Lesley Carhart 
Went to the doc today and she was like, here’s your bc prescription and your shots, see you in a year” and I was like “but no exam?” and “shouldn’t I lose some weight?” and she was like “what no, you’re perfectly healthy?” and fam, I genuinely love Australia and I’m sorry I have US healthcare trauma
Then again they also ask you how much you drink a -night- here 😅
Roger BW 😷@hacks4pancakes "That's nothing like enough! Here's a bottle of gin."
Rick Scott 🏳️⚧️@RogerBW @hacks4pancakes seriously, before I had my first gin & tonic, I would never have thought I'd describe a drink as "pleasantly medicinal". 😅
Simonoid@shadowspar @RogerBW @hacks4pancakes gin changed my entire appreciation of alcohol. Starting the VB meant it took me a while to find something that is good 🤣
Emma Davidson@RogerBW @hacks4pancakes legit. An obstetrician once recommended I drink red wine to reduce pre-term labour.
@emmadavidson @hacks4pancakes Until about the 1970s moderate alcohol intake was actively recommended during pregnancy. Something that irks me in historical novels, when someone thinks she may be pregnant and instantly goes teetotal.
Jdb_env@emmadavidson @RogerBW @hacks4pancakes Hi,
My mother had half a lung removed in 1968, ad the chirurgian prescribed one glass if Bordeaux every day. Her roommate had the same advice. I let you imagine the happy hour !
Bordeaux has much tannin.
My mother had half a lung removed in 1968, ad the chirurgian prescribed one glass if Bordeaux every day. Her roommate had the same advice. I let you imagine the happy hour !
Bordeaux has much tannin.
nobody@hacks4pancakes UK as well..or atleast they used to. my friend was actually recommended increase in his weely alcohol intake back in the day :D
Dave Wilburn 
So day drinking doesn't count?
miiko@hacks4pancakes ”I only drink on days that start with a T.”
Niklas 
@miiko @hacks4pancakes like, Today
@nilclass @hacks4pancakes Today being one of those days, indeed. And it does start with a T.
Codey McCodeface@miiko @hacks4pancakes Similar. I only drink on days that start with a breakfast.
Mark ⛵️🏳️🌈@hacks4pancakes it's OK, gin has long been known to be medicinal 😂
Dave Pimlott@hacks4pancakes during the lock downs there was a run on cases of beer as the pols thought (in the media) about closing the bottle shops as non-essential. This is the same country that had people pre-stage/hide beer to get around the 1 case/person/day "limit" at the Bathurst 1000 race...
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@hacks4pancakes Day drinking is doctor recommended in Australia. 🤔
Makes sense 😹
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Apiary@hacks4pancakes the mandatory weighing and checks at check ups in the US are weird.
Jeff GriggThe US medical obsession with weight, height, and blood pressure are an insurance thing: Those are "tests" that are quick and easy to do, for which the doctor's office gets *PAID*. The data is mostly useless and ignored.
Insurance.
Money.
@JeffGrigg i know.
Bluntelk@hacks4pancakes are you used to the PBS pricing of your prescription yet?
Dave 🐶@hacks4pancakes Having started working in the medical research sector, it's interesting to hear how different countries (especially Anglosphere) have different focuses on what "healthy" means.
Apparently in the UK + USA we're quite obsessed with weight and height (including measuring children by this standard to gauge "progression") but apparently in AUS + NZ it's a lot more restrained (including it almost being seen as taboo to take those measurements for any research initiative involving children / studies having a lot of problem justifying why they need to take height + weight).
Viraptor@Cyberoutsider
I got the height/weight check for the kid for the first 3 years in Aus (the usual scheduled checkpoints), but it was definitely in the "are they completely out of distribution / sign of something bad happening" territory, not nitpicking.
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I got the height/weight check for the kid for the first 3 years in Aus (the usual scheduled checkpoints), but it was definitely in the "are they completely out of distribution / sign of something bad happening" territory, not nitpicking.
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@viraptor @hacks4pancakes Oh this was said by a researcher from Victoria (Aus) that gave a talk at our org (UK-based). I don't have first-hand experience to know if it's completely true / how nuanced the situation actually is... or whether I just completely misunderstood.
But I hope it is true and like it as an example of what seems like something you'd expect to be consistent across similar cultures, yet is actually quite different.
CaliCarolI work out at a cross fit gym. (I enjoy it although I am old and slow.) The other day I heard an actual coach and the owner, both young women, talking about the former's doctor's visit. The coach is an unbelievably fit young woman. A real weight lifter, with a typical weight lifter body. She said the doctor asked if she thought she was overweight. "Sure, a little," she answered. I shit you not the doctor tried to push GLP1s on her. I screamed "WTF!" They laughed, but agreed.
Varx@hacks4pancakes Hah, but then you still had to fight with insurance companies for weeks to justify the price of the medication right? ..... Right?
Third spruce tree on the left> ’m sorry I have US healthcare trauma
What would we call that for the DSM? "Phantom Dysfunctional Healthcare Syndrome? PDHS".. needs a punchier acronym.