Over the past two months I’ve been struggling with a couple of medical issues. Neither issue is serious. These are issues that in the past were resolved quickly. Not anymore. It took weeks to figure what the cause was of one of my issues, and I had to do that myself.
I remember in the good old days, if you had issues that were at the level of issues I was experiencing they would check you into the hospital for a couple of days. There they would run a lot of tests and consult specialists. A diagnosis usually came quick along with the treatments.
Today it is much harder to get admitted to the hospital. At the Emergency Room they run you through a standard battery of tests. If the results are not life threatening they send you home, even if you are in bad shape.
Instead of a quick diagnosis and treatment you are given referrals to specialists on an outpatient basis. The waiting time to get to see a specialist for the first time is usually several weeks. It usually takes a couple of visits with a specialist to get a diagnosis and treatment pinned down. If you are suffering like I was, that delay can seem like an eternity.
One condition I am suffering from is painful. In the good old days, they prescribed a pain medication that actually worked. Thanks to war on opiates, the vast majority of pain medications they prescribe now don’t really work and have a long list of side effects. I have been informed by more than one doctor that the reason they no longer prescribe opiate pain medications to patients that need them is because if they did, they would be arrested.
The opiate crisis was not caused by patients that really needed opiate pain medication. It was caused by open borders and an abundant supply of illegal narcotics. Politicians panicked. They stepped in between doctors and patients. Now patients are suffering,
Thankfully I am on the mend. The pain I’m suffering with now can be treated with over-the-counter pain medications. I feal sorry for all of the countless individuals that are suffering and cannot get the pain medication they need.
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