I'm a medical student (MS1) and while it's easy to feel like your doc is lazy, that a gross oversimplification for most.
You definitely have your share of negligent attendings that make you feel like poultry on an assembly line, but some tests can't be performed due insurance conflicts and other things are simply misdiagnosed as a consequence of that being a human standing across from you.
In the case of the latter, I won't make excuses for incompetence because when your loved ones life is on the line, none of that will matter to you.
I'll go further and admit that there is a serious issue with the quality treatment of minorities in medicine that simply does not measure up to the treatment of the majority. The country's history speaks for itself.
Nowhere near as thorough at times and a recent, high profile example we all can recall is Dallas last year with the black Ebola patient who had traveled from afflicted soil and was sent home from the hospital with little to no precautions - when the hysteria of the epidemic was at its' peak.
In that case, IIRC, I believe the nurse was at fault for not properly taking the patients history into consideration, but it still was gross negligence that saw the family win out a hefty sum as a result.
More importantly, her negligence still falls on the lap of the attending presiding over her. Everyone looked bad there, and rightfully so.
That's why I think it's important that we get more black men & women in nursing and medicine, especially in medicine.
On average, even if it's subconsciously, no one is going to be as thorough and care for you like your own people.
I hope Bosh pulls through.
You definitely have your share of negligent attendings that make you feel like poultry on an assembly line, but some tests can't be performed due insurance conflicts and other things are simply misdiagnosed as a consequence of that being a human standing across from you.
In the case of the latter, I won't make excuses for incompetence because when your loved ones life is on the line, none of that will matter to you.
I'll go further and admit that there is a serious issue with the quality treatment of minorities in medicine that simply does not measure up to the treatment of the majority. The country's history speaks for itself.
Nowhere near as thorough at times and a recent, high profile example we all can recall is Dallas last year with the black Ebola patient who had traveled from afflicted soil and was sent home from the hospital with little to no precautions - when the hysteria of the epidemic was at its' peak.
In that case, IIRC, I believe the nurse was at fault for not properly taking the patients history into consideration, but it still was gross negligence that saw the family win out a hefty sum as a result.
More importantly, her negligence still falls on the lap of the attending presiding over her. Everyone looked bad there, and rightfully so.
That's why I think it's important that we get more black men & women in nursing and medicine, especially in medicine.
On average, even if it's subconsciously, no one is going to be as thorough and care for you like your own people.
I hope Bosh pulls through.
