I'm so glad I live in Australia when it comes to the health system. The doctors just say 'here, go and have this treatment', and that's all there is to it - I never really think about the cost of the treatments. I forget that the US medical situation is different and that you have insurance and costs to think about. We do have private health insurance as well which means you can have a doctor of your choice in the hospital of your choice and often get seen quicker if you're a non-urgent case, but that's on top of a public system which costs nothing for citizens.
You do have to be assertive with doctors, though. My youngest had horrid sores on her toes - it looked like her toes had been dipped in hot water. I went to three doctors who all told me they were infected mozzie bites and nothing to worry about before I found one who listened to me rant then asked me, 'What do you think they are?' I told him I thought they were school sores, and he said that's exactly what they were. By that time, the child needed two courses of antibiotics to heal them because they'd gotten so inflamed. Should have asserted myself sooner.
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:00 pm (UTC)You do have to be assertive with doctors, though. My youngest had horrid sores on her toes - it looked like her toes had been dipped in hot water. I went to three doctors who all told me they were infected mozzie bites and nothing to worry about before I found one who listened to me rant then asked me, 'What do you think they are?' I told him I thought they were school sores, and he said that's exactly what they were. By that time, the child needed two courses of antibiotics to heal them because they'd gotten so inflamed. Should have asserted myself sooner.
Ah,guilt. The mother's constant companion.