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How far do you go with DIY medicine? Do you run to the doctor if you have so much as a sniffle, or do you try to take on serious medical issues yourself (using veterinary medicine, DIY sutures, DIY dermatology & dentistry, etc)?
I mean actually TREATING yourself medically, not putting off treatment!!
I tend to want to go to doctors, but a lot of times I don't have a ride or my parents won't take me because it's too expensive. I only want to go to doctors for illnesses like infections or stuff like that, though.
When it comes to things like cuts and scrapes a dab of glue will do you fine.
I'd always run straight to a doctor. In the US, I believe healthcare can be very expensive indeed, so if I lived there I might give DIY a chance for minor problems, but as UK citizens get healthcare here via taxes, I would always go straight to a doctor because I wouldn't be left out of pocket.
In the US, there's no free healthcare. Allot of people don't have insurance and those that do have to pay shitloads for it. You'd think that for all the money you'd pay, that insurance would pay for everything, but it doesn't.
So, most people can't go to the doctor even for serious issues. Then, the law discriminates against gay people and other groups. The system is seriously fucked!
I recently went to England and I had to go to the hospital. Even though I'm not a
citizen, they still didn't make me pay! That's how a government should be run. A place where they care about the interests of the people. You're lucky to be a Brit. I'm ashamed of america on so many levels. It's gotten to the point where I've decided to give up my citizenship.
Interesting theory. But I'd rather have an over-used system than an under-used one.
In an over-used system, people visit a doctor when they don't need it, and are turned away if their symptoms are so minor they don't need treatment. In an under-used system, people suffer or possibly die because they can't afford medical care.
Not very much money though. It only takes 30 seconds to say to someone with a common cold that they should just go home and rest. If doctors were paid on a case-by-case basis it would be different, but they are instead paid by the hour, so actual cost in terms of wages doesn't really rise.
That is true, but for whatever reason this isn't really a major problem. Whenever this happens then staff can call the police, but it is normally only drunk "patients" that cause problems.