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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago

Medical care in the US is:

  1. 3-5 months to get a PCP if you don't have one
  2. PCP talks to you for 2 minutes, tells you to eat/sleep/exercise better (pick one), that'll be $200
  3. That doesn't work so you call to set up another appointment, and they're fully booked for the next 3 months
  4. PCP asks if you really tried to eat/sleep/exercise better and suggests you try mindfulness or whatever
  5. You beg and plead for a referral
  6. They are mildly annoyed but finally give you one (+$200)
  7. The specialist is fully booked for the next 5 months
  8. The appointment starts 40 minutes after your scheduled time. Specialist acts mildly annoyed and barely listens to you before insinuating that maybe it's all in your head and you should eat/sleep/exercise better, wait and see for 6 months. The appointment lasts a total of 5 minutes. (+$300)
  9. It still doesn't work. The specialist is still fully booked for the next 5 months.
  10. Specialist is still mildly annoyed and still barely listens to you before still insinuating that maybe it's all in your head and you should eat/sleep/exercise better, but this time they finally order a test of some kind ($300 + testing)
  11. Good luck getting the test scheduled within the next 3 months
  12. You need to see the specialist to go over the results. They are still fully booked for the next 5 months
  13. It turns out that it wasn't all in your head. Specialist finally prescribes something. ($300 + meds)
  14. You better hope the meds work if you don't want to repeat this cycle until the heat death of the universe
  15. You better hope you don't need surgery. Unless you are literally about to die you can go ahead and 2x those months.
[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You know, when I first got here everyone lived in horror of the Chinese medical system. Doctors you have to pay off with red envelopes, prescribing unnecessary care for extra profit, etc. Now it's totally the opposite. Also instead of the mobs waiting to get into a doctor's office there are take-a-number lines now which actually get obeyed. I used to go in the late afternoon because they were less busy then and just shove my way in. Hey, it's their country, I'm just copying them. Also on every doctor's door where your waiting number is displayed, it's got a hammer and sickle so you can see if your doc is a commie or not. Their care literally saved my life. I got a miracle medicine that had just been approved by the State Council on January 15 and got my first dose in mid-March. I'm pretty sure I was one of the first people to get it in China and possibly the entire world (made by Beigene) because two salesmen came down on the train from Shanghai with it in a cold bag and they gave it to the nurse who dripped it into me. Afterwards I had to go to this outside pharmacy and a private infusion clinic and sit there with all the old ladies on a chair for the hour it took. Usually you get your drugs from the hospital, there is no phoning it in to CVS or whatever. I try logging in to the US healthcare provider and it says "internal server error, it's not you, it's us" which is a fucking lie. It's because I'm using a VPN. Turn it off and log in from a China IP and it magically works. Have to turn VPN back onto post this because Hexbear is blocked by the Great Firewall

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