tim | (Reply)

From:

And even with single-payer, there's still going to be people who look like "stupid people" because they can't get help within the medical system, but for whom the medical system is actually the source of the problem. Doctors know this and even exploit it, like my doctor firing me because he put someone else's notes in my file and couldn't admit to failure for fear of litigation. Even if we removed the fear of litigation, I bet we'd still find that a lot of people who choose to be doctors also don't feel very much like admitting when they're wrong. So I'm the stupid person for not taking drugs I need, and that's how I'll look to my next doctor when I explain to him that I've been off them for months, because my previous doctor abandoned me. And that's how doctors want it, and that's how the medical system wants it.

At least with homeopathy I might have felt cared-for and supported through this difficult time, or whatever.