Got cellulitis, trying to understand how, everything I search for is either completely irrelevant or some shit like this where the results contradict each other, even under the tab of the exact same question
Of course this is just how trying to search almost fucking anything works now but it's been especially daunting when dealing with a health concern - same issue with a pet being sick, same issue with trying to look up stuff related to legal concerns, same issue with fucking everything that is more complicated than trying to find the address of a nearby location
Genuinely feels like we have regressed back to the point that there's no value in trying to use a search engine to find an answer, I can only get reliable results by calling a fucking hotline to talk to a professional
I was dealing with some muscle pain issues a while back and googled for advice on how to deal with it. All the top results were privately practicing physiotherapists singing the praises of bandages (that they also happened to sell). But then I went to a government-run health website with content written by healthcare professionals. That site said that there was no evidence that the bandages worked.
I hate the profit motive.
I don't understand why people who have any choice at all would choose go for-profit when public healthcare exists. In for-profit healthcare you are treated as a customer which the salesperson wishes to extract resources from.
People talk about how it's good if you can afford it but they don't consider how bad and self-serving the providers are incentived to be. In all kinds of ways.
I suspect that many people actually find for-profit solutions attractive due to their exclusionary nature. I'm not only paying to get my teeth fixed or my pain sorted out, I'm paying to feel better than the riffraff who can't afford these services.
The way things are set up, private healthcare also feels like it's better than public. And in some senses it is, like having much shorter waiting lists or being free from the fiscal and bureaucratic straitjackets imposed by neoliberalism. But I also think the priceyness of private healthcare in itself does a lot to increase perceived quality. You paid more for the premium version, so of course it's going to be better than the free version.