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Sleeping more isn’t always possible, but if you haven’t tried diet and exercise, that should be your first move.
People think that question is not taking their disease seriously, but it’s the other way around. People don’t take diet and exercise seriously enough. They’re ultra powerful determiners of health, including mental health.
There are a bunch of House, MD scenes where he's doing boring consults and we get the "Stop eating shellfish if you're allergic to shellfish" bits and gags.
I had a couple seizures several years ago. Full on grand mal with an ER trip and all that fun.
The response from doctors has consistently been “yeah, sometimes people just have seizures.” They did CT scans, didn’t see anything abnormal and aren’t really interested in investigating more. Solution was that I’m just going to take anticonvulsants for the rest of my life.
Sorry to hear that. Are you better now?
Yeah - as long as I’m on Keppra I don’t have them.
It was just terrifying to wake up out of nowhere being carried by EMTs, spend a day in the hospital, be told “yeah idk go see a neurologist” and then just have to figure it out? Follow up with a neurologist was “yeah sometimes it happens, just don’t drive for the next six months.”
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It's far from only in the US. In my experience, hospitals in Germany are far worse in this regard. It depends greatly on who is getting paid how much for what. The US is far better for this, but unfortunately it is not affordable for most.
Imo, you're dead wrong. Doctors in the US have no incentive to actually cure anything. They spend minimal time with patients and try to cram as many appointments into a day as possible. I'm the type of person that only goes to the Dr if there's something seriously wrong. I had an ear issue. Took 3 months to see an ENT after multiple failed urgent care visits and an ER visit. The audiologist (not even the Dr) is the one who pointed out I had something clogging my ear canal after multiple Drs and PAs said it was fine. She thankfully got the Dr to pull out a big ole wad of dead skin and wax. Dr says it was likely infected at some point, and my ear made all that dead skin, and that caused that. Have a follow up appointment scheduled which he said I could cancel if the pain went away. The pain went away temporarily, but came back. Follow up is with a completely different dude, and he tells me my ear is fine, and I need to see someone about "pain management". It's very clearly not fine because I'm still seeing you doc. I don't need 600 mg ibuprofen tablets, I need my ear to not hurt.
My theory is that either the ear is still infected, and the drops I had weren't penetrating the ear canal due to the big ole wad that was blocking my ear, or there's still a bit more wad blocking the ear that they need to pull out. I'm ready to self prescribe my old eardrops which I still have leftover to see if it works.
Doctors in the US love to kick the can down the road. "Oh, I couldn't possibly diagnose that, you need to see a specialist. Let me give you a referral." Then you see the next dickhead who says oh actually u need this other specialist, let me give you a referral.
I'm not in some podunk town either. This is a world renowned hospital I'm talking about. Our healthcare system in the US is absolute ass.
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The US is far better for this
YMMV. American doctors are an absolute crap shoot in terms of expertise and bedside manner. For any kind of surgery, you really need to shop around and interview and get referrals, because there's a real chance you end up with a guy who has half a dozen lawsuits pending for malpractice if you're not careful.
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I have alopecia and every dermatologist I visited was either unwilling or unable to help me. It sucks to be a Kassenpatient
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Yeah but that doesn't cure Lupus
Good thing it is never Lupus
I am not doing well at all healthwise due to a now possibly diagnosed illness. A few weeks ago, I was at the Mayo Clinic, one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country for rare illnesses, the sort of place you would expect House to work.
I was there ten days and saw three doctors for about an hour each. As I said, it's now possibly diagnosed and, therefore, there's a possible route to go down, but that and a bill were all I got.
I bet those lazy doctors didn't even break into your house and go through your things.
That's generally all House's patients get
hospitals in italy are like this too
Most of his patients are transferred to him because the original doctor did all they knew how, it's either Goto House or try some ginseng in your tea.
Good luck finding doctors bold enough to admit they have no idea and need help...
That is the job of general practitioner. Solve the issues with easy solutions and diagnosis. Send everything else to a specialist.
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In fairness, they're the last reaort, so would happen after the "have you tried meditation?" Doesn't work.
Don't forget "you're over 30, your body just does that now"
I mean, this but unironically. There's a lot of muscular-skeletal issues that you get from... sitting in an office chair for 20 years. Or not getting tons of physical activity for most of your adult life. Or various deterioration of this or that bodily function from over/under-utilization or simple wear-and-tear.
Ask a Sports Medicine doctor what to do about compounded injuries and most of what you'll get is "We can replace the part that's broken" or "Stop doing the thing that's causing you injury". After that, there's no miracle cure that's going to make decades of strains and bruises and stress injuries just vanish.
There is a lot of truth in that though haha.
But yeah, it sucks seeing stories of people getting told that it is just growing old, while they have a chronic illness.
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Bit of an ignorant take honestly. US medical system is horrible but we absolutely have some of the finest and most advanced teaching hospitals and medical research centers in the world if you're fortunate enough to end up in their care. Mayo clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General, UCLA Health, UC Davis Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, the list goes on.
House MD takes place in a fictitious teaching hospital in Princeton, NJ, of Princeton University fame. It is an extremely wealthy area and the reputation and prestige of the hospital is going to be far more important than what the patient can pay.
Also though, no hospital can legally refuse care if you aren't stable, they might just not do much for you other than stabilize you enough to discharge you so you can die somewhere else.
It was never presented as representing a typical patient experience.
See my post above about the Mayo Clinic. I recently got back from there. House it was not.
I was treated at Stanford. Same here. Our system sucks donkey nuts
He did have quite a few patients who very, very clearly couldn't afford what a hospital would charge to put up with his bullshit.
It was in many ways an idealized teaching hospital. A lot of episodes had "C" plots about House's shenanigans in the free clinic.