snakkerdk at 2024-03-15 03:04:55+00:00 ID: kuzkx5d

Despite what some might say, I think our system is great, if it's urgent care, then it's usually pretty fast, where things break down, is for less critical (but important for the person of course) operations and such, which have too long waiting lists.

escaped_abortion at 2024-03-15 13:12:17+00:00 ID: kuzift7

Had an accident during a handball match and hurt my left knee. That happened on February 4th. Went for about a month with a bit of swelling, discomford and left me out of any sports and running.. Went to the doctors clinic, got a reference for a MR Scan through my healthinsurrance from where I work. Had another reference to an orthopedic surgeon/specialist who concluded nothing was torn, and a couple of visits to a physiotherapist would do. Again, healthinsurrance granted 3+ appointments to clear out whatever was wrong. Only selfpaid during the entire journey was the ibuprofen needed (about $6 due to it being prescriped by my doctor).

What not to like would be, that without my private company healthinsurrance, I should probably have waited for about 6 month to get the initial MR scan...

Affectionate-Hat9244 at 2024-03-15 13:37:58+00:00 ID: kuzm91k

If you don't know which continent Mexico is in, I'd recommend you look at an encyclopaedia. Mexico is Central America

grillbar86 at 2024-03-15 11:05:22+00:00 ID: kuz2wic

This is from my perspective And I work in the Healthcare system. The Healthcare system is really good and does some things amazingly. The problem with the Healthcare system is that it is heavily underfunded and has been for years, especially to the demands and requirements set and expected.

The staff, equipment and procedures is amazing. The problem is that there is not enough educated personal to deal with the tasks one of the reasons for that is that they are also not fairly compensated. So lack of funding and lack of personal means longer wait lists. Longer wait lists means less effective procedures and more pointless bureaucracy that also results is longer wait list and more doing the same thing multiple times in difference sectors. That results in the personal being more pressured to work faster making them more stressed and discouraging more people from joining.

Then there's the privat sector that helps eliviate some of the puplic sector but that often ends up being a wealth segregated, so wealthy people get better treatment then less fortunate people.

Is it bad no absolutely not, but it's decent. It would be so much better if it got the proper funding to meet the demands but it's also hard finding the money without hurting other areas.

Tldr: yeah its okay just underfunded, the waiting list is to long in most sectors, and the staff don't have enough time to deal with the patient fully, due to lack of staff and lack of funding

Key_Cheesecake_5177 at 2024-03-15 13:14:06+00:00 ID: kuzip7d

It’s rotten. Falling apart and people are switching to private healthcare insurances because they cannot get decent treatment with the public health system. Waiting times for a psychiatrists is longer than a year and if you go to the doctor they might just prescribe some unrelated pills so they don’t have to deal with you for some time. A recent thing that our public health system struggles with, is that it is spending all the money on fat people for their weight loss medicine

Helloitisme1_2_3 at 2024-03-15 21:06:13+00:00 ID: kv1sfut

If you have a 'common illness/injury' (e.g. a broken arm), it might be ok. If you have something that causes many different symptoms or does not show up in simple blood tests, doctors always say it must be psychological.

Danish Study:

"In connection with 770 types of diseases, women were diagnosed later than men. There was an average difference of about four years."

https://www.cpr.ku.dk/cpr-news/2019/study-across-diseases-women-are-diagnosed-later-than-men/