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Originally Posted by yagr
I can't get this out of my head... I wonder which patients he means...
Perhaps it is the woman who just got rushed in after a massive heart attack who has been smoking for forty years and living on fried foods?
Perhaps it is the seventeen year old boy who had to be life flighted in to the ER after a horrific car accident he had while texting his girlfriend while driving down the highway.
Perhaps it is the poor fellow who came by ambulance after he fell into a diabetic coma after eating a quart of ice cream and a box of twinkies.
I wish I knew who these people he's referring to who didn't hurt themselves are?
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Thanks. It's funny because the other ER doctor I saw last week was SO nice, and he said this exact thing to me. He said never to apologize for an illness and that nobody would choose this. He said a lot of patients do things that are their "fault" like the heart attack one, but it's mostly mental health that is stigmatized like this.