It's really interesting reading this from the POV of a doctor in the UK. I see patients every few weeks or so who haved moved from the US, and their expectations of the health system are hilarious to me. But reading this makes me notice how much I've basically adjusted my expectations to a level of pretty substandard (in some sense) care - in that I expect that quite a lot of the time we just cannot figure out the answer to a problem, or help someone's symptoms. Whether to call this substandard I'm not sure - I don't know what % of those cases actually are solvable at the moment; but... (read more)
It's really interesting reading this from the POV of a doctor in the UK. I see patients every few weeks or so who haved moved from the US, and their expectations of the health system are hilarious to me. But reading this makes me notice how much I've basically adjusted my expectations to a level of pretty substandard (in some sense) care - in that I expect that quite a lot of the time we just cannot figure out the answer to a problem, or help someone's symptoms. Whether to call this substandard I'm not sure - I don't know what % of those cases actually are solvable at the moment; but... (read more)