What are some of your annoyances with health care?

[Razp_Sorbet]

Mine is the fact I cannot get allergy testing done unless I go privately for skin issues.

My dr prescribed me "strong" steroid cream to help my contact dermatitis, told me to use it twice a day for four weeks as well as taking antihistamines daily. I've tried many different creams before and nothing seems to get it to fully go away at least for long. Im two weeks in, doing everything as instructed and low and behold it went away for a week and its back with vengeance. Obviously ill keep carrying on the treatment, im supposed to rebook to see him 3 months from my last appointment but I have a feeling im going to need to go in sooner.

Yesterday when I got home from work my hand looked like an old lady's hand, I could pull the skin on my pinky finger and it felt like paper, it stayed in whatever position I pinched it into. 🙃

I would have to pay over 1k to get prick tested if I go private but even then most places aren't taking new patients because there's so much of a backlog.

Am I really just supposed to live with the diagnosis of "hypersensitive skin" and not be able to shower daily, wash my hands with soap if I dont know what's in it and have to throw away SO much stuff that reacted with my skin because I have no idea what im supposed to be avoiding?

Ugh sorry for the rant

-Tired Itchy Burny Person.

[lightbulb27]

Endless pushing of drugs as solutions as opposed to finding and addressing root causes.

The confident diagnoses using things like MRI followed with solutions like "surgery and fusions", which can generally be addressed with physical therapy and healing.

The complexity of navigating the insurance world. That they don't list prices for services in advance, only after you get the bill.

That if you have to pay out of pocket they charge list price and don't tell you that you should negotiate with them to lower the price.

That they get a lot of people addicted to drugs, sick and kill a lot of people every year by bad decisions and mistakes.

Otherwise, they are the best!

[Rangers]

Waiting at pharmacies for meds. They take 15 minutes per person and stand in the back most of the time. How hard is it to reach behind you?🙄

And the constant fake scam bills which are dressed to look like it's from health insurance, plus the lack of communication. I could send a referral needed and be good for months and then all of the sudden, my meds can't be refilled, the day I have them scheduled over them saying they suddenly don't have it.

But I am a Cystic Fibrosis patient, so I have to use healthcare a lot so issues with it will impact me earlier than most others. Normally it's outstanding but when I have to deal with it every month or wither away to an early grave, inevitably I'll find and have to pay for whatever issues are caused.

But I'm back on Trikafta, off alcohol, I'm losing weight and more importantly, I have nothing left to hide from doctors since I'm actually not drinking now. It's been 70 days, I want to break my record of 100 days

[Razp_Sorbet]

Pharmacists do a lot to get a prescription ready, there is a few checks that have to take place

[msc545]

They need to have the drugs available. If they are not available, they need to order them. They often do not do this.

[purplepoppy]

We've got something called the common ailment scheme here. Basically with anything on the list in the picture you just have a chat with the pharmacy and they give you free drugs.

My gripe is people ignore it and insist on seeing a real doctor making it hard for other people to get an appointment.

[Abbycado]

That sucks. Luckily, I have my parent’s insurance still and also the campus health care is pretty good for normal things. No complaints now, but I’m sure there will be in the future. Also getting into the healthcare field so I’ll be exposed to all the flaws.

[Massageman]

Phrases such as "likely to", or "but we can't rule out - - - - - - -", and "your co-pay is - - - - -"

[molonski2]

Country dependent of course.

The problem with your approach there is your health care professional is only addressing the final outcome , not the cause , every allergic style reaction happens in the body for a reason.

Now short term yes it needs addressing , but now you need to work out what is causing the reaction , I ended up doing this myself , worked well.

Most medical is just a mask treating symptoms , outcomes , not addressing the problem.

[Razp_Sorbet]

The issue is i cannot address the problem, the public allergist won't take me as skin issues isn't on the list of allergies to test for 🫠

[molonski2]

Until you can see him / her ( they are only doctors ) address every entry to your body , the best " cure " comes from you not a doctor..
This gives by far the best result , you will work it out , doctors make many mistakes , self assessment done correctly is brilliant.
Sure worked for me , numerous occasions.

[nolabels]

The study of medicine, which is what the title of medical doctor actually means, is no longer what modern healthcare is all about.

To me, modern healthcare is more about herding patients through their systems and collecting payment than it is the true study of medicine, with the goal of helping people who suffer maladies.

COVID massively made an already troubled system much worse.

I don't see it ever getting any better than it is now.

[FunkyMonkee]

A big one is that you're not allowed to tell people that there's been nearly 400 known natural cures for cancer since at least 100 years ago. And that they think what they say is gospel when there are much better ways to cure this or that. When my Dr. asked me if I wanted the covid shot and I told her, "No.", she acted like I was a bad person for not taking it when, I already knew that the shots were NOT all that good for you and there were other things to take that CURE covid!!

[Razp_Sorbet]

there's no such thing as a cure for cancer, cancer is an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases that all vary drastically person to person. There's treatments that are far more likely to work for certain types especially if caught early which is why we screen for them (prostate, melanoma, breast cancer, thyroid, testicular)

[FunkyMonkee]

There sure is! Nearly 400 of them! I used two of them on my mom and at least 3 people here at GAG used one or more of them with great results.
Cancer is not a disease, it's a symptom. It's telling you there's something wrong and needs to be dealt with. Mostly, it's saying your Ph balance is out of whack and you need to fix it. Cancer can only survive in an acidic environment so, you have to make yourself more alkaline. If you do that, the cancer will die.
Cancer is cancer, it doesn't matter where you have it. Take away the acidity it needs to thrive and it WILL die!!
There's a cure in Australia that can get rid of even stage 4 cancer within 48 hours!

[Purpleronnie]

Hahahahahahahahaha… that’s just complete garbage. You cannot meaningful change the PH in your body and even if you could the “alkalosis” would kill you before any cancer did. Also cancer is not a symptom that’s an over simplification , that’s like saying a house fire is a symptom of faulty electrical wiring , sure they are connected.. but not the same , cancer is essentially dna damage / mutation , that’s generally the engine behind it

[FunkyMonkee]

@Purpleronnie Then, how did mom get rid of her cancer without chemo? Even her Dr. told her, and I quote verbatim! 'I don't know what you're doing and I dont WANT to know but, whatever it is, keep doing it because your cancer is going awa!"
I had her cleaned out in less than 2 months. When we first found out that she had it, it had already been growing in her for 3 years and she had HUGE purple and green welts from it all over er back and chest!
2 years ago, someone here at GAG asked if anyone could help his sister because she's dying of cancer and only has a few weeks left to live! I told him what I used on mom, he made some and gave it to his sister and it got rid of her cancer and kept her alive for another 2 years!
So, go right ahead and laugh your ass off!! WE KNOW that it works!!!
Yes, you can!! Sugar makes your Ph more acidic, veggies make it more alkaline!! All you have to do is give up sugar, at least for a while (cancer's fave food) and mostly eat greens!
Sure! Okay, whatever you say!

[ChicoFromThe305]

The fact that they never know anything, they just send you to another professional, everyone has that first spot you go to, then they tell you to go to another doctor and give you a bunch of papers.

the papers to let the actual health professionals know your time has been wasted by going to a doctor juggler, that's when they know they can begin procedures, the papers of authenticity that you wasted an extra day 😂

[Anonymous]

My disdain for the healthcare system is I believe there’s pretty much a cure for everything. It’s just a big money making machine for certain people to get rich that’s why those cures aren’t available. I work in the health care system. Not the part that profits from it either.

[NathanDavis]

America (n) (Doesn'tGiveASingleFuckAboutYour) Health (Really, NotASingleFuckGivenDon't) Care (OneBitAtAll)

[NathanDavis]

and I'm sorry too... about my condensed rant

but every time I complain about it online... my insurance rate goes higher

[lilBigPotato]

1k for a prick test? The US system is so broken...

I have no major complaints... For some stuff the waiting can be a bit long here if you go through public healthcare system but overall it's not too bad.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Not the US

[lilBigPotato]

Still broken

[exitseven]

I went to an Emergency Room and after waiting 4 hours I was told it would be another 5 hours before I get to see a doctor. The place was not crowded. They just did not want to hire another doctor to work that day.

[Agape93]

Too expensive
Male doctors dismiss, downplay and lie to us on the regular
Procedures are getting banned or restricted based on your area
Hospitals make money by not actually fixing you

[Nikki1989]

None in this country. In the USA it is a total disaster. I was once charged almost 4,000 for a day surgery. The US system is a joke.

[AngryCarl3]

UK here. Doctors who don't take informed consent seriously. Underfunding of the whole system.

[msc545]

My biggest annoyance is when I order a fairly common drug for myself and the pharmacy is out of it. They're out of it again and out of it again and out of it again, but if I go to a different pharmacy, they seem to have it.

[thegreenyogi]

Probably being able to get an immediate appointment.

[douride2]

My biggest concern is I don't have a family doctor.

[888theGreat]

I don't either. My doctor died and I never really got a new one.

[douride2]

@888theGreat Sucks doesn't it.

[888theGreat]

no I can go to a clinic and then they would refer me to a doctor

[douride2]

@888theGreat That's the problem here. No clinic. My only option is the hospital ER. Unless your having a heart attack or a serious injury you waiting a long time there.

[888theGreat]

I could be your doctor lol

[ABC1x1x]

I have none. I don't participate in the government/insurance scam. I pay cash up front for a fraction of the "cost"

[Bklynbadboy12]

My problem with it is I live in America everyone should have free Healthcare its even pay higher taxes to get that done

[msc545]

We can pay a trillion dollars a year for weapons and we do that. Surely we can pay some of that money for health care.

[jahaims]

It's a money farm. Laws bought and paid for to abuse the population

[LC75LC71]

It takes forever to apply and then can be refused to be covered for the pettiest of reasons.

[Still-alive]

It being so damned expensive and NOT free in our country is a huge annoyance

[888theGreat]

Healthcare just makes surgery and doctor visits more expensive.

[goaded]

Really? I see a doctor every three months That, X-rays, MRIs, physiotherapy, and consultations with specialists, are all covered 100% by standard insurance, although I have to pay 5Euros when I pick up most prescription medication (I think some don't even cost that). Last time I was in hospital, the price was 15Euros a night, iirc. About the same for an ambulance ride.

[888theGreat]

@goaded 1950's people paid out of pocket , like buying groceries. Hospitals didn't charge $500 for one aspirin then. They charge that because they know Insurance will pay for it. I know that when I had Health Insurance and went to Emergency room , the bill was higher than when I went to Emergency room with no Insurance.

[goaded]

Ah, you meant US health care. You're right, nowhere else would you be charged $25 to hold your newborn baby or charged $500 for an aspirin. US healthcare is broken because of the profit motive, not the concept itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8

In the 1950's x-rays and penicillin were cutting edge. Cancer was a death sentence.

"In 1952, more than 21,000 Americans contracted a paralyzing form of polio, and 3,000 died from it. Once infected, there was no treatment besides time and tending to the symptoms." (The population was less than half of today's.)

"in the 1930s, an iron lung cost about $1,500—about the same price as the average home."

rarehistoricalphotos.com/.../

[Jeff51]

My deductible is high but immigrants are free.

[Anonymous]

Most of my annoyances were related to my bladder and kidneys.

[aboredman]

In which country?

[Razp_Sorbet]

New Zealand.

[aboredman]

Wow I have no idea about it.. I thought it may be the usa

[Razp_Sorbet]

We have a lack of doctors so private health care isn't that much better than public in regards to wait times. My manager has waited 8 months to see a specialist about surgery on her back through private care. I waited about the same to see a surgeon about my gallbladder surgery through public 🤷‍♀️

[aboredman]

Wow thats bad..

[Razp_Sorbet]

To be fair mine was during covid so about a month of that we were in lock down and it was urgent surgery only

[aboredman]

That was a long time ago..