You just called this something that is gross and this is 25 times worse than that gross thing… ?

Grossest post ever. NSFW tag?

Ah yes, I forgot the strict Buddhist teaching that when using social media, enlightenment is only achieved by writing with many unnecessary line breaks, rambling, and emoji sign offs. Buddha really knew how to fire off a mean tweet and led by example for us all to follow. Thank you for reminding me.

Ah now that generalization was shown to be shortsighted, suddenly it was always about the specifics in the post. Interesting.

Sort of. Mostly seems like nihilism or denialism.

Also not a realistic scenario. Purely slippery slope argument.

That seems like a slippery slope argument to me. Pretty unlikely.

Nope. As long as our lives get destroyed by rich strangers we will never meet, everything will be political. Trying to force that is just head in the sand.

Yeah, I agree the system is fucked up from the top down. Doctors do not deserve all the blame for sure. Mainly, I’m just likely to not be forgiving of crazy wait times if the doctor also sucks at providing care. A lot of them do suck, unfortunately. Really makes you appreciate the good ones.

I mean that might happen, but I think normally people just refuse to read if the tone or overall point isn’t to their liking. I know I do that. If someone starts off being a jerk I don’t read their 10 paragraph diatribe. Doesn’t feel productive.

Thank you for identifying yourself as being 100% like this. Ya know sometimes people don’t read what you’ve written because you write it in an awful disgusting tone and this is one of those times. Blocked

I appreciate the validation. Not that this matters all that much in and of itself but the Internet can be an isolating place. Most people respond to tell you how very wrong you are. So I appreciate it.

I tagged you “weirdo” long ago because you’ve gone out of your way to start shit with me before. So just know I won’t see anymore of your replies, you can’t start anything else with me. You will be bitching into the void.

That user is annoying. They write long winded rambles and then always write that at the end.

I’m a simple man. I see

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And I downvote.

I wonder if I’ll ever see someone criticize another person’s reading comprehension where it doesn’t translate to “the only way someone could possibly dislike the angry nuance-less thing I’ve ranted about is if they are too stupid to read because obviously I’m always smart and right and good but no one else is”

Not sure I’ve seen it yet. Which makes sense, if someone truly did have trouble reading, it would be a pretty huge dick move to be mean to them about it.

If they schedule fewer patients then maybe they’d feel like they have time to talk to me and we’d actually solve my issue so I don’t come back two weeks later, further gumming up the system. “Even fewer”? A recent doctor experience I had was arriving early for a 9:45 appointment to an absolutely jam packed waiting room where I had to wait literally almost two hours to be seen. By your logic, they weren’t seeing many patients and it’s a bad solution to see fewer. At one point it was announced they were about an hour behind schedule. Even that was very incorrect for me, almost by a factor of 2.

I cannot pinpoint all the problems behind the scenes but it’s 100% clear multiple people are not operating honestly. If you make an appointment time, you should plan to not have patients wait hours past that. You the doctor office did something wrong and it was avoidable. They probably over scheduled and then also the doctor came in late. Again I don’t know the details but I do know they fucked up and that’s not uncommon and it’s also not something to dismiss as patients expecting too much.

I’m not complaining about immigration. Only idiots and assholes complain about that.

Doctors might schedule less patients per day and increase the number of patients seen overall. It’s not like over scheduling doesn’t have other effects besides being infuriating. It means they rush through the visit, ask few follow-up questions and decrease the chance I’ll have a solution in that one visit. I may have to come back again after the useless piece of non-applicable advice they gave me doesn’t work.

I guess a lot of lemmings work in doctors offices or something. It’s not an unfair ask at all to not routinely wait many minutes past your appointment time. It’s very fair. Yet itt several users push back against this idea as though the waiting isn’t anyone’s fault. Yes, it is. And we deserve better.

It’s taken decades of bad experiences for me to get here. I have seen time and again that most doctors are not interested in helping people. They are interested in driving a Mercedes and retiring with millions of dollars. They aren’t billionaires but they are selfish pricks. And you can easily tell the difference between the minority of doctors who do care and the majority who don’t. The typical doctor assaults you with “you’re just another patient” vibes from the first moment you walk in the door. They don’t ask followup questions, they don’t listen to your complaints about whatever issue you’re having, they’re basically worse than a Google search.

Then sometimes you’re faced with insane billing issues like one I’m going through now from a mental health professional who came back months later after not helping me at all and being completely inept at their job to try and double bill me for all the services I already paid for. This guy sucked from day one, utterly incapable of communicating, and now he’s repeatedly blown me off when I try to straighten this out and prove I paid it. I approached him for help with stress and anxiety and literally got no help and added stress and anxiety about the fucking basics of just trying to seek help from him. I honestly suspect he’s a scammer who has pulled this double bill scam a lot. I know this area has a lot of wealthy people who would’ve assumed they made a mistake and just paid the bill of hundreds of dollars again. I could tell you several fucked up stories about how doctors wasted my time, not helping me at all, costing me a lot of money, and stressing me out.

Trust me, I’ve appreciated the great doctors I’ve seen. They are wonderful humans who clearly want to help people. It’s unmistakable and unforgettable when you get a doctor like that. I have no beef with them, and even if they made me wait a long time, I’d assume it wasn’t their fault. But I’d guess out of the doctors I’ve seen in my life, and we’re probably looking at 30-50 doctors at this point, less than 20% actually seem in the field for good reasons.

And just for clarity, I’m in the US. It’s likely that percentage is much higher in civilized countries.

In America I have rarely gone to a hospital to see a doctor. Most of my doctor visits have been to practices with 3-5 doctors. They could choose differently. what I notice is that doctors are rich and all seem to live in very nice homes and drive fancy cars. They over schedule and waste our time because they want to maximize their profits. Not because they have to. Healthcare in America is about making money and it sucks.