This started 4 years ago when the guberment decided to become doctors and declare certain pain killers could not be prescribed without approval from a panel of who knows who. The death rate in America for over dose has little to do with a prescribed pain killer but more the use of street drugs and other assorted abuses. I live with constant pain due to my neck and lower back and my knees and I have yet to have any doctor even give a damn. They keep harping on heart this heart that and hell yes a heart attack will kill us but not being prescribed something to keep the pain levels tolerable will contribute to a heart problem just from stress. It is all out of control due to government BS. These dopers have been dying for thousands of years from self abuse and typical of government they want to make you think they are actually doing something when they are only causing more grief for innocent citizens. Now that's my honest opinion. They first started telling car manufacturers how to build a car then they got away with that and now it's medicine and healthcare. Most of them can't manage their own checking account. Of course the cost of a car over night jumped up about 30,000 dollars, as healthcare has also now gone over the hill. Follow the money trail leading back to DC. Finally, don't think for a minute anyone in our congress or senate suffer from lack of medical care or proper pain relief.
15-20 years ago I read that, as our manufacturing jobs left, our country would be run on healthcare. It is not healthcare, but sick care. Keeping us sick is what keeps the industry up and running. So many more clinics popping up every day while we hurry up and wait. And now big pharma is going after supplements that we can give ourselves.
Exactly how I feel at this time in my life. He's not saying to Never see one, but not as a constant thing.
On me I went to a lot of doctors over decades. Had to correct issues as: Hypertension HypoThyroid Arthritis issues That I've head for decades I've done lots of supplements, otc pain pills, NO Pharma Drugs, one in the 80's that sent me to the ER with ulcer issue. A hip replacement that didn't give me results I went for. At this time I compare labs from year to year. 2022 my labs were very good, I had no labs done in 2023. When I would see a lab report that is too nigh or too low in the range, I would do my search to find ways to get in the mid range at least. Oh and I've gotten rid of a lot of sugars and when my glucose had crept up to 120 I got it down with Berberine and and seeing that 84 was great. I still take some Berberine but a little less ... eating a Pink Lady apple from a friend's tree,,,tastes good.
True, the only industry Baton Rouge has is Medical Institutions. In the 70s it was Petro Chemical and Oil, they went as far as unbolting the Ethel Plant and moving it to Saudi Arabia. Strange but La still has the worst health care you can imagine. I suppose as far as Baton Rouge is concerned LSU students have a lot of on the job training at all of these Health Facilities. The Neuro Surgeon I went to for my DDD in my neck looked like he was just out of High School. Now he himself did nothing for my pain, I was sent to another office next door where they did the injections. The young guy comes out after looking at my image disc I had brought with me, and he say's "man your neck is messed up" !!! That was about the extent of care I received, he said there was nothing that could be done for the pain, well how about a pain prescription bucko. He never even offered. I recently told this local family clinic person I had no plans to start going back to Baton Rouge for anything. He wanted me to see another Heart Doctor and due to using this senior bus I could never get a ride that would be at the time this new Heart Doctor was asking me to come. Late appointments are out of the question for old people that take the van because around noon or shortly after you should be on your way home. It is not a good thing to make other old people wait on your late appointment. I had to file a complaint with the state secretary who takes care of senior rides because of me being held up by the surgeon who was setting up my hernia surgery and he was running a bit late. This local person that takes care of the ride appointments called me and chewed me out for not being ready to come back and that was while I was sitting at the blood drawing desk awaiting for my preop blood work. I had another final appointment with the heart doctor before surgery and I was told there was no ride available and that was when I went online and told that secretary what was happening, she was never good enough to even answer my email but I did get a call from the van office and they were all sweety pie from then on. I still get mad when I think we have people in charge of these things even as high as the state secretary and they aren't good enough to personally reply to the grievance but yet can do something about it. I promised myself the next time something like that happens I am going straight to the Governors office and put a stop to it from top. People in government at every level are spoiled and being paid top dollar to do these jobs which are supposed to be looking after our best interest, and they are not doing their jobs, not one of the state websites work and are probably just a way to collect more tax money to spend on frivolous things that they can't get otherwise. Or they could be paying a family member or friend for making a website just like obummer did when he decided he could mandate health care.
Well, it seems like doctors today don't require their patients to see them for a regular exam/blood labs but once or twice a year. Is that really enough, especially as older seniors? Then again, unless I really have something wrong, like what put me in the ER and hospital twice this past April, I won't see my VA doctor. But, apparently, there are those that really do need to see their doctor often.
Of course there are exceptions and a friend of mine is forever checking out a new doctor for this and that and she comes from the Pharma world as she has an RN status. Many yrs of late, I check in once a year with my doc to keep my refills alive and she likes to know if I'm alive, and does all these can to have me buy more labs, etc. lately I've had to pay $75 upfront as I'm told Medicare pays less and less for labs. Vit D is not included in standard Medicare labs, and I understamd ot can cost me $60 now .... it's all gone Wild with price increases/ Keep em sick is Pharma's slogan. It's mind boggling how many could be alive today from the Covid drama, if Vit D levels were optimal.