Magdalena Simonis, associate professor and women's health expert at The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), argues the sector is slowly changing, though there was still a need to look at how GPs holistically approach chronic pain.
No, it's not changing anywhere, and it's not shifting in part because every time this is brought up someone lies about things changing, but they never actually do. Then years pass and it just continues same as ever.
Adversarial health care is the root cause, the dual role of defense, prosecution/judge, the latter overruling the first. This can't work, and it can't work because of psychosomatic ideology, which is itself the main reason for the adversarial approach to health care, where we are guilty until proven innocent.
It's painfully obvious how psychosomatic ideology is not just a net harm, but a gross one as well, in both senses of the word. My guess is that the main reason is simply because it would cost too much to deal with all problems, it would be embarrassing to show a giant pile of "todos" that no one is working on, and it's just a convenient way, but that's just evil, industrial-scale evil.
If there are many problems that can't be dealt with, the only way to be able to change that is by recording them accurately. If that makes it harder because acknowledging it creates an obligation to do something about it, especially considering that it's cheaper, then that's the whole freaking point! This is an ongoing crisis in large part because it's covered up with lies, damned lies and statistics.
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