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🙃 So the urgent care doctor who said "you must go to the ER because You Could Die" was wrong and I just wasted the last eight hours of my life for nothing.
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The TV here is playing some western in which horses keep getting shot and blown up, and that's stressing me out more than being in the ER in the first place.
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PS if someone has that "how to avoid big hospital bills" video/Tumblr post, I will need it sometime in the near future, please gimme a link.
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The only times I've been to the ER before, I was unconscious, I didn't realize how BORING it was.
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"Characters in fiction sure do get pregnant easily" says person born from a mother who was supposed to be incapable of having a baby after serious abdominal surgery.
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"Why are so many people turning to homeopathy/naturopathy?"
It's a $600 bill and a month on the wait-list to get a fifteen minute doctor's appointment, in which the doctor will tell me to lose weight and accuse me of faking my symptoms for drugs.
Meanwhile, homeopathy stores are walk-in, and the employees will spend as much time as you want validating your problems, then send you home with a "remedy".
People aren't falling for quacks because they're stupid, they're falling because they're desperate and the medical system is actively hurting them.
It's a $600 bill and a month on the wait-list to get a fifteen minute doctor's appointment, in which the doctor will tell me to lose weight and accuse me of faking my symptoms for drugs.
Meanwhile, homeopathy stores are walk-in, and the employees will spend as much time as you want validating your problems, then send you home with a "remedy".
People aren't falling for quacks because they're stupid, they're falling because they're desperate and the medical system is actively hurting them.
Therapist: You need to stop Experiencing Symptoms because I don't like seeing that. :/
Me: It's not my fault you went into the Helping People Who Are Experiencing Symptoms career.
Me: It's not my fault you went into the Helping People Who Are Experiencing Symptoms career.
Dentist office told me my night guard would be ready last Monday, then called me morning of to reschedule because it wasn't there yet.
Showed up to my appointment today. Waited fifteen minutes. "Oh sorry it's not here yet."
WHY DID YOU SCHEDULE ME FOR AN APPOINTMENT THEN?!
Showed up to my appointment today. Waited fifteen minutes. "Oh sorry it's not here yet."
WHY DID YOU SCHEDULE ME FOR AN APPOINTMENT THEN?!
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Love the fact that so many studies on health and diet will say "in a meta analysis of fifty studies we found no evidence that this treatment works" and then STILL recommend said treatment.
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A "fun" thing about my doctor is that she'll tell me to eat more red meat for the anemia, then five minutes later tell me to eat less red meat for the cholesterol.
I have repeatedly reminded her, in vain, that I'm a vegetarian.
I have repeatedly reminded her, in vain, that I'm a vegetarian.
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Referral for ADHD testing made in mid-March. I called the neuropsych people that week and they said they'd get back to me. Eventually.
I called them again in early October because my referral was about to expire. They said they'd get back to me that week.
I just called AGAIN and got voicemail. My referral has officially expired. No appointment in sight.
This is the most trouble I've had getting a doctor's appointment in my life. The fact that it's the NEUROPSYCH OFFICE and I'm supposed to get tested for Can't Remember Things or Focus Disorder is. SURE SOMETHING.
I called them again in early October because my referral was about to expire. They said they'd get back to me that week.
I just called AGAIN and got voicemail. My referral has officially expired. No appointment in sight.
This is the most trouble I've had getting a doctor's appointment in my life. The fact that it's the NEUROPSYCH OFFICE and I'm supposed to get tested for Can't Remember Things or Focus Disorder is. SURE SOMETHING.
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My occupational therapist left the practice and my authorization for OT expired anyway and now if I want to resume treatment for my hands after a four month break thanks to losing my health insurance I have to go through the whole process from the start.
But the US medical system is the best in the world, y'all! /s
But the US medical system is the best in the world, y'all! /s
Medical staff: Please remove all foreign bodies.
Me, an immigrant: Awww, shucks. (walks away)
Me, an immigrant: Awww, shucks. (walks away)
I finally did the responsible thing and got myself a wrist splint.
I can barely move my thumb. Which is rather the whole point of a splint but it's still annoying.
I can barely move my thumb. Which is rather the whole point of a splint but it's still annoying.
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For some reason, dental bandage + chocolate ice cream = I'm tasting mint despite there being no mint anywhere in the house.
I am allergic to mint so this is freaking me out.
I am allergic to mint so this is freaking me out.
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Doctors keep complimenting how well I behave during painful procedures, and every time I'm like ????
It never even occurs to me to... what? Ask to stop (and then deal with the rest of the procedure later)? Scream? Cry?
What do people DO when they're in pain aside from "deal with it, complain to friends later"?
It never even occurs to me to... what? Ask to stop (and then deal with the rest of the procedure later)? Scream? Cry?
What do people DO when they're in pain aside from "deal with it, complain to friends later"?
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Me: Ugh that was a terrible dentist appointment and my mouth really hurts, I'm going to lie down and do nothing but whine.
Me five minutes later: ...I'm bored. I'm going to draw.
Me five minutes later: ...I'm bored. I'm going to draw.
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