I am SO about to lose all of my hair...= [

[TiffanyIsMajor 1]

I have just always had a skewed view that if you work with the public...then you are in the business of customer service...and if you DONT provide a satisfactory service then I should be able to without payment for any service until I am satisfied. I understand that YES she is a Dr, but I am not asking for a heart transplant or heroin, just the CORRECT thyroid dosage...

[KZol 0]

I am relatively recently obese, and have found that healthcare professionals have a whole different attitude toward me.....it's really sad.

[ouroborous 519]

Wow guys. I know this is the reality of health care in the US if you don't have insurance, but it's mad. I feel so sorry for those without insurance, it's just not fair. I also realise that the NHS here in the UK is not perfect, far from perfect in fact, but it's crazy to think that you have to do this to get treated for an obvious condition and that they demand payment. It's an eye-opener for sure and not one I woud want to battle. I hope Obama changes this system, if you need meds you should get them, no matter the cost. Good luck getting the meds Tiffany, I would do exactly the same as you.

LOL @ Tiffykins, I feel like this sometimes.

Michelle x

I have loved ones who have lived in Canada and the UK, and I have to say that anyone who says that "we have the best health care system in the world" here in the US is full of it. We have a lot of great docs, and we have access to all the most wonderful and expensive machines and devices. But for most "average people" who have to just put up with whatever their crummy insurance will provide for them, the situation is far from perfect.

My sister recently moved from Oregon to London and she RAVES about how great the NHS is.

Note: I don't mean to imply that our individual practitioners here in the US are unskilled -- far from it. But our system is broken, very very broken. It's sad that we should be relieved when we find someone who is willing to treat us like a human being and actually listen to our concerns, but that's how it rolls here -- in a system that's driven purely by profits, the patients have become, to many people, simply a commodity at best, and a nuisance at worst. The fact that we have real lives, real fears, and real questions never seems to factor into the equation.

If you got the impression that our broken, inhumane health care system here in the States makes me hopping mad, you're right. First in the world in costs, 37th in the world in patient outcome.

I'll shut up now because this is verging on politics (which is one of those conversational black holes).

[stcyt 15]

Tiffany!!!!! you go in 6 days!!!!!!!! Holy cow!!!!!!!

[TiffanyIsMajor 1]

I FREAKIN KNOW!!!!! I am like...pissing my pants excited = D

[stcyt 15]

Right behind you sister!!!