Why do you avoid healthcare?

[Warpy]

14. I avoid shit I think is unnecessary or just plain unwanted

but I'm a retired nurse in my mid 70s, so I guess that goes with the territory.

I'm falling apart at the seams, but that also goes with the territory. I have passed the point of ever wanting heroics to keep me alive because the risk vs. benefit equation has shifted and I'll get more benefit from what my mother called benign neglect.

I've turned down routine EKGs because I'd also turn down any invasive intervention. I have turned down dialysis and intubation on other occasions. I guess you really can't kill the Irish since I'm still stubbornly here.

IOW, if it will contribute substantially to my quality of life, I'm all for it. If they're just putting me through something annoying, uncomfortable, or downright painful as they fish for diseases to treat, forget it.

It's why old doctors and nurses are such lousy patients.