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@lbyrd02

Understand I'm at the top of my profession and I got there by not assessing blame, looking for solutions and most of all not doing nothing. Any positive response is better than "Wait and See".

I know there is "presently there is NO Precise cause of PACS (post acute Covid syndrome)." -I beg to differ as there is a cause - Covid. What drives me up the wall is using the legalese of "Precise" in your quote to mitigate blame. We know what causes it - what the profession can't do is differentiate between the new covid infection and the preexisting conditions. I've had gastric problems since 2006 it took 15 years to figure out (Upper Intestine Diverticulosis) only to find there is no cure. The reason the diagnostic took so long is our national problems with acid reflux doesn't warrant a CT Scan in our medical - insurance environment. The same thing is happening with long covid - too many people that control the medical industry do not want to know the cause - if they did, we would have better screening, testing and sampling being done on individuals with long covid. We know what it looks like, we think we know where it migrates to and how it gets there, so why not use those tools that got us this far to diagnose the millions of long covid patients (Electron Microscopes, CT Scans, MRI scans, nuclear scans, blood samples for micro clots, protiens....) The excuse of "presently there is NO Precise cause of PACS (post acute Covid syndrome)." to do nothing is something I would expect from Trump or Biden or the insurance industry - those people that don't want you to know - not the medical profession. If someone told me that the foundation on this high-rise was sinking and they would rather wait to see if it was natural cause or poor engineered fill - I'd fire them in a heartbeat. You find out what the problem is you fix it then you worry about the cost and blame. No one has asked me for a feces sample, a blood sample to check for covid indicators, or one of the scans (my favorite) a nuclear scan - the one most likely to identify inflammation in the body - they simply reply with the "no precise" which is a financial response - not a medical process.

I'm more convinced than ever we need a single payer plan to remove the insurance virus in our system.

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Yes yes yes. Thank you for putting some of my feelings into perfectly phrased words. I too have pre-Covid medical issues that have been dismissed. Try being fat, female, over fifty and with a decades long history of mental healthcare. I have an M.A. and mad research skills. I read medical journals NOT social media junk info.
I’m post Covid for a couple weeks, something is wrong with my lungs and not a single scan. I am missing work. I hope my appointment tomorrow will lead to some kind of scan. I will insist as gently as possible so that I don’t make the doctor feel afraid I’m a crazy patient he doesn’t want on his service….sigh.