I live in the Netherlands, and this is the most frustrating thing about the healthcare system. I’ve had innumerable instances where the local GP recommends Paracetamol and my family doctor actually diagnoses the real problem.

It’s a running joke in this country: https://amsterdamshallowman.com/2019/07/dutch-healthcare-par...

I already take the placebo effect directly; if I'm going the trouble of dealing with your travesty of a medical system, it's because that wasn't sufficient.

I’m also curious why you think medicine is placebo theater. Surely, you aren’t invalidating the concept of modern healthcare?

However I see it falling apart everywhere day after day with not any political will to stop this (and i can even feel the will to let it fall voluntarily).

I know it’s still top notch compared to most of the world. But I’m so sad to see that governments of the last decades just didn’t care about fixing the issues while they were still manageable.

You are calling 'dipshits' to people that worked their asses to earn the right go be there. Six years of University, and then passing their Medical Internship Residency exams that typically takes another two or three to prepare, and then working other four years doing an internship, and then a few years more until earning a permanent place in another exam.

Any physician working in public healthcare in Europe is extremely qualified for the job.

American healthcare is similar, except I have to pay $35 bucks up front just to talk to anyone, and can expect a couple hundred dollar bill to show up later if they actually do anything.

Live in France, _cannot confirm_.

Live in America, _cannot confirm_ your little anecdote about all Americans assuming the worst.

It's funny how Quail's front page seems to be filled with glowing reviews from cynical aggressive Americans but none from the cheery French. Weird.