• Marxism-Fennekinism
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    21 year ago

    Also, it’s not good to be constantly taking heartburn medicine if you keep having heartburn. It’s a symptom, not a disease in itself. So if it keep happening, you should get it checked out to see if there aren’t any more serious issues.

    Then again most Americans can’t afford that.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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      11 year ago

      Exactly, so much medical care in US and Canada is focused on treating symptoms as opposed to addressing the root causes of the problems. The whole system of having a bunch of specialists who are each laser focused on a particular domain is at odds with holistic view of healthcare. People just get pumped full of random medications that all interact with each other in weird ways to treat the symptoms without underlying problems ever getting addressed.

      • Marxism-Fennekinism
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        21 year ago

        Which is ironic because a major paradigm of medicine is that you should be a lumper and not a splitter, that is, you look at all the symptoms holistically and try to find the root causes, not cover them up individually.

        And yet the medical institutions do the exact opposite and fuck people over because now they don’t feel the symptoms while the root cause is getting worse under the skin.