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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
It's like they get tunnel vision, and there's nothing in the culture that encourages self-policing or stepping back and trying to have a little compassion. I'm not sure all of them even realize what they're doing--which is deciding who is "worthy" of medical care. Which is disgraceful. There's a long history of this (Think "oh that poor kid who got HIV from a blood transfusion" VS "That promiscuous f** who gave himself AIDS")
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I talked about this on the phone with my pdoc when I was in the hospital bathroom crying. He told me that stitches for my cuts were a medical neccessity
and not something that either I or the hospital doctor had the option of stitching because at that level it's dangerous not to close them. I thought it was odd that my pdoc was convinces it was a "clear medical issue" that he sent me over to another hospital for (as opposed to, say, going in and saying you were suicidal which is more of a psychiatric issue), but the ER doctor considered it psychiatric (or maybe not even? More of a morality issue?) and had no problem making it clear I was a waste of time.