Wait, so you're telling me my doctors won't actually break into my residence illegally and discover that my wife is cheating with me with an opossum, making me contract a rare amoeba that can only be cured by injecting my spinal cord with pastrami?
Best we can do is have your doctor cripplingly addicted to vicodin
getaloada this fancy pants with his primary care physician
In the US medical system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the HMO’s, who perpetrate crime, and the pharmaceutical companies that profit from it. These are their stories.
DUN DUNN
I'd watch that show.
The craziest thing that demonstrates how shitty our healthcare system is, is that they made a goddamn movie 25 years ago about a guy holding people hostage in a children's hospital at gunpoint to get his child a surgery when payment was denied and nobody found that premise outlandish.
The movie was generally underrated, sadly.
Did you sit down and watch the whole movie and not just the dramatic moments as YouTube clips? Outside of a few good Denzel moments, the movie was just awful in terms of dialogue, pacing, and blunt 'foreshadowing'
Yea message was important movie was meh
I believe the hospital in House was also a college and the cases were for study purposes. Patients getting treated was just a side effect of the experimentation...
And there was an oft-maligned "clinic" where stupid people would go to be harassed by House when he was being punished with working a shift there.
Yes. Basically, doctor House had enough of a reputation to justify having a whole team.
...... I mean, have you tried diet, exercise, and sleeping more? For more than a week or two?
Outside of a drama TV show where a 1 in a billion case shows up once a week, that's usually a good start.
Not sure if you're in community with many women or POC that feel comfortable speaking to you about these things, but VERY basic issues aren't even being looked into. PCOS and cancer are two common ones. Things can vary place to place, but it seems like a pretty universal experience in my circles.
I had a couple seizures several years ago. Full on grand mal with an ER trip and all that fun.
The response from doctors has consistently been “yeah, sometimes people just have seizures.” They did CT scans, didn’t see anything abnormal and aren’t really interested in investigating more. Solution was that I’m just going to take anticonvulsants for the rest of my life.
Don't forget "you're over 30, your body just does that now"
There is a lot of truth in that though haha.
But yeah, it sucks seeing stories of people getting told that it is just growing old, while they have a chronic illness.
I mean, this but unironically. There's a lot of muscular-skeletal issues that you get from... sitting in an office chair for 20 years. Or not getting tons of physical activity for most of your adult life. Or various deterioration of this or that bodily function from over/under-utilization or simple wear-and-tear.
Ask a Sports Medicine doctor what to do about compounded injuries and most of what you'll get is "We can replace the part that's broken" or "Stop doing the thing that's causing you injury". After that, there's no miracle cure that's going to make decades of strains and bruises and stress injuries just vanish.
I lost 80 pounds and my stomach still hurts a ton when ever I eat, what's the next step doctor?
Doc: *surprised Pikachu face *
My, at the time unknown, genetic heart defect was treated with "lose weight, fatty."
My, at the time unknown degenerative collagen coding defect was also treated as "lose weight fatty", I lost weight, without even trying, because it turns out collagen is an important tissue structure in a functional digestive system. I lost weight too fast, I lost a lot of lean muscle as well as fat.
Turns out muscle is important for holding your joints together if you don't have quality collagen to do that job.
Suddenly the real cause of my symptoms was evident, but I never got an apology for years of misdiagnosis and being blamed for my own illness.
Fun fact, one of the many things I was told to do as part of proper treatment was gain weight! (albeit, muscle weight)
Now I'm starting to get cardiopulmonary symptoms, which makes sense, your heart and lungs also have collagen. I don't have a specialist at the moment, and recently had to find a new GP because my old GP said I need to "exercise more" to prevent my new symptoms... Even though my physical therapist says my level of activity is more than enough and if my lungs aren't physically structured properly, no amount of cardio workouts will help me breathe properly.
I actually know people who died because they had cancer, but the doctor kept refusing to do actual examinations and just said "Oh uhh... just get more potassium or something..."
Not bothering to look further until it was too late.. It's very sad
Binging Chubbyemu vids last night sure makes it seem like that's not exactly true... There are far too many that begin with "presenting to the ER visibly fucked, the doctor just tells them it's anxiety and to stop being a little bitch about it. But it wasn't anxiety and they were not, in fact, a little bitch."
You forgot the inflection. "Pre👆🏻SENting to the emergency room...."
I am not doing well at all healthwise due to a now possibly diagnosed illness. A few weeks ago, I was at the Mayo Clinic, one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country for rare illnesses, the sort of place you would expect House to work.
I was there ten days and saw three doctors for about an hour each. As I said, it's now possibly diagnosed and, therefore, there's a possible route to go down, but that and a bill were all I got.
I bet those lazy doctors didn't even break into your house and go through your things.
"Let's do some imaging on you that will cost you hundreds of dollars and pay me thousands"
Alternatively
"Have you considered that you're faking it?"
Most of his patients are transferred to him because the original doctor did all they knew how, it's either Goto House or try some ginseng in your tea.
Good luck finding doctors bold enough to admit they have no idea and need help...
There are a bunch of House, MD scenes where he's doing boring consults and we get the "Stop eating shellfish if you're allergic to shellfish" bits and gags.
I had, probably still have, a weird medical 'condition' that US military doctors and British doctors couldn't figure out. Would have been neat to have a team of smarty pants working on the case.
It's far from only in the US. In my experience, hospitals in Germany are far worse in this regard. It depends greatly on who is getting paid how much for what. The US is far better for this, but unfortunately it is not affordable for most.
Imo, you're dead wrong. Doctors in the US have no incentive to actually cure anything. They spend minimal time with patients and try to cram as many appointments into a day as possible. I'm the type of person that only goes to the Dr if there's something seriously wrong. I had an ear issue. Took 3 months to see an ENT after multiple failed urgent care visits and an ER visit. The audiologist (not even the Dr) is the one who pointed out I had something clogging my ear canal after multiple Drs and PAs said it was fine. She thankfully got the Dr to pull out a big ole wad of dead skin and wax. Dr says it was likely infected at some point, and my ear made all that dead skin, and that caused that. Have a follow up appointment scheduled which he said I could cancel if the pain went away. The pain went away temporarily, but came back. Follow up is with a completely different dude, and he tells me my ear is fine, and I need to see someone about "pain management". It's very clearly not fine because I'm still seeing you doc. I don't need 600 mg ibuprofen tablets, I need my ear to not hurt.
My theory is that either the ear is still infected, and the drops I had weren't penetrating the ear canal due to the big ole wad that was blocking my ear, or there's still a bit more wad blocking the ear that they need to pull out. I'm ready to self prescribe my old eardrops which I still have leftover to see if it works.
Doctors in the US love to kick the can down the road. "Oh, I couldn't possibly diagnose that, you need to see a specialist. Let me give you a referral." Then you see the next dickhead who says oh actually u need this other specialist, let me give you a referral.
I'm not in some podunk town either. This is a world renowned hospital I'm talking about. Our healthcare system in the US is absolute ass.
The US is far better for this
YMMV. American doctors are an absolute crap shoot in terms of expertise and bedside manner. For any kind of surgery, you really need to shop around and interview and get referrals, because there's a real chance you end up with a guy who has half a dozen lawsuits pending for malpractice if you're not careful.
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