Official "Seattle Freeze" Discussion Thread (2014, health insurance)

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by Topaz

1. Threads don't get closed because they bore someone. Feel free to ignore this thread.

2. The goal of every interaction in life isn't to get smarter...sometimes it is just to share some camaraderie about something, in this case, the peculiar cultural climate of Seattle.

Sometimes the cultural weather, too.

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by tada

The whole point of creating this thread was so that there weren't a billion other threads on the Freeze cluttering up this board. If you'd rather have a bunch of smaller threads on the same subject... by all means, try and get this thread locked.

Does vitamin D help? And the light boxes? Full spectrum lights in the home?

[tada]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

Does vitamin D help? And the light boxes? Full spectrum lights in the home?

They help, but are no replacement for the real thing.

I really hope I can move somewhere else, but due to the economy I'm stranded here for who knows how much longer. Ugh.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by toughguy

The thing is though, you don't have to be a bookish/introverted person to thrive in Seattle. I am native to this area, and I have a social life. I am a chill/mellow person by nature, but that doesn't mean I am some awkward pushover geek that doesn't know how to talk to a stranger.

Also, if I had to live somewhere where my neighbors would just show up at my door at all hours unannounced, I would shoot myself.

I guess its just me. I am quite bookish and have very little of a social life at this moment in time.

[mitsuturbo]

I'd rather experience this so called Seattle "freeze" than the faux-friendly, aversive, theological, passive aggressive behaviour that i encountered in Salt Lake City.. any day! At least it's easy to know where you stand with people here. Maybe it's because i've been around and came back here, and this is how i grew up.. i don't know. Is this "freeze" something imports tend to experience more?

[shoegal111]

Originally Posted by mitsuturbo

I'd rather experience this so called Seattle "freeze" than the faux-friendly, aversive, theological, passive aggressive behaviour that i encountered in Salt Lake City.. any day! At least it's easy to know where you stand with people here. Maybe it's because i've been around and came back here, and this is how i grew up.. i don't know. Is this "freeze" something imports tend to experience more?

Absolutely, transplants experience it and there definitely is a great divide between the locals and transplants. Transplants are willing to invite locals into their circle, however, locals won't invite transplants into their circle.

While we are chatting about all of this. Let's get off the topic of the weather and talk about something with some more serious implications related to the freeze- the freeze in the medical community in Seattle.

I fired 4 primary care doctors in 3 years while living in Seattle. All 4 were from the area and schooled there as well. All were pretty arrogant and did not listen to me and unfortunately I paid a dear price for it. I had to file complaints with the state and my insurance company. I had one doctor refuse to write a lab order for a simple blood test for food poisoning that myself and others on a business trip contracted. Two others had already been positively diagnosed with a test, we all had the same symptoms. He refused to return my phone calls for a week and then insisted I come to the office (350.00) before he would give me the order. I had ask my old doctor from the east coast to do me a favor and order the test. He did and I also tested positive.

I have seen three other doctors while in Seattle that were not arrogant and really listened to me. All three were not from Seattle originally and were educated either on the east coast or in California.

I have a friend who is an ER nurse who moved to Seattle last year. She is appauled at how attempted suicide patients are treated. Basically, they are fixed up and shown the door since Seattle does not have adequate mental health services. She tells me that some doctors have actually said to these patients " you didn't do it right, maybe next time you'll get it right." She was completely floored. Such a shame that the city and King County finish last in the country for mental health services yet they are also one of the wealthiest cities/counties in the country.

[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by shoegal111

Absolutely, transplants experience it and there definitely is a great divide between the locals and transplants. Transplants are willing to invite locals into their circle, however, locals won't invite transplants into their circle.

While we are chatting about all of this. Let's get off the topic of the weather and talk about something with some more serious implications related to the freeze- the freeze in the medical community in Seattle.

I fired 4 primary care doctors in 3 years while living in Seattle. All 4 were from the area and schooled there as well. All were pretty arrogant and did not listen to me and unfortunately I paid a dear price for it. I had to file complaints with the state and my insurance company. I had one doctor refuse to write a lab order for a simple blood test for food poisoning that myself and others on a business trip contracted. Two others had already been positively diagnosed with a test, we all had the same symptoms. He refused to return my phone calls for a week and then insisted I come to the office (350.00) before he would give me the order. I had ask my old doctor from the east coast to do me a favor and order the test. He did and I also tested positive.

I have seen three other doctors while in Seattle that were not arrogant and really listened to me. All three were not from Seattle originally and were educated either on the east coast or in California.

I have a friend who is an ER nurse who moved to Seattle last year. She is appauled at how attempted suicide patients are treated. Basically, they are fixed up and shown the door since Seattle does not have adequate mental health services. She tells me that some doctors have actually said to these patients " you didn't do it right, maybe next time you'll get it right." She was completely floored. Such a shame that the city and King County finish last in the country for mental health services yet they are also one of the wealthiest cities/counties in the country.

Be careful with your generalizations. I'm a native and have many transplants in my circle of friends, as do all of my native friends.

[shoegal111]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

Be careful with your generalizations. I'm a native and have many transplants in my circle of friends, as do all of my native friends.

There are always exceptions to the rule and you my friend would be one of those exceptions. I work for a global company and 90% of our team in Seattle came from other areas. All had the same experience. I moved into a brand new apartment building in the city- all tenants moved in at the same time, all transplants and all met with the exact same freeze.

[shoegal111]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

Be careful with your generalizations. I'm a native and have many transplants in my circle of friends, as do all of my native friends.

I guess my next question to you would be who invited who in to their circle?

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

Be careful with your generalizations. I'm a native and have many transplants in my circle of friends, as do all of my native friends.

I would also think that there are enough transplants to find each other and get a life together.