Well, there's some truth to that.
Went to my doctor. Waited 30+ minutes past my appointment time for him to take 5 minutes, unsurprisedly diagnose my symptoms and prescribed me horse-pill sized antibiotics.
But he also asked about the (generic) nasal spray I'd been using, that I opted for because I refused to pay for the
$181 a bottle brand name nasal spray that lasts about a week. When I told him I didn't really think the generic was all that effective......he shoved about $500 worth of free samples of said namebrand spray into my hands. I've been seeing this guy since I was like 12. So it's nice that, 20 years later, that loyalty has been paid back in some form.
So there's that. Really, my family has enough medical knowledge we generally know what a reasonable course of treatment is. It'd be nice to call in and say "I need a big fuckin' antibiotic, please check my records to see which one I can take" and just have them phone in a prescription....instead of the mandatory office visit, the mandatory sitting around for no good fucking reason and the mandatory $100+ bill you get. I like and respect doctors plenty but the older I get, the less patience I have for the actual healthcare system. Like getting a bill from the physician network where my ENT specialists reside.....because apparently the goddamn pianist playing in the lobby is my fucking responsibility to pay for.
I don't understand how some people can have self-perpetuating anger that just stays with them for hours at a time with no real reason to be angry. They start at the anger and then look for reasons to be angry. How do people live like that?
...lulz? This the Rage Thread. It's a strange question to pose here.