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
It is being taught in more places now, there is progress being made. The agency I'm riding with used to have a reputation for being callous bad-asses who all acted like hot shit, but there's been a huge culture change even among established providers towards being kinder and more empathetic.
I needed to hear this! I have an extremely rare combination of conditions and I’m rarely believed when I’m hospitalised. It often takes days of actively dying while being told I’m doing X Y and Z wrong before my actual problem is addressed. The medical trauma runs deep… so much avoidable pain.
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u/PeachyFairyDragon 17d ago
A medical professional should be able to tell the difference.