doomer

this is a hot take and shouldn’t be applied to every pediatrician: many people in the US work in pediatrics because they are incredibly sheltered, judgmental, lack true compassion, and are the most self-righteous.

many people in pediatrics choose working with children because children are innocent and their disease cannot be blamed on personal moral failings (and these types absolutely view a lot of illness as justice for personal moral failing.) They absolutely judge parents for their childrens illness too, however. these are the people that wont take good care of diabetics, smokers, and addicts because they don’t like them and can never imagine themselves or their loved ones being sick that way. They lack true compassion and so they pick a field where they can act as savior but only for the perfect victim. This also applies to a whole lot of oncologists (cancer is random so many “good” adults suffer from it too). Sorry if this sounds jaded, but it has always driven me crazy how judgmental people in US healthcare can be. Its an emotionally exhausting work environment but many choose to hate their patients instead of the system that causes so much illness and so much injustice