I get what the doctor is saying. I see his frustration, but everything he said could have been said in private.
This ‘public venting’ is becoming a little too fashionable for many doctors. It seems somewhat indulgent.
Keep it to yourself.
I can’t help but wonder if such doctors take a grim satisfaction at watching an unvaccinated patient edge closer to deaths’ door, as this will validate the doctor’s feeling of being all knowing and above all reproach.
When will we hear from the doctors in Chicago, LA, NY, Detroit etc. about all the victims of gang violence? How about all the drug and alcohol adicts who come in a couple times per month? The mentally ill who beg for a inpatient bed but are denied because they are not suicidal? The children who are returned to abusive parents because DCFS doesn’t do their job?
It's probably like a cardiologist who puts in a stent in a patient, in the middle of the night for an emergency.
The cardiologist probably says to him/herself, why didn't that fat bastard lose weight.
Good post. These self indulgent hand wringing articles are tiresome. Funny how the public hand wringing is exclusively in relation to the issue that will most likely result in a reciprocal pat on the back approval. Yes, where are the doctors publicly emoting about the uninsured immigrants clogging up the ERs? Or any of the myriad of ills you point out? Ah, doing so would not be chic or likely result in public affirmation.
Reinforcing the narrative is always a tacitly understood transaction.
Not to mention it’s all a little too pat.
This ‘public venting’ is becoming a little too fashionable for many doctors.