Yeah, I cannot say whether or not you would have died, just that witnesses are very educated about their options.
A lot of the time though, a doctor will push a blood transfusion to get more money out of the patient, just like they will push drugs patients don't need. You may have been misinformed, or your doctor may have genuinely believed you needed blood. There is really no way to know.
[A user points out why this is not the case.]
It's been my experience that the healthcare system(in general, at least in the USA, doctors included) is extremely corrupt. And yes, it is intentionally disrespectful because I believe those specific doctors have undermined their own honor.
That part about them pushing it onto you is absolutely not representative of my religion, just my personal experience.
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Never mind, you're among The Generation Of 1914 That Will Never Die..
..because they would "Stay Alive to '75".
"Yeah, I cannot say whether or not you would have died, just that witnesses are very educated about their options."
inferior - to know of the National Health Service here in the UK; no 'medical insurance' required, as it's paid for via direct taxation.
"A lot of the time though, a doctor will push a blood transfusion to get more money out of the patient, just like they will push drugs patients don't need."
See above. Your argument is invalid.
Moral: Seems the only pushing - private medicine - is by the likes of you . But at least - via your Americentricism, and therefore your inferiority - you're admitting that Universal Healthcare, as in our NHS, isn't corrupt. So whatever you're trying to say Sinful, as per that other user, it simply isn't the case. A case of Auto-argument Annihilation, or what?!
Any doctor pushing a blood transfusion or drugs onto patients who don't need them is liable for malpractice. At any rate, if I were to need a transfusion, I'm glad I don't belong to a wacko religion which forbids it.
My mother has low platelets, and received blood transfusion 4 times last year. They saved her life.
Shut up and die, you fucker.
In Sweden you do know. A doctor's appointment costs about USD 45, a specialist doctor costs a bit more. Blood samples and other tests costs nothing; they're included in the doctor's fee. If you need a lot of drugs, so you reach the "ceiling" of USD 325, all drugs after that is free that year. When they evaluated me for epilepsy, I had two doctor's appointments, some blood tests, two EEG's, one cat scan and one MRI scan. It cost me a total of 90 dollars. That's socialized medicine, for ya.
The reason your healthcare system is corrupt, is probably that you have mixed in insurance companies, whose only purpose is to get rich. Doctors mostly become doctors because they want to cure people.
@Swede
Insurance companies per se are not necessarily the problem; plenty of countries (e.g. France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Australia) have socialized medicine with compulsory insurance schemes. The difference between this and the US is: 1) your insurance usually comes with your job, meaning a) that if you lose your job, you lose your insurance and b) that the insurance packages on offer might suit the employer better than the end user; 2) through the premiums they charge, insurance companies are able to absorb massive costs in healthcare (there are others involved besides doctors - drug companies with massive advertising budgets, equipment manufacturers, hospital managers etc.), generating a seller's market in healthcare, resulting in spiraling costs - if you want to pay less, you can't get a package with cheaper drugs or equipment but only with poorer healthcare; 3) if you've had healthcare in the US you'll know about arguing with the insurance company about the program of treatment you're already getting - for example, my fiancée's mother was threatened with being thrown out of convalescent care less than a week after a life-saving operation and a friend had to argue with her insurance company for 6 weeks over getting a hospital bed after she had her hip replaced. It's these things - insurance tied to employment, the seller's market in drugs and other healthcare provision, and companies unprepared to follow the prescribed course of treatment that are the problems and the ACA goes some way to fixing them.
Of course, just like fools who fall for exorbitantly overpriced homeopathics and other snake-oil, you fail to see that the people who have convinced you that the medical profession is all a scam are actually the ones who are trying to get rich off of you.
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