Family doctor here. 100% agree. If I was working with a Med student who voiced these feelings to me, we would have a long conversation about it and I likely would make sure their program knew of that. Patients need to be and feel safe and supported by their doctors. As a profession, we have a ways to go, but we need to work to stamp out discrimination of all types.
Crazy. Doctors have to help everyone regardless of lifestyle. Obviously being LGBTQ is not the same thing as having an actually damaging lifestyle, but it's not like if someone ODing on heroin shows up you can be like "sorry I won't treat them I don't support drug abuse."
I’m a physician assistant in south Texas on the border with Mexico, when I was in PA school we were talking about how undocumented immigrants fear receiving health care many times or going to the ED due to having the border patrol called on them, one of my classmates asked “what if we don’t want to treat people who are taking advantage of the system?”. Now, regardless of your political stance, when you’re in healthcare your job is healthcare. Your concern is for the health and life of your patient, everything that doesn’t involve that you leave out. I’ve treated a guy with a herniated disc who had a huge swastika tattooed on his back. I treated him with the same care as I would another, with the same politeness and respect. Unless he’s abusive to me or my staff, then my duty is to treat the patient. (This particular guy was a nice dude though as far as I could tell, I’m hispanic my colleague was black, he never displayed any racism towards us, but he had been in prison many years and of course had to pick a side and being white well... that’s why the swastika, for protection while inside)
CanadianElizabeth on June 27th, 2020 at 02:13 UTC »
Family doctor here. 100% agree. If I was working with a Med student who voiced these feelings to me, we would have a long conversation about it and I likely would make sure their program knew of that. Patients need to be and feel safe and supported by their doctors. As a profession, we have a ways to go, but we need to work to stamp out discrimination of all types.
Trepidatious681 on June 27th, 2020 at 02:37 UTC »
Crazy. Doctors have to help everyone regardless of lifestyle. Obviously being LGBTQ is not the same thing as having an actually damaging lifestyle, but it's not like if someone ODing on heroin shows up you can be like "sorry I won't treat them I don't support drug abuse."
Charosas on June 27th, 2020 at 03:44 UTC »
I’m a physician assistant in south Texas on the border with Mexico, when I was in PA school we were talking about how undocumented immigrants fear receiving health care many times or going to the ED due to having the border patrol called on them, one of my classmates asked “what if we don’t want to treat people who are taking advantage of the system?”. Now, regardless of your political stance, when you’re in healthcare your job is healthcare. Your concern is for the health and life of your patient, everything that doesn’t involve that you leave out. I’ve treated a guy with a herniated disc who had a huge swastika tattooed on his back. I treated him with the same care as I would another, with the same politeness and respect. Unless he’s abusive to me or my staff, then my duty is to treat the patient. (This particular guy was a nice dude though as far as I could tell, I’m hispanic my colleague was black, he never displayed any racism towards us, but he had been in prison many years and of course had to pick a side and being white well... that’s why the swastika, for protection while inside)