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Originally Posted by mousepod
tracilicious - I hear what you're saying, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the "American medical system". If you're talking about our fairly lopsided delivery of medical care, the misguided and profit-driven "insurance" business, or the absolute misunderstanding in DC about what Medicare should be, I'm with you all the way. But I think that the medical professionals in the US get a bum rap from all sides. From my own experience, I think that America's doctors and nurses rank among the best in the world.
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I'm talking about all that and more. I'm talking about the "system" in general and not usually specific doctors. I think often specific doctors are the problem, but that would be the medical colleges fault and not their own. They are doing what they are taught. It's the system that chooses treatment based on insurance, the system that gives you a vicodin for a headache instead of figuring out what's really wrong or even if treatment is necessary, the system that immunizes babies for a disease against a disease acquired from sex and shared needles when the immunization only protects until age 10, the system in which women can schedule elective C-sections and dr.s will induce labor because they are going on vacation.
I think in general Dr.s are good people who want to help others. Nurses too. Their jobs are hard and they even manage to be right sometimes
, but if our system were what it should be we would stack up to the rest of the world more favorably. It's truly frightening when you compare survival and disease rates for many things. I think it's getting better. Very slowly.