouse always had superior insurance in his various positions with Pacific Bell,AT&T, and Lucent Technologies.

However casualcontact with specialists was outstanding when my employment and/or advanced schooling brought me into contact with physician/teachers.

Until recently Flash's retirement package provided exceptional coverage for both of us. Unfortunately I far exceeded the "lifetime maximums" and find myself without insurance of any kind. Not a comfortable place to be...

Linncn- this was a study of people dead from AI diseases. We're not dead yet...don't give up the job if it brings you happiness. Hugs!

Oooh, Happ, that's just so 'wrong'.

I find myself echoing jessica...you'd think years and years of swinging hash would out weigh a people person job!

Pip