Medicine has an #ableism problem
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1582718280145534976
“Some doctors said their office scales could not accommodate wheelchairs, so they had told patients to go to a supermarket, a grain elevator, a cattle processing plant or a zoo to be weighed, or they would tell a new patient the practice was closed.” 
Some used the limitations of 15-minute time slots as an excuse.
SO ADVOCATE FOR YOUR PATIENTS. I routinely requested complicated patients get an extended slot when I did primary care. Physicians can band together and call the shots.
SO ADVOCATE FOR YOUR PATIENTS. I routinely requested complicated patients get an extended slot when I did primary care. Physicians can band together and call the shots.
Interpreter costs are a reasonable financial concern, which should be addressed at a federal level.
But being a “disruption to clinic flow”? That is #Ableism
But being a “disruption to clinic flow”? That is #Ableism
The docs needed anonymity to discuss their feelings because they “don’t want to come across as horrible people.”
Newsflash: if you need to hide behind anonymity because you know what you are thinking is horrible, it’s time to face up to the fact that you *are* a horrible person.
Newsflash: if you need to hide behind anonymity because you know what you are thinking is horrible, it’s time to face up to the fact that you *are* a horrible person.
They way out of being a horrible person is to nurture some empathy.
One of the problems is that the medical profession is based on an abusive training model, and now docs are cogs in a medical industrial complex that pays lip service to higher ideals but does not practice them.
One of the problems is that the medical profession is based on an abusive training model, and now docs are cogs in a medical industrial complex that pays lip service to higher ideals but does not practice them.
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