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Agreed, in the sleep case I took matters into my own hands by experimenting with nose strips, temperature, stacking pillows, etc. The main issue for me is that
by tyleo 2y ago
Agreed, in the sleep case I took matters into my own hands by experimenting with nose strips, temperature, stacking pillows, etc.
The main issue for me is that I like my general doctor but I’ve felt like specialists are the real crapshoot. I’m in a city where I feel like the specialists are hard to access and have generally been lower quality than when I lived in suburbs.
I’ve wondered if it’s a sort of “pets vs cattle” issue like people talk about servers with. In other words, are there just too many people to give individuals the care they need?
- llamaimperative 2y agoYes, that's part of it. Demands on doctors (in the US at least) are absolutely insane. Keeping up to date on the relevant literature for a single specialty would require something like 27 hours per day of reading, most doctors cannot afford to see a patient for more than 15 minutes at a time because they need to get through so many consultations per day, and then they have to argue with insurance companies much the same way (but at dramatically higher frequency) that patients do.