ayakir876:

chronicillnessproblems:

inquisitivespirit:

thefibrodiaries:

usefactsnotfeelings:

thefibrodiaries:

can we stop pretending that doctors treat everyone equally and that they don’t have prejudices towards poc, lesbians/gays/bisexuals, trans people, fat people, people of a certain religion, poor people/people on benefits etc and that it actually stops people from getting a diagnosis and/or treatment. stop acting like people with chronic pain, mental illness or other medical issues can just “go see a doctor” and get all the help and diagnosis’s that they need. 

Doctors do not study for 8 years + the amount of years in interning for their field, to be “ablest”. You realize people become doctors so they can cure those with these diseases. It’s more beneficial, in fact, for unhealthy people to walk into their clinic. I’m not usually one to say this, but..if you aren’t a doctor, don’t speak like you understand them. Black people have to be treated differently becuase they are at a higher risk for hypertension/high blood pressure. People with phobias of knives and needles should be treated differently from people without phobias. Fat people have a higher rate of mortality at a younger age, and that needs to be debt with.

 There’s a difference between speaking your mind and being uneducated, you are the latter. 

idk what kind of world you are living in if you genuinely believe that every doctor has good intentions and that none of them hold prejudices, make mistakes or abuse their position of power but I, and many others, have had bad and even downright traumatic experiences with medical staff. Like I’m glad you or your loved ones haven’t had these experiences but don’t disregard all of us who have.

not to mention, I have friends that study medicine. they don’t just get taught science, they get taught prejudice. they get tested on “stereotypes” such as “the hysterical young female with anxiety” as the correct answers to people coming to them with problems. not to mention that the majority of research was done on white people, usually cis males. all this together with the stress of the job mean that a lot of doctors, even if they did originally mean well, can do harm instead, sometimes without even realising they did anything wrong

EXCELLENT points omg thank you. This was just removed from a nursing textbook. Thankfully it was dealt with, but the fact that it freaking managed to make it to publishing in the first place shows there’s DEFINITELY something wrong with the way we teach the people in charge of our medical treatment. And the research thing is a huge problem. We know lots about how things affect lab rats and white, usually middle-upper class men, but we are definitely slowing down treatment and research by just acting like that that applies to every demographic out there.

As someone who studies medical science (no I’m not training to become a doctor, i work in veterinary and laboratory sciences, but I attend class with all those future doctors) there are people becoming doctors who are prejudiced, being a “doctor” doesn’t get rid of that.

Training and knowledge don’t make you a good or fair person. And there are countless examples of “doctors” and “scientists” who fake results, fudge data, and lie about data to further their work or push an ideology (example. those who publish research papers saying vaccines cause autism or those saying the lgbt community have mental damage; there were scientists and doctors who were nazis too you know).

A pretty diploma on the wall doesn’t mean you believe in health and freedom for all. It means you got through medical school.

There are absolutely some predjuced f*ckers in the medical industry. So your research. Look up your doctors online before you meet them if at all possible. Report those abusing the system.

Be careful.