Discussion Are you satifsfied with the quality of healthcare you are recieving ?

[painoflife]

Whenever I make a step forward the healthcare system does something to move me 2 steps back.
Eg, Been lectured for over a year to reach out and engage with home treatment team and finally did (even if not by choice) and then my care co reversed the care HTT put in place and didn't even tell me. Now I daren't contact HTT again and dont trust my care co either.

 

[NightmareTour]

Honestly, I'm on the same boat as people who say they don't go to doctors anymore. Not because I don't think they're qualified, but because I know that they genuinely don't care. Every time I've tried bringing up my health problems to my GP, neurologist, and especially any mental health professionals, it goes one of two ways. Either they make it seem like something is going to be done and then nothing happens, or they just try to convince me that there's nothing wrong and make me feel like I'm being stupid. The NHS is corrupt as fuck, I'm sure the healthcare system in a lot of other places are too. This thing with the medication is honestly the last thing I'm even trying to get help with. I already gave up on the mental health side of things long ago because I got the impression that I was getting notes added onto my file or something every time I reached out for help, since they seemed to get more and more unwilling to listen or help each time.

 

[Wraith]

All the doctors I've seen treat me like I'm drug seeking. I've never abused drugs in my entire life. And my last psychiatrist was unprofessional and pushy. I knew somebody who was sectioned during psychosis but was immediately released because apparently she was too difficult for them. I don't have any hope for the healthcare near me.

 

[puppy9]

No because they told me to kill myself by jumping down the river when I was hospitalized for cutting myself.

 

[AutoTap]

I have a really good general doctor who runs his own practice as a hobby job. So he really cares and doesn't care how long he takes so he is thorough and make sure he helps you. Can even call him on the weekend and he'll help ya. He cracks me up because sometimes he will wear cowboy boots and forget to switch to the doctor ones.

But I havnt had any good therapist, psychologist, or any of that. Still looking for one.

Sadly meds don't seem to be enough for me so I'm juggling em and trying new ones, dosages, and all of that tryna figure it out.

it's sad because the only reason I have this good doctor is because I live in a small town. I use to go to one of the bigger ones and all the doctors there sucked.

 

[Wraith]

No because they told me to kill myself by jumping down the river when I was hospitalized for cutting myself.

That's so fucked up. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I once cut deep enough for the wound to splay open and I refused to go to my hospital because it's known to do shit like this. I don't see how people can go into a caring profession and pull shit like this.

 

[Weightoftheworld]

My PCP and my Neurologist are really great actually. It's just still been a juggling act with my medications though.

 

[epic]

Every time I go to the doctor and feel wrong about something they instantly blame my diet and lack of exercise. I don't care if they're right but the fact they won't look any further and realize that I literally know people with even unhealthier habits who don't have some of the same conditions I have is suspicious enough. Again, they just want to push the medications they were paid to push anyway

It is like I was writing this . My doctor just dismissed my symptoms and blamed it all on diet and exercise. He didn't bother to look further even after I was ready to pay .

 

[Deleted member 19276]

Healthcare in my country is beyond terrible. Both for the mental field and the regular one, whatever it's called.
Mental hospital are worse than prison here. With things such as rape in them involved. While trying to survive on a daily basis in there with criminals, drug addicts and other psychopaths for simply being suicidal.
As for regular hospitals - A person that died from Covid was left on the stairway, front one leading to the hospital, with a sheet covering him as if it's a scene straight out of a horror movie. Oh, also his phone got stolen along with wallet.
I don't trust them and never will.
If anything, the dentists working private are doing a much better job at pulling out my wisdom teeth, than those so called "professionals".

 

[mediocre]

Healthcare where I live has been non-existent for many years. Years long waiting lists for basic care. It's atrocious. They've forced me to go private just so I can be seen slightly faster than usual. It's unreal how bad it is in the U.K.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

I'm a thing. Things don't get healthcare.

 

[Callie Arcale]

After years and years of receiving little help because I suffer from an invisible illness, and after being told for the millionth time that exercise will make me feel better, I decided to never go to the doctor's again, unless I have a bodily injury. Doctors can not treat invisible illnesses. Unless you have something they can x-ray, poke at, test or operate on, you get zero care.

I answered number 4.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

After years and years of receiving little help because I suffer from an invisible illness, and after being told for the millionth time that exercise will make me feel better, I decided to never go to the doctor's again, unless I have a bodily injury. Doctors can not treat invisible illnesses. Unless you have something they can x-ray, poke at, test or operate on, you get zero care.

I answered number 4.

This x 100.. When I was in school, I went to an emergency dental clinic. The young dentist who worked on me actually went on a rave about how she was sick of helping people who can afford new sneakers but not dental care. ??? And with the pandemic, we've seen horror footage uploaded to the internet by health care providers themselves of how the US treats its poor and vulnerable--like disposable trash bags. And how about all the reports of chronic pain sufferers turning to suicide b/c treatment options are slim and ineffective AND because health care providers treat sufferers like liars and criminals? Or read the health care blogs for nurses... and all the hateful comments they post about addicts and mental health patients. So much for treating addiction or mood disorders... like medical diseases.

Like you, I don't go near a hospital anymore unless I have a painful, gaping, mortal wound. Then again...