Maybe you just need to get some sun

Wait, so you're telling me my doctors won't actually break into my residence illegally and discover that my wife is cheating with me with an opossum, making me contract a rare amoeba that can only be cured by injecting my spinal cord with pastrami?

In the US medical system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the HMO’s, who perpetrate crime, and the pharmaceutical companies that profit from it. These are their stories.

The craziest thing that demonstrates how shitty our healthcare system is, is that they made a goddamn movie 25 years ago about a guy holding people hostage in a children's hospital at gunpoint to get his child a surgery when payment was denied and nobody found that premise outlandish.

Or if you're a woman, they won't bother trying and tell you you're imagining things. Because a medical degree can't cure being a jackass.

I believe the hospital in House was also a college and the cases were for study purposes. Patients getting treated was just a side effect of the experimentation...

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.

Don't forget "you're over 30, your body just does that now"

I lost 80 pounds and my stomach still hurts a ton when ever I eat, what's the next step doctor?

Doc: *surprised Pikachu face *

...... I mean, have you tried diet, exercise, and sleeping more? For more than a week or two?

Outside of a drama TV show where a 1 in a billion case shows up once a week, that's usually a good start.

My, at the time unknown, genetic heart defect was treated with "lose weight, fatty."

I actually know people who died because they had cancer, but the doctor kept refusing to do actual examinations and just said "Oh uhh... just get more potassium or something..."

Not bothering to look further until it was too late.. It's very sad

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.

Binging Chubbyemu vids last night sure makes it seem like that's not exactly true... There are far too many that begin with "presenting to the ER visibly fucked, the doctor just tells them it's anxiety and to stop being a little bitch about it. But it wasn't anxiety and they were not, in fact, a little bitch."

It's probably lupus anyway.

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.

"Let's do some imaging on you that will cost you hundreds of dollars and pay me thousands"

Alternatively

"Have you considered that you're faking it?"

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.

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.

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, probably still have, a weird medical 'condition' that US military doctors and British doctors couldn't figure out. Would have been neat to have a team of smarty pants working on the case.

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.

I mean its like being in tech support. Losing weight and not eating shit is the equivalent of "Have you tried turning it off and on again" it should be obvious but its not.

Cost money/time to cure people. Cheaper to just manage conditions.

In fairness, they're the last reaort, so would happen after the "have you tried meditation?" Doesn't work.

The reality is this varies highly not just by individual doctor but by doctor group.

And whether or not they’re willing to consult a specialist while you’re in a hospital.

Spoiler: they lose money if they do this because only so much is available to be paid out for each patient. Second spoiler: sometimes seeing a specialist while hospitalized means getting transferred 100+ miles away to another hospital because that hospital doesn’t have any of that specialist available. Third spoiler: Level 1 hospitals are few and far between (they have everything).

"That'll be $200, please."

Eight years of school plus residency for this?

Yeah but that doesn't cure Lupus

hospitals in italy are like this too

this vexes me

In Canada they just skip that entirely and go straight to "kys lol"