Sicko: A Video Response From A Bypass And Cancer Survivor
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Hello Karen & viewers of this video, I have a request and as this moving story appears to be a good place to reach the people I'm looking for, I hope it's okay that I post here.
I'm an actor & theatre practitioner in London, currently working on a verbatim project on the AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM and needing willing participants to share their views & experiences. Please click my Channel for more info. I'm looking forward to hearing from you, Karen, or any page visitor. Thanks.
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@Vets4Victory1 In Europe everybody pays taxes and that pays for everything from hospitals to schools (including college) firefighters everything.
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Hey Norway - who pays for all that? Who's gonna pay for all that here in the US? The USA is NOT Norway!
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It's scary to hear all these stories about the bad health care in the US! I live in Norway, and the conditions here are way better. We have free health care, free dentist to the age of 18, and if you get disabled or are born disabled the government will buy you a high tech car so you can get around! In addition to all the other equipment you'll get. And cancer patients are treated VERY seriously! And of course you don't have to pay for any examinations/treatment! :)
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She was a habitual visitor drug addict. Read the rest of the story. She killed herself by constantly being on drugs. Could the dr's have done something? Maybe. But crying wolf every time you OD on street drugs doesn't make a dr too happy.
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i am very sorry for your illness experiences. my wife has metestatic breast cancer, took zometa for over 4 years and now she has dead jaw. solid food for her, is now a delight of the past. thank god for ensure and ice cream. i do not know how much time she has left but constant pain is her hourly companion. our healthcare experience has been a nightmare.
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I don't expect surgeons to administer chemo--any more than I expect my cardiac surgeon to handle follow-up preventive cardiology visits. BUT I do expect doctors who refer other doctors to have a reason for doing so and a plan for the patient's care, not simply refer because "we send everyone for ___" or for treatment that is contra-indicated.
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Then you get two visits after chemo, one of which could be solved with a take home Neulasta shot and another which you wouldn't need if your doctor was there for your infusion. Add to all of this the fact that some of the drugs cause long-term damage and it begins to appear to cancer patients like me that since they don't know what causes cancer, the treatment is smoke and mirrors.
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My description about "doctor upon doctor" has to do with the visits to several that are not necessary and the problem with treating all breast cancer patients the same. It is like the oncologists are plugging in a formula--you get mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and oral agent even if you are node negative and have a heart condition.
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Of course it won't fix ALL the problems, but Jesus Christ, man, you want this shit to get worse? Something's gotta be done. OMG!!! I'm so outraged by the hospital in LA that let the woman die in the emergency room. WTF? Those doctors should get the death penalty for killing her, which they did by doing nothing
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Fibromialgia is a made-up disease. It means one of two things... either it is a misdiagnosis (by dodgy con artists in the alternative medicine industry) of one or more real diseases (like this woman had), or it is someone whose only illnesses are mental ones.
The moral is DON'T settle for superstitious non-answers to your medical problems. You may just have a rare disease that's hard to diagnose, and you're risking your life by calling it a made-up catch-all disease like that.
CarlKenner 4 years ago
The point of the matter is not that she was diagnosed with Fibromialgia. The simple point is that she had an abnormal heart condition that was originally misdiagnosed that she could of died from it. Having cancer a year later was probably not a joy for her either. In fact, without modern medicine and medical practices along with insurance she would be dead right about now.
GoldenMetalRaven 4 years ago