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A tense moment. (mander.xyz)

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[–] obinice 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the healthcare system

Kinda sounds like you're refering to a particular country's healthcare system (whilst assuming OP meant this same one), but you didn't specify.

You could be talking about Brazil, Kenya, New Zealand, even France. Without that bit of info, it's hard to learn much from what you're sharing.

Anyway, bloody awful what happened to you, madness! I hope once you got your diagnosis that things improved, and that you're doing grand these days :-)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Having worked for advocacy groups for my disease, this is literally a universal issue and affects even the best systems. The only cases where this tends not to be an issue are extremely expensive private doctors who take all the time in the world to investigate for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, even with a great public system not every doctor can look after a patient with the same amount of care

I would assume that, however, private hospitals have better services in countries with better public healthcare since they would have less customers and would be inclined to serve the best of what's possible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It tends to actually be a worse problen in europe than the US.

In the US the problem is more that doctors tend to diagnose you with something you don’t have and prescribe drugs that won’t help you (pharmaceuticals thanks).

In europe, where the government strongly controls the medical system, the government has promoted rules that minimise the costs of disability benefits and delegitimise disabling illness as “hysteria” or whatever, so that the government doesn’t have to pay as much disability benefits.

Take the UK for example, Sir Simon Wessely, who based his career on claiming ME (and now Long COVID) are all in the mind, which was disproven later on. Where is he now? He was knighted by the Queen, serves on the board of directors of the NHS, leads the government’s Science Media Center. Oh and he also earns massive commissions on being a consultant for disability insurance companies.

His famous quote, which is linked to him advising UK parliament in the 90s, is “[disability] Benefits will actually make these patients worse” (because he believed they were malingerers). A quote that probably led to hundreds of deaths of people with ME starving to death.