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That someone could work in a doctor's office for 20yrs and come away spewing such false and misleading claims is painful and speaks to our broken system. I have been writing about the health care crisis since 1993. Biases in health care against poor, women, POC are well-studied.
Women especially are turned away from ERs only to die from the incipient heart attacks they were having that didn't show standard (male) symptomology. I went to the ER with what was presumed to be bronchitis--and had a collapsed lung. Healthcare workers must put patients first.
If you are punching down at patients, and your concern is for the for-profit healthcare industry over patient care, please find a new profession. This hardly exemplifies compassion as a strong suit.
Jumping into my mentions to claiming that poor people don't deserve to go to the ER because they should find Marcus Welby who will treat them "pro bono" and that patients abuse ERs is peak ableism. I tried to educate her, but:
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