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I love how the British medical system still manages to surprise me, like holy shit, your patient has 10 minutes with you, then give them the allotted 10 minutes.
Germany established the 10-min-per-appointment rule too a couple of years back, and while no doctor I've seen has rushed me out, they are already behaving in a similar manner. They don't have time to see their patients, even though that is the main point of their profession. A lot of the docs I've seen have apologized for it, hung up info flyers that told patients "The government is making us do it like that, don't blame us", others are just so overworked they don't even care anymore.
I wish there was a short and easy way to make all of your problems go away, so that you get competent and inclusive medical appointments with better treatment options, doctors who take you seriously, and universal health care where you don't have to pay for each and every little thing that a hospital or doctor should provide you with. I know it's a long shot, but I'm really sick of how you're being treated by a system that is supposed to provide care to those in need.
Thank you.
As life becomes more automated there seems to be less space for human interaction. Instead of a doctor being a human who tried to help, now they are basically machines who stick to a schedule and try to get through as many patients as fast as possible.
I couldn't agree more, that is the same type of development I'm experiencing here too. The solution is definitely to have more doctors, financing the study program so more people can be come doctors, and maybe, just maybe, that would already make all of them more patient. That alone might help with the as-fast-as-possible appointments. One can dream, at least