I also disagree with framing this as a case of stubborn or avaricious doctors deliberately refusing to do what’s best for patients. I think it’s far more common that medical professionals (and the rest of us!) assume “standard & officially recommended” means “evidence-based.”
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Before they could treat TB with antibiotics, they took sick people to sanitariums. Basically no effective medicine went on there, just rest, care, a change of scene, and natural beauty. This fundamentally makes sense to me, given a disease medicine doesn’t know how to treat yet.
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(Plus it’s good for public health! Keeps sick people from infecting others!)
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Immune function affects how well you recover from *a lot* of diseases; and it responds to stress. “Be nice to sick people and make their lives easier” is not pseudoscience; it makes a measurable difference.
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Obligatory topical tie-in: hospitals are gonna be overwhelmed with COVID19. Some people who get the disease need specialized equipment you can only get in an ICU to survive. Far more people are just gonna be, y’know, sick. Laid up, contagious, unable to get much done.
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We have *terrible* infrastructure as a society for dealing with “a lot of people need to rest up.” They’ll be clogging hospitals, they’ll be trying to push through and go to work, etc.
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It’s a measure of how good or bad we are at translating wealth into leisure, to see how well or poorly we can adapt to “lots of people are sick in bed.”
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I have friends who are doulas. They have feels about lack of awareness of the option
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I knew about doulas! I just expected them to be...y'know, touchy-feely. The kind of person who makes you *more* stressed to be around because you have to perform "being emotionally stable" for them otherwise they'll slather you in therapist-speak.
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Germany has resort towns for this, but it’s kind of an old people thing.
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Browsing Wikipedia I found out that my home state’s capital is a resort town, so it has both tons of hot springs *and* government bureaucracy. Also, casinos, apparently. Germans know how to have fun.
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