General Discussion

if u dont think there r already long waits for healthcare here, think again.
i’ve been in a long running bullshit trip through the medical industrial complex that already nearly killed me. even w an er referral, it was a month long wait to see a doc. i had to wait 2 months for badly needed colonoscopy. got rescheduled several times, for reasons that shd have been a clue to the problem, but wasnt. ended up taking 6 mos.
when they finally decided it wasnt in my head, that i needed surgery, the wait was 2 mos. ended up being emergency surgery, in the middle of the night, w no prep.

several issues showed up on cts that i wd have thought were red flags requiring attention. but no. been trying to get those issues checked out b4 follow up surgery. next available appt? october. w a poorly rated family doc. w an internist? december. and boy howdy do i hate the next available doc. either the worst in the system, or wet behind the ears.

the system that i was in lost a ton of docs during the plague. every 1 i saw after was under 40.
ended up in the best hospital in the city. almost all the nurses had less than 2 yrs in. the er nurses were better, but the only grey hair i saw on the floor was a bitter, nasty woman who should have retired.
want to stress this is 1 of the top rated hospitals in the country.

so what happens now? already short. if u were an immigrant, wd u risk coming here?
this is in chgo, w a huge concentration of great hospitals and docs. good luck red states.