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I've had friends suggest a chiropractor when I slipped a disc in my neck around 2010. I had doctors suggest a physical therapist for the same issue.
The doctors told me to go outside and look up and to the right to find the physical therapy office. Well, I literally couldn't look neither up nor to the right. Like they gave a shit, they couldn't even be bothered to take me to the elevator to the physical therapy department!
I said fuck all that shit and drove back home, and suffered for another 5 weeks or so, until I finally got a sense of my own pains to just take care of it myself.
I ended up rolling my pillow up tighter than a Cuban cigar and laying it strategically under my neck while I slept, to induce something of a homemade 'traction' plus a somewhat comfortable curve on my neck, to relax the slipped disc.
And sure enough it actually worked! By the next day, I woke up and my pinched nerve was gone! My neck muscles were still sore though, so I took it real easy for the next week or so.
TL;DR - They don't give a shit about you, unless you can make it rain money. And speaking of money, I'll never pay a medical bill where doctors neglected me or caused me more harm.
I ain't about to condone what the dude did, whether it's actually him or not, but I'm not mad about it either. Fuckem.
You couldnt figure out how to get on an elevator without an escort but you were able to get to your car and drive home?
They litetally escorted me out of the hospital, the elevators were restricted to authorized personnel and accepted patients.
They looked at my X-rays and claimed they didn't see anything wrong (except likely the fact I didn't have insurance), so they didn't admit me as a formal accepted patient.
Healthcare in the USA for ya...
At least I managed to slip that damn disc back in place on my own, it only rarely mildly bothers me when it gets cold or happen to sleep wrong or something.
Edit: Driving was no problem, I had practically no problem looking side to side, I just couldn't look up, or hardly sleep unless I was sitting up in a recliner.