Thanks for your advice. Heard all of that before. No, thanks.
You should have seen the looks on their faces when I told them my last physical exam was 1968. I wanted to engage in competetive sports and it was required by the public school system.
OK…. But I really don't get it. Nothing you said indicates that you didn't get good if not excellent care the two times you sought health care over your life time. Your tonsils probably needed to come out but yet the very worst thing you have to say about that experience was that your dad passed out – you lived, your dad came to after passing out (fainting) and you are most likely better off than if your infected tonsils had been left in you to fester and had you died from septicemia. Then a few months ago you suffered fractured ribs from a fall and were sent home with pain killers and muscle relaxers, which is pretty much standard care for rib fractures unless you suffered internal organ injury which you evidently didn’t.
But dude, seriously, if you are still suffering from severe pain and disability from your rib fractures after three months and refuse to see a doctor, that’s not the fault of modern medicine – that’s your own fault for being stubborn and dare I say stupid.