Feeling Unwell? Just Wait, a Staggering Long Time
October 28, 2022
Last week the UK broke a new record for the country. More than 7 million citizens are currently on a waitlist for routine care procedures.
In July 6.8 million people were on this waitlist, at which time it was the highest number in history since the statistic started being recorded back in 2007.
As if this weren’t staggering enough, at the end of August almost 400,000 people had been waiting for over a year just to begin health care treatment.
Hundreds of thousands of people waiting for a mere diagnosis and treatment to manage it, which has nothing to do with actually being healed.
How many people all over the world are dealing with the same sort of circumstance today?
Living in less-than-optimal health, deciding to get some answers because they’d like to look and feel their best – but being forced to wait.
Waiting to talk to a doctor who is trained to diagnose but isn’t trained to heal.
What happens to this person if they don’t want to merely manage their symptoms, but they want to identify the root causes of their issues and heal?
Do their symptoms get worse? Does their own health and well-being continue to decline while they wait for a piece of the puzzle – the much-anticipated diagnosis? Do they lose hope that healing is even in the realm of possibility?
This shouldn’t be ethical. It’s certainly unacceptable.
“Routine” care needs a new definition and set of standards. We shouldn’t settle for waiting weeks, months, or longer when we decide to seek out guidance to achieve a goal for our health, arguably the most valuable thing we have.
If Amazon can figure out how to ship a package to us in 24-48 hours or less, there really is no reason that the health care system hasn’t figured out how to get us the kind of care we need when we need it outside of an emergency.
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