• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    Okay, I’ve worked in medicine for fifteen years. I’m not sure I would agree with you on that from where I’m standing now, but I’m open to learning new things. I’d like to invite you to make your case, either for yourself or by pointing me to the appropriate resources.

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      12 hours ago

      it’s really concerning you’ve worked for more than a decade in healthcare and you haven’t put 2 and 2 together. but I guess that’s just HCW privilege for you.

      I recommend Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

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        11 hours ago

        I saw a lot of injustice because I work in the US healthcare system. The company let old white people die just the same as anyone because they were on Medicaid; dude needed dialysis, and some goddamn bean counter decided that the costs after gas and crew wages didn’t pencil out. If you want to be a dick because I didn’t come to the conversation already seeing things your way, I guess that’s your right. I’ll make my way around to your source, but what I’ve seen, and I suppose what I am blinded to all other considerations by, is that our system of medicine is nothing short of direct class warfare. All other criticisms seem to arise as a direct consequence of that.

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          11 hours ago

          western medicine was racist long before capitalism even existed. if you wanna take the class reductionist approach whenever apartheid is being brought up that’s your prerogative

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              45 minutes ago

              good thing I never said modern medicine, eh?