Healthcare providers have difficult jobs, and things are even harder now as a result of COVID, healthcare consolidations, quotas, pharmaceuticals, and insurance protocols.
There’s no shortage of stories online where people complain about the challenging state of healthcare.
Here’s a sample:
Your provider never returned your call.
You couldn’t get a sick visit and were referred to Urgent Care.
You received less than stellar care because the hospital staff is overworked or lacking experience (traveling nurses, etc. is a huge trend).
You waited months to get an appointment.
While I’m not here to offer advice on how to fix our broken healthcare system, I would like to provide suggestions on steps you can take to rely less on our healthcare system.
When you stop taking care of yourself, your overall health begins to decline. For most people, that means more trips to the doctor’s office for tests and prescription drugs. Look at your calendar, is it filled with appointments and follow-ups? For the most part, our healthcare system is set up to manage symptoms, not get to the root cause.
Rather than taking responsibility for our own health, we defer to medical professionals to fix us. But in many cases, they are not fixing our problems - they are managing our symptoms.
When your blood pressure is high - doc writes a script. Your cholesterol is high - doc writes a script. Your joints ache, doc writes a script. You have diabetes - docs writes a script. You are stressed - doc writes a script. All of these scripts have side-effects, which then takes on a whole new set of problems. It’s a hamster wheel. See the pattern?
So what can you do to stop relying so heavily on our healthcare system? You have to think differently and change your approach.
Get your ‘house’ in order. Take responsibility for your physical, mental, spiritual, and financial health.
Stop looking externally to others to ‘fix’ you.
Peel back the layers and focus on getting to the root of your problems - in all areas of your life.
I challenge you to start taking baby steps around your health. When you start feeling better, you’ll have more energy to handle the bigger stuff.
Today is the perfect day to start. No excuses.
Take a walk, ride your bike, run, or go swimming
Eat fruits and vegetables
Drink a lot of water
It’s not too late to get healthy, get your finances on track, lose weight, reverse chronic disease, get in a healthy relationship, etc. You need a plan. I can help you create a plan in any of these areas, and more.
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