Anyone else totally frustrated with US medical care?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went for a bone scan today. This amazing machine that scans over your body and analyzes bone density. I’m sure it costs millions to develop. Wonderful. But it would be nice if I could go to a doctor who would help me with my constant fatigue and low grade headaches. It’s probably not that complicated of a fix - iron? thyroid hormone tweak? Vitamin d? - but doctors don’t seem capable of helping with symptoms like that.

You're assuming there's always a "cure". For things like that, there often isn't. Get in better shape or magically turn 20 years younger.

Weird assumptions. You don’t know my age and I’m very much in shape

[Anonymous]

I don’t agree, but I also don’t go to doctors who take insurance so that helps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a joke post?

+1. Have you been living under a rock OP? Nearly everyone agrees that US healthcare is expensive and yields incredibly poor outcomes given how expensive it is.

The only people who say otherwise are those who work for health insurance companies.

That p poster said she/he has good doctors

Oh great! I guess that holds for the rest of America too! /s

Good doctors mean nothing if they are rushed because insurance only pays to see patients for 5 minutes and incentivizes them to run expensive tests that won’t help the patient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree, but I also don’t go to doctors who take insurance so that helps.

Thanks Daddy Warbucks. So helpful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went for a bone scan today. This amazing machine that scans over your body and analyzes bone density. I’m sure it costs millions to develop. Wonderful. But it would be nice if I could go to a doctor who would help me with my constant fatigue and low grade headaches. It’s probably not that complicated of a fix - iron? thyroid hormone tweak? Vitamin d? - but doctors don’t seem capable of helping with symptoms like that.

If your insurance is willing to pay for comprehensive top-to-bottom tests to find out why you are having headaches, I am sure docs will be willing to do it.

That’s incorrect. Many headaches are not easily diagnosed by tests.

Probably imaginary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went for a bone scan today. This amazing machine that scans over your body and analyzes bone density. I’m sure it costs millions to develop. Wonderful. But it would be nice if I could go to a doctor who would help me with my constant fatigue and low grade headaches. It’s probably not that complicated of a fix - iron? thyroid hormone tweak? Vitamin d? - but doctors don’t seem capable of helping with symptoms like that.

You're assuming there's always a "cure". For things like that, there often isn't. Get in better shape or magically turn 20 years younger.

Weird assumptions. You don’t know my age and I’m very much in shape

Still doesn't mean there's always a cure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree, but I also don’t go to doctors who take insurance so that helps.

Thanks Daddy Warbucks. So helpful!

It’s a few hundred per doctor per year. It’s not that much. I don’t go to a lot of doctors. People are always looking for free or cheap or reasonable. Good luck waiting months for an appointment.

[Anonymous]

One million percent.

[Anonymous]

The titanic is hit by an iceberg.
The upper deck is still listening to the violin.
The lower deck is in the process of sinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or is that so obvious I don’t even need to mention it?

Going to an appointment requires filling out a pile of forms. Doctors are often rushed, and even when they’re not I feel like they mostly only focus on their own specialized practice area, and instead of thinking through symptoms/issues, they just want to run expensive tests and labs, and as long as the test/lab comes out negative, that’s the end of the conversation no matter the symptoms that remain.

Be glad you can even get an appointment and the surgeries you want. My kid has spent four years in the UK. You don’t want to hear the horrors about socialized medicine..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know Republicans have a plan coming in two weeks ..... oh two more weeks,....

It's been how many years now??????

Oh, do you really think Obamacare was a success? https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408166

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Or is that so obvious I don’t even need to mention it?

Going to an appointment requires filling out a pile of forms. Doctors are often rushed, and even when they’re not I feel like they mostly only focus on their own specialized practice area, and instead of thinking through symptoms/issues, they just want to run expensive tests and labs, and as long as the test/lab comes out negative, that’s the end of the conversation no matter the symptoms that remain.

Be glad you can even get an appointment and the surgeries you want. My kid has spent four years in the UK. You don’t want to hear the horrors about socialized medicine..

Op - just pay for a concierge practice = problem solved

[Anonymous]

DCUM response: Blame peri menopause for any and all symptoms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:they just type your symptoms into the computer and recite the response it provides. or they’ll face a lawsuit for deviating from the accepted practice. Dr AI almost here.

Do they? My free chat gpt is better than many of my doctors.

Woof, then your doctors are terrible. Just yesterday NYT wrote about a recent study of chat bots for medical advice: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/well/chatgpt-health-advice.html. They identified the correct course of action, e.g. self-treat at home or call an ambulance, just 50 percent of the time. The LLM’a diagnoses were correct about a third of the time.

[Anonymous]

No, actually, not at all. My daughter's friend was diagnosed with brain cancer and the speed at which he was taken from the ER where it was seen on a scan he got for a headache, back to the OR with a literal world class surgeon operating on him, was astounding. Like, within 8 hours. And guess what? When he got his MRI (every 3-6 months, like clockwork, at a world class medical institution!) and it showed the cancer had come back, he again had surgery within 24 hours and even had an intrathecal catheter placed to get literally the best, newest, most cutting edge treatment to help him survive. And he is still alive, a year later! He would not be, without the system working quickly for him, and the research for these new devices, and the best surgeons wanting to be HERE so the best surgeons are available to operate on him. So no, your complaints about having to fill out paperwork or wait too long for your doctor to come back into the room ring hollow to me. If you have an actual medical emergency, or a rare disease, this is an amazing place to get health care.