Doctors are self serving

 In the USA. the medical profession is a capitalist, profit motivated, institution.  The care of the patients is not paramount.  PROFIT is the motive.

In 2014, I had a medical "emergency."  I noticed that my intestine was "poking out" through my intestinal wall on the right side of my body.  I needed hernia surgery.

Presumably, since my insurance was "Obama Care," I was given a surgery date that was 2.5 - 3 months in the future..  Because of economic considerations I would have to wait over TWO MONTHS for a life saving surgery.

Fearing the worst, I invented a plan.

I told my "Doctor" that I was in intense pain and needed relief.  I did this with the conscious intent of "remaining motionless" for three months.

So, I got a prescription and took it "religiously" for two months.  For two months, I laid on my bed and watched DVD movies to preserve my health in an emergency, being heavily sedated on prescription pain killers.  Without this "help," I would not have survived.  My intestine was "poking out" from my intestinal wall the entire time.  If it had become "twisted," it would have been a life threatening emergency.  Nobody in the medical profession was the least bit concerned.  My "medical emergency" was just an "economic investment."

Eventually, I had the surgery and I recovered.

The surgery was successful.  Curiously, I had an extreme reaction to the anesthesia and for 36 hours, and was vomiting profusely.  After THAT miserable experience, I felt no pain, and was healed miraculously.

However, capitalist economic market forces kept me waiting for TWO AND A HALF MONTHS for a life saving surgery.  Only my clever, drug induced catatonia, kept me alive during that wait.

The Medical Profession in USA America is corrupt and violates the Hippocratic Oath.

TRUTH.

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William Schaeffer