Most private clinics only take people with private healthinsurance. If you have that a whole world opens up but I can never get that since Im on disability for fibromyalgia since meny years. There are no neurologists that receive paying customers. You have to have a referral.
I could get some mris and things like a colonoscopy but not much else is offered. We have such a huge health crisis here in Sweden and such a shortage of doctors. The patient safety is threatened.
I've been 90 percent bedridden since December and if I have a condition that could have benefitted from for example steroid treatment it's too late now.
The pain and suffering people are subjected too is unbelievable! The only lucky ones are the standard heartattack or traffic accident kind of injuries which get treatment right away. Unusual diseases or cancer usually get diagnosed way too late.
Primary clinics have a range of standard bloodtests and if you pass those they usually don't want to go further.
Which is insane since 90 percent of early cancers and hundreds of other diseases do not show up on standard blood panels.
I think a lot of countries are struggling now though. I hear stories from US, Australia, Canada and lots of countries about the struggle people have to get medical care. In the US it comes down to what healthinsurance you have.
BUT one important factor that is mostly overlooked is gender and employment.
If you are a man with employment here you will get better help. If you are a woman you tend not to be believed and if you are a retired woman they can bury you in waiting time because the doctors dont have to sign off on sickleave and they don't have to explain to an employer why you're absent for 6 months waiting for a bunch of tests.

@astaingegerdm @tinatoren yep - that sounds exactly like what it is here in Ontario, Canada, especially in smaller cities and towns. Doctors are so burned out they lose interest and don’t want to take on any more patients.

I just moved from a big city to a smaller city six months ago and still have no hope of finding a physician because none are taking on new patients. To be assigned a physician you have to register with the government’s health department, but before they will register you, you have to “fire” your previous doctor, but that registration does not guarantee you will get another doctor - you just get out on a long waiting list u til they can find you a doctor who is willing to take on new patients! Unfortunately my physician is a two hour drive away now and not easy to get to during our six month long winters and she does not know of a physician here to who she can refer me, which really would be the best way to get another doctor. My dermatologist knew of a dermatologist here and she referred me to him but I have had to wait seven months to see him. He received the referral in September last year, and I was given an appointment by his office to see him in May this year! Don’t know how good he is, but he’s all I’ve got - and only for treatment of my psoriasis. Under our government health plan rules he will not treat me for anything else.