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If your healthcare system is private patients become customers and the customer is always right. If they want pills the doctor will give them. Antibiotics, sle
by WeylandYutani 4y ago
If your healthcare system is private patients become customers and the customer is always right.
If they want pills the doctor will give them.
Antibiotics, sleeping pills, painkillers, antidepressants.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThere is significant over-prescription of ant-depressants in the UK NHS as well. As far as I can tell at least partly because the health and social security system doesn't have the capacity to treat underlying causes. Some of the underlying causes are of course poverty and insecure employment neither of which is amenable to a medical intervention. Waiting times for any kind of talking therapy are huge and even when a place is available it will often require the patient to travel long, expensive, and awkward distances which alone makes it impossible for people on low incomes.
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