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The real hack is having friends and family in the medical field. You can skip the chicanery of medical “intake” and diagnosis outside highly specialized conditi
by opportune 3y ago
The real hack is having friends and family in the medical field. You can skip the chicanery of medical “intake” and diagnosis outside highly specialized conditions, get advice without extortionate bills or misaligned incentivizes, and they can help you get appointments with specialists/tell you who’s the best to see, even write you rx’s directly.
I recently had an infection that, due to being geographically isolated from my typical medical network of friends and family, resulted in $1k of bills after insurance for something that was essentially routine and which I would have been able to treat myself if I had the ability to get medicine without an rx.
The general public who don’t have the scientific/medical literacy to self-serve and lack the network to get treatment without going through the formal process are getting fleeced.
- cube00 3y agoFriends and family need to be off the clock too, be respectful if anyone chooses to do this.
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- lostlogin 3y agoThe flip side is that they sometimes genuinely want to help. As you say, be respectful. My elderly neighbour (who I saw maybe twice in a decade) had her daughter visiting, and the daughter came by and suggested I might like to change the dressings on her mother’s ulcers because I’m “used to looking at gross stuff.” I’m a radiographer. I’m pretty much useless in every situation unless someone has a a high field magnets and wants pictures.
- opportune 3y agoRight, I am speaking more about close relationships where they’d offer help without you even having to ask, not some long-lost friend that you only ever bother when you need their medical opinion.
- plugin-baby 3y agoIs “rx” an abbreviation of “prescription”?
- grzm 3y agoYup. > Rx (sometimes written ℞) is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin word for recipe, recipere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rx
- kfrzcode 3y agoThe medical field will soon be over-ran by software and AI specialists applying and graduating from medical school in order to build the modern individualized medicine augmentation systems of the future. Think about the specialization required to build a reliable, trusted and tested GPT-for-medicine, and then give it to all citizens for free, because, hey, it's going to be a huge boon for our country.