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> The healthcare system in the west is just plain stupid. What the hell is "the west" in this context? Do you have experience with every health care system in
by audunw 4y ago
> The healthcare system in the west is just plain stupid.
What the hell is "the west" in this context? Do you have experience with every health care system in Europe? Why is "NZ" considered "the west"?
> In asia you can walk into a clinic and see a doctor in 30m.
You can in many places in Europe too.
The flip side of the asian systems can be incredibly overworked and stressed health care workers. I know the service in Taiwan is fantastic (though a bit stressful, was way busier than in Norway), but I also know a nurse working there saying the working conditions are quite awful. They also encourage doing way more testing than necessary. That makes it so testing is pipelined and efficient. You get economies of scale. But doing this is generally considered a very bad idea, because you can get false/misleading diagnosis and undergo unnecessary treatments with potentially bad side effects. Along with all the wasted time and resources that could have been spent working on actually sick people. Which in asian countries can mean that poor people don't get the resources they need to get treatment.
- throwaway2990 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world > The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia,[a] Europe,[b] and the Americas. > but I also know a nurse working there saying the working conditions are quite awful. I can imagine during covid the conditions were awful. But on a day to day basis the hospitals are pretty quiet. The hospitals don’t do more tests. It’s more people taking advantage of their health card. For example our daughter was in hospital for ~7 days. It cost $65 USD. People get health check ups often cos it costs almost nothing. Visiting a clinic costs $5~ and people often want antibiotics when they have a cold even when advised it won’t help as it’s a virus not bacterial.