Literally way harder than any other country I've lived in. Nobody is taking new patients
It doesn't make sense because I thought everybody here tries to not go to the doctors as much as possible because of the costs
USA literally has a higher doctor per capita than all the other countries I've lived in too
What gives?
Yes but if the doctor doesn't know what to look for they'll either miss it or run a lot of tests for no reason. Or they could just do some quick general stuff like taking your blood pressure and weigh you but then again you don't need a doctor for that.
I'm not saying that they never find anything but overall checkups on healthy people are not a good use of limited healthcare resources.
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Prevention is good but you get better prevention by offering specific tests to people who are in one way or another in risk of getting something specific rather than a generalised checkup.
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Because there is only so many doctors and labs and machines.
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Annual blood work is good for this
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