I get this. Work is a bit competitive at times, taking time off is difficult enough. Many doctors also do not take you seriously unless you've had an issue for a significant amount of time or unless it's serious enough.
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In my area, when they ask what you do and you say "I'm a farmer" things get really serious really fast.
Usually the blood is enough of an indication.
I was heavy drinking whiskey with my friend and a couple girls at my apartment when I was 20. I told my friend to cut me with a steak knife - we were punk rock kids and I thought I was a badass, it was very stupid. So he's giving me these light cuts that are barely bleeding on my upper arm. One of the girls says can I cut you? I said sure, and put the knife in her hand. She grabbed my wrist and went full bore at my forearm, cut me to the bone. It took some doing but I got the bleeding stopped, did a pretty bad one-handed job with a rag for a bandage.
Some other folks came over and one of them decided to fix me a better bandage. When he saw the wound he's like you need to go to the hospital, but I was intent on partying. Being the good friend that he was, he came pounding on my door the next morning at 7AM and insisted that he was taking me to the hospital.
When I got there, they found out that I didn't have health insurance and refused to treat me at all. They said it had been too long since it happened. It got severely infected and took about three months to heal and now I've got a wicked scar. American healthcare was and is a disaster.
I’m sorry, what?
Kids, remember: The cornerstone of any healthcare system is YOU CARING ABOUT YOUR HEALTH. Don't fuck around with your health.
If you do stupid shit for fun, make at least sure it kills you and doesn't leave you with lifelong disability.
Kids, remembet: The corner stone of american healthcare system is HOW CAN WE MAKE A PROFIT FROM THAT. Don't fuck around with our profits.
I agree with the others' sentiment that you need to be your own advocate (or be fortunate to have a loved one ego can do it) in order to get the best healthcare results.
That goes for all healthcare systems, and our horrid system in the US makes it even more necessary, not less.
True, but imo living in a broken and profit-maximising healthcare system should not serve as an excuse for permitting yourself to make shitty life choices. The situation op described would have been irresponsible wherever they lived.
We should all eat healthy within our means. We all should exercise as much as possible. We all should do our best to not get sick or injured in the first place - which imo includes not getting filleted by our friends.
Exactly. Personal accountability is important regardless of the system. Expecting a healthcare system to be a safety net for irresponsibility is madness.
Had you gone to the hospital when you first got stabbed, the hospital is legally required to fix you up. But instead you decided to party and went to the hospital too late, and now blame the healthcare system instead of yourself. You are the one that asked to be stabbed, then complain about healthcare later. Did you drink leaded gas as a kid ?
Where I live, they fix everyone. No matter how stupid they are. This should be the way.
Curious - do they give them help for the stab wound and/or refer them to substance abuse or mental health programs in a situation like this?
I need to see how cool the scar is before I can properly judge if it was stupid or cool.
Um...the American Healthcare system can be a pain, but that was the least of your problems in that scenario.
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Did you bring your arm with you?
Wife is bringing it in. I told her not to bother but you know how they are... worry worry worry.
What about your other arm? Where is it?
Oh I forgot to tell her about that one...shhh it's ok I'm fine. I don't think I even need to be here.
It was appendicitis. 24h of pain. Had started rupturing.
I thought it was constipation.
(in my defense, neither my obgyn wife nor the emergency doctor on the phone were sure because I had precisely zero of the usual symptoms)
My wife went to bed early one night, not feeling good. Next day sang as a choral section leader, made a quick appearance at a kid's birthday party to drop off our gift, then spent the rest of the day in bed. Very weird for her. Kept telling me she was ok and just needed to rest. The next morning I woke up, took one look at her and told her we were going to the emergency room. Pale and just... I could tell something was wrong.
By the end of the day she had her appendix out.
I was worried because surgery took almost three times as long as anticipated. The surgeon that talked to me post-op was super excited about how her body prevented it from rupturing by everything around the appendix swelling up and effectively giving it no room to do so. The surgery had taken so long because they carefully had to move everything out of the way before removing the appendix, then when they saw the state of it they decided to do their full "clean sweep" they would do for a ruptured one just to be safe (and confirmed no leakage/rupture), then move things back. I told him that she had started feeling bad nearly a day and a half before she felt bad enough to come in, and we joked about her pain tolerance. I could tell that surgeon just did what would probably be his favorite surgery that year, he was so excited about it.
I had known my wife had a high pain tolerance, but that hammered home just how seriously I need to take when she doesn't feel good, lol.
hacks off limb
Wife: You should go to the ER.
Me: Nah, it'll grow back.
Damn lizard people not even bothering to hide it anymore, smh.
Synchronicity. I was have a conversation today with someone who’d been a nurse in rural NSW. Who was saying that they knew shit was about to hit the fan when a farmer rocked up on his own in AED.
@dglaucomflecken on YouTube /tiktok has some great bits on rural med. You can tell his rotations must have hit hard.
Err... What's an AED over there? Over here that stands for automated external defibrillator.
Accident and Emergency Department
As a former husband who got talked into going - more than once, can confirm.
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