Wish We Could Demand Better...
I am pretty sick and tired of hearing about all the gaslighting going on with the medical industry. Too often and generally, I hear about how almost ANY health complaint is being blown off as anxiety. This has literally people killed and they still do it too often. When it comes to Hashimoto's Disease and most other autoimmune diseases that are multifaceted since so many bodily systems are being affected, then this becomes especially frustrating. Why? Because autoimmune diseases are short of a cure and even in too many cases, people don't experience reliable treatment. Too many PEOPLE ARE MISERABLE and lost about how to approach their own health. When doctors fail to treat someone who's struggling, but also fail to ask the critical and proactive questions to seek out a solution...AND I MEAN TRULY SEEK OUT A SOLUTION then what do we have?
We end up with "authorities in medicine" that still have no solutions while also attacking and attempting to debunk alternative medicine as having credibility, which turns something very serious into a political screaming match, instead of focusing on the end goal..THE PATIENT'S WELLNESS. That's more important than who gets the damn credit and the damn pettiness/ animosity each camp has for the other! Obviously conventional medicine has been winning the political side of things because other industries are affected. Because of this, insurance doesn't cover alternative medicine, alternative medicine hardly gets a seat at the table when it comes to government policies, plus the overall culture ends up trusting the "medical authority" blindly instead of holding this same damn authority accountable to fact that they have NOT PRODUCED RESULTS. What are they doing other than consistently taking our money? Do they have deadlines so we know they are at least trying to advance things? Is there breakthrough knowledge being shared across the industry so that all doctors and patients have access and awareness about it? Short answer, no. Long answer, it's conveniently too damn complicated and needs to be simplified.
LOOK, maybe alternative medicine doesn't have all the answers and maybe even they are wrong about some things. I think it is fair to be critical. But more times that not, I see alternative medicine as the camp that seems to be TRYING TO SOLVE this with less resources. Why aren't we equally as critical of conventional medicine? They both deserve scrutiny because sick people needs cures and results from treatments.
I am just sick of being gaslit by my doctor, multiple endos, my ENT specialist, etc. in the conventional space and how they won't step up to help, but won't get out the damn way so we can help ourselves at least. I am also sick of alternative medicine not being able to easily acquire access to the resources they need, because conventional medicine is a monopoly and again wants to play their politics to maintain it. It's almost like, the system isn't meant to help us and they don't want us to get better. Why else is EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING short of being what people need? Or WHERE ARE THE SERIOUS TRANSPARENT GOODWILL ATTEMPTS TO FIX THINGS AT THE VERY LEAST?!
Every time I see a post on here complaining about neglect from their doctor, doesn't matter what corner of the country it is.....it's a systemic issue..and I'm about fed up to the point of starting a movement. If we're going to be charged up the ass for our healthcare, we should see SOME DAMN RESULTS or at least honest attempts to try.