[Lenneth]

(Medicine is nice in the US. You just find a doctor, make an appointment and give them a credit card and you are pretty much a client/customer. I had four years of that and it was great. Here, it's taxpayer funded, which should mean that I am a client/customer, but you sometimes get the impression that the government forgets that its our money, and its treated as a "benefit" - which it is, I suppose if you haven't paid as much tax as I have in the past. )

Not quite the same anymore, more and more Doctors lately have been butting their nose into parts of peoples business that they have no call or right to.

Part of it has been linked to the new "Healthcare Tax" that the government is imposing on everyone, some of what I have read in it more or less puts absurd penalties on doctors for "Not Reporting" "anything that could possibly be considered a mental issue" of their patients to the Government.

I can see getting the mentally ill the help they need, but when I go to get antibiotics to help kill a flu or something, I don't care for a GP to pull a Sigmund Freud asking completely off the wall questions about things not only completely unrelated but none of their business...

(Went to in with Strep Throat recently, got asked what color my bedsheets were, and if I owned any weapons....I wish I was Joking...)

[sorry for the small rant]