Im a doctor without my own primary care.
My doctor resigned abruptly when mask mandates were dropped. (Prescient)
His replacement is on indefinite medical leave.
Their replacement is now also on 6 weeks medical leave.
Everyone in Charge of medi$ine in the U.S. couldnt run a lemonade stand.
The cascade effect is real.
#medicine #WearAMask #COVID19 #latestagecapitalism #latestagestupidity #primarycare
Notably, the 2nd doctor there actually went virtual appointments only,
but because they have a kid in public school, theyve now had COVID at least 3 times.
Really myopic shit going on out there in the name of "normality".
I too went virtual, but unlike everyone else, I went ahead and gutted my post-birth fetuses like fish to avoid them as vectors of disease.
What?
Thats murder?
I was told by some white congresscritter we were allowed to do that now.
[Obligatory I have no kids and im joking, NS(d)A(p) ]
Had my yearly physical today. Rocked my N95. Waiting room was empty, & they got me in quickly so I didn't feel the need to go wait outside. One staffer behind the front desk was actually masked! (surgical š )
A couple of minutes into my session with the NP, she asked, "Would you like me to mask?" "Yes, please." (Or, I think, you could just mask w/o asking.) (Surgical again, but I'll take what I can get.) Nurse came back with my flu vaxāmasked. š
2 points! Peer pressure FTW!
we were excited to get a notice from a clinic we sometimes can get into that a new doctor would soon start accepting family group patients - it's just about impossible to get a GP here, and we'd been on their waiting list for 5 years
only a week later saying sorry, out on sick leave indefinitely
we've heard she was a locum hospitalist in Nanaimo General, on a 3rd infection which has flattened her, and as BC barely pays for virtual visits, not worth doing clinics
Good luck. I am in a specialty practice where primary care is done in the home.
My practice sold out to venture capitalists at the start of the year, and it's been horrible ever since.
Apparently, they bought several other different types of providers but kept them separate businesses and turned into an ACO.
My health has declined as a result of the care.
We are looking for a new practice.
It can be daunting, esp if you have special needs like me.
Wait, you actually had a PCP?
What a luxury. My PCP is me.
Fortunately, I'm not an idiot and have correctly diagnosed my own shit for decades and only used doctors to confirm.
Had I left my health up to these numpties, I would be long dead.
Not even joking a little bit.
even before covid we had a primary care doc around here develop a brain tumor, and the system HE WORKED FOR would not cover his medical needs.
utter dystopia.
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honestly I think that's what's up with all the Western medical negligence the past few years, especially with covid. Long term care $$$$>>>> prevention
@ralphk @hannu_ikonen new account, no intro, only posts are non sequiturs trying to crap on Biden?
Welcome to blockville, sock puppet.
#KochNetwork developed an unparalleled climate denial disinformation system to get corrupt Republicans elected.
It was easy to shift to funding covid disinformation in order to prolong a pandemic, & further destabilize democracy.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes
It cost over 1.18 million American lives.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697394/as-the-pandemic-winds-down-anti-vaccine-activists-are-building-a-legal-network
Pandemics have a long history of being used to end civilizations. The oil industry is determined to keep frying the planet unfettered
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-alphabet-ads-fund-disinformation-covid-elections
Climate denial disinformation funding, covid disinformation funding, and the Jan 6 #BigLie disinformation funding - they all have a single source - #KochNetwork
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/
In just one example, Joe Rogan is paid to lie & be a "Covid, Climate, & Coup" disinformation operative
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2022/2/5/joe-rogan-covid-misinformation-spotifys-100-million-dilemma
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/joe-rogan-s-podcast-puts-scientists-on-edge-with-climate-misinformation-1.1715094
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/technology/four-election-related-falsehoods.html
RFK Jr is funded by Tim Mellon to do the same. Covid, Climate, & Coup disinformation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-super-pac-trump-republican-donor-1234798689/
@hannu_ikonen
Covid, Climate, & Coup disinformation - the richest people on the planet fund it all
It's always the same oligarchs funding attacks on health, science, and democracy.
Coup disinformation funding
https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/06/who-donated-to-georgia-runoff-campaigns/
Climate disinformation funding
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/banking-against-science-financial-institutions-continue-to-fund-climate-destruction/
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2020/09/21/trumps-energy-secretary-questions-mainstream-science-on-human-impacts-of-climate-change/
Covid disinformation funding
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-republican-donor-super-pac
https://www.ft.com/content/7d0a7dfb-c0a3-4b55-b1ac-3e6cbf1f84b8
Pandemics change the course of history;
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-considered-the-deadliest-in-american-history-as-death-toll-surpasses-1918-estimates-180978748/
https://www.mphonline.org/worst-pandemics-in-history/
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/pandemics-timeline
@grumpybozo @hannu_ikonen @lisamelton yep New Hampshire as well. Iāve been driving to Massachusetts for mental health care since 2017 and I would have been going before that itās just that I had to wait to get Medicare so I could go out of state for anything.
Itās so bad out here my mom got sent home from the hospital suicidal because she was 12th in line for a bed at the mental hospital. She died four days later, like she told them she would.
If they had kept her she might have ended up in the menās prison because thatās where they put people who are involuntarily committed for more than a month or two, they go to the secure psychiatric unit in the mens prison where I assume they are in solitary 23 hours a day because I canāt imagine they mix the coed mental health patients who have never committed a crime with men who are deemed criminally insane. I would never want my mom to go through that. Prison is traumatic.
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