ever since :amber: said that thing about how TCM being allowed/encouraged to persist because Mao realized in the immediate aftermath of the revolution, the infrastructure for public healthcare was nowhere near what it needed to be, so traditional/folk medicine was allowed/encouraged to became formalized and act as a bridge to modern medicine..... that interpretation has made me evaluate medical treatment in the west as very much a product of material reality and material conditions among those seeking treatment.
there is so much woo snake oil bullshit in the US and you can't tell me it's unrelated to how flat out inaccessible or otherwise troubled access is to quality healthcare. the "satisfaction" model of consumer-driven healthcare is absolutely a driver in this shit, whether it's people interpreting their satisfaction with woo shit (over the urgent care, over worked doc-in-a-box telling you to take an aleve and charging you $100) as proving its efficacy, or the eagerness that health providers/insurance companies have in prescribing opioids for pain as that's more profitable than physiotherapy.
like, you got in a car accident and jacked your back up. do you want to spend $100 a month to get strung out on oxys and be unable to work, or do you want to spend $100 a month on the local crank to talk to your bone ghosts and make you feel special. it's a shit deal, but at least the bone ghost guy isn't giving you poison that makes you fall asleep and piss yourself during your daughter's recital.
like, you got in a car accident and jacked your back up. do you want to spend $100 a month to get strung out on oxys and be unable to work, or do you want to spend $100 a month on the local crank to talk to your bone ghosts and make you feel special. it’s a shit deal, but at least the bone ghost guy isn’t giving you poison that makes you fall asleep and piss yourself during your daughter’s recital.
Isn't the answer "spend $100 a month going to a legitimate physical therapist"?
This isn't some either-or choice of get addicted to opiates vs. give money to a quack. There's the third-choice, real physical therapy.
definitely. it's not even a surprise anymore when a doctor recommends a course of treatment that is expensive (physiotherapy) that insurance defaults to rejecting it and it becomes a fight, during which time the patient is receiving no treatment or gambling that the insurer will reimburse them. because the provider is going to want to be paid immediately.
you're imagining someone who knows better, as opposed to a random american subjected to a shitty education and only aware of what is available based on advertising.
ever since :amber: said that thing about how TCM being allowed/encouraged to persist because Mao realized in the immediate aftermath of the revolution, the infrastructure for public healthcare was nowhere near what it needed to be, so traditional/folk medicine was allowed/encouraged to became formalized and act as a bridge to modern medicine..... that interpretation has made me evaluate medical treatment in the west as very much a product of material reality and material conditions among those seeking treatment.
there is so much woo snake oil bullshit in the US and you can't tell me it's unrelated to how flat out inaccessible or otherwise troubled access is to quality healthcare. the "satisfaction" model of consumer-driven healthcare is absolutely a driver in this shit, whether it's people interpreting their satisfaction with woo shit (over the urgent care, over worked doc-in-a-box telling you to take an aleve and charging you $100) as proving its efficacy, or the eagerness that health providers/insurance companies have in prescribing opioids for pain as that's more profitable than physiotherapy.
like, you got in a car accident and jacked your back up. do you want to spend $100 a month to get strung out on oxys and be unable to work, or do you want to spend $100 a month on the local crank to talk to your bone ghosts and make you feel special. it's a shit deal, but at least the bone ghost guy isn't giving you poison that makes you fall asleep and piss yourself during your daughter's recital.
Amber.
Turner classic movies?
I think they mean traditional Chinese medicine
Ooooooohhhhh :cat-trans:
Isn't the answer "spend $100 a month going to a legitimate physical therapist"?
This isn't some either-or choice of get addicted to opiates vs. give money to a quack. There's the third-choice, real physical therapy.
this is america pal add some zeroes to that number :yea:
In some places you have to get a referral first or the insurance won't cover it, in which case your on the hook for hundreds to thousands of dollars.
definitely. it's not even a surprise anymore when a doctor recommends a course of treatment that is expensive (physiotherapy) that insurance defaults to rejecting it and it becomes a fight, during which time the patient is receiving no treatment or gambling that the insurer will reimburse them. because the provider is going to want to be paid immediately.
you're imagining someone who knows better, as opposed to a random american subjected to a shitty education and only aware of what is available based on advertising.
press any key to run the model again.
GOOD take