Medical Professionals Debunk 39 Health Myths They Wish You’d Stop Believing

I think most people understand that it's the system and not the providers. But you can't yell at the system. Sorry, docs.

Yeah that happened yesterday https://apnews.com/article/united-healthcare-ceo-new-york-shooting-brian-thompson-8a130e64bcab749d1a085f5a34ab8254

Yes, "socialised healthcare" and "socialism" are very effective boogeyman to scare ordinary Americans into not accepting free or subsidised healthcare,when it is common in many countries around the world, even in some developing countries. Strange that the US doesn't have this when it is the richest country in the world. I guess its military-industrial complex is the strongest lobby in the US and consequently has the biggest share of the budget.

We created our healthcare system as a capitalist enterprise where your employer wants the cheapest healthcare premium, the employee wants the cheapest premium, the doctor wants the highest payment with the least amount of work required, the pharmaceutical company wants the highest payment on the cheapest dr*g, the insurance company wants to pay the lowest price to keep the employer signed up for the cheapest plan, and we (as the patient) get mad because the system sucks. Hmmm. Ya think?

It was doctors who told my mother she was exaggerating her symptoms and they were all weight related for years. It was doctors who literally laughed and said it couldnt be that painful when she died literally the next day of esophageal cancer that they could have found years earlier. It was a doctor who mixed my file up with someone else who was a different race and much older than me, resulting in me being prescribed medication that killed my pancreas and rendered me diabetic for life. Doctors who spend 10 minutes not listening to anything I say and walk out instead of actually caring. Good doctors are rare these days.

Organ donors get a chance at life after death (well part of them anyway)

I donated blood for many years, for which I am now doubly grateful. I've needed transfusions recently, and I'm thrilled that the blood is there for me. I'm still in the black. Please give blood, people. I found it more satisfying than giving money to charities.

My philosophy is that if there is something I can't use anymore, it makes sense to give it to someone who can, whether that's a coat while alive or an organ after I'm dead.

I've been a donor since I got my driver's license. However, I'm starting to wonder if any of my poor old organs would be worth taking.

My father is 95. He fell week and half ago. He. Broke his hip. He had surgery to fix it. Before that he was doing ok for his health. Since he fell he took and took a turn for the worst. He will be more than likely be ln hospice care until he dies.

Love means knowing when it's time to let go, when there is no quality of life, not preserving life at all costs because you 'can't bear' to lose the person who is suffering.

I would get a DNR tattoo, just to be sure, if it worked.

We're kinder to our pets, aren't we?

There are so many interventions that weren't available even 20 years ago. Using them on a person who is frail and very elderly is obscene. Had nature i.e. God, been in control, many of these people would have passed many years prior. Just because someone is moving air through their lungs and there is a heart beat, doesn't mean they are living a life worth living. I have made everything about my wishes knows in a Health Care Plan and have a Health Care Power of Attorney - my son and his wife who is a PA.

How is this still not common knowledge?

I've noticed that with mental health medications, especially in Germany, where the tendency is to medicate as little as possible and to use natural treatments. As soon as you feel better on your antidepressants, they tend to wean you off and encourage you to handle it just with exercise, therapy, etc. Then they wonder why you have a setback. You can say about the American health system what you want, but all the doctors I've encountered there took mental health more seriously and kept patients on maintenance medications as needed. Telling a chronically depressed person to get off their medications because they're better is like telling a diabetic to get off their insulin because their blood sugar is finally under control.

But. Don't get antibiotics for colds and flus. They. Don't. Work. And taking them unnecessarily can cause as much harm as not completing a course! When a doc says they're needed, take them. Only stop once course is completed or a doctor or healthcare provider says so. And don't keep leftovers and give them out w***y nilly if someone you know is ill. Antibiotic resistance is very real. It's not US becoming resistant, it's the bacteria. Misuse of antibiotics creates bacteria on steroids.

They STILL show this in many shows. We should all know this by now, but idiot show writers keep writing it into the script. And it's harmful to do so.

A shock is kinda like turning the heart off then back on again (the heart is supposed to do the back on part), so shocking doesn't help if the heart is already "off".

My husband has had 9 heart attacks. A dr talked to him about his medical history, and if he has a cardiac arrest, did he want to be resuscitated. My husband said try once and if not successful, let him go. People need to be realistic.

We have defibrillators everywhere just in case someone needs it.

People are lazy.

Shame you have to Put up with that. They should be happy you're focused on your primary job, healthcare of their loved one

You are clearly not a doctor.

Those people were azzholes who were trying to take advantage of you. This is so wrong!

Not to mention....you can be allergic to some antibiotics but not others. I'm allergic to amoxicillin, so I tell doctors this, and they know to give me something different.

Old meditations should be returned to a pharmacy, to be taken care of properly. Never flush medication in the toilet or down the drain, and don’t put it in the garbage either.

Amoxicillin, take one pill every eight hours for five days for a total of fifteen. Each blister contains eight pills, so yes, there is always one left over

Am i the only one who thinks the lady in the picture is... unfortunately lined up with the plant in the background?

What does D***s mean ?