Two packages with those labels have entered my house. The first from a nephew who thinks he knows everything and the second from a SIL who thinks she knows everything ("I'm scared of Putin!). Is there some relationship there between loving Amazon and knowing everything?
more likely some expensive prescription drug that doesn't work and oh, by the way, has horrific side effects which necesitate--guess what? More expensive drugs!
sounds almost as good as the doc here. You go, and a few hours later your computer is loaded with adds for meds for the ailment you went for ! Or even, did not go for but they measured for it.
This makes me laugh. I spend out of pocket money to see a naturopath. I'm going back to the way healthcare worked when I was a kid. Affordable doctors who actually helped. Except now, I go to naturopaths because they do the entirie holistic thing, not drugs etc. Anyone who thinks Amazon "healthcare" is anything but a waste of $$ is probably already culted.
As do I. I have Medicare and an expensive supplement plus the cheapest drug plan but I consider it the same as homeowners insurance - for a catastrophic event, like a car accident. I know someone who was broadsided by an elderly driver (pre covid) and she would have been in bankruptcy if not for Medicare plus supplement so that’s why I keep it even though I only use it for “approved” blood work. Really pisses me off though that I spend hundreds of dollars every month and it only covers Big Pharma controlled medicine and not all the things that actually keeps me healthy.
Me: "Amazon, my heart is sore. The future looks like a choice between a harrowing descent into civilizational collapse, and a transhumanist panopticon hellscape that makes 1984 look like Dr. Seuss. Culture death seems inevitable, and nowhere do I see room for human dignity. What do you recommend?"
Amazon: "Have you tried fentanyl and VR?"
Me: "Amazon, my friend has developed an aggressive cancer but his health insurance refuses to cover treatment. What do you recommend?"
Amazon: "Have you tried fentanyl and VR?"
Me: "Amazon, I cut my finger building a chicken coop, and it looks like it's infected. What do you recommend?"
With the use of a PDR (physicians desktop reference), I’m betting even a medically challenged individual could have a lot of fun with that service, if you know what I mean.
I'm actually not surprised. I'm a nurse and there has been a steady progression to automated, patient directed, convenience "healthcare" for well over decade - minute clinics, telehealth and the like. If doctors accept insurance or Medicaid/Medicare their hands are essentially tied - those entities dictate what doctors can do - if they deviate too drastically from what insurance companies recommend or what the current "best practice" standards are they get their wrists slapped and I don't think they get reimbursed as much. So there really isn't an art to medicine anymore unless you seek a doctor who is in private practice or an alternative practitioner. I hate to be nasty, but the way healthcare is now you really don't need a human because all doctors do now is just check off boxes on the computer that are an algorithm based on the symptoms/diagnosis. Not much thought involved.
When I worked at an urgent care clinic 15 years ago the medical director instructed the doctors to "just give the patient a prescription and if they're not better they'll come back". At that clinic doctors were reprimanded if they spent "too much time" with patients. Some doctors at that clinic would literally never even touch patients. They would get their prescription ready, stand in the doorway and talk with the patient for a couple of minutes, hand them the Rx and move on to the next victim. So, medical practices have been steadily degrading for decades, but now with the COVID fraud it is so in our faces now. And society as a collective is mostly to blame because people want instant results, and they equate "health" with prescriptions. They just want to pop a pill instead of doing the hard work to be healthy.
It seems like a big part of the COVID agenda was to speed this process up by collapsing the allopathic medical industry with a mass exodus of doctors and nurses - thus rationalizing the urgent need for the "benevolent", all mighty Amazon clinic. What a life saver!! :-)
I am hopeful that people will finally see that our healthcare system is woefully broken and will turn back to natural healing.
After seeing the egregious crimes and fraud that doctors and nurses actively perpetrated against trusting patients, I decided not to renew my nursing license anymore. I will never support such a vile industry. It makes me sick that they were heralded as "heroes" while they allowed people to suffer and die alone. There was NO pandemic because I know, firsthand, that there are not enough martyrs in healthcare who would literally risk sacrificing their own lives to take care of strangers - our survival instinct is too strong. If patients were truly dying from a deadly, supposedly HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS illness NO ONE would show up to work. It was comical seeing how carelessly nurses took off their isolation garb. They wore their "contaminated" scrubs and shoes out into the public, there were no decontamination zones on the COVID units, ect... It was absolute mockery and those medical "professionals" who participated in this BS should feel nothing but SHAME for what they did. Order followers are worse than the order givers!!
Sorry for the downer rant, but I had such high hopes when I became a nurse and after the FIRST day on the job, I wondered what I got myself into and that was long before COVID.
It's not a downer rant at all. I deeply appreciate your sharing and your integrity. If you're willing to talk openly about your experiences, perhaps you'd like to appear on podcast?
Thank you for the offer. I appreciate having the opportunity to share my experience and read about what others are going through. I'm more comfortable writing than being interviewed. I'm actually surprised that I've had the guts just to comment on blogs because I'm a very "keep to myself" kind of person. Maybe turning 50 made me a little feistier!! Take care!
Stepped away from healthcare and just got an exemption to go back into nursing. Don't want to but single income and waiting tables did not pay the bills. Hoping I can make a difference. Gonna be a battle
yep. same here.
Two packages with those labels have entered my house. The first from a nephew who thinks he knows everything and the second from a SIL who thinks she knows everything ("I'm scared of Putin!). Is there some relationship there between loving Amazon and knowing everything?
I would not be at all surprised if this is Amazon's entry into the opioid market.
Anonymously??? Maybe to family and friends, but not Big Brother!
drug dealers !!! just as legal as the government ?
Wow good call!
It’d be interesting to see the response if you listed all your symptoms consistent with Onchocerciasis (river blindness) and a bad case of rosacea.
more likely some expensive prescription drug that doesn't work and oh, by the way, has horrific side effects which necesitate--guess what? More expensive drugs!
Haha!!
sounds almost as good as the doc here. You go, and a few hours later your computer is loaded with adds for meds for the ailment you went for ! Or even, did not go for but they measured for it.
Watch the Normies all lap this up ......smh
Brilliant reporting, Mickey! I just sent it quoting you and linking to you. https://tessa.substack.com/p/amazon-clinic
Thank you, Tessa!!!! 🙂
This makes me laugh. I spend out of pocket money to see a naturopath. I'm going back to the way healthcare worked when I was a kid. Affordable doctors who actually helped. Except now, I go to naturopaths because they do the entirie holistic thing, not drugs etc. Anyone who thinks Amazon "healthcare" is anything but a waste of $$ is probably already culted.
As do I. I have Medicare and an expensive supplement plus the cheapest drug plan but I consider it the same as homeowners insurance - for a catastrophic event, like a car accident. I know someone who was broadsided by an elderly driver (pre covid) and she would have been in bankruptcy if not for Medicare plus supplement so that’s why I keep it even though I only use it for “approved” blood work. Really pisses me off though that I spend hundreds of dollars every month and it only covers Big Pharma controlled medicine and not all the things that actually keeps me healthy.
Hey Mickey !
[They] didn't add step 4 about insurance info.
What the heck ?
Oh, that's always a pain in the neck !
Anyway...
Nice relay.
Bill Gates, et. al. probably have our info already on their books.
YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET.
"# 27...NEXT !"
"I'll have a roast beef sangwich, leave the fat on."
"including a prescrption". Of course. It's all about the drugs.
Data mining for the biomedical complex. Do not be tempted by convenience. That’s how they get ya.
Me: "Amazon, my heart is sore. The future looks like a choice between a harrowing descent into civilizational collapse, and a transhumanist panopticon hellscape that makes 1984 look like Dr. Seuss. Culture death seems inevitable, and nowhere do I see room for human dignity. What do you recommend?"
Amazon: "Have you tried fentanyl and VR?"
Me: "Amazon, my friend has developed an aggressive cancer but his health insurance refuses to cover treatment. What do you recommend?"
Amazon: "Have you tried fentanyl and VR?"
Me: "Amazon, I cut my finger building a chicken coop, and it looks like it's infected. What do you recommend?"
Amazon: "Have you tried fentanyl and VR?"
Unless you are in Canada, then the prescription is “Have you looked at MAID and applied for assisted suicide?”
At this point I just assume Canada sends a clown with a machete to your door.
😂😂😣
"Hi! I'm allergic to medical surveillance and data mining, and it seems to flare up every time I message Amazon Clinic... So, um, signing off!"
Wow! What will Amazon come up with next?
#idonotconsent
With the use of a PDR (physicians desktop reference), I’m betting even a medically challenged individual could have a lot of fun with that service, if you know what I mean.
I'm actually not surprised. I'm a nurse and there has been a steady progression to automated, patient directed, convenience "healthcare" for well over decade - minute clinics, telehealth and the like. If doctors accept insurance or Medicaid/Medicare their hands are essentially tied - those entities dictate what doctors can do - if they deviate too drastically from what insurance companies recommend or what the current "best practice" standards are they get their wrists slapped and I don't think they get reimbursed as much. So there really isn't an art to medicine anymore unless you seek a doctor who is in private practice or an alternative practitioner. I hate to be nasty, but the way healthcare is now you really don't need a human because all doctors do now is just check off boxes on the computer that are an algorithm based on the symptoms/diagnosis. Not much thought involved.
When I worked at an urgent care clinic 15 years ago the medical director instructed the doctors to "just give the patient a prescription and if they're not better they'll come back". At that clinic doctors were reprimanded if they spent "too much time" with patients. Some doctors at that clinic would literally never even touch patients. They would get their prescription ready, stand in the doorway and talk with the patient for a couple of minutes, hand them the Rx and move on to the next victim. So, medical practices have been steadily degrading for decades, but now with the COVID fraud it is so in our faces now. And society as a collective is mostly to blame because people want instant results, and they equate "health" with prescriptions. They just want to pop a pill instead of doing the hard work to be healthy.
It seems like a big part of the COVID agenda was to speed this process up by collapsing the allopathic medical industry with a mass exodus of doctors and nurses - thus rationalizing the urgent need for the "benevolent", all mighty Amazon clinic. What a life saver!! :-)
Thank you, Laura, for this valuable firsthand context. I'm not surprised but yet, I'm still utterly saddened to read your descriptions.
I am hopeful that people will finally see that our healthcare system is woefully broken and will turn back to natural healing.
After seeing the egregious crimes and fraud that doctors and nurses actively perpetrated against trusting patients, I decided not to renew my nursing license anymore. I will never support such a vile industry. It makes me sick that they were heralded as "heroes" while they allowed people to suffer and die alone. There was NO pandemic because I know, firsthand, that there are not enough martyrs in healthcare who would literally risk sacrificing their own lives to take care of strangers - our survival instinct is too strong. If patients were truly dying from a deadly, supposedly HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS illness NO ONE would show up to work. It was comical seeing how carelessly nurses took off their isolation garb. They wore their "contaminated" scrubs and shoes out into the public, there were no decontamination zones on the COVID units, ect... It was absolute mockery and those medical "professionals" who participated in this BS should feel nothing but SHAME for what they did. Order followers are worse than the order givers!!
Sorry for the downer rant, but I had such high hopes when I became a nurse and after the FIRST day on the job, I wondered what I got myself into and that was long before COVID.
It's not a downer rant at all. I deeply appreciate your sharing and your integrity. If you're willing to talk openly about your experiences, perhaps you'd like to appear on podcast?
Thank you for the offer. I appreciate having the opportunity to share my experience and read about what others are going through. I'm more comfortable writing than being interviewed. I'm actually surprised that I've had the guts just to comment on blogs because I'm a very "keep to myself" kind of person. Maybe turning 50 made me a little feistier!! Take care!
I respect that. If you want to do an email interview instead, just say the word!
Would you be okay with me quoting generously from your comments for a future article? If so, do you want me to credit you with the quotes?
I have the post prepared and ready to go. All I need to know is if you want me to credit to the words to "a nurse" or to "Laura." Thanks!
Really?? That's an honor. You can say Laura V if you want.
Stepped away from healthcare and just got an exemption to go back into nursing. Don't want to but single income and waiting tables did not pay the bills. Hoping I can make a difference. Gonna be a battle
Wishing you all the best, Kelliann!
Thank you, MickeyZ!