I'd argue that the NHS has in part changed peoples levels of responsibilty and self reliance, whilst it's in a way allowed itself to be used against a backdrop of shitty commercial decisions which add to its costs.
People are sicker by some measure today, while diet and exercise have changed for the worse.
Posted in the Brexit thread about the statins controversy and the huge number of deaths it caused across the eu, while the doctor who presented that talk said he couldn't find a healthy meal provided by the hospital.
The traditional British/Victorian diet was comparable with the coveted Mediterranean diet.
A symptom of what exactly ? What you call healthy people I'd argue is a little contentious.
There are people with very poor health or cognitive impairments who genuinely have symptoms of forgetfulness.
But I'd wager a £50-100 pound missed appointment fee would fix a lot of peoples symptoms- whatever they are. A lack of bloody respect and basic organisation
isn't a symptom imo. To argue it is, is to diminish personal responsibility to a non entity.
Spoke with doctors from the states who'd encountered people demanding cosmetic surgeries when Obamacare was introduced. That's what they think free Medicare entails, fix all my desires and inadequacies.
Similarly spoke with psychiatrists in the NHS wholl be taking early retirement on account of their not being able to spend enough of their working week with patients and having to spend too much time on paperwork and cpd.
I'm in favour of universal access, but not where it leads to declining levels of health and personal responsibilty at ever greater costs to those who look after themselves in a basic sense.
Speaking with doctors and nurses it's my opinion that the present societies, culture and health have a calamitous relationships.
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