A month or so ago I went to an appointment with my pregnant wife and the nurse asked if we had any questions. I don't remember what we asked but the doctor took longer than usual to come in and had a print out from Web MD to answer the question and didn't even explain it herself...
My wife also had gestational diabetes with our first 2 children and with the second one, they tested her and gave her a negative on the results 3 times. We went to the emergency room for high heart rate and low blood pressure and a nurse looking at her recent history informed the attending doctor that my wife in fact tested positive for gestational diabetes and they told my wife wrong. The doctor told us it was because the results are color coded and this lab color codes differently... they didn't even look at the test results, just the color, and it took a nurse to get it right.
We asked a doctor about it for this baby we're having now and he danced around like you wouldn't believe stumbling over an unintelligible explanation to defend his place of work.
Don't even get me started on the scam of our medical system, you hit the nail on the head. Insurance only works and is affordable if you don't expect to use it or as a partial insurance against the expected (Dental insurance is somewhere in this zone). Our medical insurance scam of a system is a subscription with extra costs and no real competition. No upside to a normal subscription model, just the costs of a price-gauged subscription and all the mess of socialized medicine. It's better than Canada or the UK, but mostly in geographical pockets and even then, not what it could be with a kore capitalistic appeoach instead of a medical oligarchy doing business by fraid and scamming. And no one wants to admit it,0 but most ER visits are no different than state-run, socialized medicine. If you really need an ER, there's a good chance you don't have time to make a choice. They know this so you usually get poor treatment.
Preach it brother. if we were so shitty at our jobs as to blame their bad diagnosis on a color coding system and the double down on their shitty work rather instead of saying...."ok I fucked up, maybe I should actually try to use my education to figure out their problem."
Especially since you have actual past history with this issue on 2 other pregnancies. I was a SIDS baby and a premie and I needed on a monitor to sound an alarm if I stopped breathing. My family has had multiple SIDS deaths. They didn't want to give it to my parents. It took getting aggressive with them in the way a mama bear can to even set it up.
Point is we have to step in like you did in your situation. It is literally our one main drive a species to protect our kids and reproduce. It's sad some people would rather cuck to the jab or mask then to stand up for their children just because they are weak.
A month or so ago I went to an appointment with my pregnant wife and the nurse asked if we had any questions. I don't remember what we asked but the doctor took longer than usual to come in and had a print out from Web MD to answer the question and didn't even explain it herself...
My wife also had gestational diabetes with our first 2 children and with the second one, they tested her and gave her a negative on the results 3 times. We went to the emergency room for high heart rate and low blood pressure and a nurse looking at her recent history informed the attending doctor that my wife in fact tested positive for gestational diabetes and they told my wife wrong. The doctor told us it was because the results are color coded and this lab color codes differently... they didn't even look at the test results, just the color, and it took a nurse to get it right.
We asked a doctor about it for this baby we're having now and he danced around like you wouldn't believe stumbling over an unintelligible explanation to defend his place of work.
Don't even get me started on the scam of our medical system, you hit the nail on the head. Insurance only works and is affordable if you don't expect to use it or as a partial insurance against the expected (Dental insurance is somewhere in this zone). Our medical insurance scam of a system is a subscription with extra costs and no real competition. No upside to a normal subscription model, just the costs of a price-gauged subscription and all the mess of socialized medicine. It's better than Canada or the UK, but mostly in geographical pockets and even then, not what it could be with a kore capitalistic appeoach instead of a medical oligarchy doing business by fraid and scamming. And no one wants to admit it,0 but most ER visits are no different than state-run, socialized medicine. If you really need an ER, there's a good chance you don't have time to make a choice. They know this so you usually get poor treatment.
Preach it brother. if we were so shitty at our jobs as to blame their bad diagnosis on a color coding system and the double down on their shitty work rather instead of saying...."ok I fucked up, maybe I should actually try to use my education to figure out their problem."
Especially since you have actual past history with this issue on 2 other pregnancies. I was a SIDS baby and a premie and I needed on a monitor to sound an alarm if I stopped breathing. My family has had multiple SIDS deaths. They didn't want to give it to my parents. It took getting aggressive with them in the way a mama bear can to even set it up.
Point is we have to step in like you did in your situation. It is literally our one main drive a species to protect our kids and reproduce. It's sad some people would rather cuck to the jab or mask then to stand up for their children just because they are weak.