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It's crazy how bad doctors are allowed to be at their jobs. I know a lot of it is systemic to the US' hyper-decentralized market driven triaged medical system but basically everyone I know has a story about a doctor who just totally ignored them, got a diagnosis wrong, or made a serious surgical mistake. Unless they cause you serious physical harm and you win a lawsuit against them there's really no repurcussions for mistreatment.

I understand people make mistakes but the fact that it's so prevelant in medicine, one of the few jobs that really doesn't have room for mistakes, is absurd.

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

In my experience there is a significant difference between the behaviour and attitudes of american healthcare people and elsewhere in the world. When I needed to see doctors in america they were some really awful people compared to the doctors I have seen in europe. This wasn't just doctors though, the nurses were not great people compared to european nurses either.

It must be a system thing causing this.

I feel the same way about shrinks

Some people go into medicine just to be in position of power over other people.

doctors feel the same to me as car mechanics.

i distrust them by default, and i hate that i have to because it complicates things that don't really need to be complicated.

I literally work in healthcare and I frequently tell my trans friends "it's always okay to lie to a cis doctor".

Recently I've had to tell my cis girlfriends "it's always okay to lie to a male doctor"

So I can't say this about other places, not even in the rest of Latin America, but here in Brasil doctors are actually a kind of a big issue that is not discussed nearly enough. Medical school is really hard to get into, so those that are able to pay for preparatory courses, often the rich and the upper-middle class, have a huge advantage over everyone else, but that's only for the public universities, private medical school is also extremely prohibitive because it's extremely expensive.

This creates all sort of issues, not only are white people overrepresented (thinking about it now, I don't remember ever seeing a black doctor in person in my life), but the people that gets to attend medical school tend to have been spoiled kids that feel superior than other people and think they can get away with anything. It goes all the way from smaller stuff like the staggering amount of students that have an ego the size of jupiter and demands you to call them doctors, all the way to stuff like this:

doctors, along with lawyers and merchants, were one of the founding professions of the bourgeoisie. they've never been good

Out of all the people I know who ended up studying medicine, I think perhaps one went into it for anything resembling the right reason

I genuinely think the good, well meaning doctors are a very small minority

One of the worst things about the US is the kulak doctors

Drs are only good for the legal stuff like signatures, any of the real advice I've gotten have been from lab techs and other support staff.

Drs are a leading cause of death, don't even wash their hands

I had a spell with intense nerve damage pain. it's still pretty rough but managed.

Because doctors couldn't work out what was happening they assumed I was lying. I literally said to multiple doctors "Please, I am in so much pain I am considering euthanising myself, I don't want to die. Please help me"

And got labelled a drug seeker.

I ended up harvesting opium from the wild to cope and would you believe eventually they found nerve damage!

The midwife of a guy I know recommended homeopathic remedies so there's that...