Let's get back to our "complaining" and the original question. We are here to help each other and not point fingers or sell our business.

Hmm, I think this absolutely confirms my previous post 🙂
Anyway, back to the topic, I think that many health systems aren’t built with redundancy to up regulate when there’s increasing demands. For instance, in Au, there have been studies that outline how aging populations and increasing levels of both physical and mental health disorders has overwhelmed the systems, while consecutive governments failed to invest appropriately in health care, resulting in many people who can afford the booming private care industry being the only ones who receive it, and the ones who rely on a broken public system often waiting up to 5 years for an appointment/procedure.
There’s also the case that many docs work in both systems, prioritising the private system which is a better work environment for them, lots of money in that system, and a different demographic of patient, which compounds the wait times in the public system.
Many experienced docs then end up completely shifting to the private system, never to see patients with the same problems in the public system (under their speciality), leaving the public system with many skills gaps. This is where we see lots of inexperience due to junior and overseas docs predominating the public spaces, extended timeframes for diagnosis, poor treatment of patients in terms of responding to questions and taking patients seriously (many people are labelled as inventing symptoms - however two problems with this exist: ineffective practitioner investigation leads to lack of evidence to work with in terms of producing a robust diagnosis, and why would anyone persist in trying to get help while they’re not well for years while being treated like they’re a liar; a liar would just give up), all resulting in poorer health outcomes and quality of life. There is a large part of the population here now that is living with many aspects of illness that could be helped by appropriate and timely investigation and interventions, but the system is broken.
There’s lots of exasperation felt by the docs in that system, and unfortunately much of it is directed at the vulnerable patients who then are not only trying to get help for their illnesses, they’re fighting off the frustrations of these health practitioners working in these systems.
This dynamic does make it hard to be able to have an equal footing when speaking to and asking questions of the docs in the public system. Sometimes it’s very adversarial if you ask a question.
How to get around this is difficult; sometimes I try to explain that I want to understand the disorder, hence why I’m asking (so they don’t take offence) but if they are in any way disrespectful, I do stand my ground - after all, they’re just a person who is paid to help, and should do what they can because they’re getting paid to do so, or find another way to earn a living..many of us have done jobs we find really hard or demanding, but we persist and do it with a smile 🙂

I agree with that. I don't have the time to read that long a post but to each his own.