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Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by speeder »

zer0tonin wrote: post #53
speeder wrote: post #20

I don't bother explaining to doctors why I switched. Every time I did in the past they got personally offended and refused to address their flaws, so why bother? Also I am almost convinced good medics in certain fields (endocrinology for example) are almost nonexistent.

Most endocrinologist only ever see diabetics and people with thyroid disorder. They are often quite lost when they get to see something else.

I have thyroid problem... Endocrinologists even then failed to help for most part.

I found only one willing to help, and only in an half-assed manner. I still go most for formality and legality reasons, but I am mostly treating myself as I want now.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by mhneu »

ThomPete wrote: post #90
mhneu wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That article is from 2013 and predicts crisis in as little as 3 years. It's 2017. Be careful with articles about single payer healthcare systems in the US. Most similar countries to the US have functional single payer plans. It's a false talking point pushed by conservative media that those systems don't work well. Conservative media pushes those falsehoods because the media is funded by the very wealthy and those wh…

And the french started cutting benefits already in 2014 to make sure that didn't happen.

Right. So you're saying the French single payer system works, with political modification as needed over time.

The issue that might make single payer difficult in America is we don't trust our political system to manage good programs, because the GOP is committed to destroying government (to benefit the super rich) rather than trying to get things done.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by madengr »

jacquesm wrote: post #4

I've done this, without feedback. The reason was that doctors seem to come in several varieties when it comes to bringing their ego to work and my doctor had a serious case of that. I was dehydrated after an operation and when he asked if he could do something for me I asked for some water, the doctor then ordered someone else not in the room to come and get me a glass of water. He couldn't be bothered to walk to the…

Alternate explanation is that the nurses are unionized. Simply filling up a cup of water may result in a greivence against the hospital. More than likeli the Dr. is instinctively covering his ass.

I'm an engineer. I can't carry a part from one lab to another. Must have a hourly paid union member do that. If I'm caught and they file a greivance, the company has to pay them 1 hour of my salary, then I get chewed out by management. Most of the hourly staff don't care, but there are a few that are hell bent on doing as little work as possible and looking any excuse file to a greivance.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by mhneu »

Ok, now this is just being obtuse.

Parent post said single payer encourages checkups.

You said "but there are still people that don't get checkups in Denmark".

Those two points are completely orthogonal. Single payer encourages checkups, yes. Still some people​ won't get them, yes.

Drop the sophistry.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by agumonkey »

david-gpu wrote: post #122
agumonkey wrote: post #45

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Fair point. I just think a bit like DeVita: delay death (in a moral manner, not at any cost); then treat with recent combinations/molecules. The regulations forbid combinational trials first and delay learning (according to him). There are potent tumor inhibitors like CBD that aren't accepted by most of the medical field, thus patients too (high trust in the doctors). They can alleviate symptoms and slow down metasta…

I am very sorry to hear you are going through that. Best wishes from this stranger.

Thanks for the support. We're a bit all in this together because the same issues occur to any patient and families. And it's neither me nor a very very close member. That said family ties are strong and deep reaching so I'll keep digging until the last minute. Egoless war mode.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by mhneu »

mistersquid wrote: post #110
ThomPete wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No thats actually not true which Denmark has lots of data to show. It's 100% free to go to the doctor yet a lot of people don't go for checkups it's not a common thing to do. Furthermore the situation is even worse for men over 50. So access to healthcare has very little to do with that.

Earlier you write: > Its important to remember that in a state economy where > healthcare is free or semi free it's operated as a cost > center and thus has budgets that are politically mandated > not determined by market demand at least not directly. and later write: > My personal suggestion for a good balanced system is that > most people pay most of the cost for normal healthcare costs > like going to the doctor f…

The ranking member of US Senate intelligence committee said

"1000 paid Russian trolls are spreading disinformation on US social media"

And recently said

>Be careful what you read on the internet because paid trolls are influencing what is discussed.

Perhaps parent poster is getting his info from disinformation sources like RT, Breitbart, Fox News, IJR, Limbaugh etc.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by jjordan »

salesguy222 wrote: post #132
giardini wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fungus or the steroid cream?

Which have you tried? :) p.s: anyone that downvotes this, you should really allow HN to be a place with a small dosage of humor sometimes!!

If I want to scroll through pages and pages of joke threads, I'll go to reddit. HN is special in its high signal to noise ratio.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by jacquesm »

pdkl95 wrote: post #89
jacquesm wrote: post #55

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> So, in this sense, vaccination should be an individual choice? Emphatically: YES. Bodily integrity is something that is very high on the list of things that a person should have a say over. Whether they do it because they are mis-informed, dumb, irrational or religious doesn't matter, they still should have the final say over whether or not they get a specific injection or not. There are many things that concern th…

> the only people at risk are those that have not been vaccinated Remember that this set includes people that cannot receive the vaccine because of e.g autoimmune disorders, serious allergic reactions, etc . These people need the herd immunity to keep the general risk of infection low. As long as the number of anti-vaxxers is very small , they similarly benefit from the herd immunity as "free riders". Once the number…

Sure. That's all true. But just like you could have a perfect society without any unsolved crimes by monitoring everything and everybody even in their homes there is a balance to be struck between the right to self determination and the obligation to partake in certain things that society will impose on you by way of force if necessary.

I believe that that line is drawn pretty accurately at the moment, there is a strong push towards vaccination, there is education and there are all kinds of programs to make sure it happens. And yet we can not force this onto people that don't want it. I'm sure that there are plenty of people that would rather see this resolved 'for the greater good', I'm just not one of those people and I feel quite strongly about this even if it is a right I myself would never make use of because I disagree with the basic premises of those that want it that way.

But I recognize their rights and will defend them.

Re: Why Did My Patient Leave Me?

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Post by rhizome »

salesguy222 wrote: post #132
giardini wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fungus or the steroid cream?

Which have you tried? :) p.s: anyone that downvotes this, you should really allow HN to be a place with a small dosage of humor sometimes!!

Right, without you there would be zero humor on this site.
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