Ataque De Higado

[Jaredberryman]

I too have heard of this several times, along with "never eat" such-and-such food, or in combination with this food, etc. But then again, I'm always amazed how every ailment known to man is an "allergy" here, or caused by "stress", or somehow has its root in some psychological problem. You always hear how great the medical system is here in Argentina, but in my experience I am deeply unimpressed with the diagnostic skills of doctors I have been in contact with. Bedside manner - great, A++. Caring about the patients and treating them as humans, awesome, A+. Using the scientific method to figure something out and following standardized procedures such as observing sterile fields, C- for 80% of the visits I've had or witnessed or heard about. I'll stick with looking up my symptoms online unless I have a real emergency or am totally stumped about something.

They do have an awesome medical system. You have some of the top doctors in almost every field, and all sorts of medical inventions. My experience is that doctors can be very harsh. And the trend now is to basically tell patients that have serious issues that they will probably die. They do this to protect themselves. They told my brother-in-law who had colon cancer that he would most certainly die in months--two months later did an operation and got all of the colon cancer with no problem. If you have been seeing bad doctors, you are going to the wrong ones. Sometimes very sick people will go to the U.S. to get treatment, and then the specialist will tell them that the top doctor in the field is actually in Argentina. I'm not kidding about this.

 

[nlaruccia]

I've had good and experiences with the medical system here but almost always a bad experience in the States. I've been diagnosed and treated for conditions that went ignored for years by my American doctors. I think a lot of that has to do with the mafia health insurance companies there.

My brother has been having debilitating intestinal pain for two years in the States and the doctor performed a colonoscopy which has nothing with his small intestine. He won't let him get an MRI done because his health insurance company won't cover the cost. Maybe he has IBS, or celiac's disease or a tumor. He goes undiagnosed. Meanwhile here in Buenos Ares I was diagnosed with a redundant colon and had all the tests done and paid for by my health insurance company in 6 weeks. My obra social is even covering the cost of the imported materials needed to perform the colectomy surgery.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

In fairness my wife and I are complete opposites in this respect.

I have the classic Irish aversion to any type of medical intervention whereas she would happily subject herself to any test or study no matter how gruelling just to rule out the slightest chance she has a rare tropical illness.

We've had a few discussions around the miraculous self prescribed anti biotic cure all she buys at the chemist at the first sign of a snivel. When you need it, it won't work I keep telling her.