For your consideration ...
Blame this on free British Health Care, but in fact this could happen anywhere.
Health Care aint what it used to be.
Call your doctor here in America tomorrow, and the first thing you will hear is If this is an emergency go to the ER. Then you start listening to the menu --perhaps telling you to push 1 for English, but in any case ---the menu. If you finally get a person, that person may not even be in the Doctors office, but part of an answering service run by Medstar or some other bunch. They may tell you the first appointment is in a week. They really do not give a flying crap that you are hurting now and need a Doctor. The Doctor will see you in a week and if you want car go to Urgent care, then come back for that weekly appointment and tell the Doctor what Urgent care decided.
They want to be your primary, but in effect Urgent Care is your primary and this guy or girl just sits back for regular appointments and rakes in the gravy . Or else they make sure you get to see every Doctor in their group as they send you from one to the other. I am totally not sold that our health system is any better than anyone else's, even though it is a helluva lot more expensive.
Which it is why everyone should be, or start, eating, as much as possible, an all natural diet. With lots of natural fats such as animal fats, real butter, oily fish like sardines, real cold pressed olive oil, avocados. And to avoid like the plague any and all processed foods, refined carbohydrates and sugars. The human body's preferred source of energy is fats. Fats keep blood sugars low while providing the energy for the body to function. While refined carbohydrates and sugars spike blood sugar levels that necessitate the pancreas to excrete enzymes, insulin, to move the sugar out of the blood and into fat cells. And then after a while of bad eating, people develop insulin resistance, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and a whole host of other inflammatory problems.
"Health care" is an individual responsibility. Medical care, or medial insurance, or the need for medical intervention, is something entirely different.
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