I don’t get anxiety. The fuck you’re scared of? You just wake up and be scared? Of what?
I just don’t get it.
I get it that you’re scared when driving a car, because everyone sucks at driving except me.
But how could one be anxious all the time? Could one please explain like I‘m mentally handicapped?
It’s a low level scared. Like being a sentry in watch through the night. You’re used to it. It’s not like the alarms are blaring and you don’t know where the problem is, but there is always that nagging feeling that something is going to happen to break the safety any second.
You go to work. The boss makes sure you feel like you are barely scraping by on your performance. You are coming in early to make sure you clock in at the exact second requested. God forbid a traffic jam causes you to be a minute late. You give your best all day at work and go home a zombie at night, but hey you kept your job and health insurance another day. Sure hope the car doesn’t break. You can’t afford a repair bill right now. Speaking of bills, you just heard that your rent will be increasing in a few months. It’s basically extortion at this point, but you can’t afford anywhere else either. Where will you get extra money in a few months? Oh well. That’s a problem for a few months from now. Maybe you can be an Uber driver or something. Well, not with your worn down car. Maybe instacart deliveries.
It’s basically like that. Everyone is on the edge wondering what mild breeze will be the one that pushes them over.
If you don’t have feelings of depression or anxiety you’re not paying attention.
Or you’re super well off and also don’t give a shift about everyone else
Well off people have this too, it’s just that they have the resources to deal with it more appropriately. Let’s not dehumanize people and instead focus on the real issue, which is available care and treatment for everyone who needs it
While I see your point, it’s a tough sell to most people. Those individuals are exploiting everyone else and actively fighting against us all receiving that care.
They’re the source of my anxiety. Getting them therapy won’t solve it for me unless it convinces them to stop destroying the ecosystem and war profiteering etc. etc.
Remember that you can’t unsay anything to a Dr. Good luck getting something like that removed from your medical record. It doesn’t matter til it does. Told a doc I was concerned about my drinking 13 years ago and got some labwork done to make sure my liver was still good. I don’t even drink anymore but I found out a few weeks ago I’d need a waiver to enlist.
My doctor assures me that the answers don’t matter and he only asks for insurance purposes.
From his perspective, that makes a kind of sense. He can probably bill an extra fixed fee for a particular service code if he asks the questions. And the insurance company is willing to pay because they think I’d they get stuff treated earlier with cheaper methods, they save money in the long run.
Is that how it works?
That only makes sense if you disregard the uninsured.
You also don’t always want to be honest at the doctors. If you change the appointment from preventative to diagnostic by asking the wrong question, suddenly it can go from zero dollars to $200 depending on your plan.
Ask me how I know. Unfortunately, it’s not really a place I feel like I can be honest.
It’s BS that physicals are preventative and free but they’re the only appointments where they do blood work that isn’t free. Insurance typically covers physicals entirely because they’re preventative. Why the lab work that is part of that preventative assessment isn’t free is beyond me.
That and what the person you’re replying to about choosing your words carefully is insane. I was speaking with a rep from my insurance trying to figure out what I need to do for the free annual physical checkup stuff and they were telling me how I should speak to the doctor to avoid getting charged a consultation fee (i.e. don’t ask questions, avoid answering if they ask something about your current health, emphasize that you’re only there for your annual physicals, etc.). And if you don’t have a PCP, you probably have to pay for the visit either way as a “first-time patient” just to get the doctor’s orders for your labs. It’s bonkers navigating the system.
How the fuck are you supposed to have a physical without answering questions?
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The idea is to set you up so that no one ever has to provide you with the free check up you already paid for.
It’s all a big scam, like basically everything we have.
If you don’t then you’re either not paying attention or something is wrong with you. The correct response to the state of the world is depression and anxiety
something is wrong with you.
Well yeah it’s pretty obvious in this case. “Doctors” are generally rich and extremely privileged. They’re outside the cares of regular servants.
Eh… It kind of depends on if they paid for medical school or their parents paid for medical school.
Most doctors don’t really start making a decent living until they’re in their mid 30s, and most of that goes to paying back loans. Medicine does not pay what it used to, and residencies are still basically a form of slavery.
I agree the work culture in residencies needs to change. I still find it hard to sympathize with the med school debt. Like many homeowners were paying off their debt for quite a while and came out way ahead. I expect the same of doctors.
Not saying they don’t work very hard and are very stressed, but they are wealthy when you define wealth over the course of life (and their ability to spread that wealth across time with credit).
still find it hard to sympathize with the med school debt. Like many homeowners were paying off their debt for quite a while and came out way ahead.
It’s yet to play out really. The drastic change in rate of reward vs debt is relatively new, and the debt to pay ratio is getting worse and worse, at least outside of specialties. There are older physicians who are still practicing that are making bank, but that doesn’t really guarantee the younger physicians are going to be in the same place when they get that age.
The management and finance sectors of healthcare are now taking the lion’s share of profit, and less and less physicians are owning their own practices.
I’m not saying they aren’t going to be financially comfortable, but it wouldn’t surprise me if most newer physicians end up just being upper middle class instead of “rich or wealthy”.
That’s fair, I hadn’t really adjusted for the recent COL problems. But I’m also thinking of specialities over family physicians, which seem to have already been screwed even years ago.
Yeah, it’s getting hard to find people willing to stay in family medicine. Specialists just end up earning so much more that it’s almost financially irresponsible to not do a fellowship if you can.
I will say that one of the good things about medicine no longer being super lucrative is that it’s no longer really attractive to people who are interested in the field just for the money. It’s a lot easier and more profitable to just get an MBA, or go into finance if you just want to make money.
Though that fact has created some of the worst people in the world imo… There’s a subset of physicians who end up deciding they hate patient care and end up going back to school for their MBA to become hospital administrators.
