ANYTHING medical is going to come with risks.
Amen. The situation we have here is a little more specific. It mixes government, faith, and medicine. When it comes to government and medical circumstance, I have learned to label it "extreme caution" up to outright "danger."
Why?
1) As child my mother took me to a free state clinic to have a shot. After placing the needle in, the attendant quickly withdrew the needle without injecting me and apologized profusely. She had forgotten to draw the medicine. It was full of air. She said she had seen too many kids that day. She had not been thinking. Praise the Lord she came to before hurting me. Scary.
2) When I joined the military, they said I was a certain blood type and slapped it on my dog tags. This blood type is inconsistent with what the doctor told my parents at my birth and with my parents' blood types.
3) In Germany when I was in active labor, I kept calling the military hospital and begging them to let me come in to give birth. They reluctantly allowed to come in after a bit. I gave birth within 30 minutes of arriving, and promptly passed out afterwards. I had had to half walk down a hill/half carried by my husband to get there. (We weren't' authorized a rental car. Storknest situation from Turkey.) Kind of scary situation.
4) Second pregnancy: I was told to take antibiotics from military physicians during the first few weeks of pregnancy for a minor condition often solved through cranberry products. Antibiotics especially in the first trimester is a HUGE pregnancy NO NO. The baby died halfway through the pregnancy. An off-base civilian university doctor told me my baby might have been harmed by me taking antibiotics in the first few weeks of pregnancy.
5) In Japan I was in labor with my third baby when the military hospital forced me to sign a document saying I wasn't in labor. I had to go home and wait until my water broke. When it did, I went back to the hospital and gave birth within an hour of my water breaking at home.
6) In Turkey I went to the dental clinic with a toothache. A military dentist came out into the crowded waiting room and had me open my mouth in front of everyone and tell me I was fine. Back in the states about year later, a civilian dentist told me I needed a root canal. I had not been fine in Turkey.
7) When my husband was active duty he worked on fighter jets and was often covered in JP8 lubricant and the like. It was rumored these mechanics tended to have mostly daughters. There were flightline jokes about it. On a medical visit a military physician confirmed the military medical community had noticed the connection between crew chiefs, JP8, and daughters not sons. The hubby and I were shocked at the admittance. I understand now JP8 is not used to lube jets like in the past. Not sure if JP8 it was every officially acknowledged. I do know we conceived 3 girls for what it's worth.
8) My great aunt lost her first baby when military physicians gave her something that made her too drowsy to push during labor. The baby died.
9)****Not my personal experience but I remember when the first F22 pilots kept dying and refusing to fly the F22. They were potentially up for court marshal by going against direct orders. It was a scary situation. I felt for them. Those pilots at first were being forced to fly the unsafe aircraft Praise the Lord they discovered the problem and the suffering stopped.
Why have F-22 pilots passed out at the controls? Pentagon solves mystery.
When it comes to government and medicine, I see government as kind of an emotionless, rigid machine that can chew people up if one is not careful. I've learned to be careful.