The missing link in American medicine?

Since I have had no contact with American medicine since I retired 20 years ago, I have posted this: would this attitude, that doctors should be healers, not SJW, and learn compassion on a person to person basis, help the problems I read about in medicine in the USA?

and could you see how such an attitude could help the clueless bioethicists who are not recognizing this aspect of being a human would go against the present bioethicists who proclaim we should use helpless handicapped humans as a resource to help the powerful, not as our brothers and sisters who should be cared for?

By the way; here, in the local private hospital where our relatives work and where we get our medical care (e.g. when I had dengue or Joy needed surgery), the family stays with the patient and they will send  meals for the family. Even during Covid, when isoltion rules meant no visitors, when Joy's father was in ICU in a coma, they allowed a relative to stay with him.

First class medicine is available in Manila, and these resources are moving up to the rural areas. Our mayor is trying to upgrade our rural public hospital but right now is short of 24 hours ER coverage, so you might have to go to a private hospital or to the public (free) hospital in the next town.... And if you need admission for specialized care (either private or public) you have to to the big town 10 miles away. 

the other thing not mentioned: A lot of the doctors and midwives are underpaid so expect a gift...

Covid sort of destroyed what was being done in the past: the city had started giving out free rabies shots and medicine for the elderly, but now often I am asked for the ten dollars to pay for the rabies shots if there has been a dog bite. 

There will be free shots for dogs in the poorer neighborhood, my maid tells me, but there are a lot of street dogs so the risk remains.'

one more thing: No, medicaid does not pay for my care here. I do have PhilHealth but the rest if out of pocket payment. But the expenses are cheaper than in the USA, even in our Manila hospitals. 

 

hu6 mainstream medicine is embracing hallucinogens and new age techniques yet the comfort of a believer praying has been ignored. What is described is basic Catholic comfort care.