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lostnfound

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5. Yes, incredibly helpful. Getting an actual doctor to focus on your actual problems is absurdly difficult.

Reply to cally (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 04:26 PM

Nov 5

About half of the people I know have had some disaster at the hands of doctors. You don’t get to see a doctor; you see a PA. You get prescribed a medicine that’s causing a list of side effects. Doctor prescribing too much of a med that led to a coma.
Nearly everyone woman over the age of 40 has horror stories.
Cardiologist mocking a woman for thinking that two thinks were correlated when they were in fact correlated.
Don’t worry your pretty little head.
You’re too young for (fill in the blank).
Specialist? The wait to see any of our doctors for that is 18 months..

Count me currently uninsured, also.

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I found ChatGPT extremely useful when I broke my wrist cally Nov 5 #4

Yes, incredibly helpful. Getting an actual doctor to focus on your actual problems is absurdly difficult. lostnfound Nov 5 #5