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QOTD Thread #332- Do you think that people should keep cats outdoors?
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Post by
Izichial
@lonewolfe: Is that actually what you pay for a checkup over there? D:
Like others here I don't bother going to a doctor when sick unless whatever it is refuses to go away for like a week and the doctor in question (I've had the same one for over 20 years) tells me to get myself to the clinic over the phone. Can't recall getting anything worse than the odd flu in the way of being sick since I was a kid. If I ever do, I live next to a hospital, so I'm pretty well covered.
Post by
Sagramor
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
(...)
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen."
Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet.
That's what I do when I get sick.
Post by
lonewolfe31705
@Izichial
Yup. At least until this utter wreck of a government run system comes into effect in 2014 under Obamacare. So no looking forward to having crappy healthcare that you have to wait years to get anything major taken care of.
Post by
gamerunknown
So no looking forward to having crappy healthcare that you have to wait years to get anything major taken care of.
Cite?
Anyway, I used to book annual checkups with the GP. He once said I probably have IBS, but unless I have bloody diarrhoea, constant diarrhoea or lose weight that I shouldn't bother him with it any more (went almost 2 days of no eating and diarrhoea last year, but that didn't touch the pain I was in a few years previous). I had a condition where my bone density weakened in my right leg when I was younger. Got out of bed with it broken one day. Doctor said it looked like it had been run over by a truck or I'd jumped out of a window.
Cold? At the moment I've got one and for some reason I don't have a headache, throat ache or temperature. Can roll out of bed before seven without a problem and exercise. A few years ago I had a pretty severe one and had to take frequent breaks in a half hour walk to university.
Post by
Interest
Lots of fruit and orange juice.
Post by
Haxzor
sweat that #$%^ out.
if stomach bug, Vegemite.
Post by
lonewolfe31705
@gamerunknown
The new US healthcare bill known as Obamacare, is turning our healthcare system into a crappier version of what canada currently has. I know many canadians who have to wait ungodly amount of time to get major issues handled because of it. Hell, even the canadian prime minister came to the US a few years ago to get his medical treatments because he didnt want to wait forever.
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392412
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Post by
Monday
If it's breathing related, hope it doesn't mutate.
Otherwise, hang out.
Post by
Interest
and absolutely no consideration is made in the bill for trans health issues. yaaaay.
Milayu: how are you sick 70% of the time? Colds? Or an ongoing condition? What do you do when you feel bad?
Colds, flus, sinus infections, all kinds of things, all the time. And I don't really do anything out of the ordinary when i'm sick anymore with how often I am.
I blame your sleep rotation.
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Post by
Izichial
@Izichial
Yup. At least until this utter wreck of a government run system comes into effect in 2014 under Obamacare. So no looking forward to having crappy healthcare that you have to wait years to get anything major taken care of.
Hmk. I pay something like ~30$ (at least nowadays, with the dollar being fairly weak and the Swedish Krona being fairly strong) for a checkup. If I exceed ~170$ paid for healthcare (not including medicine) during a period of on year I get a card that makes it free for one year counting from the first visit / whatever during that time. Of course you can't really make it a side by side comparison like that (us paying for it with higher taxes and all that), but I found the numbers a bit curious.
Should probably have used the one card like that I've had (I injured my wrist and had surgery to patch up a nerve that was damaged* plus some rehab and didn't go over the limit until after several of the return visits for the rehab stuff) to check up minor stuff like identifying a mild pollen allergy I have but it felt like a bit too cliché welfare leech thing, haha.
* I hurt myself Saturday, walked down to the hospital I live next to, got it patched up and got sent to a bigger hospital half an hour away to see a specialist, got checked up at the latter and got a surgery time the following Tuesday morning. Stayed overnight (hell, even the food was decent) and went home Wednesday. And people in this country complain about healthcare.
Post by
Thror
I have chronical sinusitis which has roots in my allergy to cats and dogs. I have had it for pretty much the last two years. I think I handle it relatively well, I got used to the lack of such luxuries as breathing with my nose or having the sense of smell. The worst thing is that I kinda suffocate myself when I eat or kiss for a longer period of time.
I am on antihistamines and antibiotics and stuff, but it really doesn't help a ton. I can not visit my doctor as often as she would want me to because of my work. I should undergo surgery but I can not if my sinuses do not get a little better, which didn't manage to happen in the last half a year.
Other than that crap, I actually feel pretty fit and stuff. My internal organs are all healthy and stuff, my metabolism is top notch. I haven't had a fever for the last like, three years.
Post by
gamerunknown
The new US healthcare bill known as Obamacare, is turning our healthcare system into a crappier version of what canada currently has.
No it isn't. Canada has single payer healthcare, with a
94% approval rate
. Their average
lifespan
is higher and their
infant mortality lower
. About the only metric the US outperforms Canada on is in having lower top marginal income tax rates and a higher defence expenditure. Ed: Oh, Canada is far more
cost effective
in outcomes too.
What you're getting, as a result of Republican intransigence, is a crappier version of the Andorran system. Which is a considerable improvement for people who care about the health of US citizens more than property.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
#261 What physical or psychological human trait would you like to change?
Post by
Rystrave
On yourself or just in general?
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Like things common to humanity on a whole. Certainly there are going to be people who are deranged and do things unthinkably evil, and there will be people who are shining examples of ideals we all admire but don't necessarily follow ourselves for various reasons. I'm talking about general traits that are seen in society as a whole.
Post by
lonewolfe31705
Laziness. This falls under both traits. I am tired of seeing people think that they should get free money, food, clothes, etc and they wont get off their asses and work for it. I have been providing for my self since I was 15 years old (was emancipated from abusive parents), and have never felt entitled to a free ride.
Post by
HiVolt
The primordial, instinctual sense of death and destruction being just around the corner. If people would stop thinking that the apocalypse is coming in our time, or even that they themselves are going to die soon, I imagine that we'd have a much more future-minded society. Sure, it worked for us when we had to worry about being eaten in the night by Sabertooth Tigers, Cave Lions, Dire Wolves, and Short-Faced Bears, but I think we've evolved enough as a species to no longer need that now-irrational sense of impending doom.
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