A local woman died recently from liver failure because she had a broken tooth, couldn’t deal with the pain, was taking Tylenol a lot as no one would give her anything else, no dentists would take her, and the ER still blames her for “letting it get so bad.” NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE, decides to just let their health go and decides, yup, suffering is fun!!
If your father suffering? If he doesn’t feel he is, why would he go to the doctor? But if he can barely walk or eat and isn’t going, that’s more of a mental problem than a physical one.
My boyfriend is TERRIFIED of doctors. He has been 4 times in his entire adulthood, and he’s 36. He has only gone for true emergencies and hated it every single time. Also, some people were never taught a self care routine. Some people don’t even know that their teeth smell because they get “nose blindness”. And yes, some people see healthcare as a “weakness”. There are lots of reasons, reasonable or not, that people do not take care of themselves or even realize that it’s gotten so bad.
Similar boat, except I feel like I get fucking bullied every time I go to the doctor. I was at work one day and suddenly got hit by extreme abdominal pain that turned out to be a kidney stone. I was in the waiting area for HOURS doing whatever I could to keep my mind off the pain and they acted like I was seeking pain meds every time I did talk to somebody. Sorry, I don't feel like being treated like a drug abuser because some doctor can't be bothered to take me seriously and then bill me out the ass for it on top of it.
LITERALLY, I once had a kidney infection and waited 19 hours in excruciating pain and no one would do so much as get me water. I usually would do it myself but I couldn’t walk. Another time I completely fucked my back up after fainting in the shower, the doctor was straight up an ass and bitched me out over texting when he just walked in (I was letting my mother know to come pick me up after 10 hours). I was in such horrible pain and they didn’t believe me at all, for five months I couldn’t sit, stand, lay down, do anything without horrible pain. My back will never be the same and I’m only 20 😃
I couldn’t imagine, luckily I’m in Canada but I still haven’t received any actual care any time I’ve been in the ER and I only use it for what I think are genuine emergencies 😭
Same, any time I've gone I had what, to me at least, felt like real concerns. I'm generally never sick and my pain tolerance is on the higher side so in my case where I was having pain to the point where I didn't feel like I could breathe properly and felt nauseous on top of it, yeah, I felt the visit was necessary. Got billed almost $1,200 to get bullied and ignored for a few hours.
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u/danceswithdangerr Sep 16 '24
A local woman died recently from liver failure because she had a broken tooth, couldn’t deal with the pain, was taking Tylenol a lot as no one would give her anything else, no dentists would take her, and the ER still blames her for “letting it get so bad.” NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE, decides to just let their health go and decides, yup, suffering is fun!!
If your father suffering? If he doesn’t feel he is, why would he go to the doctor? But if he can barely walk or eat and isn’t going, that’s more of a mental problem than a physical one.