Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: busy

Hard Things

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently?
Tags: recurring posts
Subscribe

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    switch
    default userpic

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    When you submit the form an invisible reCAPTCHA check will be performed.
    You must follow the Privacy Policy and Google Terms of use.
    Help
  • 10 comments
...go 4 levels up... Expand
johnpalmer

Not all...

johnpalmer

November 19 2016, 03:12:25 UTC 4 years ago

Not all doctors are that way - but yeah, too damn many and probably enough that I want to be really careful about a "not all..." statement.

Not all doctors assume every overweight woman's problems would vanish if they lost weight. Not all doctors think of scheduled-2 drug seekers are, you know *drug* seeking, not *relief* seeking; not all doctors try to force the territory to fit the map, rather than ponder.

But I have to say, either I'm a lot smarter than I realize (and I sometimes throw a deadpan "well, I *am* a genius, so I'm *allowed* to have a good idea once in a while," so it's not like I think I'm just average!) or medical school and internship doesn't take as much brainpower as I think, *or* there's some special gift that comes with the eagerness to figure it all out, and put the puzzle pieces together. If it's the special gift explanation, maybe we should be glad that *more* doctors aren't expert technicians.

(And I mean *no* disrespect with the term "technician". Keeping things running as they ought to is *huge*. And knowing the main issues, and the exceptions and the exceptions to the exceptions... no, not a hint of disrespect intended. But wow, do I get the frustration of not fitting in the box.)
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Not all...

ysabetwordsmith

November 19 2016, 03:29:16 UTC 4 years ago

>> Not all doctors are that way - but yeah, too damn many and probably enough that I want to be really careful about a "not all..." statement. <<

Not all of them are, but their training aims in that direction, which means a majority of doctors do not deal well with anything outside of what matches a textbook. Not only has this been my experience across almost all of the many dozens of health workers of all stripes I have encountered, it is also described as routine by all my friends with atypical bodies. In contrast I've heard of a handful of exceptions.

Sometimes, I can get a health worker to take my needs into account, if I'm very lucky. But then there's always something else they suck at. In terms of putting my needs first, I have an outlier of 1. I was so flabbergasted, I went along with the request in hopes of encouraging a repetition.

>> medical school and internship doesn't take as much brainpower as I think, *or* there's some special gift that comes with the eagerness to figure it all out, and put the puzzle pieces together. <<

There are a variety of gifts pertinent to the caregiving professions, and rare elsewhere. The problem is they're either not trained (OMFG the graduation ceremony for the psych department that was about 1/3 untrained empaths) or mistrained (teaching people not to cross-check over different disciplines other than their own means problems with multiple causes don't get fixed). And that's before getting into the problems caused by profiteering, such that psychiatrists are no longer permitted to do actual psychotherapy, they only write prescriptions, which they guess after a 10-15 minute appointment, which leads to shitty care and now nobody wants what has become a horrible job.