Most people don’t understand this fact. Some of us are lucky enough to have friends or family that can help us as a health advocate. There are even people who work as health advocates as a profession.

You are the only person you can truly depend on when it comes to advocating for yourself and your health. But if you know that you are not properly equipped to do that job, then you need to get yourself a good health advocate. It’s like hiring a lawyer, but for your health.

Sadly, yes — that is what our healthcare system has devolved into.

> nobody cares about your health as much as you do

This is true about not just health, but literally everything. That's one reason AI is a big deal even when it's subhuman in performance. It empowers the individual to take care of themself (with as much "effort" as they'd like) rather than relying on another human.

Some examples:

- your health.

- your home.

- your children's education.

- your car.

- your finances.

- your (and your family's) safety.

- your elderly parents' welfare.

> the more I realize that nobody cares about your health as much as you do

This is going to be true in all medical systems, and really in all systems for all fields.

No one else (other than maybe your immediate family) is going to care as much about your situation as you are. Any doctor, in any system, is going to have multiple patients, and they will care about all of them. You, an individual, is going to care about your own life because it is the most important thing to you, and you aren’t splitting that amongst many different patients.