/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I just don't see doctors. I have money and insurance I've just developed a phobia. Reading about your experience definitely makes me want to skip it unless I absolutely need it. Wouldn't recommend what I'm doing but I'm stopping unless I get really sick or hurt.

>>2582043
*not stopping

lol i assure you doctors are pieces of shit everywhere, and nurses are even worse somehow

As a non-burger, Michael Moore's Sicko was an eye-opener. Incomparable to other Western countries, despite our problems. If you want a far better version of Moore's political stunts, try ''Chaser's War on Everything.

For real, >>2582046 unfortunately hasn't seen what good looks like. I've had both bad (didn't notice an obvious fracture in an x-ray that the caster noticed in under two seconds, one that [jokingly] accused me of faking excruciating testicular torsion that almost suffocated a testicle) and some excellent ones. There are piece of shit doctors everywhere, but doctors aren't pieces of shit everywhere.

Also shout out to the rural retard doctor that a /leftypol/ comr8 mentioned who, when our comr8 told them they were having alcohol withdrawal tremors, told them to stop drinking alcohol. Literally lethal advice.

Just got kicked off of my parent's obummercare, hope I don't get sick or injured this year before I can apply for myself!

I've been having to take my 78 year old grandmother to her doctors appointments lately because she's senile, and everyone else in the family fucked off a long time ago. She's not racist or anything weird like that, just nobody else is willing to take care of her. About a month ago she fell and traumatized her arthritic hand. We thought it was broken but the x rays showed nothing. Turns out her tendons just became massively swolen from the fall, causing immobility in her hand. Now she needs physical therapy but we have to wait another month for her insurance to approve it. Meanwhile, at this appoitnment, I had to fill out all her paperwork for her because she literally can't remember anything anymore and has trouble finding things like her insurance card and her photo ID in her wallet, which has like a whole deck of cards in it. She doesn't know how to use a smartphone or an email so I also have to do sign up to use my email for everything involving her. It's been a total nightmare. I'm actually leaving out some other key details to avoid saying too much about myself. What this experience has made me realize is I don't want to burden my kids with taking care of me when I get old and my wife and I have both privately discussed finding humane ways to commit suicide if it ever comes to that.

>>2582512
> Meanwhile, at this appoitnment, I had to fill out all her paperwork for her because she literally can't remember anything anymore and has trouble finding things like her insurance card and her photo ID in her wallet, which has like a whole deck of cards in it
also it was physical paperwork. like 10 pages, a total nightmare, and it's her writing hand she injured, and also some of the pages were basically trying to get us to sign up for random bullshit having nothing to do with the matter at hand, so I had to read carefully. Forgot to mention that part.

>>2582252
>muh i'd die if i don't have a drink GIB ME DRINK RIGHT NOOOOW

Alcoholics actually believe this lol

>>2583329
I'm not alcoholic, but I have lived with alcoholics, who I find very annoying by the way, but what anon said about withdrawl is true, not in all cases, but in very severe cases of alcoholism.

When someone who is physically dependent on alcohol suddenly stops drinking, their nervous system, which was previously kept suppressed by alcohol, rebounds into a hyper‑excited state. This can lead to, seizures, delirium tremens (DTs), severe confusion, agitation, fever, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, electrolyte disturbances, cardiovascular collapse. Delirium tremens has a mortality rate of approximately 5–15% without treatment, but this drops significantly with proper medical care.

Now imagine if you had a alcohol withdrawl seizure while driving to work in busy traffic on the freeway, or while standing on a ladder at work. It's very easy to see how this can be lethal by proxy (accidents resulting) but cardiovascular collapse is also lethal. If you don't believe me, ask the doctor next time you go. They'll back me up on this.

>>2583329
t. person that gets headaches when they miss their coffee

>>2586509
Circumcision is something that should be tossed away and forgotten forever. Unless it's actually medically needed which doesn't seem to be the case most of the time.

>>2586509
>>2586512
You can thank John Kellogg for the popularity of Circumcision in the USA. he thought it along with eating Corn Flakes would stop people from Masturbating.

>>2586520
It wasn't just him. Every money grubbing doctor wanting extra cash pushes it while religiously motivated Judeo-Christians actively try to promote it around the world. All of them work together with Muslims to push heavily flawed studies "proving" it reduces disease and actively stop legislation against it by crying about religious discrimination.

All Abrahamics have to go. Only then will this problem stop.

>>2586572
>It wasn't just him. Every money grubbing doctor wanting extra cash pushes it while religiously motivated Judeo-Christians actively try to promote it around the world.

Yeah but John Kellogg was the most influence in making it popular in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. And from there it spread.

>>2582046
>nurses are even worse somehow
TikTok is doing a trend of "fascist men become cops, fascist women become nurses"

>>2583329
>muh i'd die if i don't have my drug
methadone treatment is realistic praxis for mature adults, not infantile meme moralism from manchildren
<In America's twenty-five-year war against drugs, only one national policy achieved some success. That was the Nixon Administration's program for treating heroin addicts, which was dismantled by the Reagan Administration. In "The Fix: Solving the Nation's Drug Problem" Michael Massing (1992 MacArthur fellow) exposes the political and ideological narrow-mindedness that have made national drug policy a failure, and demonstrates convincingly why we should reinstate the policy that worked.
<Massing shows that drug treatment works by describing the success that street workers have had in reaching out to addicts in Spanish Harlem and placing them in the few treatment programs now available. Further evidence that treatment can reduce the demand for drugs comes from the Nixon years.
<Confronted with a raging heroin epidemic in the early 1970s, President Nixon responded by allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a nationwide network of methadone clinics and other drug-treatment facilities. The program was a striking success, and, if revived today, it could go a long way toward reducing the rate of drug-related crime in the United States.
a fascist updated their RSS feed today and learned the truth about neoliberal austerity scold drug policy. Did you?
https://rocinante.podbean.com/e/episode-38-the-fix-nixon-was-right/