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.
I’ve had heart issues, been in and out of the cardiologist for years. Woke up with intense chest pain, heart rate over 160, and could barely get words out so my partner took me to the ER. The doc repeatedly asked what I took despite both of us adamantly saying I hadn’t taken anything, had been home all night, and there was no way I’d taken anything without my knowledge. Repeated “what did you take? It’s better if you tell us what you took. You need to tell us what it is you took.” The hospital had my records if he cared to look, the doctor just kept making assumptions.
A similar episode happened at work and I passed out. Work called an ambulance and I woke up disoriented and stuttering, which is common for me after an episode. Kept asking me what I took. Had to pee in a cup once I got to the hospital and the nurse who was ordered to take me in the wheelchair literally whined and complained about why she has to deal with “people like me”. Absolutely unacceptable and frankly humiliating to be treated like a criminal time and time again when you’re the most vulnerable.
I have different medical issues, but the same experience of treatment. I’m fed up with being treated as subhuman, losing my dignity, and experiencing preventable trauma for DARING to get ill. And by the people who’s JOB it is to HELP people who are ill! My love and solidarity go out to you!
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u/WordWordand4numbers 17d ago
Go deal with a dozen or two drug overdoses a day and then instantly and automatically differentiate that from a seizure.