Health & Wellness Best Posts in Thread: Antibiotics

Probably. But I mean to inform other people of the bad service - it is a risk here with laws not consumer oriented.

Also, do people have an equal chance in law here (I know this applies everywhere, but seems especially bad here)? This seems to me to be very much a country of connections (family, school, college, clubs, 'donations'). That, I assume, is the basis of corruption.

 

Some people do take legal action but the justice system here is so slow and sometimes flawed that people eventually get tired and move on with their lives and forget.

 

I know someone who had similar treatments in Dumaguete and Cebu - Cebu won outright on costs.

 

johns hopkins did a study released in i believe 2015 with the conclusion that medical system errors was the third leading cause of death in the US, at about 250,000 lives a year. subsequent evaluations peg it at that or more, up to 440,000 a year. after spending fifty years of my life in US healthcare both as a caregiver and as an administrator, this is not a statistic i would challenge.

deciding when to go to the doctor is a big decision, esp if you have children. i always suggest to people that the first opinion about what is wrong should be their own. the second opinion should come from the first doctor they see. if any recommended course involves surgery or other risky tx, then get a second(actually third) opinion.

you are spot on!!

 

Sniffles and tummy ache vs. terminal illness? I agree with eskirvin on this case. Injuries & STDs aside , and you're not a child, you know when you have something new. Then see a doctor. I can't recall the last time I went to a doctor other than to get stitches.

 

I can see your point but it is simply not true for many people - these are the ones who really are ill and no amount of 'home treatment' (been through this saga already in another thread!) will be suitable.

I don't think it is rational to expect everyone to be taught how to decide for sure when to visit the doctor - only when NOT to visit in some cases. If everyone could self-diagnose successfully, we would have a very intelligent and medically qualified World.

I read of too many cases where a terminal patient 'left it too long' to ever accept the idea of home treatment in many cases.

 

Some say you're not sick until you go to the doctor. Perhaps the entire healthcare industry could benefit, drug resistance and all, by people just fighting off illness on their own. Some people go to the doctor if they sneeze or if little Billy has a tummy ache. Most people in America have to take "Life Sciences" during their middle school years. It seems like a wonderful time to teach people a lesson on when to go to the doctor.

 

I think there might have been an over rotation in the US, where you could never get antibiotics without a prescription. I had some kind of intestinal issue and the doctor wanted to culture the diarrhea and refer me a to a GI doctor before prescribing antibiotics. $10 versus $500, not to mention doctor costs, I'll take my risk with bacterial resistance. Turns out I had some cipro from a previous trip to the Philippines that take care of things. : )