The Failure of Modern Medicine

Off I went to the GP (general practitioner) this morning for a prescription for some more epinephrine for my anaphylactic allergy to ticks, wasps, bees, and hornets. While there, I was offered three different screening tests (HPV, cholesterol, bowel cancer) and two different vaccines (including one for tetanus although Australia recorded only three cases of tetanus in 2023). I am actually mildly relieved that I was only offered two unnecessary “vaccines” as last time I went I was offered three!

What I wasn’t offered is more important than what I was offered. Not one word of advice was given about how to avoid ticks, how to remove ticks, how to treat tick bites or anything remotely connected with the reason I was attending the physician in the first place. I was also not given any counselling on what to do should I collapse and fall into a coma again, or how I might educate people with me to deal with my issue should I become incapable. In fact, I got nothing useful apart from a prescription. And, even that was not very useful because our government bureaucracy makes it impossible for any physician to give me a refill for an epi-pen. So, I got the usual prescription for two epi-pens, no refills.

Consider this, I used three epi-pens in one week a couple of weeks ago, and, it took me three weeks after that to get a doctors appointment to obtain a new prescription, and the government will only issue me two epi-pens at any one time. So I could literally die before I get a new prescription for an epi-pen, but I can also get a completely unnecessary vaccination for tetanus, something I have about a one in ten thousand squillion chance of contracting and an even smaller chance of dying from.

And they call us cookers.