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RE: Trapped in sickness
This is sad. Since you can't change the system, for now, I just hope you get better with those antibiotics or have you considered going back to the first doctor who asked you to visit the next day?
Oh no, I don't fall for such cheap tricks to manipulate suffering patients in need. In addition, she was not at all "the right specialist that I need". After two sleepless nights I realized what kind of doctor I needed and today I went there - in the neighboring town. I was incredibly lucky that this specialist had a 10-minute break between two patients and, most importantly, agreed to see me. I couldn't believe it! At the same time, if I had another incident like the previous ones today, it would probably kill me already.
We discussed my Sunday experiences and she said that I don't even need a specialist to make the correct diagnosis for all these specific symptoms - this is something that every doctor, regardless of specialty, should know and easily navigate. What has happened to me is a display of appalling incompetence, and prescribing drugs that are dangerous to health when used improperly - the antibiotic and other specific things that one doctor insisted I use but are dangerous, makes things even scarier.
I told her that these were quite young people and she said to me: Well, I'm not surprised, after covid the medical training went online, all the control and discipline was lost, the practices too, the quality of teaching went down.
Personally, I think that this was one of the goals, or ok, one of the sure consequences of this period - the reduction of the quality of everything. And if you're wondering why in today's modern-technological times we can't receive proper medical care, here's one reason for that. I look forward to the time when AI will replace doctors as well, and they will become a kind of administrative staff to serve it. In fact, in my case on Sunday, the AI probably would have done better than any of the doctors I encountered. I say this ironically, of course, because I am against the use of AI in any sphere of human life.