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That's great to say until you have a bad skin infection that won't go away. Or you need a few millimetres shaved off a bone in your middle ear to restore your
by retrac 5y ago
That's great to say until you have a bad skin infection that won't go away. Or you need a few millimetres shaved off a bone in your middle ear to restore your hearing. Or you need a stent in your heart.
In fact, for all the flaws with medicine, everyone in my immediate family including myself would be dead today without it. Just a few years ago I watched my mother who I had found unconscious on the floor basically come back to life with artificial stents in her heart to restore the blood flow after the heart attack that should have killed her. I myself stopped breathing on my own when I was five from pneumonia. Fortunately I was in a hospital at the time. I cannot ever fully express my gratitude to the doctors and other workers for these gifts.
- h2odragon 5y ago15 years ago, I had my gall bladder removed. I'm appropriately grateful to the medical practitioners who assisted me with that. Even though they kept telling me it was constipation for 3 years until I demanded an ultrasound; even though they made me wait 3mo after that ultrasound "to see if it gets better. and try not to move around to vigorously or it could burst and kill you." My last visit to a doctor, they told me that my diagnosis of my condition "sounds right", but that I can't afford a diagnosis and they refuse to do any testing. They will cheerfully provide me with any of several drugs that might make life more tolerable, but also likely shorter. My experience with the medical establishment has been uniformly negative. People I know are much more fond of medicine, but as far as I can see they're being served no better. They just can't admit to themselves that they might be better off without it.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoI don’t think I understand what you are saying. Are you saying they shouldn’t have removed your gall bladder?
- james-skemp 5y agoSounds like it wasn't diagnosed; they had to request and push for tests that resulted in the removal.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoNo, they're saying they had three years of destroyed life and misery because of refusal to treat/inability to find practitioners willing to treat. As someone who has experienced similar, this was the first detail I spotted — how long it takes to get doctors to take you seriously, even if you have some clues and don't make assumptions, just ask for help, can be absurd. They blame it on other people being hypochondriacs + WebMD, overtaxed offices... I blame it on treating symptoms instead of forging healthy people. Which is what the AMA does, more or less.
- gowld 5y agoIs it your claim that an alternative care provider somehow has the ability to affordably perform the tests you can't afford from a medical provider?