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How to cope with deteriorating health while waiting for treatment

My country has free healthcare but the waiting list for my surgery is eighteen months and I watch my body deteriorate while knowing help exists but is unreachable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Universal healthcare promises create expectations that resource limitations cannot fulfill, leaving individuals suspended between hope and despair.

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