“The consultant started saying that because I’m already in a wheelchair ‘maybe [she] wants to be disabled like her mum.’”
Disgusting
Are this many healthcare professionals really this comically stupid? "Oh we had a completely new disease ravage the world population with some known and many unknown long term side affects, but people must be making them up?"
long Covid provisions are set to worsen as the existing Government-funded long Covid clinics are being scaled back and become “optional” for NHS trusts.
We don’t have specialists who have the knowledge or skills to treat patients because there’s no training in it and clinicians don’t have time to keep up with the research.
“If anything, it feels like doors are closing rather than opening for these families and children because the little we had in terms of services are being downscaled. And there is no dedicated research funding. We are wading into this storm blindfolded.”
Almost all movies about human extinction are about it being brought on by some quick and unavoidable event, but if it happens it's really just going to be a slow descent into the pit brought on by completely avoidable circumstances
Are this many healthcare professionals really this comically stupid?
I’ve spent the last 7 years constantly surrounded by pre-med students in classes and working in a lab. Yes.
The US education system doesn’t select for intelligent people who would be good at the job to be doctors, it selects for people who can memorize facts, and have enough dedication and their parents money to do a bunch of extra work to be competitive.
I have never heard dumber questions that show such a fundamental non-understanding of the material than I have from pre-med students. Nearly universally they required every last detail perfectly spelled out for them or they would fuck up, there was no ability to reason their way through things.
I have no trouble believing that there are a ton of doctors who don’t understand the existence of long covid because it wasn’t taught to them in school
I have no trouble believing that there are a ton of doctors who don’t understand the existence of long covid because it wasn’t taught to them in school
it's not even "don't", it's just "won't"
if they didn't grow up with or encounter it in their "vibes based media curriculum absorbation" it they will simply refuse to understand it
Are this many healthcare professionals really this comically stupid?
yes and they often marry it with the kind of arrogance you'd expect from a greek god
Sums up my experience with doctors and my "invisible illness". Doctors are good for shit thats obvious like, hey that bone shouldn't be sticking through your skin. Beyond that it gets interesting
it's genuinely so badchronic pain? drug-seeking behavior!
lifelong illness? personal laziness!
feel like your insides are being torn apart? hysteria!
lmao like doc just give me a scalpel, some superglue and medmd and i'll fucking do it myself if you're so adverse to doing your job
this is really just newly disabled people finding out what disabled people have known for years.
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Yep. If they couldn't see from my 20 year prescription history I'm positive doctors would think I'm making all of my crap up. It's even worse these days since in my experience any of the good eggs got burnt out from our very clearly corrupt and neglectful institutions and the only ones left are the opportunists and shysters.
This is going to be the next "why did we think drinking and breathing lead was okay!" crisis in like 30-50 years. Clearly avoidable, so easy to work through this now, immediately, and yet it doesn't benefit capital to do so, so they won't.
I really don't think it's gonna take that long. Not that we're gonna do anything about it, but another 5-10 years of infections should really start causing havoc.
We already see effects of it now but it will just keep getting worse and worse. I have the same timeline as you before things get un-ignorable. This was how it was for HIV/AIDS in the US too.
This was how it was for HIV/AIDS in the US too.
it's 100 orders of magnitude bigger than HIV because you inhale it every time you breathe around someone
This is going to be the next "why did we think drinking and breathing lead was okay!" crisis in like 30-50 years
people in the west still drinking and breathing lead
The other day, someone on here said that the UK really hates children. They weren't lying.
And for every one set of parents that is willing to believe their kids over the doctors' dismissal, there are - let's say - five more sets who have caved under the pressure and are busy gaslighting their children and making them sicker. Five more kids with lifelong medical trauma, chronic illness, and broken trust in the people who are supposed to protect them.
