The Future Ai

The hidden side nobody talks

Yes, the young man had it all – prestige, pay, and a lifestyle that’s gram-worthy. According to Dhaliwal, it wasn’t his job or homesickness that pushed him to leave, but health care. In a video shared on Instagram, the man explained about the frustrating journey through America’s healthcare bureaucracy.“I’ve broken my wrist twice in my life. Once was in India and once was in the US. In India, it was in 2017, I was playing a basketball game, broke my wrist, my coach literally dropped me off at the hospital, went back, didn’t speak to anyone. I went to the reception myself, got a nurse to look at me immediately, got a doctor looking at me immediately, and put me in a cast ASAP. They took care of me first and asked questions later, and asked for all these details after they helped me out. The only agony I was in was physical because of the pain.”However, in the US, things were different. “Very similarly, I was playing basketball, and I broke this finger in my palm, the fifth metacarpal. I had to wait two whole days before a doctor or a nurse even looked at my hand. They didn’t even treat it; they just diagnosed it, put me in a very temporary cast that I had to change every day with only one hand. Now, I had insurance at this time, it was about a thousand bucks every semester, and it was one of the best in the country. Went back the next day to have the nurse look at it and please retie it for me. She asked me if I had an appointment. When I said no, she told me to get the hell out of the office. This was at the end of April. Guess when the first available online appointment was? 2nd week of July. So you want me to wait over two months to have my fracture looked at?”

Finding a loophole to get medical care

Despite having the insurance, he couldn’t secure an appointment. Desperate to get medical attention, the man had to work around. “I had to find a loophole, so I woke up at 7 am, three days in a row, to find a night clinic appointment, which is the only available way to get a same-day appointment, and only then, after about 10 days of having an uncured, unprotected fracture on my hand, was I able to actually see a doctor and get it fixed,” he revealed.The man agreed that while the lifestyle, weather, and amenities are great in the US, he refuses to go back. “So y’all can keep arguing about why the US is so much better, and there are so many more amenities, and the weather is so nice, I would never live there. So that’s my number two reason for moving back to Punjab. Number one, still Amritsari Kulche,” he concluded. Access to timely healthcare isn’t a luxury, but a necessity. The video is flooded with comments from Indians, and NRIs. “Middle class in India will always have better access to healthcare than the middle class in the US,” one commented.Another netizen revealed that similar incident happened to her, “This literally happened to me with my ankle.”A second disagreed and asked, “What you just explained is actually the privilege you hold in India. You went to private hospitals while the rest of the country goes to government hospitals, where documents are asked for first, just like what happened to you in the States. And let me ask you this question, a poor person in the USA would have better access to healthcare, or would a poor person in India be better off at the healthcare centers in India?”Another quipped, “Hahahaha health care in India is tops, and now fast moving from sick care to medicine 3.0..! How to live at optimum, and not wait to be sick 🙂 And the kulchas 🙂 you have your head and your gut in the right place, brother..!”Disclaimer: This article is based on an individual’s personal experience shared on social media and reflects subjective views. Healthcare systems in countries like the United States and India vary widely depending on factors such as location, type of facility (public vs private), insurance coverage, and individual circumstances. The views expressed do not represent a comprehensive comparison of healthcare systems in either country.