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I don't know about "vast conspiracy" and as a techie, I fully support testing in order to diagnose and repair. However I just believe that the incentives are perverse and not improving, and it's begetting corruption. Doctors do not order tests out of personal concern for patient's well-being to start healing them; doctors are mandated top-down to tick boxes on a checklist and improve customer engagement. As a techie, I also recognize how teched-up they are, and question why they need all that. I was shoved into a giant MRI and went through the whole theatrical adventure, and guess what - nobody touched that report. Nobody would read it, nobody would tell me what it meant, nobody would use it for treatment. It was hilarious. So glad it wasn't my pocketbook that time. And I had a real concern, not just a suspicion; my shoulder was bad, and fractures had already been ruled-out by a good old X-ray. High-tech is able to supplant "safe, inexpensive and effective" by virtue of profit margins, patents, marketing, and customer perception. I've been honestly rather shocked once in a while, to see a nurse wearing a stethoscope, or checking BP by sphig. I mean, do you realize how much of a fortune those guys are making by selling adhesive nasal strips, after we all developed a huge concern for apnea? What's that line about the American Space Pen and the Russian pencil??? |
I don't order server rebuilds because out of personal concerns for a companies well-being. WTF kind of standard is this. Maybe if we had 10x as many doctors we could afford some personalism with our healthcare workers.
>High-tech is able to supplant "safe, inexpensive and effective" by virtue of profit margins, patents, marketing, and customer perception.
No, again, 40 years ago, you just would have died of your ailment, or had life long suffering. With increased insurance coverage along with increased treatment offerings more people want and are willing to get what affects them diagnosed. Meanwhile we've not increased the number of healthcare workers at the same rate, and increasing with individual workers is very difficult and expensive.
Honestly your post history is concerning. It appears everything is a vast conspiracy against you.