How Socialized Medicine Almost Killed Me

[sahgwa]

You know what an algorithm is, right?

Yes, its how they are used that is the issue. 
Its like guns dont kill people, people kill people.

In your supposed defence of the algorithm you are also inadvertently showing how automation not only sucks due to mishaps like above, you are showing how socialised medicine sucks, because it views people as NUMBERS.

[ArMaP]

Yes, its how they are used that is the issue. 
Its like guns dont kill people, people kill people.

In your supposed defence of the algorithm you are also inadvertently showing how automation not only sucks due to mishaps like above, you are showing how socialised medicine sucks, because it views people as NUMBERS.

I don't understand how did you twist my words to see in them a defence of the algorithm (that I don't know and, obviously, could not say it's good or bad).

And it also looks like you don't really know what an algorithm is.

[Vulture]

Again, there is no perfect system of healthcare unfortunately.  I can tell you Norwegian's are growing ever so frustrated with the lacking healthcare.  So many people are turned away due to the system being overburdened.

Now that's not saying it doesn't help people because it does.  But the issue is it doesn't help everyone in need of medical services, and how those people are treated.  Like the elderly woman who fell and broke her eye socket.  She was sent home with Xanax and told "take these and relax" when she was in obvious pain.

Or my good friend who was ignored by his doctors while literally coughing blood who died of cancer. They didn't even attempt to save his life.

I can say every healthcare system helps people, but not everyone.  When it comes to healthcare, the world is in dire need of a major reform.  Perhaps a middle ground.  What that would look like I haven't the faintest of idea.

But privatized and socialized medicine is severely lacking.  I do know through my own experience, that privatized medicine will at least attempt anything.  I guess because there is a cash incentive.  Which is bad for those without healthcare and money, but good for those of us who do.

[SurferSoul]

The reality is that when the bottom line is profit, it makes sense to keep the sick perpetually sick. You don’t want customers to have good health because you won’t get much business. You don’t want cheap and easy fixes that people use themselves for the same reasons, so you demonise any alternatives to your expensive patented drugs. 

That is the mindset of big pharma. Best to take your health in to your own hands and live the prevention is better than cure philosophy. Understand your body’s needs and allow it to heal itself. Detox, fast and the body goes into repair mode. Don’t ever take your health for granted as that is real wealth. The mind and the body are intimately connected, take care of your mental well being, learn to recognise when you are stressed, anxious, depressed and give yourself a break, do things that relax you, put you at ease, that bring you joy. Everything in moderation.

[Thoughtful3]

It is strange how waked out the vaccination crowed has become with such disdain for homeopathy. Homeopathy principles include treating kind with kind, but at more moderate levels. The same core principle vaccinations use to be about.

As for the topic in Australia, got a socialists health system here. Helped with all  my busted bones and bruisers growing up. Sad to hear how some people lose their homes and lives due to a temporary injury. I would of been dead long ago without it.

Emergency does great with things they can see. Otherwise, avoiding doctors appears good for my health. Learn about the immune system and treat your own wounds when you can. The history of hospitals was a place to die. Been some improvements and some ongoing problems from those days.

I had quite the tangle with Resident Lurker's [Dr]., a questionable title. He caught Covid in January 2020 and it turned into a serious nightmare. He was given nothing, not even an antibiotic. I was quite concerned that we would lose him by October. Fortunately we managed to get a stem cell treatment which helped substantially.
However long Covid is a serious issue now. Too much damage for too long.

I finally got to see his Dr. this year- 2025. I figured by this point some enlightenment about alternative treatments- and I said the dreaded word Ivermectin.

The reaction was stunning. He started screaming at me- it would kill him. Obviously crazy. I told him my family had lived in Africa and everyone was taking it daily. He told me everyone was dying over there.
How could he possibly know. He had never been there.

He then went to his computer a prescribed a new inhalent costing a mere $2500 a month.

RL was totally shocked. I contacted Mary Talleyn Bowden in Texas who had successfully sued the FDA about the false claim that Ivermectin was dangerous. She gave a name of a homeopath Dr. and he prescribed it. No pharmacies would fill it, but fortunately he had  contacts with a compounder- whose business is booming.

These traditional doctors practices must be experiencing the mass fleeing of clients. While there I asked who my Dr. might be. I was told I had been de- doctored because I had not been there since 2019.
Obviously because I've been healthy and I intend to keep it that way.

[UltraBudgie]

Doctors really don't like having their authority challenged. They are used to being deferred to. Fragile egos, really, some of them. There's good ones too, of course! It's taught to them in medical school I believe that it's important to appear as the unquestioned authority, as it sets patient's mind at easy. Works for sheep.