People are a lot more prone to self-diagnose and go the "natural" (BS) way when they suffer and do not have proper access to a good healthcare system. Take my situation now. I have a very bad sore throat infection (probably ulcer) and is so painful for the past 3-5 days. I can't even sleep now. Barely am able to eat or talk. I went to the hospital, I waited 30 minutes for the doctor to have a 10 seconds look and say that it is a virus that is causing this. She recommended me ibuprofen and sent me home. Still hurts, still have no idea what virus she is talking about.
Now I am very tempted to search this myself. So I did. You know....being in pain all night you use the Internet to see if you can find an answer for this....from my "research" this is a throat ulcer and can even be caused by the excessive use of ibuprofen (according to wikipedia). I used Ibuprofen a lot when I had fever while I was battling COVID these days. A throat ulcer is caused by many causes...there is also no treatment although at least there could be some painkillers available...
But my point is that I should not use the internet to self-diagnose. However when the doctors do not give you enough attention and explain things to you, so that you understand, plus when they do not give you any solution, then it us inevitable that people will try to find a sort of solution for themselves, even if it is an "emotional" (comforting) one.
I get faster support and more detailed for my servers...and Spain has one of the best healthcare systems in the world....yet it is still a primitive system compared to what we could do today, as a species.
But no...the humans are busy selling shit instead of creating a smart and helpful society.... #ItsAllAboutThatTrade IAATT
Airton
in reply to Tio • •Doctors are still normal humans of this society, so they try to just treat symptoms, we dont have access to easily use the technology that would tell us the cause of the symptoms.
For example, I recently found out that I have celiac disease, or at least gluten intolerance. Now I have been having symptoms of that since I was a small kid, and I went to many doctors while growing up, but they would always just prescribe some drugs for the symptoms, never look for the cause, I feel like they only look more into it if you are dying or something.
But anyways, I had to find out by myself that I had this disease, after the symptoms were getting really bad, and I would go to doctors and they would say "theres nothing wrong with you, its probably just anxiety". Now that I started actually treating it my symptoms got a lot better, but I will still have to deal with some of them for who knows how long, since I have been eating gluten stuff daily for almost my whole life.
Tio
in reply to Airton • •Yeah or when you bleed...bleeding is always triggering them it seems. On one had I understand that they need standard procedures to cope with a large population, but I think that we should develop smarted systems, many remote, so that humans are able to get to talk to a doctor whenever they need one. Even a chat-support is useful when done right.
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Urusan
in reply to Tio • • •You should consider taking paracetamol instead of ibuprofen.
Your doctor doesn't actually know that you have a virus unless they did a lab test. You've been sent home for monitoring, which is almost certainly the right call, but you're the one doing the monitoring and it sounds like they didn't make that clear.
Ibuprofen can worsen some conditions you could have, and paracetamol will reduce your pain too, so it's better in this case.
Urusan
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