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I’m a doctor, and I’m appalled at the silence from the American Medical Association
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I’m unfortunately not suprised either. A large percentage of medical professionals are bigoted individualists.
I maintain that there is a strong correlation between many doctors being bigoted individualists and the fact that medical school is incredibly expensive and taxing, and it takes a lot of privilege or luck to get through it. (Of course, you also need the potential to do it, but many people have the potential and desire and will never be able to access the schooling required.)
There are of course many exceptions to this, but it is something I have noticed over the years as both a (minority) patient and someone that has been in the company of medical doctors outside of a clinical setting.
Yes — and undoubtably a lot of people who make it through are given a sort of superiority complex. Ie. I’m amazing I made it through this hard shit.