I have a medical condition with no cure, yet I still have to pay a doctor every 6 months to keep my prescription with no changes. Total racket.
Maybe you can find someone that'll do telehealth.
Visits to the doctor should be cheaper and more efficient, but people shouldn't stop going to the doctor.
I suspect the sentiment is from commonly interacting with absolutely useless doctors. There are a lot of them.
My professional contacts have told me I'm doing senior level work but nobody will respond even for positions below that.
Edit: sorry it was site https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi.... No idea how real it is.
By many measure: if you see a doctor, cross the street.
We don't and we shouldn't require everyone to be nannied just because some people might benefit - they can seek those services on their own if they wish. Requiring someone else's permission to maintain your personal health would be considered just as absurd if it weren't the status quo.
And, by the way, if you have an accountant, you should check in more than once a year. It's not fair to them to dump stuff only during tax time. Also, I do have to do regular tests to make sure my medical knowledge is up to date.
You have to qualify your statement with "if you have an accountant" because I don't have to have an accountant, it is an optional service I can seek if I want. In my case, I do my own taxes, and if I don't get as big a tax return as I could've back, it hurts nobody but me.
The requirement for you to do regular tasks for the privilege of practicing your profession is forced upon you because the the consequences of any lapse in your knowledge are borne by others, not you. I too have professional requirements, but I can choose a different profession and be absolved of all of them.
A chronic condition is not a choice. Dealing with your pain is not a privilege, it is a right. The idea that people should be forced to forego their right based on the idea that some others will benefit (a dubious claim for which I can find no evidence supporting) is absurd.
This is completely ridiculous, and yet my situation is downright reasonable compared to what a lot of people have to deal with.
Drive up to the border and walk across on a day trip to the pharmacy. I believe the first few miles into the country are a NAFTA special economic zone with very relaxed paperwork requirements.
https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...
This is probably illegal, but not enforced.
I’m insured so it’d actually be cheaper for me personally to go in to the doctor and ask for a prescription. But I got tired of taking time out of my day for this - these are just beta blockers for fuck’s sake.
And what guarantee do you have of their contents?
Nearly all of our (US) pharmaceuticals already come from India anyways. Manufactured there from Chinese bulk precursors.
I trust a third-party GC/MS plot way more than any brand slapped on a package.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography–mass_spec...
That seems extremely arduous.
The point is that you don't trust this specific supply chain/manufacturer, which is part of the approval process.
"India/China" is not some monolithic entity that is either good or bad, there are some manufacturers that you can trust, and some you cannot.
Quality control in drug manufacturing is what ensures that every single pill has the correct dose, and not some random batch accidentally having 100x the active drug you need - or 0.01%.
I should add that the same thing applies to glasses.