Somebody reset the "days since a burned out UK doctor dealt with the moral injury of their health care system teetering on the verge of complete collapse due to decades of fiscal starvation by deciding the real problem is disabled people are getting too much health care" sign
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Amanda Hu
Thinking a lot about the belief that humans are overwhelmingly mostly healthy and normal and that an increase in chronic illness diagnosis is due to overdiagnosis when it’s actually that chronic illness/disease is the norm and we’ve been not detecting most of it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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moral injury among doctors does seem apt - the NHS just isn't keeping up, and they seem to resent the private consults for diagnosis - the 90 minute ADHD consult is described like a charlatan giving a psychic reading.
or my autism that was diagnosed as something else when i was 8 because "girls aren't autistic"
Chronic illness has always existed, even if it wasn't seen
The option that we were massively underdiagnosing before just seems to excape these chucklefucks every single time
The US healthcare system is still almost entirely focused on acute illness despite the fact that we've known for decades -more than half of ppl in "acute care" facilities/hospitals have one or more chronic illnesses. Use of healthcare is not overuse