Visual Snow Syndrome

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Me: Explains Visual Snow Syndrome to doctors' on the NHS for 15 years on and off.

NHS doctors': You are a hypochondriac.

Me: Yes, but it is in the scientific literature and also on diseases & disorder website(s), that list rare diseases and disorders:

NHS doctors': *Blinking like a goldfish*

Me: Oh, here is an article you can read. Have a nice day.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10455145/Crippling-visual-snow-syndrome-affecting-2-population.html

Last edited by blitzkrieg on 28 Feb 2022, 2:53 pm, edited 2 times in total.

The United Kingdom is always behind the United States in terms of disease & disorder research.

Why? Because the NHS research departments are based on metrics that universalise healthcare, and it costs too much apparently to recognise something that isn't a one-size-fits-all disorder or disease.

We have universal healthcare over here in Poland and no doctor I've ever visited doubted what visual snow syndrome is. I think this is a case of different educational path to become the doctor in one country compared to another.

No offense, but Poland is way behind the United Kingdom and even further behind the United States in terms of healthcare research.

Polish doctors won't know what this condition is, because they are badly educated, I am afraid to tell you.

You do not understand my post.

Educational path to become a doctor is not the same as level of healthcare research. Doctors over here may be more familiar with it if they are taught about it before they specialise in one field. Like every doctor, no matter if it is a surgeon, neurologist, anaesthesiologist and so on knows basics like which antibiotics should be used to treat quinsy. It may be the case that our universities simply mention visual snow syndrome at early stage of medical education, whereas in some countries it is not mentioned at all unless one specialised in neurology or ophthalmology.

As for research in US... over here in Europe, the papers released in US are taken with a pinch of salt. This is because quite often researchers have rather lousy approach to scientific method and the research itself is funded and ordered by pharma companies which want to push new drugs to the market. It is quite often that results of studies done in US are not replicable when teams from different countries conduct the same tests.

^ Your comment is true about United States universities often being unduly influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

Unfortunately, the research funding and level of equipment available to high-end United States researchers is better than that of Europe and its resources.

But I would agree, there is a lot less dirty money in European academia and within the medical research field, compared to the United States and its own academic/medical research field.