Jaded

We are back from the emergency room. My husband went by ambulance because of back issues. His doctor assumed we were drug seeking. It came as a shock to him that husband asked for steroids . He lectured us about opioids for five minutes. Husband had not even asked for pain meds.

At first, I was angry but as I thought about, I’m just sad. I’m sad the world has made the doctor so jaded. I’m sad that, at one time, he may have been a good doctor but now he is in a system that forces him to cover his ass and not see patients as human beings. I am sad that we will loose another doctor to burn out, at some point. Mostly I am heart broken at what our country has become; morons who run our government, insurance and health care that chews up doctors and nurses and spits them out. And now two and three generations lost to poverty and addiction. It is a sorry state of affairs and I’m not sure we can come back from it.