https://nitter.net/Peds_Ortho/status/1555888147992641536?t=EO3725veWbo51zaJPstwAQ&s=19

  • conductor [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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      2 years ago

      Isn’t the answer “spend $100 a month going to a legitimate physical therapist”?'

      this is america pal add some zeroes to that number :yea:

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      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.