This is a good question.
When the System fails, people step up and help each other out.
The only reason I ever ask medical questions of others, or answer their questions myself, is because our system has failed us.
People who have health insurance in America often go into bankruptcy, or if not that, take a serious dent in their ability to live properly, when they come down with a serious illness. The original point of insurance was to remove ALL worry about an issue. So if people WITH insurance go into bankruptcy over this, imagine how people without health insurance get by, when they come down with a serious illness.
And then there’s the semi-serious issues. Let’s say a person has no insurance at all, and they come down with a non-terminal, yet life-changing illness like sinusitus. They are unable to breathe at all through their nose. They feel like they are suffocating and their head is about to explode. There is no OTC medication that will work longer than 3 days. There is no medication at all that cures this in the long run.
It is not considered an emergency, so a person in this situation cannot go to the emergency room.
And, so in the richest country in the world, they suffer 24 hours a day, every day.
And millions of people, with various conditions, are in the same situation.
Fuck this evil system.
And that.. is why we help each other out.
And whenever I see a medical question and the answerer says “go see the doctor” or “go see the vet”, that is usually insulting and goes without saying, and is completely meaningless in relation to the need of the Question. People with medical questions need help in finding a doctor they can afford, without people’s guesses, or direct help in what they need to do to feel better. It’s a waste of time and space to just say “Go see a doctor”.