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• Delirioum@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which has two sides to it. It is very hard to get antibiotics unless there is a clear sign of a specific infection going on, e.g. after a tick bite those red circles on the skin.

  In any other case just having high fever for a bit does not prompt doctors to check for bacterial infections. Instead they ask you how long you got that fever and if you say anything lower than 6/7 days they simply tell you to come back after 6/7 days if the fever isn’t gone still. Only then they run a blood test and prescribe antibiotics, should you have a bacterial infection.

  I understand the idea but you could probably test much earlier and give the antibiotics, if useful, earlier so that people can avoid feeling miserable for just a few days instead of a whole week. It also just prompts people to lie about how long they’ve been sick, just in case.

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  • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh, yeah. Exaggerating your symptoms is the only way to make doctors take your condition seriously. Unless you are a pregnant woman, or a cancer patient. Nordic healthcare is sometimes frustrating in small ways.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Still sounds leaps and bounds better than the US system that my family and I have been ground through for these past several decades.

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      • meliante@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Luigi started the work, y’all need to finish it.

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      • Delirioum@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sure, but that wasn’t the question here.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean I’m not sure I see anything wrong with what you’ve described.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My friends not in Scandinavia used to have slight fever for a couple of months before going to a doctor to find out it was pneumonia. I wonder, how Scandinavian doctors react to slight fever, not a bad fever, and if they send you back home then this an example of what’s wrong. Other than that it’s likely a good idea to try to make one’s body heal itself, if the immune system is not compromised

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean having a slight fever for a while is not something to be concerned about or honestly even to go to a doctor, unless it lasts or worsens. Though if your friend waited a couple of months then your friend might be a bit stupid.

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