lostundead
Student
- Mar 18, 2021
- 192
Before becoming chronically ill, I had an extremely high opinion of doctors and the medical profession in general. That was because I had barely come in contact with them, so my image of them was solely influenced by their portrayal in the media. E.g if you skip through television there is usually at least one show/ movie airing where doctors are made out to be infallible superheroes who will always do everything in their power to find out which illness the patient has and treat/cure it.
Once I fell ill over two years ago I had a rough awakening when I realized this was all a lie. I think the reason this lie is so popular is psychological: Once rationalism killed religion for good and belief in god wasn't an option for most people anymore, they needed a new way to deal with the random and unpredictable nature of life. Among other things, the doctor worship cult was born out of this desperation, so people can pretend that even if an illness befalls them (which they believe is almost impossible) there will always be a doctor helping them.
Every doctor I've seen in the past two years was either incompetent, ignorant or just a straight up asshole. My expectations quickly fell down to zero, yet I still become consistently disappointed. All they do is follow some script and if your body works differently they will start becoming dismissive about your symptoms and imply or sometimes even openly say they're psychogenic, because they cannot bring it over their egos to honestly tell you that they have no clue whats going on. Like at least half of the psych industry is just there for doctors to get rid of complicated patients. I remember hearing a radio interview a while ago where a man said he was "relieved" after finally getting a brain cancer diagnosis because they literally put him in a psych ward because they couldn't find a cause for his symptoms. I wish this was an exception, but its not.
The ideal patient for doctors is one that has an easily identifiable problem and just needs a surgery or some medicine to fix them after which they will fall to their knees and kiss their doctor's feet for healing them and letting them return to their purposeless hedonistic lifestyle. Everyone else gets fucked over.
Sorry for this childish rant, I know hate is irrational and the medical system is godawful so its not all their fault, but just seeing how society puts doctors on a pedestal despite all their failures makes me sick.
Once I fell ill over two years ago I had a rough awakening when I realized this was all a lie. I think the reason this lie is so popular is psychological: Once rationalism killed religion for good and belief in god wasn't an option for most people anymore, they needed a new way to deal with the random and unpredictable nature of life. Among other things, the doctor worship cult was born out of this desperation, so people can pretend that even if an illness befalls them (which they believe is almost impossible) there will always be a doctor helping them.
Every doctor I've seen in the past two years was either incompetent, ignorant or just a straight up asshole. My expectations quickly fell down to zero, yet I still become consistently disappointed. All they do is follow some script and if your body works differently they will start becoming dismissive about your symptoms and imply or sometimes even openly say they're psychogenic, because they cannot bring it over their egos to honestly tell you that they have no clue whats going on. Like at least half of the psych industry is just there for doctors to get rid of complicated patients. I remember hearing a radio interview a while ago where a man said he was "relieved" after finally getting a brain cancer diagnosis because they literally put him in a psych ward because they couldn't find a cause for his symptoms. I wish this was an exception, but its not.
The ideal patient for doctors is one that has an easily identifiable problem and just needs a surgery or some medicine to fix them after which they will fall to their knees and kiss their doctor's feet for healing them and letting them return to their purposeless hedonistic lifestyle. Everyone else gets fucked over.
Sorry for this childish rant, I know hate is irrational and the medical system is godawful so its not all their fault, but just seeing how society puts doctors on a pedestal despite all their failures makes me sick.