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U.S. health care is something else. It took me 7 years to be diagnosed with a well-known disease that has a median survival duration of 2.5 years from onset.
I'll leave it to your imagination the obstacles I faced. Frankly, I don't want to think about it.
How much of what you experienced is due to the medical mindset (doctors are morons)?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean but I would attribute it to four main reasons:
My situation didn't improve until I was finally referred to a couple physicians in the right specialty who truly care and were willing to fight my insurance.
If the insurance corporation wants to fight about it, i would recommend forgoing letters and requests and go directly to their headquarters for the physical altercation they desire.
I moved to a rural location and your four points are exactly how it is. I have to harass my doctor to get them to put in referrals. My wife had to go and physically walk a referral from the doctor to the hopsital across the parking lot to make sure they actually got it. Then stayed and scheduled it right then b/c getting a callback for scheduling is a crapshoot.
That's exactly what I meant, the biggest problem in the medical field is the doctors themselves, they're basically useless at this point. You could replace them with a potato and give you the same first three points of your list, but for cheaper.
I would've been right there with you a few months ago, but I must admit diagnosis did unlock a lot of help for me.
The medical system needs to place a lot more emphasis on prompt and accurate diagnosis, though. Without it, you have people suffering and dying indefinitely. It's like they don't care about that, though. They're happy to blame you for your symptoms and refer you to a psychiatrist or physical therapist. (Something that happened to me twice..)
Doctors have morphed into bureaucratic drones. It's not really their fault, medical school does a number on them.
I was not a sickly child, the few interactions I had with doctors in the 1970s and 1980s were 100% positive. I remember them fondly.
Something happened to this profession that has transformed them into dense, stupid brutes.
Will the potato prescribe opiates to me? Massive improvement if so.
Why wouldn't it? Doctors operate pill mills and have the ethics of your local gang member.
Which type of potato do you prefer? Yukon Gold? Russet? Those little round hard ones everyone likes except me?