Even though society has told me since childhood to trust doctors, hospitals, and "the science", not one single interaction with a doctor, a hospital, or the medical establishment has been good for me, or anyone I know. It's not that we only go to doctors when something is wrong, which negatively paints the experience. It's that the doctors and nurses often don't care, don't run the right tests, it takes multiple visits to find out what's wrong (if at all), and the "solution" almost always involves medication of some form or another, which just medicates rather than cures.
The only time I'll ever step foot in a hospital is if something is catastrophically wrong and I'm literally dying. Any other visit is a waste of time, money, and effort. My trust in them is that low. I can do more for myself by maintaining my own health than a doctor could ever do for me. After what happened with Covid, I don't know how anyone trusts doctors and the medical establishment any more. Covid also proved true how corrupt it all is, and that those "conspiracy theories" about the Rockefellers buying and corrupting the medical industry to push pharmaceuticals and profits, at the expense of people and health, is absolutely true.
Its because healthcare workers have such inflated egos that they have forgotten that they are in a customer service role when you boil it down. They aren't willing to act like everyone else in customer service, where they cant be assholes and politely explain situations and products instead of outright dismissing concerns and questions.
Well, you are wrong about medicine being "customer service". It was never supposed to be like that.
But erosion of societal norms, diversity, corporatization, government meddling & overreach & depersonalized assembly-line approaches have given people the impression that healthcare is equivalent to ordering off the menu at Wendy's.
No, its customer service. Doctors don't get to be assholes to their patients just because they're doctors.
They can jazz it up with "bedside manner" but at the end of the day the patient is a person, and Healthcare workers dont treat them like people. Patients are just problems to be solved with zero input on the process.
Even though society has told me since childhood to trust doctors, hospitals, and "the science", not one single interaction with a doctor, a hospital, or the medical establishment has been good for me, or anyone I know. It's not that we only go to doctors when something is wrong, which negatively paints the experience. It's that the doctors and nurses often don't care, don't run the right tests, it takes multiple visits to find out what's wrong (if at all), and the "solution" almost always involves medication of some form or another, which just medicates rather than cures.
The only time I'll ever step foot in a hospital is if something is catastrophically wrong and I'm literally dying. Any other visit is a waste of time, money, and effort. My trust in them is that low. I can do more for myself by maintaining my own health than a doctor could ever do for me. After what happened with Covid, I don't know how anyone trusts doctors and the medical establishment any more. Covid also proved true how corrupt it all is, and that those "conspiracy theories" about the Rockefellers buying and corrupting the medical industry to push pharmaceuticals and profits, at the expense of people and health, is absolutely true.
Yup.
My visits with doctors have all boiled down to
If you find a doctor that actually works with you, cherish that doctor.
And will be fucking furious when you point out they prescribed the wrong dose and wrong tests
"I'm pretty sure I don't need opiates..."
"?????"
Its because healthcare workers have such inflated egos that they have forgotten that they are in a customer service role when you boil it down. They aren't willing to act like everyone else in customer service, where they cant be assholes and politely explain situations and products instead of outright dismissing concerns and questions.
They closed physical therapy during COVID.
Tells you all you need to know.
Well, you are wrong about medicine being "customer service". It was never supposed to be like that.
But erosion of societal norms, diversity, corporatization, government meddling & overreach & depersonalized assembly-line approaches have given people the impression that healthcare is equivalent to ordering off the menu at Wendy's.
No, its customer service. Doctors don't get to be assholes to their patients just because they're doctors.
They can jazz it up with "bedside manner" but at the end of the day the patient is a person, and Healthcare workers dont treat them like people. Patients are just problems to be solved with zero input on the process.
My grandfather used to say that grocery bills are cheaper than doctor bills. I've really taken that to heart over the last decade or so.
Medicine is for acute care not chronic care or "wellness" Some of the tests are useful but you should always get your own copies.