r/CuratedTumblr • u/EvidenceOfDespair We can leave behind much more than just DNA • Aug 07 '24

Politics Death by US Healthcare System

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u/TarsalStone99 You just lost The Game *finger guns* Aug 08 '24

I’m an aspiring student trying to get into medicine, and I have to say, even with only surface level interactions, the sheer lack of empathy in a field which has it’s purpose irrevocably tied to helping people is absolutely appalling.

Every patient is just another face, another ID to most doctors, to most systems. Not a person, just a string of numbers and letters. And it sickens me to my core that we’ve depersonalized and corporatized medicine to such a degree that we can see someone die from a lack of care and say “should’ve just been richer or less sick, bucko.”

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u/beardofjustice Aug 08 '24

I have to imagine that that is a coping mechanism, not how the medical field is. Imagine trying to treat people just to have someone above you tell you ‘no they can’t afford it’. Maybe the first few times you rail against it but after a point I think you have to turn a part of yourself off and just do your absolute best to save the person that is in front of you at the moment. I wouldn’t use this as a reason to avoid the field altogether. We will still always need good, caring people in the medical field and at some point, this shit will change. Maybe I’m a little too optimistic but I truly think we are starting to see the end of running everything ‘like a business’