maleficent

I'm not sure that it's a big surprise that American's are unhealthy...

I think the state of healthcare in the US is abysmal... and if my experiences at the doctor recently are any indication of what healthcare is becoming, I really need to move...

I honestly think that the US has some of the best doctors and the best healthcare facilities in the world... we may suck at other things, like cars and electronics, but I think we're pretty good at medicine.. However, it's access to that medicine, that's the problem.

I remember a simpler time, where Marcus Welby style doctors were the norm, it was a doctor in a sole practice, with the good hearted nurse handing out lollipops. you could get an appointment day or night and he did make housecalls. Where I moved from, in a much larger city than i am currently living in, I still could get to a doctor in a small practice and get an appointment when I needed to see him... Now, all I can do is make an appointment, two weeks out, at a large healthcare facility (at their convenience)- and that was all the choice i had.. and never got to see a doctor... I saw an assistant who was following a checklist of what she was supposed to do... not using any practical knowledge...

Doctors in the US are stuck with exhorbitant malpractice insurance costs, which has kind of forced them into these big practices, so I can understand that to some degree, and they overschedule patients to maximize profits, I can also understand that, but medicine becoming a business is really only hurting the patient...

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