ToughDiamond wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
OTOH it's not exactly unheard of for mainstream doctors and surgeons to harm patients with inappropriate treatment and take their money. And they often get away with it.
Isn't that kind of thing more common with the healthcare system in the US? Doctor's seem to be less restricted by what they can or cannot describe and the system seems to be more about profit than patients, versus say, a national health service run by government.
I don't know much about US healthcare except that they tend to overtreat, which I would think has to be dangerous. And my knowledge of UK healthcare is rather old, but includes a surgeon killing a patient with a botched operation (the firm gave him a severe warning but covered up the deed), the amputation of the wrong body part, doctors misdiagnosing and therefore mis-prescribing, parking patients on somewhat dangerous medications for way too long. Usually it's masked incompetence. I suppose everybody makes mistakes.
But is there even such a thing as a competent faith healer?
It can definitely happen also, within national health services since the doctor's in such systems are often overworked and underpaid relative to international levels of payment for their work in private, or a mixture of state and private work.
People definitely do get parked on medications unnecessarily also, in national healthcare services, although there are moves to combat that recently with 12 monthly (minimum) medication reviews where medications can be taken away due to not being needed anymore for example.
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05 Nov 2023, 8:06 pm
