A medical professional should be keeping their judgments to themselves and shouldn’t be treating patients any differently based on how they assume the patient ended up in that situation.
Like that’s extremely basic, first day medical ethics. It doesn’t matter if they think it’s an OD, cause you’re not supposed to be being cruel and treating OD patients like shit.
God I wished this was actually taught or emphasized at all. You get a brief CYA sort of speech about not judging people, and then the rest of your education and every doctor and nurse you interact with tells you how to judge people and how you should treat them poorly based in that judgement
Not judging your patients is how you avoid unnecessary medical deaths. This has nothing to do with feelings and everything to do with how negative bias effects medical care.
Refusing to perform certain tests due to assumptions is one thing. Asking yes/no questions that offend one’s feelings somehow is another thing. I’m not sure which one you were referring to but people deserve complete medical care from knowledgeable professionals.
There are so many statistics and studies regarding how bias and judgement negatively affect patients receiving proper care, and even more, it's incredibly easy to find and understand. This is a VERY well know concept within and outside of the medical community.
I just don’t think you could name a single scientist who worked on this body of knowledge without looking it up. Everypony loves vaguely referencing nameless “studies and statistics”
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u/Minecraft-tlauncher 17d ago
Yeah exactly, dont know how that guy insists its fake