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 (DIR) Post #Apbpja8Wo8fP4hlrZw by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-12-31T15:43:50Z
       
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       @dr.andrealove Do the barriers to access to regular medical care contribute to this stuff thriving?If I can't get treatment covered, if it's expensive and beyond reach it would be comforting to think that it's not effective anyways. That I'm not taking a bargain basement alternative.The extreme expense and poor return on health outcomes for what people spend, often out of pocket in the US has helped to create this.And it might be why just showing why it's wrong isn't enough.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApcUkvKnZmL1EHGjeC by AriadneBlasterbolt@mastodon.social
       2024-12-31T23:23:27Z
       
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       @futurebirdEuropean countries with good safety nets also suffer from medical disinformation. Andrew Wakefield, for example, in Britain. Germany has a high rate of vaccine hesitancy, and there’s the pan-European fascination with fizzy water as a cure-all. There are people more knowledgeable than I about this subject, but truly accessible healthcare isn’t an immunization from quackery, though I bet it’s a fabulous harm reducer.
       
 (DIR) Post #Apj83bqfJLJlSPpoxs by janisf@mstdn.social
       2025-01-04T04:12:06Z
       
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       @futurebird @dr.andrealove I've been thinking about this exact question for too long.  The only conclusion-y thing I can arrive at is that a whole lot of doctors are just kind of bad, at making not-obvious connections, listening, kindness, staying current, being a healthy co-worker....  Patients can detect this.  GP's are science's front-end.  The good ones go to   better work environments (incl pay), and to *really* needy places e.g. Doctors Without Borders.US rural medicine is the bottom.