Posted by: heckler
What’s a GP?
Asking for a friend.
Family doctor. If you can find one that is.
Posted by: heckler
What’s a GP?
Asking for a friend.
Family doctor. If you can find one that is.
i moved to switzerland
as you go thru the process of very slowly dieing a GP or General Practitioner handles your file/ knows you and your fam,
thats why you want to find a Girl friend who already has a GP when you move to a new town IME its a proven in to land a GP, that or stalking your GP ski/bike buddy
I have skied/ paddled/ biked with many medical types cuz in general they tend to be into the outdoor pursuits, I sold my Yeti 5.5 to a GP in the P-lot of the bike area now she's hooked on the expensive carbon
Cold reality is Syncro's post that started this thread is based around the myth of doing things right and it all works out. The whole if you eat right, behave right, exercise right, buy the correct running shoes, and so on to keep yourself needing healthcare while sounds good doesn't mean much. Reality is can do it all right and good and like the majority end up needing medical care. Reality many who do what started this thread end up in medical care because of the willful choice to cause harm by another human. And there is the truth.
Reality is you can't plan for how the majority of use end up needing health care services. But funny thing is that talking endlessly about "doing the right thing" sure does wonders on making those needing health care services feel like shit for needing them. Reality is our "Wonderful free healthcare" system as the dogma we tell ourselves does a outstanding job of that.
Truth? Our healthcare system is great as long as you don't actually need it beyond a check up, teeth cleaned, and the above a certain age cancer screening.
Reality is our provinces various health care systems have been destroyed for years before the Spring of 2020. It took a Pandemic for people to actually see what I had already seen in the year prior to that.
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Yeah you can do everything right and still have a significant health concern to deal with, whether it be something like an accident or disease based. There's plenty of evidence though that after genetic factors, lifestyle choices such as diet/exercise/drugs have the biggest impact on our health outcome. Probably closely after those three things are factors like dealing with an accident or risk taking events related to sports or Darwin like activities. There are certain factors we can't control but a lot we can and I'm curious if people are taking a more active role in their health in light of the fact that our health care system is under stress and may not be able to deliver the care people need when they need it.
Im doing my part by living a sedentary lifestyle now.
Nobody moves nobody gets hurt, amirite?
I didn't realize how useful it is to have a GP until I had a bit of a "surprise" - the Big C. Now that is well dealt with luckily but it involved a shit ton of specialists, procedures, scans of all types, and a pretty major operation. Luckily this operation was just prior to COVID becoming a thing in BC, so I am very thankful for that. But back to the GP - she knits together all the reports from all the various specialists, and connects the dots, and makes additional recommendations and referrals. Its a super-important support to have, and without it I'm not sure if some things may have fallen through the cracks. The entire system is predicated on somebody having a GP, all of the specialists expect it and expect her to do her GP thing.
She's been talking about quitting for years so I hope the new compensation scheme will help her out. We worry quite a bit about losing her.
Beyond that - staying active, eating healthy, trying to limit stress, and getting a decent amount of sleep is all I can do! I should probably quit drinking too...
I will give my fellow NSMB'ers a tip (pretty sure we are mostly middle aged dudes here, right?) though: if you feel weird, don't hesitate to go to emergency.
so is this about a failing HC system or that I'm not eating enough goji berries on my cereal ?
Posted by: XXX_er
so is this about a failing HC system or that I'm not eating enough goji berries on my cereal ?
yes
so far the HC system hasn't failed me, I'm not on any meds and i don't eat cereal so the best advice i can offer is get some good jeans
https://www.interior-news.com/news/b-c-adds-doctor-training-spaces-in-bid-to-ease-northern-shortage/
Training new doctors up narth ^^ my GP is from the 1st crop of UNBC grads and still pretty young so i shouldn't get stuck without a GP
Posted by: syncro
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Yeah you can do everything right and still have a significant health concern to deal with, whether it be something like an accident or disease based. There's plenty of evidence though that after genetic factors, lifestyle choices such as diet/exercise/drugs have the biggest impact on our health outcome. Probably closely after those three things are factors like dealing with an accident or risk taking events related to sports or Darwin like activities. There are certain factors we can't control but a lot we can and I'm curious if people are taking a more active role in their health in light of the fact that our health care system is under stress and may not be able to deliver the care people need when they need it.
Ok, first of it wasn’t an accident that put me in a position to need a lot of health services from our healthcare. But thanks for downplaying a lot of people need that healthcare not due to mere “accidents “ or being less inactive.
And to best answer the you asking about taking more active role in my health? Simple , avoiding people as best can. And do far more “risky” as you deem it activities in the woods where nothing to date has tried to actually maim/kill me.
Posted by: XXX_er
so is this about a failing HC system or that I'm not eating enough goji berries on my cereal ?
I heard being taking the Goji berries rectally gives a far better effect.😝🤣🤣
Posted by: Endurimil
Posted by: syncro
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Yeah you can do everything right and still have a significant health concern to deal with, whether it be something like an accident or disease based. There's plenty of evidence though that after genetic factors, lifestyle choices such as diet/exercise/drugs have the biggest impact on our health outcome. Probably closely after those three things are factors like dealing with an accident or risk taking events related to sports or Darwin like activities. There are certain factors we can't control but a lot we can't and I'm curious if people are taking a more active role in their health in light of the fact that our health care system is under stress and may not be able to deliver the care people need when they need it.
Ok, first of it wasn’t an accident that put me in a position to need a lot of health services from our healthcare. But thanks for downplaying a lot of people need that healthcare not due to mere “accidents “ or being less inactive.
And to best answer the you asking about taking more active role in my health? Simple , avoiding people as best can. And do far more “risky” as you deem it activities in the woods where nothing to date has tried to actually maim/kill me.
There's no "cold reality" that I started this thread "based around the myth of doing things right and it all works out". That's not what I said and you're your own thoughts into my words.
I also wasn't commenting on your specific situation with regards to the word accident. That comment clearly said that even though people might do everything right, they can still end up with health concerns due to things like an accident OR disease. That's not downplaying anything, that's you reading something into my words that just isn't there.
What is fact is that lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise have significant impacts on our health. The good thing is that they can be easily modified to greatly improve our health outcomes. However, lifestyle factors also include participating in physical activities where there is a risk of getting hurt, so much so that it could permanently affect a person's life. I'm not trying to create fear here, but there are very real risks from the activity we all enjoy here. So in light of the current issues with the health care system, I wonder if people have considered modifying their lifestyle choices in order to improve their health outcomes. And yes , that includes how they mtb seeing as we are on a mtb'ing website.
so the last visit to MD in person I figure she is again going to badger me into metformin for the type II Diabetes and i was going to give in this time
BUT A1C is down to a good level so she asked what i what I was doing different ?
I suggested it was the switching from pale ale to a hazy IPA at the craft brew
but really I have no idea, we left it at that and so i'm still not on metformin
Posted by: XXX_er
so the last visit to MD in person I figure she is again going to badger me into metformin for the type II Diabetes and i was going to give in this time
BUT A1C is down to a good level so she asked what i what I was doing different ?
I suggested it was the switching from pale ale to a hazy IPA at the craft brew
but really I have no idea, we left it at that and so i'm still not on metformin
Do you keep a diet/food log? It could be a a pretty valuable resource in terms of managing your help with the T2D because it allows you to look back at any changes you've made in your diet and connect those to changes in your health.
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