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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire healthcare system is screwed and US healthcare is the worst out of any industrialized country in the world.  I've gotten far better care before in Thailand.

I haven't seen a real MD for primary care in like 20+ years because they're impossible to book or get into a practice with as a new patient.  It's been NPs the entire time.

PCPs barley follow your health.  I really have no idea if I have major health issues.  I mean my blood work showed that my cholesterol as a little high and my blood pressure was slightly elevated, but my NP PCP didn't prescribe anything.  I haven't gone in 2 years. Am I supposed to even go regularly? I dunno, the PCP doesn't follow up and barely knows my name.

Other times I've had to go to a specialist, and it's been the insurance company denying and denying.  Or when I've gone I've gotten zero bills mailed to me the entire time only to find out years later I've been sent to collections for unpaid bills.  Wut?  How can I even pay a damn bill of you don't even send it to me?

US health scare is an absolute joke. It significantly reduces the quality of life in the country by a massive percentage. Insurance companies shouldn't even exist and they are in charge of determining your healthcare, not doctors.   Insurance companies and litigation basically burnout doctors who spend more time with that crap than actually doing medicine.

And no, I refuse that concierge crap.  That smacks of privilege, and we simply don't have thousands of dollars laying around to throw away on a country club model just to have access to appropriate healthcare.  The whole system is sick.  [/quote]

It’s emblematic of the country in general.  The problem starts with clinical staff slash nurses who are largely unhelpful to doctors due to an inferiority complex.

There needs to be a reset.  Nurses provide zero medical direction and need to KNOW that.  They should be great at patient care like cleaning wounds, wiping asses, and following specific directions by physicians.  Make it easy for the actual doctors do their jobs.[/quote]

If that were true, then maybe they shouldn't require nurses to get bachelor's degrees and masters degrees just to do grunt work. [/quote]

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