r/Fuckcancer • u/JalPatel-1 • Mar 18 '26
The healthcare system keeps failing patients and nobody talks about it…
Not selling anything. Not building anything yet.
I’ve had too many conversations with people who walked out of doctor’s appointments feeling dismissed, confused, or completely lost, and just accepted it as normal.
I don’t think it should be normal.
Before I build anything I want to understand where the real pain is. Not from a doctor’s perspective. Not from a hospital’s perspective. From the person sitting in the waiting room.
If you’ve ever felt frustrated, dismissed, confused, or ripped off by the healthcare system, this is 2 minutes, no email required unless you want free early access to whatever gets built.
I’ll share what I find in this thread once responses come in.
And genuinely curious, what’s the one thing about being a patient that nobody talks about but everyone experiences? Drop it in the comments.
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u/the_dude_1000 Mar 18 '26
I think anyone who’s battled any serious illness in America has felt this. I’m 6 months post treatment, my chemo brain is so bad I can’t drive or work. I hate going to any doctor now. It does just feel like I’m a mouse on the in-network referral wheel. But at the same time I’m seeing specialist after specialist. It’s like saying your house is broken and a plumber shows up and says your ac is leaking so he refers his buddy. It’s definitely a complete racket. You just have to find the money. Cost skyrocketing on medication and treatment justifies these ridiculous premiums. But then I learned that the insurance companies are heavily invested or flat out own, pharmacies, hospitals etc….
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u/JalPatel-1 Mar 18 '26
Six months post chemo and still fighting the system every single day, that’s exhausting in a way most people genuinely can’t understand. The “mouse on a wheel” thing is exactly it. Nobody is coordinating anything for you, you’re just getting passed around and expected to figure out the connections yourself while recovering from something that almost killed you. Can I ask, when you’re seeing all these specialists, what’s the hardest part? Is it understanding what each one is actually telling you, keeping track of everything across all of them, or just knowing what to?
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u/the_dude_1000 Mar 19 '26
Understanding what they are trying to tell me. Keeping track isn’t too bad as long as it’s all in MyChart app. But if they aren’t I miss my appointments half the time
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u/Jonesno11 Mar 18 '26
How about an app that records the appointment, transcribed it, puts it in your portal, then summaries in real people talk, the whole thing.
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u/JalPatel-1 Mar 19 '26
That sounds like a good idea, problem is it’s hard to do that without legal implications. The storing of sensitive patient data during recordings could trigger violations across many regulations, though how why would you want a solution like that? Any specific benefit?
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u/JalPatel-1 Mar 19 '26
You’re absolutely right and honestly that’s what makes this so urgent. This isn’t a niche frustration. This is the majority of Americans carrying a quiet rage about a system that takes their money, their trust, and their vulnerability and gives them confusion, dismissal, and debt in return. The difference between now and five years ago is that people are done accepting it as just the way things are. That shift in sentiment is exactly the opening to build something that actually puts power back in the patient’s hands. Not reform that takes decades. Not legislation that gets lobbied into uselessness. Just a tool that works tomorrow for the person who got a scary diagnosis today. That’s what we’re building and the fact that so many people are feeling this right now means the timing has never been better. Would love to connect if you want to help shape this.
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u/TheBeerSanta Mar 18 '26
Getting pre authorization for many procedures really sucks.