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The problems you are listing are US specific and don't apply medical licensing elsewhere.


I live in Germany, and while the healthcare problems here aren't as severe as in the US, there is still the issue of people (and at least some insurance) accepting homeopathic 'medicine'.


If you have a difficult to treat condition doctors will completely ignore you, blame you, or just give you anti-depressants. Some conditions have diagnosis times 5-10+ years. For me it took 20 years of asking. Then 3 years of dozens of visits to get answers.

At a certain point people give up and look elsewhere. Communities are friendlier. Certain things like diet changes or supplements can help.

Unfortunately it’s also were the crystal healers hang out.




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